Erasing Females in Language and Law

Published October 21, 2021

In this article for the Christian Legal Society’s Journal of Christian Legal Thought, EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson examines the Equality Act and gender ideology, demonstrating that they privilege “gender identity” claims over the sex-based rights of females and thereby lead to erasing females, destroying the difference that grounds the idea of woman and women’s rights. She closes with a call to defend the truth about the human person or witness the erasure of human beings.

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Mary Rice Hasson, J.D., is the Kate O’Beirne Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., where she co-founded and directs the Person and Identity Project, an initiative that educates and equips parents and faith-based institutions to promote the truth about the human person and counter gender ideology.

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