Gender ideology – the idea that a person can be “born in the wrong body” – has harmed children across our state and nation. Children’s bodies have been mutilated. Women and girls have lost the opportunity for fair competition in sports. And women and girls have been forced to share their private spaces – like bathrooms and locker rooms – with males.

In North Carolina, girls as young as middle school are being asked to forfeit their safety, privacy, and dignity in private spaces at public schools. Many are doing so in silence, because they face accusations that they are bigoted, backwards, and hateful if they speak out. This is wrong, and it’s time for adults and people in leadership take a stand.

North Carolina law must respect reality and protect the safety, privacy, and dignity of women and girls. Twenty-one states and Puerto Rico currently protect girls from biological males in their bathrooms and locker rooms in K-12 schools. Twelve of those states provide additional protection in other government-owned buildings. But in North Carolina, our daughters have no protection.

Take action in one of the following ways to help Protect Our Daughters in North Carolina.

Legislative day of action

Join us at the Legislative Building on May 12th, 2026 to ask your legislators to protect our daughters in private spaces including public school bathrooms, dorm rooms, and locker rooms in North Carolina.

share your story

If you or your daughter live in NC and have encountered a boy in a girls’ private space such as a bathroom or locker room in a public school, university, rape crisis center, or prison – please contact us to share your story and help make a change.

Contact us: protectourdaughters@ncvalues.org

Urge Legislators to Protect Our Daughters!

Speak up for the safety and privacy of girls in North Carolina. Send a message to your legislators today.