A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-nations-call-on-russia-to-pay-ukraine-war-reparations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Nations</a> women&#8217;s rights committee rejected a pro-life organization&#8217;s request to screen The Daily Wire&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>” after declaring the groundbreaking documentary did not align with the panel&#8217;s &#8220;values.&#8221; 
The Committee on the Status of Women, New York, referred to within the global body as NGO CSW/NY, and a convener for the United Nations&#8217; annual meeting on women&#8217;s rights, rejected the International Youth Coalition&#8217;s request to hold a screening of the film starring Matt Walsh at an upcoming conference because it did not adhere to their new guidelines. 
“Unfortunately, your request to host an event has been denied as your event does not align with NGO CSW/NY’s values and/or mandate,” read the letter turning down the proposal.
The summary rejection stunned Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), the youth coalition&#8217;s parent organization.
&#8220;How ironic is it that a conference on women does not want to consider the question, &#8216;what is a woman?'&#8221; Ruse said. &#8220;It is also unfortunate that this UN conference is not interested in diverse voices.&#8221;
The NGO Committee of the UN Commission on the Status of Women issued new &#8220;<a href="https://ngocsw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Virtual-Safety-Guidelines-and-Principles.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">safety guidelines and principles</a>&#8221; that pro-life and pro-family groups are <a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/un-committee-moves-to-block-pro-lifers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerned</a> will have the effect of blocking their participation in UN conferences. 
&#8220;In past years, many pro-life and family organizations, including C-Fam, have hosted events, but are now unwelcomed with the new guidelines,&#8221; <a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/un-committee-rejects-matt-walsh-documentary-on-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Craig-Austin Rose of C-Fam.
The new guidelines state that participants must acknowledge that &#8220;sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism, transphobia, global North domination and other institutionalized forms of oppression exist.&#8221;
&#8220;This is an antiracist space meaning that we welcome, value and revere an intersectional approach to feminism,&#8221; the guidelines read. 
&#8220;An anti-racist space requires that all of us need to consider our positionality and work actively not to replicate white patriarchal structures including subjugating voices of Black women and women of color,&#8221; the guidelines continue.
In response to the new guidelines, C-Fam organized a petition that included signatures from 600 organizations in 119 countries that urged UN Women to allow pro-life and pro-family representation. 
&#8220;The NGO Committee on the Status of Women is blocking non-governmental organizations that do not subscribe to progressive Western views about the family and women’s issues from participating in the NGO/CSW Forum, including many organizations with ECOSOC status,&#8221; the petition <a href="https://c-fam.org/wp-content/uploads/UN-Women-Letter-Final-011723.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. &#8220;We appeal to you to ensure that organizations that hold traditional views about the family and women’s issues are not discriminated against in UN debates.&#8221;
The 67th annual NGO CSW/NY Forum is set to take place March 6-17, 2023, at the United Nations Plaza in New York.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iran</a> was kicked out of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Nations</a> commission dedicated to women&#8217;s rights on Wednesday following the United States’ push to have the country excluded.
The country was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/iran-ousted-un-womens-rights-commission-rcna61710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ousted</a> from the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women after 29 members of the United Nations Economic and Social Council voted for a resolution that was <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2022/12/14/landmark-resolution-ousts-iran-from-un-womens-commission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brought</a> by the United States to remove Iran from the commission for the rest of its term, which started this year and ends in 2026. Sixteen members abstained from the vote and eight of the members voted in opposition to it.
The draft resolution was co-sponsored by Australia, Albania, Canada, Israel, Guatemala, New Zealand, Liberia, North Macedonia, as well as the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.
“The recent horrifying executions in Tehran only strengthen our resolve to expand this growing consensus and pursue all possible mechanisms of accountability against the Iranian regime and its officials responsible for these atrocities,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/14/u-n-member-states-vote-to-oust-iran-from-womens-rights-panel-00073886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
Iran pushed back against the effort to kick them out, sending a letter to the council, along with 17 additional states and the Palestinians, on Monday. Iran <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-likely-be-ousted-un-womens-body-2022-12-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> a vote on the resolution “will undoubtedly create an unwelcome precedent that will ultimately prevent other Member States with different cultures, customs and traditions &#8230; from contributing to the activities of such Commissions.&#8221;
Iran came on board the commission in March, which meets every year and “is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,” according to the commission’s <a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/csw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.
The country was set to continue holding a place on the panel until 2026, even though Iran has long denied women their basic rights.
After Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2022/12/06/mahsa-amini-the-spark-that-ignited-a-women-led-revolution/?sh=3e21f7495c3d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> away while in police custody when she was arrested for &#8220;improperly&#8221; wearing a hijab, protests erupted across the country. Since the protests, the Iranian government has detained massive numbers of protesters. Iran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-will-hold-public-trials-for-at-least-1000-detained-protestors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced that it would be publicly trying protesters</a> and followed through over the past week as two people <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/world/middleeast/iran-protests-execution.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">involved</a> with the protests were were publicly hanged.
In Iran, women are routinely at a significant <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/16/iranian-womens-demands-freedom-must-be-heard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disadvantage</a> when compared to men. The country’s Civil Code dictates that a woman’s husband has the ability to decide where the family lives and he can keep his wife from working in certain areas if he thinks it is against “family values.” A woman also needs to get permission from her husband to get a passport and be able to go on foreign travel.
Women make up more than 50% of people who graduate from universities in Iran, but in 2020, their labor force participation was 14%, whereas men&#8217;s was 70% after both dipping from 2019 rates.
Women have even had acid hurled on them likely because they were not appropriately <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/news/acid-attacks-iranian-women-linked-bad-hijab-294274346" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clothed</a>. They have also been physically <a href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/gender-based-violence-iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abused</a> in public by the morality police.

