Women's Liberation Front
The Women's Liberation Front (WoLF) is an American organization known for its opposition to transgender rights and gender identity legislation. WoLF describes itself as a radical feminist organization that works to protect women and girls from what they view as the "risks posed by both 'gender identity' policies and the decriminalization of pimping and sex buying". It has engaged in litigation on transgender topics, working against the Obama administration's Title IX directives which defined sex discrimination to include gender identity. It has been characterized by "Vox", "The New Republic", and "La Presse" as a  trans-exclusionary radical feminist group. Structure and ideology. WoLF was founded by author and activist Lierre Keith, who currently serves as its chair. , WoLF had around 1,000 members across the United States. The Women's Liberation Front's activism finds its source in second-wave feminist tendencies, such as those of Mary Daly and Janice Raymond, which consider transgender identities invalid and say that women are defined by biology, rather than gender identity. While considered a fringe group by the feminist mainstream, who suggest the group conceals an essentially discriminatory right-wing ideology under the guise of feminism, the organization  has found influence through collaboration with conservative groups on shared legislative views. Though the predominant focus of WoLF has been on transgender issues, it also approves of abortion rights, and favors action to combat violence against women and the introduction of the Nordic model approach to prostitution. WoLF is opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment. Litigation and legal advocacy. In August 2016, WoLF filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration for its directive on Title IX permitting students to use bathrooms based on their reported gender identity. WoLF stated that the directive would allow biological males to self-identify into  female-exclusive spaces on the grounds of gender identity, constituting a "violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution". WoLF has filed several "amicus curiae" briefs to the Supreme Court in opposition to transgender rights advocacy. WoLF partnered with the Family Policy Alliance (FPA) to file a joint brief in support of the plaintiff of G. G. v. Gloucester County School Board, opposing a lower court ruling in favor of Gavin Grimm, a transgender male high school student who desired to use the boys' school  restroom. The organization also filed a brief in "R. G. & G. R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc., v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission", a landmark Supreme Court case involving the issue of whether the firing of transgender funeral director Aimee Stephens from Harris Funeral Homes constituted sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. WoLF's brief referred to Stephens as a man, and argued that sex should not be considered equivalent to gender identity; WoLF also organized rallies in opposition to Stephens' case outside the Supreme Court in October 2020. On November 17, 2021, WoLF filed a  lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation over their policy of transferring prisoners from male to female prisons, including sex offenders, on the basis of gender identity. Alignment with conservative organizations. In May 2017, WoLF partnered with the Hands Across the Aisle Coalition, Concerned Parents and Educators, and the Family Policy Alliance to submit a petition for rule-making to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, "to protect the safety and privacy of women in need of shelter due to homelessness or violence". In 2019, three members of WoLF appeared on a panel with conservative think  tank The Heritage Foundation. The panel focused on the Equality Act, legislation pending in Congress that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Progressives criticized WoLF's participation in the panel, which included Jennifer Chavez reading "from a letter that described increased transgender visibility and acceptance as 'a social contagion all over the internet.