3C. Position and Policies of Politicians, Political Interest Groups, Political Parties [including Leftist Parties], Academia, Libraries and Governments Towards Women and Girls, Women's Sex-Based Rights, and Abuse of Women
Entries related to transgender issues are listed in 05Bb. Legality of "Gender Affirming Care." Legal Actions: Lawsuits, Legislation, Court Decisions. Academic, Government Agency's and Officials' Actions Against Transgender Excesses and Abuse of Power
Katherine M. Acosta. “American fascism: Implications for women of a 2nd Trump administration: The agenda of the incoming Trump administration has grave implications for women; not only for reproductive autonomy, but for our standing as citizens in a free society." [2024]
https://archive.ph/UjyNM
Natasha Chart. “How a decade of Democratic delusions failed women on abortion: From Obama and the ACA to modern gender ideology, Democrats have repeatedly sold out women to the highest bidder.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/va6Yo
Eilijh Dickson. "Using the law to tackle misogyny: Engender’s Policy and Parliamentary Manager, Eilidh Dickson, has been a member of the Independent Working Group on Misogyny chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy. Here she reflects on the final report released today:" [Scotland, 2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/fzpEI
Michael Dudley. "What are libraries including in their “Inclusion” policies?: The library profession is championing a value with two incompatible meanings." [2026]
https://archive.ph/S3kRI#selection-215.0-250.0
Nolan Dorn, Veronica Barreto, McKenzie Johnson. “Nebraska legislature passes abortion, gender-affirming surgery bans.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/ed1OQ
Feministwriter. "The 2026 mid-terms: Republicrats, fetishists, and asshats." [2026]
https://archive.ph/wip/QieZC
Lloyd Grove. "Could this RFK Jr. gambit cause Biden a battleground nightmare?"
[2024]
https://archive.ph/Bo4ao
League of Women Voters/Shattering Glass. "The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr. RE: An urgent call for your legacy." [2024]
Open letter signed by 143 organizing calling on Biden to direct the National Archivist to publish the ERA
https://tinyurl.com/2wzp6ebh
Glenn Loury. "Self censorship in public discourse." [1994] https://www.academia.edu/596266/Self_censorship_in_public_discourse
MA4Women. "Massachusetts Women’s Commission scolds women who ddvocate for women: MCSW 3/24/26 Public Hearing Report." [2026]
https://tinyurl.com/ybmtbtxu
Hadley Heath Manning. "How the Left pretends to champion women while actually erasing them." [2019] https://archive.ph/wip/3WTql
Daniel Martin, Michael Searles. "NHS finally bans trans women from female spaces: Hospitals must segregate wards and lavatories by biological sex, says guidance 18 months after Supreme Court ruling." [UK, 2026]
https://tinyurl.com/bcmd56fd
Kurniawan Arif Maspul. "Laughing at Citra: How sovereign speech betrayed Indonesia's children." [2026]
https://archive.ph/wip/6iawa
Natalya Murakhver. "BREAKING: They're Erasing 'Mother' and 'Father' From the Law.: New York is first, your state may be next." [2026]
https://archive.ph/wip/MHHHN
Katie Pinns. "Government backs ban on child-like sex dolls as campaigners warn of ‘dangerous gap’ in law." [2016]
https://archive.ph/wip/Pb9zj
_____. "Government launches misogyny taskforce — but can women trust it to protect them?" [UK, 2026] https://archive.ph/GsuWN#selection-189.0-220.0
Ivy Secrest. "Wyoming Supreme Court rules abortion-ban laws are unconstitutional." [2026]
https://archive.ph/QfQRA
Brianna Tucker and Jacob Bogage. "Heritage paper on families calls for ‘marriage bootcamp,’ more babies: The conservative think tank aims to boost U.S. marriage and birth rates through recommendations to discourage online dating, restrict pornography, create tax credits for bigger families and more." [2026]
https://archive.ph/nzZcx
Jessica Valenti. "They're Coming for Our Daughters: The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures." [2026]
https://archive.ph/zclWe
_____. "Trump's FDA won't rule out reclassifying IUD's." [2026]
https://archive.ph/ygnf3
Westminster News. “Lucy [Lucy Allan MP] signs amendment [to the Victims and Prisoners Bill] to prevent sex offenders hiding their identity.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/ItgM6
Wyoming Supreme Court. "Summary issued by the Wyoming Supreme Court [in State v. Johnson, No. S-24-0326, 2026 WY 1]." [2026]
https://www.wyocourts.gov/app/uploads/2026/01/S-24-0326-State-v.-Johnson-Summary.pdf
We could not stand women speaking the truth. We could not bear it. It would cause infinite misery and bring about the most awful disturbances in this rather mediocre, but still idealist fool’s paradise in which each of us lives his own little life–the unit in the great sum of existence. And they know it. They are merciful.
― Joseph Conrad, Chance
The Ezra Klein Show. "What the Epstein Files reveal about how elite worlds work." [2026]
Interview with Ananda Giridharadas.
"At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files... Much was redacted and millions more pages have been withheld. There is a lot we want to know that remains unclear.
"But what has come into clear view is the role Epstein played as a broker of information, connections, wealth and women and girls for a slice of the global elite. This was the infrastructure of Epstein’s power — and it reveals much about the infrastructure of elite networks more generally.
"Anand Giridharadas is something of a sociologist of American elites... I wanted to talk to Giridharadas to help make sense of it. What do they reveal — about how Epstein operated in the world, the vulnerabilities he exploited and what that says about how power works in America today?"
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBnQ6qxoMr8
Therese Lee. "The Heritage Foundation just revealed their plan — Here's what it means." [2026]
"The 'Tradwife' aesthetic isn't just a TikTok trend—it's the marketing department for a very specific piece of legislation. While we watch influencers baking bread in slow motion, The Heritage Foundation has written an 80-page roadmap titled 'Saving America by saving the family' that aims to turn that soft aesthetic into hard law.
"In this video, we peel back the "benevolent" language of the report to reveal the control mechanisms hiding in plain sight. From 'Marriage Bootcamps' that replace economic safety nets to a legal framework for "biological essentialism," this isn't about saving families—it's about defining who gets to be one." ~ YouTube
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKT0Lxh8QnU
No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
Doreen Mattingly. A feminist in the Whit House: Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's Culture Wars. [2016]
See especially Chap. 7, "International Women's Year and the Equal Rights Amendment," and succeeding chapters.
BOOK
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-feminist-in-the-white-house-9780190468606?cc=us&lang=en&