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FIST Endorses HR 1015 and SB 1147

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Feminists in Struggle has voted to endorse two bills in the U.S. Congress: HR 1015, the Prison Rape Prevention Act of 2025, and S1147, the Defining Male and Female Act of 2025. Both of these bills, though brought by Republicans, Congresswoman Nancy Mace and Senator Roger Marshall respectively, conform to FIST’s principles of working to preserve separate spaces for women, and ending the conflation of gender ‘identity’ and sex.

Female prisoners are suffering greatly in states run by Democrats, like California, Washington, and Illinois, which have allowed male inmates, many of whom are sex offenders, to self-ID their way into the women’s prisons. These men are raping, impregnating, and brutalizing the women, and it is the women who are the ones being disciplined if they lodge complaints. This outrageous injustice must end.

We ask anyone who cares about the rights of women and who acknowledges the scientific, material reality of sex to urge their representatives to support both HR 1015 and S 1147. We cannot allow the cruel and unusual punishment of women in our jails or the pernicious sex denialism of gender ideology to continue to rob women and girls of their identity as an immutable sex class. Femaleness is not a costume. It is a biological, unchangeable fact.

For more information, see Keep Prisons Single Sex and Kara Dansky’s The Abolition of Sex.

Impressions from the WDI Convention, Growing the Women’s Liberation Movement, Sept. 19-21 2025

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by Denice Traina

This piece is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily reflect the positions of Feminists In Struggle as an organization.

It was such an immense pleasure to be in the same room with women who have literally been on the front lines, in the streets and the courts defending our sex-based rights as females. Some in the audience had been at it for some time , Donna Hughes and Lauren Leavy, while for others it was their first time participating in a women only conference! Women from all over the states from Montana, TX to NYC and Canada came together to share their knowledge, experiences, and stories and to learn from one another and most of all, to support one another. There were numerous opportunities for structured as well as non structured networking. Ask the karaoke crowd.

Kara Dansky, articulate as usual, opened the weekend with an update on progress made and the need for continued vigilance and push back against local and national policies that remain to be challenged formally in the courts and in the media in order to protect the sex=based rights of women and girls. She also made herself available for a book signing of her second book titled, The Reckoning.

The panels included a number of thought provoking topics, among them, Feminism in the Jewish and Muslim communities in Middle eastern countries involved in conflict,  presentations on Desisting, Detransitioners, the seemingly successful fight to save women’s sports, the Effect of pornography on women’s lives and Advocacy Efforts to Protect women in Prison. One speaker presented an historical review and investigation into How to Combat Misogynoir in the Postmodern Era.

It was inspiring to hear from mothers of student athletes, coaches and the athletes themselves about how it felt to be forced to accept rules that might actually be harmful to women and girls and how organizations like ICONS, Independent Council on Women’s Sports, are helping to resist the insanity and support the sex-based rights of our young women.

It wasn’t easy to select which panels to attend, they were all very interesting.

The rally at the NCAA headquarters, Hall of Champions, was the perfect action to end the conference and to leave an otherwise welcoming city behind.