It’s a great time to be a woman in the worst state in America for women!
In what’s obviously a veiled effort to woo Carly Atchison back to Oklahoma, Governor Kevin Stitt announced Tuesday he had signed “The Women’s Bill of Rights” – a landmark executive order that will expand and protect women's rights in Oklahoma by discriminating against transgendered Oklahomas.
Via Stitt’s Communications Team:
Today Governor Kevin Stitt led the nation as the first governor to issue an executive order to boldly stand with women — defining sex-based words like ‘female,’ ‘woman,’ and ‘mother’ and protecting women-only spaces. Joining the governor in today’s signing ceremony was Independent Women’s Voice, the group that developed the model legislation that inspired the Women’s Bill or Rights Executive Order.
Yep, it’s official!
After 100 or so years of experiencing repressed wages, high rates of domestic violence, limited body autonomy, mass incarceration, and other forms of systematic oppression, the Oklahoma government is finally looking out for women by clearly defining what it is to be a woman.