The SAFE Act calls on schools, local governments, state agencies, and federal institutions to uphold sex-based access protections—ensuring safety, dignity, and fairness for women and girls in shelters, restrooms, sports, and legal records through trauma-informed care, fair competition, and accurate documentation.

The SAFE Act calls on schools, local governments, state agencies, and federal institutions to uphold Sex-based access protections—ensuring trauma-informed care, fairness in competition, and accuracy in documentation across all public services.

I was raped by my father starting at age 11. It started in our bathroom, and the trauma lasted for decades, it is still a trauma but less now than before and moved to his room. Bathrooms have never felt safe. Even as an adult, I couldn’t undress in front of others—not even women—because I know women can harm women too.

Later in life, I often submitted to sex I didn’t want because it was safer than resisting. Compliance meant I wouldn’t be punched or kicked. I couldn’t take a sit-down bath for decades. Every time I tried to relax, I had a panic attack. I lived in fight-or-flight mode.

But this petition isn’t just about me. It’s about every woman I’ve ever met who carries sexual trauma in her body, her memories, and her silence. Some were assaulted by strangers. Others by family. Some were harmed in shelters, restrooms, or places meant to protect them.

We may not share the same story or the same level of trauma—but we share the need for safety. We share the right to heal. We share the right to be heard.

This is why I started this petition. Women deserve sex-specific spaces—spaces where they can breathe, undress, sleep, and recover without fear. Policies that ignore biological sex put survivors at risk. We must protect sex-based access in shelters, restrooms, sports, and legal records.

This isn’t about exclusion. It’s about survival. It’s about truth. It’s about every woman who has ever whispered, “I don’t feel safe.”

S.A.F.E. Act: Sex-Based Access for Everyone