Background

In 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 132 (SB 132) into law. This legislation, which went into effect in January of 2021 as the “Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act”, allows incarcerated men to be housed in women’s correctional facilities based on self-declared “gender identity.” This law allows men to “self-identify” as transgender,  nonbinary, or intersex and be housed in women’s facilities.

Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) filed a lawsuit in 2021 on behalf of multiple incarcerated women challenging SB132. WoLF asked the court to overturn this law and declare it unconstitutional. 

SB 132 Harms Women!

Men are eligible for transfer regardless of whether they have had surgery on their genitals, have taken hormones, or been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Several hundred men have already requested transfer, and dozens of male inmates have already been moved into women’s facilities, including men who have committed heinous violent and sexual crimes against women and children. Harms women have already experienced include:

1. Rape
2. Pregnancy
3. Sexual harassment
4. Retaliation for reporting sexual harassment
5. Violations of their free speech
6. Violations of their religious freedom
7. Unequal treatment based on sex
8. Loss of the women's culture at the prison, now overrun by men
9. Living in constant terror
10. Day-to-day indignity of being forced to live with men
    
    

Sign your name to tell California to GET MEN OUT! 

(Learn more about the case here)