{"org":{"org_id":"independent-womens-law-center","name":"Independent Women's Law Center","short_name":"IWLC","kind":"program","website":"https://iwlawcenter.com","aliases":["IWLC"],"logo_credit":"Logo: the organization's own website (iwlawcenter.com)."},"parent":null,"chapters":[],"family":{"members":[{"org_id":"independent-womens-forum","name":"Independent Women's Forum","short_name":"IWF","kind":"nonprofit","relation":"program_of","above":true,"badge":"501(c)(3) charity","tooltip":"Tax-deductible gifts; no candidate electioneering; limited lobbying."},{"org_id":"independent-womens-voice","name":"Independent Women's Voice","short_name":"IWV","kind":"c4","relation":"family member","via_name":"Independent Women's Forum","badge":"501(c)(4) social welfare","tooltip":"Lobbying and some political activity allowed; gifts are not tax-deductible."}],"footprint":[{"org_id":"independent-womens-law-center","name":"Independent Women's Law Center","short_name":"IWLC","cases":0,"modelBills":1,"revenue":null,"revenue_year":null,"ads":{"spend_min":0,"spend_max":0}},{"org_id":"independent-womens-forum","name":"Independent Women's Forum","short_name":"IWF","cases":0,"modelBills":1,"revenue":6638446,"revenue_year":2025,"ads":{"spend_min":0,"spend_max":0}},{"org_id":"independent-womens-voice","name":"Independent Women's Voice","short_name":"IWV","cases":0,"modelBills":0,"revenue":2209989,"revenue_year":2025,"ads":{"spend_min":0,"spend_max":0}}],"total":{"cases":0,"modelBills":2,"revenue":8848435,"ads":{"spend_min":0,"spend_max":0}}},"modelBills":{"templates":[{"template_id":"wbor-2022","name":"Women's Bill of Rights / Defining SEX","origin_year":2022}],"links":[]},"report":{"summary":"The Independent Women's Law Center campaigns in courts and legislatures over how the law treats transgender people in schools, sports and sex-separated spaces.[^1] It is a named plaintiff, with four states and three other organizations, in a challenge to a federal Title IX rule that extended the ban on sex discrimination to gender identity, and its lawyer appeared for six sorority members who sued over the sorority's admission of a transgender woman.[^2][^3][^4] Independent Women's Voice says the Center helped draft the Women's Bill of Rights model bill, and the Center's director testified for Kansas SB 180.[^5][^6] The Center also filed amicus briefs supporting West Virginia in *West Virginia v. B.P.J.* and the respondents in *United States v. Skrmetti*.[^7][^8]","footnotes":[{"n":1,"citation":"Press Release, Independent Women's Forum, Independent Women's Law Center Announces New Director May Mailman, Expands the Fight to Stand with Women (Jan. 3, 2024), https://www.independentwomen.com/2024/01/03/independent-womens-law-center-announces-director-may-mailman-expands-fight-stand-women/ (last visited Oct. 1, 2026).","url":"https://www.independentwomen.com/2024/01/03/independent-womens-law-center-announces-director-may-mailman-expands-fight-stand-women/"},{"n":2,"citation":"Complaint, *Alabama v. Cardona*, No. 7:24-cv-00533 (N.D. Ala. Apr. 29, 2024) (listing Independent Women's Law Center among the plaintiffs), https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68483533/alabama-state-of-v-cardona/.","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68483533/alabama-state-of-v-cardona/"},{"n":3,"citation":"Sentence: 'An IWLC lawyer also appeared for the appellants in a Tenth Circuit appeal ...' (not 'IWLC's lawyers'). Citation may add the name: Oral Argument Calendar Notice / Acknowledgment Form, *Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma*, No. 23-8065 (10th Cir. Mar. 15, 2024) (signed by Sylvia May Mailman of Independent Women's Law Center for the appellants), https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67996455/.","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67996455/"},{"n":4,"citation":"Maggie Mullen, *10th Circuit Rejects Sorority Sisters' Appeal in UW Transgender Lawsuit*, WyoFile (June 12, 2024), https://wyofile.com/10th-circuit-rejects-sorority-sisters-appeal-in-uw-transgender-lawsuit/ (last visited Oct. 1, 2026).","url":"https://wyofile.com/10th-circuit-rejects-sorority-sisters-appeal-in-uw-transgender-lawsuit/"},{"n":5,"citation":"Press Team, *Independent Women's Voice to Host Women's Bill of Rights Celebration Event in Nashville*, Independent Women's Voice (May 31, 2023), https://www.iwvoice.com/2023/05/independent-womens-voice-to-host-womens-bill-of-rights-celebration-event-nashville/ (last visited Oct. 1, 2026).","url":"https://www.iwvoice.com/2023/05/independent-womens-voice-to-host-womens-bill-of-rights-celebration-event-nashville/"},{"n":6,"citation":"*Hearing on S.B. 180 Before the S. Comm. on Pub. Health & Welfare*, 2023 Leg. Sess. (Kan. Feb. 15, 2023) (statement of Jennifer C. Braceras, Director, Independent Women's Law Center), https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00287/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20230215/-1/16255 at 8:17-11:40, 30:02-32:46.","url":"https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00287/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20230215/-1/16255"},{"n":7,"citation":"Brief of Amicus Curiae Independent Women's Law Center Supporting Petitioners, *West Virginia v. B.P.J.*, No. 24-43 (U.S. Sept. 19, 2025), https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72138839/.","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72138839/"},{"n":8,"citation":"Brief of Independent Women's Law Center as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, *United States v. Skrmetti*, No. 23-477 (U.S. Oct. 15, 2024), https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69437012/.","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69437012/"}],"version":1,"checked_at":"2026-10-01","disclosure":"Written by AI from the cited sources, then checked source by source."}}