Women’s Liberation Front Holds Congressional Lobbying Event on Women’s Spaces

U.S. Capitol complex. Banners reading “Misogyny Is Everywhere And So Are We” and “Womanhood Is Not Negotiable” were displayed at the event.

Rep. Ben Cline’s (R-VA) office helped book the hearing room. Margot Heffernan, vice president of WoLF, spoke at the event. ” Heffernan lives in Rep. Ben Cline’s deep-red rural district in Virginia. Rep.

He added, “So as an advocate for women and victims of domestic violence, I definitely share their support for sex-segregated facilities like locker rooms, bathrooms, and prisons. ” The group conducted a weeklong lobbying trip during which a team met with more than 30 congressional offices, both Democratic and Republican.

Lierre Keith, founder of WoLF, said at the roundup session, “The Democrats have been a severe disappointment.

It is interesting for a lot of us who lean left to find that Republicans have been, in some cases, way more supportive of women’s basic humanity. We were not expecting that. ” A meeting between a WoLF outreach team and a legislative aide for Rep.

Brianna Pressley, an Illinois-based member of WoLF and the Illinois contact for Women’s Declaration International USA, met with Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) criminal justice team. She spoke with a legal counsel about biological men housed with women at Logan Correctional Center, an all-female facility in Lincoln, Illinois.

James “Michelle” Blessent pled guilty in 2024 to predatory sexual assault of his own children, ages 8 and 9. Blessent was sent to segregation earlier in 2025 for allegedly raping a female inmate at Logan Correctional Center. Logan currently holds 12 male offenders.

At a constituent coffee meet-and-greet, Pressley informed Sen. Dick Durbin that at least a dozen men are housed at Logan Correctional Center. Sara Jay McGuffey, a college student from California and a detransitioner, witnessed a legislative aide from a Senate Democrat’s office react with a “lightbulb moment” after being shown mugshots of male inmates.

Arianne Gieringer, co-vice president of the LGB Alliance’s USA chapter, met with three staffers of Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). Gieringer and Sen. Tammy Baldwin both attended Smith College.

The group filed a civil rights complaint in 2016 suing the Obama administration over its attempt to redefine sex in Title IX. WoLF is a nonpartisan nonprofit that operates on a shoestring budget.