Our daughters deserve safety, privacy, and dignity. But right now, North Carolina law doesn’t define the words “male” or “female,” nor does it protect girls from male intrusion in spaces that should be private. That’s why the Women’s Safety and Protection Act (HB 791/SB 516) is urgently needed.

This common-sense legislation defines “male,” “female,” “man,” “woman,” and “sex” by biology—and protects women and girls by ensuring that private spaces like bathrooms, changing rooms, sleeping quarters in schools, prisons, crisis shelters, dorm rooms, and overnight field trips remain single-sex.

Time is short. Legislators have made it clear that they plan to wrap up the legislative session by the end of June. That gives us just weeks to make our voices heard and get this bill across the finish line.

Will you help us protect girls like Payton, Ruby, Chloe, and Kiana? These are real stories happening across our state:

  • Payton McNabb, a former high school volleyball player, suffered a traumatic brain injury when a male student competing as a transgender girl spiked the ball into her face. Years later, she encountered a man in a women’s bathroom at Western Carolina and was punished for objecting—facing harassment, school charges, and expulsion from her sorority.

  • Ruby Leis, a 10th grader in Buncombe County, was intimidated into leaving her school’s girls’ bathroom by a male student claiming to be transgender. Her school admitted it was wrong but said their hands were tied.

  • Chloe Button, just 13 years old, found a boy in the girls’ bathroom at her Fairview middle school in Buncombe County. Her school’s policy not only allows this—it also permits biological boys to room with girls on overnight field trips. Chloe is scared it will happen again.

  • Kiana Perry of Wilmington had to wait in fear inside a bathroom stall while a male student stood outside it—and later, waited for her outside the restroom. Despite multiple complaints, school officials told her, “That’s just how it is.”

And across state lines, we’ve already seen what can happen when lawmakers fail to act. In Loudoun County, Virginia, a girl was sexually assaulted in the girls’ bathroom by a boy in a skirt. The school system is now being sued for $30 million.

Will North Carolina wait for a tragedy like this before it acts? Or will we step up now to protect our children?

Please join us in urging your legislators to pass the Women’s Safety and Protection Act. It only takes 30 seconds using our click-to-contact tool.

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