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Iranian state media over the weekend <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-demolishes-family-home-of-climber-who-competed-without-a-hijab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the family home of rock climber Elnaz Rekabi had been demolished, just months after the female athlete participated in an international competition without her hijab.
Rekabi, 33, later apologized for not wearing her state-mandated head covering, but the moment was perceived as a protest against her government following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested by the morality police who then died while in their custody.
Footage reportedly shows a demolished home with medals on the ground, according to CNN. The athlete&#8217;s brother Davood, a champion rock climber himself, is crying in the video.
“This is the result of living in this country,&#8221; an unknown man capturing the footage says. &#8220;A country’s champion with kilos of medals for this country. Worked hard to make this country proud. They pepper sprayed him and demolished a 39 sqm house and left. What can I say?”
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Following what many interpreted as a protest, Rekabi took to social media to say that she forgot to put on her head covering and apologized. However, anti-government groups say the young woman was forced into the backtrack over safety concerns.
“Due to inappropriate timing, and an unpredictable call for me to climb the wall, there was accidentally a problem with my head cover,” Rekabi reportedly <a href="https://theprint.in/world/iranian-climber-elnaz-rekabi-apologises-in-instagram-post-after-unintentionally-competing-without-hijab/1173826/">wrote</a>.
The 33-year-old added that she flew back to Iran &#8220;according to the pre-arranged schedule,” addressing concerns over her safety after the competition.
Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad responded online, &#8220;This is an act of terror; forced confession.&#8221;
&#8220;Elnaz Rekabi refused forced hijab while competing in Seoul,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Her phone &amp; passport was confiscated by Islamic Republic, [s]he has gone missing, Elnaz returned to Iran &amp; announced: not wearing hijab was not intentional.&#8221; 
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This is an act of terror; forced confession
1) Elnaz Rekabi refused forced hijab while competing in Seoul 2) Her phone &amp; passport was confiscated by Islamic Republic 3) She has gone missing 4) Elnaz returned to Iran &amp; announced: not wearing hijab was not intentional <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MahsaAmini</a> <a href="https://t.co/V7HjzDmD52">pic.twitter.com/V7HjzDmD52</a>
&mdash; Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1582298353920245762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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After months of protest, a top official in Iran reportedly declared the abolition of the state&#8217;s morality police, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-morality-police-abolished-attorney-general-says">The Daily Wire</a> reported over the weekend.
Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri announced the decision at a religious conference on Sunday when asked if the morality police, tasked with enforcing Iran’s Islamic dress code, would be disbanded, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63850656">according to BBC Persian</a>. Iranian state media outlets <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/world/middleeast/iran-morality-police.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes">reported</a> the news late Saturday night.
“The morality police had nothing to do with the judiciary and have been shut down from where they were set up,” he said.
The report stressed that control of the force sits within the jurisdiction of the interior ministry, and other agencies have not confirmed the fate of the morality police.
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-morality-police-abolished-attorney-general-says">Iran Morality Police Abolished, Attorney General Says</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iran</a> is set to hold public trials for at least 1,000 detained protestors after recent demonstrations have occurred throughout the country. 
The country’s judicial system <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/31/iran-to-hold-public-trials-for-up-to-2000-detained-amid-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> it would initiate public trials for up to 1,000 people arrested in Tehran and more than 1,000 detained in other regions during the recent spark of protests across the nation. 
&#8220;Those who intend to confront and subvert the regime are dependent on foreigners and will be punished according to legal standards,&#8221; Iran’s judiciary chief, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, said. &#8220;Without a doubt, our judges will deal with the cases of the recent riots with accuracy and speed.” 
“Even among the agitators, it should be clarified as to who had the intention of confronting the system and overthrowing it,” he added.
Tehran authorities have reportedly reiterated unsubstantiated allegations that foreign enemies of the country have encouraged the protests. 
The protests started after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-hold-public-trials-1000-protesters-accused-subversive-actions-amid-mahsa-amini-unrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> in custody after being arrested by “morality police” for allegedly wearing a &#8220;bad hijab.&#8221; 
Thousands of people have been detained, and many have been taken to detention facilities. 
One protestor was detained on a “corruption on earth” charge after attending an anti-government protest and was sentenced to execution after only one hearing, according to his mother. 
“My son is only 22 years old and he is also ill. They deprived him of having a lawyer and do not allow lawyers to enter the court,” Ghobadlo’s mother said in an online video. 
“They interrogated him without having access to a lawyer, and sentenced him to death after only one hearing. Is this Islamic justice? In which court of law do they sentence people to death after just one hearing? They are going to execute him soon. I ask people to help,” she added.
Global leaders have reacted to Iran&#8217;s intense crackdown on protesters, with German chancellor Olaf Scholz saying he was stunned by how many people were being violently and illegally detained. Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, has also said she is seeking European Union sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group. Canada has said it would initiate more sanctions against top Iranian authorities and law enforcement personnel.
More than 300 Iranian reporters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-journalists-demand-that-colleagues-jailed-covering-aminis-death-be-freed-2022-10-30/">demanded</a> that two journalists arrested for reporting on the story of Amini’s death be let go. Over the past six weeks, at least 40 reporters have been arrested, rights groups say, and the figure is rising.

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By way of threats and alleged assault, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> activists on Wednesday reportedly forced a group of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/womens-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">women&#8217;s rights</a> demonstrators to shutter their &#8220;Let Women Speak&#8221; rally in Tacoma, Washington.
