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The United Nations has solicited input on violence and discrimination against ‘LBQ women.’ Inclusion of the Q (queer) is no doubt intended to signal that input is welcome not only from women (including heterosexual women), but also from men who claim a lesbian, bisexual, or ‘queer’ identity. On January 4, 2026 the WDI USA Lesbian Caucus submitted the following statement in response.
Women’s Declaration International (WDI) is a global organization of volunteer women dedicated to promoting the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights (the Declaration). The WDI USA Lesbian Caucus, the lesbian team for the US chapter, created the Lesbian Bill Of Rights (LBOR). The LBOR defines lesbians, lists specific areas of discrimination that harm lesbians, and lists rights that lesbians need to remedy the discriminatory harms.
At the heart of both the Declaration and the LBOR is allegiance to the reality of sex as a material fact of reproductive biology. The ideology of “gender identity” harms lesbians by forced teaming (as in the acronym SOGI) lesbians, who are defined by their female sex, with heterosexual men who claim to be women, with gay men, with bisexual people of both sexes, and – under the “queer” umbrella – with anyone at all, including those who oppose lesbians’ sex-based rights.
If your committee actually aims to alleviate violence and discrimination against lesbians, it will need to address first and foremost the harms of gender identity ideology and stop erasing lesbians and erasing sex itself through the magic word “trans.” Here is a partial list of such harms:
- Men are being housed in women’s prison cells, where they predictably terrorize and rape incarcerated women. The same is true in women’s domestic violence shelters.
- Men are destroying women’s and girls’ sports.
- Men are making women’s public restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, and showers both terrifying and dangerous to women and girls.
- Young lesbians are being subjected to a new form of conversion therapy (being told they might be men with bodies that can be cut up to appear more masculine while destroying sexual and reproductive function).
- Men have been given the right in many laws and policies to invade every public lesbian gathering place, destroying lesbian community and culture.
- Lesbians who are sex realists are labeled “TERFs” and “transphobes” and singled out for threats and persecution privately and publicly.
Until the UN stops promoting the lies of gender identity ideology, it will continue to be an agent of the violence and discrimination currently faced by lesbians.