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Independent Women

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Independent Women

@IWF

🎙️ Tell Her Story, Change The World. Developing & advancing policies that empower women & enhance freedom, opportunities, & well-being. 📲 Text WOMEN to 40442

Washington, D.C.

Joined October 2008

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Independent Women
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Jul 2
Since 2018, women across America have stood up & spoken one simple truth: Women's sports are for women‼️ 28 states protect women's sports. 18 states have defined “woman” & “female” in law. Now, our eyes are on Congress. We've come too far to go back. We won’t go back.
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Independent Women
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Jul 22, 2025
Stephanie Turner courageously took a knee & refused to compete against a male in women’s fencing. 🤺 One bold stand sparked real change. Now, @USAFencing has reversed its policy. Thank you, Stephanie.
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Independent Women
@IWF
Aug 1, 2024
This isn’t sport. This is ABUSE. The IOC’s inexcusable decision to let a man beat on a woman will go down in history as the greatest injustice in sport. #IStandWithAngelaCarini #Olympics x.com/fairplaywomen/…
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Independent Women
@IWF
Apr 7, 2023
We strongly condemn the violence perpetrated against @iwf spokeswoman @Riley_Gaines_ on @SFSU campus. Riley was violently accosted, ambushed, and physically assaulted during a speech on sex discrimination women face in their own single-sex sports category.
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Independent Women
@IWF
Apr 20, 2023
🚨MUST WATCH: Speaking about her experience for the first time, Payton McNabb, a North Carolina high school athlete at Hiwassee Dam High School, shared her experience competing against a biological male in volleyball on the opposing team & the injuries she suffered as a result.
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Independent Women
@IWF
May 7, 2025
TESTIMONY: “I have decided to step away from the sport I love, at least for now, because USA Fencing has fostered an environment where I am unwelcome in my own category. It is culturally acceptable to bully and shame women who speak up for other women. I should not have had to
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Independent Women
@IWF
Jan 31, 2023
Powerful & emotional. This is a testament to the devastating impact that a biological male competing in women's sports has on female athletes. @Riley_Gaines_ shares her story in Virginia in support of the "Fairness in Women's Sports" bill. This is why we must #SaveWomensSports.
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Independent Women
@IWF
Feb 5, 2025
The @WhiteHouse is filling up with athletes + advocates, ready for @POTUS to save women’s sports!! 👏 @IWV @IWN
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Independent Women
@IWF
Feb 5, 2025
.@POTUS: “From now on, women’s sports will be only for WOMEN.”
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Independent Women
@IWF
Apr 3, 2020
🤦‍♀️ @SpeakerPelosi is setting up a NEW House committee to investigate President Trump in the midst of the #COVID19 pandemic. Just what a weary nation reeling from an unprecedented crisis needs. Another investigation. bit.ly/2UDMl5a #Nope #ShutItDown #IWpol #Coronavirus
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Independent Women
@IWF
Aug 29, 2023
🆕BREAKING: Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at Oberlin College is breaking her silence in an @IWF documentary after being “burned at the stake” for her support of single-sex sports & speaking out against allowing men in women’s sports. bit.ly/45JfHRo
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Independent Women
@IWF
Mar 30, 2023
When @Riley_Gaines_ asked University of Pittsburgh professor Gabby Yearwood if an archeologist could differentiate between two sets of bones as male and female, Professor Yearwood. who calls himself the “expert in the room,” answers “no” to which the entire audience laughed.
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Independent Women
@IWF
Feb 1, 2023
This video speaks for itself.‼️When female athletes questioned having to share a locker room with a biological male, they were gaslit into thinking they should seek counseling. @Riley_Gaines_ shares an emotional testimony on Capitol Hill on National Girls & Women in Sports Day.
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Independent Women
@IWF
Aug 28, 2024
.@Riley_Gaines_ reads a letter to the president of Georgia Tech: "You knew that a 6'4 fully intact man was coming to compete against me, my teammates, & my competitors at the 2022 NCAA D1 Women's Swimming & Diving National Championships. You could have stopped it."
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