Women&#8217;s rights campaigner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-feminist-tells-transgender-activist-who-identifies-as-mother-not-to-use-womens-spaces-in-heated-confrontation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kellie-Jay Keen</a>, who headed the event, told The Daily Wire the &#8220;Let Women Speak&#8221; speaking tour is intended to allow women who&#8217;ve been silenced online for bucking radical transgender orthodoxy to make their voices heard &#8220;in the actual public square&#8221; — though on Wednesday the women were shut down in-person, too.
&#8220;The USA is failing to uphold the First Amendment at the behest of this odious and most insidious quasi-religious cult called transgenderism,&#8221; Keen blasted. &#8220;Women must be protected to speak about the eraser of our spaces, our rights, and the words we use to define ourselves.&#8221;
Keen claimed the Tacoma Police Department (TPD) &#8220;failed to show up until the 23rd call for help,&#8221; adding that video of an assault led to at least one arrest.
&#8220;April Morrow was assaulted when a man grabbed her hand and crushed it in order to steal her phone and smash it,&#8221; Keen said. &#8220;She has suspected broken fingers and is seeking further medical attention today [Thursday]. The footage was given to police and he was promptly arrested.&#8221;
&#8220;As women&#8217;s rights activists were dispersing the <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/StandingforXX">@StandingforXX</a> rally in Tacoma, WA on Oct. 26, far-left pro-<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trans?src=hashtag_click">#trans</a> protesters surrounded &amp; assaulted a middle-aged lesbian caught in the middle,&#8221; The Post Millennial&#8217;s editor-at-large Andy Ngo captioned video from the event. &#8220;She had an arm injury that required treatment. The male assailants escaped on foot.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to the TPD for comment, and heard back from the department&#8217;s public information officer Wendy Haddow soon after publication.
&#8220;The Tacoma Police Department had officers on scene monitoring the event,&#8221; Haddow said via email. &#8220;Police responded to calls from victims wanting to report a crime. This included a victim who reported an assault and damage to a cell phone. An arrest was made of a 27-year-old male, and the suspect was booked into jail.&#8221;
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As women&#39;s rights activists were dispersing the <a href="https://twitter.com/StandingforXX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StandingforXX</a> rally in Tacoma, WA on Oct. 26, far-left pro-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#trans</a> protesters surrounded &amp; assaulted a middle-aged lesbian caught in the middle. She had an arm injury that required treatment. The male assailants escaped on foot. <a href="https://t.co/bZF2aNyjN7">pic.twitter.com/bZF2aNyjN7</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1585502257033793537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another video from the event shows a male sneaking up on a female speaker before being stopped by another quick-acting female demonstrator.
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A &#39;stunning and brave&#39; maIe attempts to assauIt a woman. With cat like reflexes. Amanzing <a href="https://twitter.com/KnownHeretic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KnownHeretic</a> jumps in to block him. What a Shero!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomenSpeak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetWomenSpeak</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomenSpeakUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetWomenSpeakUSA</a> <a href="https://t.co/gCfisi3vyR">pic.twitter.com/gCfisi3vyR</a>
&mdash; SFW Kellie-Jay Keen #AdultHumanFemale (@StandingforXX) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1585352747528122369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Numerous high school students came to try to shut down the women&#8217;s rights demonstrators, too, Keen told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Nearby high school students screamed obscenities in the faces of women who gathered to speak,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;Along with other protesters they circled around us and started to push us until we deemed it too unsafe to continue.&#8221;
&#8220;This was made worse by the fact that their principal would not ask them to go inside, he said it would make things worse for himself,&#8221; the activist noted. &#8220;He also confirmed that boys use girls private spaces in that school and that it was state law.&#8221;
After the shuttered rally, Haddow said the department &#8220;received a report from a victim reporting they had been pepper sprayed while at the event&#8221; and a report was taken. &#8220;The adult female suspect had already left the scene. No arrest has been made at this time.&#8221;
&#8220;Today we were advised three students from a nearby school were pepper sprayed during the event,&#8221; the officer added. &#8220;An employee from the school called 911 today. The investigation is ongoing.&#8221;
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After an assault, threat to kiII and the police <a href="https://twitter.com/TacomaPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TacomaPD</a> refusing to attend, the only option was to end the event. 
I repeat, <a href="https://twitter.com/TacomaPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TacomaPD</a> would not protect women. Footage by <a href="https://twitter.com/KnownHeretic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KnownHeretic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomenSpeak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetWomenSpeak</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomwenSpeakUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetWomwenSpeakUSA</a> <a href="https://t.co/DKa3HOtcHL">pic.twitter.com/DKa3HOtcHL</a>
&mdash; SFW Kellie-Jay Keen #AdultHumanFemale (@StandingforXX) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1585369340798730240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-feminist-tells-transgender-activist-who-identifies-as-mother-not-to-use-womens-spaces-in-heated-confrontation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Women&#8217;s Rights Activist Tells Transgender Activist Who Identifies As ‘Mother’ Not To Use Women’s Spaces In Heated Confrontation</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-beauty-guru-amanda-ensing-suspended-from-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amanda Ensing</a>, beauty guru and CEO and founder of makeup company Elevate Beauty, slammed Ulta Beauty for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/women-call-for-ulta-beauty-boycott-over-transgender-video-discussing-girlhood-and-motherhood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">controversial podcast</a> featuring a biologically male <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-surgery-poised-to-become-a-5-billion-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> actor and influencer explaining &#8220;girlhood&#8221; and motherhood.
Ensing was notably <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk06l01TBJo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled</a> by beauty company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-beauty-guru-to-launch-make-makeup-great-again-line" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sephora</a> in 2021 after the YouTuber spoke openly about her conservative and Christian views.
&#8220;Women: stop spending money with companies that want to erase you to appease a narrative. Womanhood is not a costume or feeling,&#8221; Ensing <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaEnsing/status/1581731484808794112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> Ulta via Twitter.
