'Women’s Bill of Rights’ now law in Oklahoma to protect girls from ‘out of control gender ideology’By Taylor Penley , Fox News
August 1, 2023
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, R., signed the “Women’s Bill of Rights” into law Tuesday in a move blasted by some critics as “sexist” and “transphobic.”
Joining “The Faulkner Focus” shortly after, Stitt sat beside former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines to discuss how the executive order will solidify distinctions between men and women based on sex and identify spaces in which they are to be kept separate, including locker rooms, restrooms, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters and prisons, among others.
“It’s even weird to say that we have to do this in today’s age,” Stitt said, “… but to us, it’s just common sense that we have to do this to define what a woman is and protect women. Fifty years ago, Title XI was signed. Now it feels like the left is trying to erode that.”
The law is said to bring “clarity, certainty, and uniformity” to state laws, according to its text, and prevent situations like the ones Gaines and other female swimmers underwent when they were forced to undress in a locker room in the presence of transgender athlete Lia Thomas.
Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan told Congress recently that the incident “adversely impacted” women suffering from sexual trauma, including herself.
“We’re taking a stand against this out of control gender ideology that is eroding the very foundation of our society,” Stitt said when signing the bill.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/womens-bill-of-rights-signed-into-oklahoma-law-by-gov-kevin-stitt/
