Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Institute for Free Speech (IFS) have filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Sacramento, California against two Yolo County library district officials, alleging they violated the First Amendment rights of several women’s groups who met in a branch library to discuss the harms of allowing biological men to participate in women’s sports.
Moms for Liberty–Yolo County chapter, Independent Council on Women’s Sports, California Family Council (CFC), along with several parental rights and women’s advocates are challenging library officials for ousting them from a public building during an event hosted by Moms for Liberty. Library officials shut down the forum after only a few minutes, claiming that referring to male athletes in women’s sports as “men” violates library policy, the ADF said.
“Shutting down a presentation over disagreements is unconstitutional and, sadly, a growing trend among activists pushing ideologies that erase women and harm children. Fortunately, the First Amendment stands as a bulwark against such censorship,” ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer said in a statement.
“Women have the right to speak out about their concerns regarding men participating in their sports. Yolo County Library employees hid behind their subjective policies to silence speech they
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