In another tweet, Ensing asserted, &#8220;You can’t be for women’s rights, but also say there’s no definition of a woman. You can’t be for women’s rights, while denying the truth of what a woman is.&#8221;
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You can’t be for women’s rights, but also say there’s no definition of a woman. You can’t be for women’s rights, while denying the truth of what a woman is.
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On her Instagram account, where the businesswoman has 1.4 million followers, Ensing added more commentary to the fight over identity, specifically womanhood.
&#8220;Too many people claiming to be for women&#8217;s rights, but denying our existence &amp; allowing everyone to speak for women BUT women,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Also, where are the strong men to stand up? Many men are silent because they&#8217;re been brainwashed that their masculinity is toxic. Men are protectors &amp; are to protect women.&#8221;
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In numerous Instagram stories, the 31-year-old blasted the media and other forces for manipulating people into silence.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna be silenced by men — or anyone for that matter,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This whole attack on identity the last couple years just keeps getting worse because the media and society have used people’s emotions [against them]. … You can’t love someone without the truth. It is impossible. You can’t love someone in a lie, that’s why when someone you love lies to you it hurts so much.”
“Right now, we have a whole society lying to people in the name of love and tolerance when it’s not,&#8221; the influencer said.
Ensing added that it’s even more of a “slap in the face” now that she’s pregnant to be told that men can do things only women can, like carry life.
“I’ve watched it happen in the beauty industry over the last decade,” Ensing explained, noting that women have been “silenced.”
“They want to bully you — you can’t even say ‘women empowerment’ without using qualifiers now to include men. It’s a clown world. And I’m not about to be erased.&#8221;
Ensing told women they need to think about their “identity in Christ&#8221; before blindly supporting movements that hurt them.
“Right now, I think women are more in danger than we ever have been,” she asserted. “How do you even have women’s rights when there&#8217;s no definition of a woman?”
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&#8220;And so many women just cheering it on &#8230; you don’t understand the bigger picture here,&#8221; Ensing said. &#8220;People just want to be accepted by society so bad they are willing to forgo the way they were created.&#8221;
&#8220;They don’t know how special and unique they are,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If they were created male or female — they don’t understand it because society has convinced them that they live in a universe with all these big things and you’re so tiny, which is a complete lie. You are so unique and special.”
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Radical feminists, once pillars of the Left, have been shown the door by many in the transgender movement, but they aren’t keeping quiet.
The feminists are continuing to speak out against the elimination of women from society, and the erosion of their rights as an individual sex.
Kara Dansky worked in the progressive criminal justice reform movement, and also spent time working at the ACLU, but when she started speaking out against the erasure of women through the legal promotion of gender identity, she lost work and was sidelined in the field she had worked in for years. Dansky had been pointing out how it was important to not enshrine terms such as “gender identity” into the law, and how doing so would harm women and girls.
“Even though I am solidly on the political Left, in political Left circles, the kinds of things I was saying were very unpopular, even actually socially and professionally prohibited,” Dansky told The Daily Wire.
She is firmly against the Equality Act, which passed the House of Representatives last year. She said the Equality Act would &#8220;redefine sex throughout civil rights law to include the phrase &#8216;gender identity.&#8217;”
She said this “obliterates the ability of women and girls to be named as a sex class in the law. And radical feminists think that that is important and a very bad thing for women and girls because we aim to fight sexism, and we cannot fight sexism if we cannot say what sex is and if we cannot say that women and girls constitute a coherent class of people.&#8221;
She discussed the hard-won battles that feminists have fought in the past to achieve segregated spaces where women would be apart from men.
According to <a href="https://www.livescience.com/54692-why-bathrooms-are-gender-segregated.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live Science</a>, in 1887, Massachusetts passed a law saying that workplaces with women have to have separate restrooms for them, per an <a href="http://www.rutgerslawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/archive/vol61/Issue2/Griffin_v61n2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> in Rutgers University Law review. By the 1920s, this was the standard in the majority of states.
“There are lots of reasons why historically women have stayed in the home, Dansky explained, and lots of them are “ideological,” and due to stereotypes about the roles of sexes. “But one of them is very practical. Just as a practical matter, it was very difficult for women to be out and about in public life because there was no such thing as women&#8217;s restrooms,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And [getting] public women&#8217;s restrooms, as strange as this may sound, was actually a really important feminist fight.”
Public restrooms aren’t the only area where safety and violence is an issue, but also in domestic violence shelters and prisons.
“Women worked very hard to get domestic violence shelters established so that women fleeing male violence in the home could have somewhere to go,&#8221; she said, adding how now domestic violence shelters are being legally forced to allow men to stay in the facilities due to &#8220;their so-called female gender identity, and that&#8217;s really dangerous for women and girls.&#8221;
She pointed out how there’s more to it than just the safety concerns, though, such as “really important privacy and dignity issues.” She said even if the men aren’t physically or violently threatening to girls and women, “women and girls ought to be able to say &#8216;no&#8217; to men and boys in our spaces.”
Prisons are also a major concern as states like California create policies to let men be housed in women’s prisons if they say they are a woman.
In November of 2021, feminist group Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) <a href="https://womensliberationfront.org/chandler-v-cdcr">filed</a> a lawsuit challenging California’s law that permits men who say they personally identify as non-binary or female to be placed in women’s prisons. The ACLU recently sought to get involved in the case, in support of the law, but a decision has not been made on their request.
The bill, SB 132, went into effect in January of 2021 and “allows incarcerated transgender, non-binary and intersex people to request to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their gender identity,” according to the <a href="https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/prea/sb-132-faqs/." target="_blank" rel="noopener">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation</a>.
