PA Dems still playing political handball with women's sports (pun intended)
Plus an action alert, weird news, and a lagniappe
Action Alert!
PLEASE, if you have not done so already, contact HUD and urge them to enforce single-sex facilities. PA4SBR covered this alert in detail here. The deadline to submit comments is June 29, 2026. You can bet the other side is commenting.
From DIAG:
HUD is accepting public comments on an important proposed rule: Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions. This rule would restore a common-sense, sex-based approach in HUD-funded housing programs, including single-sex shelters and other facilities where privacy, safety, and dignity matter. It would help ensure that women and girls in vulnerable situations are not forced to sacrifice their rights, boundaries, or security by policy that overrides sex with “gender identity.”
… we believe in compassion, fairness, and evidence-based policy. That means protecting homeless and vulnerable people while also recognizing the legitimate need for single-sex spaces—especially in shelters serving women escaping abuse, trafficking, or trauma.
DIAG has a sample comment that you can modify and submit to HUD here. If you have used federally subsidized housing, including homeless shelters and domestic violence shelters, please tell HUD about your experiences and the importance of women-only facilities.
I support HUD’s proposed Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions. HUD-funded programs should be able to maintain sex-based policies for single-sex shelters and facilities where privacy, safety, and dignity are at stake. This is especially important for vulnerable women and girls, including survivors of violence and homelessness. Protecting women’s spaces is compatible with treating everyone with dignity and compassion.
PA House Democrats’ Latest Antics
House Democrats again re-referred HB 158, The Protect Women’s Sports Act sponsored by Rep Barbara Gleim, R-199, along a party-line vote. On June 15, 2026, House Democrats on the Health committee re-re-referred HB 158 to Judiciary.
Let’s track HB 158’s journey through the labyrinth of House committees, shall we? Rep Gleim filed HB 158 on January 17, 2025, when it was assigned to the House Education committee. Then, along party lines, the bill was re-referred to Judiciary on December 16, 2025, then to Health on April 27, 2026, then back to Judiciary on June 16, 2026. House Democrats simply don’t want HB 158 to have a full House floor vote.
Similar fates have befallen HB 1849, sponsored by Rep Clint Owlett, R-68, and Senate bills SB 9, sponsored by Senator Judy Ward, R-30, a bill that passed the full Senate on May 6, 2025, and SB 1293, also sponsored by Sen Ward, another bill that passed the full Senate on April 22, 2026.
As my mother would say, PA House Democrats should be ashamed of themselves. They are ignoring the 79% of American voters who do not want men in women’s athletics. Women athletes have the right to privacy, safety, and fairness. PA Democrats are so brainwashed that they have lost contact with reality.
Weird News
Sargis Karapetyan, who helped form the Strong Armenia party ahead of this summer’s elections, suggested a rise in political activism by middle-aged white women was the result of sexual dissatisfaction, OC Media reported.
When pressed if a ministry should be created to tackle that apparent issue, Mr Karapetyan said it should, and that it could also help tackle Armenia’s declining birth rate.
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Mr Karapetyan, who founded the Armenia Strong party, responded: "Can we now actually say that in a strong Armenia there will be no unsatisfied women?"
Armenian feminists have strongly opposed a Ministry of Sex.
However, the Strong Armenia Party lost the election, though Mr Karapetyan has claimed that the election was rigged. All these articles are well worth reading in their entirety.
Today’s Lagniappe
