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Election 2025: Women & Girls Matter

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Canadians are frustrated! The voices of women and girls are being ignored, and their hard-earned rights are being eroded. Women's and girls’ spaces, protections, and the acknowledgment of our biological sex have been compromised by policies prioritizing gender identity over the needs and safety of women and girls.

Together we can get back the rights of girls and women in Canada by making those seeking our vote understand that "if you won't respect my sex, don't expect my 'x'".

What is this all about?

For more than a decade, Canadian laws and policies have gradually undermined the rights and protections of women and girls. They are now being forced to choose between their safety, access to essential services, and their basic rights to security, privacy, dignity, and full participation in society.

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In 2017, the federal government prioritized allowing males to self-identify into women’s spaces and divisions over safeguarding these rights when Bill C-16 was passed with support from all political parties. The government has concealed the law’s impact by redacting over 90% of the Gender-Based Analysis for the bill under the pretext of cabinet confidentiality and by cutting short studies on the law’s effects.

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While it is widely recognized that conflicts between different groups’ rights can arise, many provincial human rights commissions refuse to acknowledge such clashes. Those who question or speak out against these policies often face serious consequences, including threats to their jobs and professional licenses, as seen in nursing and education in recent years.

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Key Facts 

  • Fact 1:
    Women's spaces like shelters, prisons, and changing rooms are no longer safe-guarded.

  • Fact 2:
    Sports divisions have been impacted, undermining safety, fairness, and competition for women and girls.

  • Fact 3:
    Women and girls are withdrawing from community activities due to loss of privacy and safety.

  • Fact 4:
    Reports from the federal government assessing the impact on women and girls remain heavily redacted and has been put under cabinet confidentiality.

  • Fact 5:
    Dangerous male criminals are being allowed to transfer into women's prisons, including near mother-baby units. Even those who have not had sexual reassignment surgery and have not started taking cross-sex hormones.

  • Fact 6:
    Women (and men) are no longer recognized by sex, but by a circular definition of anyone who says they are a woman is a woman. This has allowed the needs of women based on sex to be ignored and erased in policy and law.

  • Fact 7:
    Mainstream federal political parties have ignored the issues that women and girls have had under these policies and laws.

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What we are asking for

Clarity about sex matters for single-sex spaces. Dignity and privacy are crucial for everyone, and for women, these spaces are also essential for safety. Everyone has the right to privacy, particularly when undressing or in vulnerable situations. However, self-identification is making it increasingly difficult to maintain single-sex spaces. This allows males who identify as women to access areas intended exclusively for females.

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Clarity about sex matters for sport. Girls and women require single-sex competitions to ensure both safety and fairness in sports. We deserve recognition and celebration for achieving excellence, just as men do. However, allowing self-identification to determine eligibility means boys competing against girls and men against women, which is unfair in most sports and unsafe in some.

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Clarity about sex matters for safeguarding children. Children are being taught that their identity as a boy or girl is determined not by their physical characteristics, but by how well they align with masculine or feminine stereotypes. This outdated and sexist perspective is harmful to all children, particularly the most vulnerable, who may become confused about their sense of self.

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The above can be completed through the simple action of amending the Canadian Human Rights Act by:

  • Adding definitions to "sex", "woman", "man", "gender identity", and "gender expression".​

  • Specifying that the segregation of spaces such as changing rooms, washrooms, prisons, shelters, and other such spaces are exempt from being seen as discriminatory.

  • Specify that women's and girls' sporting divisions are exempt from being seen as discriminatory.  

 

What you can do:

Speak to your local candidates or MPs about stepping up and fighting for women's rights. (Find out who your current MP is here)

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Attend your local riding's debate and take the opportunity to ask a question from our guide (these questions can also be used if you go to a candidate's office).​​​

 

Purchase one of our shirts, bags, or stickers displaying your commitment to the campaign.

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Donate to help us get the word out (we are currently fundraising to purchase yard signs so the campaign can be as visible as possible).

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Download, print, and display or post one of our graphics or posters.

Downloads (PDFs)

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Aucune femme qui se respecte ne devrait souhaiter ou travailler pour le succès d'une fête qui ignore son sexe.

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Susan B Anthony

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