Mahri Irvine, the executive director of Women’s Liberation Front, told The Daily Wire that most of the women who are coming into prison have already gone through several traumatic experiences.
“I would describe incarcerated women as one of our country&#8217;s most vulnerable group of people,” she said.
Women in prisons who identify as transgender or non-binary are also at risk due to these policies, Lauren Adams, who recently worked as legal director for WoLF, said. She noted that they aren’t seeking to go to men’s prisons in large numbers, because they are at risk in those environments. They can also become pregnant or be raped, and their physical size is smaller than the men arriving at the women’s prisons. 
She said she believes there have been “ten transfer requests from female to male facilities. None have been granted. None have been denied. They&#8217;re just letting them hang out there, inviting another lawsuit, I assume, for failing to even to deny them.”
On the other hand, she said, there have been around 350 requests by men to enter women facilities. Adams said she often hears that the women in prison at times want to protect the transgender woman in the facility, and not say anything that would result in the person being sent back to the potentially dangerous men’s prison.
“And there [are] men who take advantage of that, regardless of what their personal identity is, whether they sincerely believe themselves to be something or other,” she said.
“These are violent criminals serving long sentences who are looking at this as their one chance to have sexual relationships with women ever for the rest of their entire lives,” she added. “A lot of these men are serving life sentences, and they did what they had to to get over there… And from what we hear act like men, we hear that over and over again.”
Dansky and Women’s Liberation Front say there is support for their message against such transgender policies. While some support them, often they are still afraid of the repercussions.
“We have thousands of supporters and donors, some of them very small and low level, but thousands of people who very privately support us, but they&#8217;re still worried about the backlash, and these are people in professional positions,” Irvine noted.
She said they know from private messages that there are lots of people in different areas who think that women and girls deserve specific spaces and certain resources to operate as single sex.
In January, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3481?s=1&amp;r=22">bill</a> that would not allow prisons to use gender identity to house men in women’s prisons — and vice versa.
Dansky said public opinion is starting to move, and she has started hearing from more mainstream Democrats on the topic.
The issue might seem as if it only impacts Democrat-run states, but the policies allowing men to be housed in women’s prisons are far-reaching, Adams said. She explained that over half of states essentially use &#8220;cross-sex&#8221; housing, meaning that these states seem to have specifically accommodated people who identify as transgender in women&#8217;s facilities. Only recently, she noted, have states started to put men who still have functioning male reproductive body parts in female prisons. It is a difficult area of the law, and Adams pointed out over email that no state or federal laws give women in prison the &#8220;right to have single-sex housing [sic].&#8221;
One state that caters to transgender-identifying inmates is South Dakota.
The South Dakota Department of Corrections&#8217; policy <a href="https://doc.sd.gov/documents/Management%20of%20Gender%20Dysphoria612021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regarding</a> gender dysphoria management was signed in June of 2021. The policy notes, “Facility housing and programming assignments for all inmates, including those that identify as transgender, intersex or who have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, shall be made on a case-by-case basis,” while considering the the individual’s past and adhering to inmate classification procedure.
“Inmate housing is not based exclusively on external genital anatomy of those housed in the unit or facility,” it added.
There are <a href="https://womensliberationfront.org/womens-prisons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several</a> <a href="https://usa.kpssinfo.org/does-state-law-permit-male-inmates-in-womens-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that allow men to be put in women&#8217;s prisons, either through law or policies. In Washington state, policies have allowed men to be put in female prisons. California&#8217;s practice, where there is legislation concerning the topic, is rare.
“It&#8217;s not something that can really simply be solved because… it&#8217;s something that happened very slowly over time based on various obscure laws,” Adams said.
WoLF pointed out the sexist nature of the policies allowing men to be in women’s prisons. Women are the ones who are put at a disadvantage and whose wellbeing is not considered. The women who are most traumatized and defenseless do not have enough people advocating for them.
Irvine pointed out how when “trans identified men” say they are unsafe and need to get out of the men’s prison because they are in danger, they are allowed to go to a women’s prison. “But then we have all these female inmates who say they don&#8217;t feel safe, and where do they get to go? There&#8217;s nowhere for them to run. Right? So the running away is only in one direction,” she added.
The policy becomes more of a Band-aid than a real fix to the problems surrounding the incarceration system. “…we want everybody to be safe in prison. But those men&#8217;s prison administrators, they need to fix their own problems and not just dump them off on women&#8217;s prisons,” she noted.
Adams pointed out how the push to get men into women’s prisons is not something that is benefitting both sexes. “It&#8217;s very much a men&#8217;s rights movement, it’s very much a men&#8217;s rights campaign,” she said.
“These laws specifically benefit men,&#8221; she pressed. &#8220;They explicitly benefit men.&#8221;

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The 80-year-old woman who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/80-year-old-woman-banned-from-community-pool-after-complaining-man-watching-little-girls-undress-in-shower-room-report">claimed</a> that she was banned from a pool in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington">Washington</a> state has said that she was called a “bigot” because she said there was a man in the women’s changing area.
Julie Jaman told The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire">Morning Wire</a> podcast that she was told she was no longer welcome at the Mountain View pool after she alleged that there was a man in a woman’s swimsuit with several young girls in the women’s area of the pool located in Port Townsend, Washington.
“While I was showering on Tuesday, I heard a man&#8217;s voice, and I looked over toward the two toilets that are in that dressing area. And there was a man in a woman&#8217;s bathing suit watching four or five little girls take off their suits in order to use those toilets,” Jaman said.
Jaman said that she did not know who the person was in the changing area, but that it was a man.
“I just saw a person in a bathing suit. There was no identification, nothing. There&#8217;s no signage on the women&#8217;s dressing room door to expect this,” she said.
