The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Sara Beth Nolan regarding West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s signing Wednesday of SB 456, a bill with bipartisan support that protects women and girls by prohibiting men from entering into women’s spaces—such as changing rooms, sleeping quarters, and restrooms—in public schools, colleges, domestic violence shelters, and correctional facilities to safeguard women’s safety and privacy in these spaces based on sex:
“States have a duty to protect the privacy, safety, and dignity of women and girls. Letting men intrude into girls’ spaces where they are most vulnerable—whether in a changing space, sleeping quarters, or the restroom—is an invasion of privacy, a threat to their safety, and a denial of the real biological differences between the two sexes. ADF commends Gov. Morrisey, Speaker of the House Roger Hanshaw, President of the Senate Randy Smith, and Senate Minority Leader Michael Woelfel for their leadership on SB 456. This will help protect young girls and women across the state for generations to come.”
The following quote may be attributed to Adaleia Cross, a high-school athlete from West Virginia whom ADF attorneys represent in an ongoing legal challenge to a Biden-era attempt to rewrite Title IX:
“Because of a policy that allowed a male athlete to use the girls’ locker rooms and restrooms at my school, I was exposed to sexual comments and had no choice but to change in a bathroom stall out of fear of being exposed to males in the locker room. I am grateful that Gov. Morrisey and the West Virginia Legislature prioritized passing commonsense privacy protections for girls like me throughout the state. Men and women are biologically different, and men don’t belong in girls’ spaces. Denying this truth only harms women and girls.”
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