Inclusion Should Never Cost Girls Their Safety

April is child abuse awareness month. When politicians twist the language of “inclusion” to force girls to surrender their safe spaces, they are no

April is child abuse awareness month.

When politicians twist the language of “inclusion” to force girls to surrender their safe spaces, they are not being progressive—they are being predatory.

What they are doing is not about rights.
It is not about kindness.
And it is certainly not about justice.

It is an abuse of power—and it needs to be called what it is.

They use words like equity, tolerance, and compassion like shiny ornaments to decorate legislation that erodes the rights of girls. But make no mistake: when you strip girls of the spaces that were made to protect their growing bodies, their fragile healing, and their emerging voices—
you are not including them.
You are erasing them.

You are telling girls to be quiet when they are uncomfortable.
To smile when they are scared.
To give up their right to say “no” in the name of someone else’s feelings.

That is not leadership.
That is coercion with a polite smile and a press release.

No girl can consent to a system that never gave her the freedom to say “no” in the first place.
She cannot give up her safety when she was never told it belonged to her.

She cannot give informed consent when she’s still being taught that nice girls don’t make trouble.

This is grooming language dressed up in government policy.
This is compliance culture being sold as liberation.
This is the exploitation of girlhood—softened by rainbow language and passed off as progress.

And I will not be silent while it happens.

Girls have a right to private, protected spaces. Period.
Not because they’re weak. But because they’re growing.
Not because they’re fragile. But because they’re sacred.
And not because they are hateful—but because they are human.

This isn’t about denying anyone else their dignity.
This is about defending the dignity of girls who have been overlooked, overburdened, and silenced for far too long.

To the leaders making these choices:
You are failing our daughters.
You were never elected to be brave for the loudest voices.
You were elected to protect the most vulnerable.
And right now, you’re using our girls as collateral in battles they didn’t start and can’t opt out of.

But let me remind you of something:
Girls have always been the beginning of every movement that mattered.
We are raising up a generation that sees clearly.
And when they rise—and they will rise—
they will remember who stood for them when it counted.

And who didn’t.

Stand up. Speak out. Defend girlhood.
This is not the time to whisper.
This is the time to roar.