She <a href="https://www.porttownsendfreepress.com/2022/08/02/mountain-view-pool-punishes-woman-for-her-gender-expression-and-identity-part-one/">told</a> a local outlet, the Port Townsend Free Press, that she then asked the person to leave.
“There were gaps in the curtain and there I was, naked, with soap and water on me, and this guy, right there very close to me,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/80-year-old-woman-banned-from-community-pool-after-complaining-man-watching-little-girls-undress-in-shower-room-report">said</a>. “I asked, ‘Do you have a penis?’ He said, ‘That’s none of your business.’ That’s when I told him, ‘Get out of here, right now.’”
She told Morning Wire that she was then told by a staff member, “You’re discriminating and you&#8217;re out of the pool forever,” and later told by city officials that she was a “bigot.” She said she was asked to leave following the incident in the changing room.
According to a statement from Erin Hawkins, communications manager for the pool, Jaman was banned for multiple violations of the pool’s code of conduct.
“Julie Jaman was permanently suspended from the Mountain View Pool due to her repeatedly violating our Code of Conduct, specifically, using disrespectful words or gestures toward YMCA staff or others; abusive, harassing and/or obscene language or gestures toward YMCA staff or others,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-80-year-old-woman-banned-ymca-demanding-trans-employee-leave-locker">told</a> Fox News.
Jaman told The Daily Wire that she has never had any violations at the pool or warnings about poor behavior. She has since started a petition to provide an alternative space for women so that they will not have to be in the same changing area as males.

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There is no question whatsoever that the books of the Bible were written against the background of strongly patriarchal societies, from the ancient Near East to the Greco-Roman world. In these societies, men’s and women’s rights were certainly not equal, and the subservience of women to men was virtually taken for granted. The question is: how much does the Bible continue to  reinforce this mindset, and to what extent does it plant seeds for dramatic change?
On the one hand, there are Torah laws, which reinforce the status quo, such as a husband can nullify his wife’s vow to God (Num 30:13) and a husband can bring a charge to the priests if he suspects his wife has committed adultery (Num 5:11-15). There is no provision, however, for a wife to do the same.
In the New Testament as well, wives are urged to be submissive to their husbands (1 Peter 3:1-6), and it is taken for granted (or explicitly stated) that congregational leaders will be male.
However, there is much more that the Bible has to say about the importance of women and the status of women.
In the Old Testament, Deborah became the leader of the nation, known for her courage in the face of danger and putting other men to shame (Judges 4-6). She was Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir several thousand years before their time.
There were also women who served as prophetesses, including Miriam, the sister of Moses, and Huldah, a contemporary of Jeremiah. The Old Testament even spoke of the day when both sons and daughters, male servants and female servants, would prophesy (Joel 2:28-32). The Holy Spirit would be poured out on everyone.
Even more significantly, the book of Proverbs ends with a lengthy passage (22 verses, in fact), praising a godly woman – not for her looks, but for her industriousness, her wisdom, her confidence, her entrepreneurship, her independence, and her spirituality. Read it when you have a chance (Proverbs 31:9-21), then ask yourself: how can a passage like this find its way into a so-called misogynistic book?
Going back to the New Testament, Miriam (Mary), the mother of Jesus, was highly honored, while a number of women played important roles in the life and ministry of Jesus. Not only so, but after He rose from the dead, it was women who first learned of His resurrection and women who were sent by Jesus to tell the other men. They, in turn, didn’t believe the women.
As for wives being called to submit to their husbands, the husbands had a responsibility too: “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25).
Yes, husbands, you are called to love your wives the way Jesus loved the church, laying down your life for them. That’s a pretty high calling! There is some major reciprocity here, to say the least.
When we look at the life and ministry of the Apostle Paul &#8211; who penned the just-quoted words from Ephesians &#8211; there is a long list of women who were prominently involved in his own ministry work (see Romans 16), including Priscilla, who is normally mentioned before her husband, Aquila. Acts also tells us that both of them &#8211; again, with her name being mentioned first &#8211; instructed Apollos (Acts 18:24-26).
It was also Paul who penned the radical words that, “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). The implications of this single sentence have been felt through the centuries.
To be sure, he was not saying that there were no such categories as Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. Rather, he was saying that, in Jesus, there was no caste system or class system and that all were equal in Him. The implications of this were (and are) massive.
That’s why it is no wonder that, as the early Christian faith spread through the ancient world, women found it especially attractive.
In his 1996 book, “The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries,” respected anthropologist Rodney Stark explained: “Amidst contemporary denunciations of Christianity as patriarchal and sexist, it is easily forgotten that the church was so especially attractive to women that in 370 the emperor Valentinian issued a written order to Pope Damascus I requiring that Christian missionaries cease calling at the homes of pagan women.”
Stark also explained that, “Christian women did indeed enjoy considerably greater status and power than did pagan women.”
One primary reason was that “Christians did not condone female infanticide,” and in the ancient world, female babies were discarded at much higher rates than male babies. The spread of Christianity changed that, making infanticide illegal.
Stark also noted that, “the more favorable Christian view of women is also demonstrated in their condemnation of divorce, incest, marital infidelity, and polygamy. . . . Like pagans, early Christians prized female chastity, but unlike pagans they rejected the double standard that gave pagan men so much sexual license.”
So, the double standard that required sexual purity for women but not for men was also obliterated by the cross.
Stark also added that, “Should they be widowed, Christian women also enjoyed very substantial advantages,” noting that, “Close examination of Roman persecutions also suggests that women held positions of power and status within the Christian churches.”
This is not surprising in the least.
