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On Tuesday, we shut down Constitution Avenue in Washington DC, demanding that Joe Biden publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and explicitly codify sex equality for women and queer people in the US constitution. The ERA can protect women’s and LGBTQ+ rights under a second Trump administration. That’s why our generation has taken up the 101-year-long struggle for constitutional sex equality.
The ERA consists of 24 simple words: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” If published – legal terminology for “added to the constitution” – the ERA would put an end to legalized sex discrimination. It has met both requirements for publication in the US constitution: the ERA passed both chambers of Congress with more than a two-thirds majority in 1972, and in 2020, Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to ratify the ERA. It is Biden’s constitutional right – and duty – to immediately certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment.
Grace Tallmadge is the organizing director of the Feminist Front, a national gender justice youth organization.
Claudia Nachega is the deputy director of the Young Feminist Party, a youth-led movement for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Ella Duncan-High is the organizing director of the Young Feminist Party.