In sum, while the Bible is written against a heavily patriarchal background, with some of those patriarchal concepts reinforced in the biblical text, it is the very principles laid out in these books that have proved so emancipating for women through the centuries. (For information on traditional Judaism and women, see <a href="https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1802936/jewish/Woman-in-Judaism.htm">here</a> and <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/what-is-judaisms-view-on-women/2021/01/15/">here</a>.)
These principles combat unfair male domination, on the one hand, and radical feminism, on the other hand. They are principles of life and liberation, as hundreds of millions of Christian women can attest to today.
Dr. Michael Brown (<a href="http://www.askdrbrown.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.askdrbrown.org</a>) is the host of the nationally syndicated <a href="http://www.lineoffireradio.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Line of Fire</a> radio program. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a professor at a number of seminaries and is the author of 40 books. Connect with him on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AskDrBrown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMichaelLBrown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbINn3x-intLp88Zrf8acpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A group of House Republicans is introducing a new &#8220;Women&#8217;s Bill of Rights&#8221; to protect the rights of females based on their biological gender.
Arizona Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko led the group of lawmakers on the Republican Study Committee (RSC) to push for the new legislation on Thursday.
“As the Left continues to erase women, we must fight for women and their place in our society,” Lesko said in a <a href="https://lesko.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “Whether it’s keeping the word &#8216;mother&#8217; in written law, or ensuring women’s domestic violence shelters do not have to accept biological men, we must stand up for women.”
The bill is designed to push back on recent efforts by many Democrats to redefine gender or even recognize the unique differences between men and women.
“The modern Democrat party has put the Left’s woke agenda before the rights of women,” RSC Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN).
“These days, Democrats refuse to even admit women exist or recognize them as unique beings, with unique abilities. While radical liberals strip away the progress and protections that generations of women fought to achieve, Republicans must fight back and acknowledge these basic biological truths. As the father of three daughters, I’m proud to co-lead this resolution reaffirming the legal protections afforded to them under federal law,” he added.
Independent Women’s Voice Vice President Carrie Lukas also shared her support for the bill in the statement.
“Women and girls’ interests are being short-changed today by those who seek to eradicate sex-specific sports, facilities, and opportunities. That ends today. I’m grateful that Representatives Lesko, Banks, Harshbarger, and Miller are standing up for women and for common sense,” Lukas said.
The bill acknowledges the biological differences between men and women and &#8220;highlights the importance of differentiating between men and women in law for the purposes of protecting sex-segregated activities and organizations.&#8221; The bill also affirms the importance of using “mother” and “father” in written laws to protect families and parents.
Lesko spoke out regarding the new bill at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
&#8220;More and more often, our colleagues on the left are trying to erase women,&#8221; the congresswoman said.
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Today at the <a href="https://twitter.com/RepublicanStudy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepublicanStudy</a>’s press conference, I spoke about the Women’s Bill of Rights that I introduced to stand up for the rights of women and ensure our safety. Watch my remarks below: <a href="https://t.co/AcvQI2Om3i">pic.twitter.com/AcvQI2Om3i</a>
&mdash; Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (@RepDLesko) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDLesko/status/1527316400003436545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-introduce-womens-bill-rights-protect-accomplishments-ensure-safety-biological-females" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News on Thursday, Lesko also shared that she was proud to represent the legislation.
&#8220;I am proud to introduce the Women’s Bill of Rights to affirm the importance of acknowledging women and their unique and distinguishing characteristics and contributions to our nation. As the Left continues to erase women, we must fight for women and their place in our society. Whether it’s keeping the word &#8216;mother&#8217; in written law, or ensuring women’s domestic violence shelters do not have to accept biological men, we must stand up for women,&#8221; Lesko said.
The issue of gender also came to the forefront of discussion this week after Avow Texas Executive Director Aimee Arrambide testified during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that said &#8220;anyone can identify for themselves,&#8221; agreed that men could &#8220;become pregnant,&#8221; and that a man could have an abortion.
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Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/jdanbishop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jdanbishop</a>: &quot;Do you believe men can become pregnant and have abortions?&quot;
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&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1526983185090977794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Taliban government in Afghanistan on Saturday ordered that women must cover their faces in public, returning to the restrictive policy that ended more than two decades ago.
Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada ruled that a woman who refuses to comply could lead to her father or closest male relative facing imprisonment or loss of a state job.
&#8220;We call on the world to co-operate with the Islamic Emirate and people of Afghanistan &#8230; Don’t bother us. Don’t bring more pressure, because history is witness, Afghans won’t be affected by pressure,&#8221; Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the minister for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, told a news conference, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-announce-women-must-cover-faces-public-say-burqa-is-best-2022-05-07/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The group announced the recommended covering would be a blue burqa, the head-to-toe garment forced upon Afghan women during the Taliban&#8217;s previous rule.
Most Afghan women already wear a headscarf, though the new requirement and its enforcement increase the regulation and punishment upon a woman&#8217;s family.
The United Nations&#8217; mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a <a href="https://unama.unmissions.org/unama-statement-hijab-directive-taliban-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Saturday that opposed the ruling.
&#8220;UNAMA is deeply concerned with today’s announcement by the Taliban de facto authorities that all women must cover their faces in public, that women should only leave their homes in cases of necessity, and that violations of this directive will lead to the punishment of their male relatives,&#8221; the statement read.
&#8220;UNAMA will immediately request meetings with the Taliban de facto authorities to seek clarification on the status of this decision. UNAMA will also engage in consultations with members of the international community regarding its implications, the statement added.
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the U.N., also expressed his concern over the new annoucement.
&#8220;I&#8217;m alarmed by today&#8217;s announcement by the Taliban that women must cover their faces in public and leave home only in cases of necessity,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;I once again urge the Taliban to keep their promises to Afghan women &amp; girls, and their obligations under international human rights law.&#8221;
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I&#39;m alarmed by today&#39;s announcement by the Taliban that women must cover their faces in public and leave home only in cases of necessity.   I once again urge the Taliban to keep their promises to Afghan women &amp; girls, and their obligations under international human rights law.
&mdash; António Guterres (@antonioguterres) <a href="https://twitter.com/antonioguterres/status/1523105396533374977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The move is one of several efforts pushing back against the rights of women in Afghanistan following the Taliban&#8217;s return to rule and America&#8217;s military departure last year.
&#8220;Since the Taliban takeover in August, the group has imprisoned dozens of women’s rights activists, restricted access to education for women and girls, and blocked women from international travel without a male guardian,&#8221; the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/07/taliban-orders-head-toe-coverings-afghan-women-public/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> regarding the announcement.
&#8220;Many women have also been barred from the workplace under Taliban rule because of guidelines forbidding men and women to work in proximity to one another,&#8221; the report added.
The Daily Wire has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-after-145-billion-u-s-reconstruction-effort-in-afghanistan-tsunami-of-hunger-worsening" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Taliban forces have claimed they are developing a 2022 education curriculum, but the State Department told the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction it has no evidence of it being operational yet.
Afghan women have also been forced from their jobs after the terrorist group assumed power. According to the United Nations Develop Program, restrictions on female employment could cost the national economy $1 billion and a GDP slippage of 5%. Prior to the Taliban takeover, women constituted more than 20% of Afghanistan’s workforce.

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Twitter finally took down a video posted by transgender activist and singer Faye Fadem with a &#8220;death threat&#8221; against J.K. Rowling after initially deciding it didn&#8217;t violate the site&#8217;s &#8220;safety policies.&#8221;
Fadem, who releases music under the name &#8220;Trust Fund Ozu,&#8221; posted a music video on April 1 in part directed at the famed &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-slams-new-transgender-bill-she-says-will-hurt-the-most-vulnerable-women">author</a> with the lyrics, &#8220;As I kill (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists)&#8221; and &#8220;J.K. I hope you fit in a hearse,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/twitter-blocks-trans-activists-music-video-about-j-k-rowling/">reported</a> the New York Post in a piece published Monday.
Actor James Dreyfuss, known for his work in &#8220;Notting Hill,&#8221; called the video to Twitter&#8217;s attention and shared the response he said he got back from the social media site that it hadn&#8217;t violated the site&#8217;s &#8220;safety policies.&#8221;
&#8220;Surprise, Surprise!&#8221; Dreyfuss <a href="https://twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1510349778202288132?s=20&amp;t=PCCVrJJTv_ZwvWM6DtN4Tw">tweeted</a>. &#8220;So, death threats=Good. Saying &#8216;women are women&#8217;=Bad. @Twitter @TwitterSupport. Congratulations. You&#8217;ve hit rock bottom. Seek help.night all. X.&#8221;
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Surprise, Surprise!
So, death threats=Good. 
Saying ‘women are women’=Bad. <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TwitterSupport</a> 
Congratulations. You’ve hit rock bottom. Seek help.
🙄night all. X <a href="https://t.co/VbkFtOIcbQ">pic.twitter.com/VbkFtOIcbQ</a>
&mdash; James Dreyfus (@DreyfusJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1510349778202288132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;After viewing the available information, we want to let you know that TrustFundOzu hasn&#8217;t broken our safety policies,&#8221; the message from Twitter read according to Dreyfus. &#8220;We know this isn&#8217;t the answer you&#8217;re looking for. If this account breaks our policies in the future, we&#8217;ll notify you.&#8221;
&#8220;This one doing numbers with the transphobes,&#8221; Fadem tweeted quote tweeting the video which was removed. &#8220;Getting off twitter for the day.&#8221;
Rowling also responded on Twitter to the video calling for her death and shared with her 14 million followers that she had to give it a shout-out for it&#8217;s 90s look.
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I&#39;m afraid I can&#39;t give a shout out to everyone promising to murder me &#8211; there are so many of you, and I&#39;m a busy woman &#8211; but this one deserves a mention for the nineties rave vibe, <a href="https://twitter.com/TrustFundOzu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TrustFundOzu</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Ium6oIHFOS">pic.twitter.com/Ium6oIHFOS</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1510359599165100032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;m afraid I can&#8217;t give a shout out to everyone promising to murder me – there are so many of you, and I&#8217;m a busy woman – but this one deserves a mention for the nineties rave vibe, @TrustFundOzu,&#8221; the famed author <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1510359599165100032?s=20&amp;t=PCCVrJJTv_ZwvWM6DtN4Tw">wrote</a>.
As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-slams-new-transgender-bill-she-says-will-hurt-the-most-vulnerable-women">reported</a> by the Daily Wire, Rowling recently slammed a new transgender bill in Scotland that would lower the age at which a person can legally change their gender to from 18 to 16, a move she said will hurt &#8220;the most vulnerable&#8221; women in our society.
<blockquote>The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, introduced a Gender Recognition Reform Bill that allows a trans person to legally change their gender and receive a new birth certificate with their gender on it through easier means than before, reported Variety in a piece published Tuesday.
“The law Nicola Sturgeon’s trying to pass in Scotland will harm the most vulnerable women in society: those seeking help after male violence/rape and incarcerated women,” the 56-year-old author of the “Harry Potter” franchise tweeted to her 13.9 million followers.
Rowling, who has often been the target of trans-rights activists because of her unwavering defense of biological women’s rights and protections, went on to note that the women who were already most at-risk would be further damaged if that bill were to pass. </blockquote>
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