By REP. JAMIE ALLARD
Every year when March comes around, there is the same fanfare for Women’s History Month—a 31-day period when Americans are encouraged to celebrate the contributions of women past and present.
It’s a noble idea that started with the goal of correcting historical oversights and honoring trailblazers who fought for equality.
But in 2025, it’s worth asking: Has this annual recognition outlived its usefulness? Maybe it’s time we let Women’s History Month fade into history itself.
The concept started modestly — Women’s History Week in 1978, expanding to a full month by 1987.
Back then, it made sense. Women’s stories and capabilities were sidelined in textbooks, boardrooms, and ballot boxes. Highlighting their achievements was a radical act, and a needed one.
But nearly five decades later, the landscape has shifted. Women aren’t just footnotes anymore — they’re headlining. Amelia Earhart to Tulsi Gabbard, from CEOs to senators, scientists to cultural icons, their impact is undeniable and increasingly woven into the everyday fabric of our society. Even the Alaska State House is more than 50% female now.
Do we still need a designated month to remind us?
Now, the challenge is to actually recognize that girls and women are different from boys and men. We are not just hair and makeup, heels and handbags. Any man can wear those.
Women in this century are seeing their very identities stolen by men competing as women on the basketball courts, in swimming pools, and on track fields.
While Women’s History Month feels like a relic from a different century, it would be a more sincere gesture for the Alaska Legislature to pass legislation that — once and for all — protects the rights of women and girls in this century, where their ribbons and awards for their individual accomplishments are indeed being stolen.
I have filed legislation to do just that –- protect our female competitive athletes in Alaska. It didn’t pass the Senate last year but I have refiled it this year (HB 40.)
I hope all who support Women’s History Month will join me in getting this legislation through the House and Senate and on the governor’s desk for his signature. And I thank all who have supported it, even though sometimes they are bullied.
Let’s be honest — there’s a scent of tokenism in the air. If we’re not willing to protect our female competitors in their sports endeavors, we need to abandon the idea that we honor women.
So unless we’re willing to act to protect the rights of women, let’s make March 2025 the last Women’s History Month. It’s time to stop marking the moment and start living it. History is not confined to a month. It’s made by what we do every day.
Rep. Jamie Del Fierro Allard serves District 23, Eagle River, in the Alaska House of Representatives.
Transmania is a mental disorder – these people need our help not our encouragement.
Not under any circumstances should a man/boy EVER be allowed to go into a women’s/girl bathroom or locker room.
Women’s sports are for girls – not boys with mental disorders, period.
Thank you so much for the great article.
It feels really good to break out of the censorious dystopian hell hole we’ve been trapped in for the last 10 years – and tell the truth.
Is so-called “equality” a 2-way street. To be clear, boys should not participate in girl’s sports. Conversely, is it okay for girls to participate in Boy Scouts.
Is so-called “equality” a 2-way street? To be clear, boys should not participate in girl’s sports. Conversely, is it okay for girls to participate in Boy Scouts?
Pathetic software. Every other comment board on the internet allows commenters to edit.
Thanks again for your hard work and efforts to keep Alaskan girls and women sports safe and secure from invasion by the mentally deranged who are constantly pushing their way into the bathrooms and locker rooms.
ASD is not acting in good faith when it comes to separation of the genders in public schools which is the reason they are losing enrollment to private and faith based common sense education with performance based goals instead of BSA allotment totals ASD is seeking.
The district needs a new local hire superintendent with a major flushing of all school board members who receive campaign funding from the union mafia cartels.
In total agreement with this post. A person with a set of jewels between his legs is not a women and the should use private restrooms and not be allowed to participate in women’s sports of any sort. God created man and woman to procreate. No two men can do that, yet?
And even the ones who go as far as to surgically mutilate themselves by removing those jewels do not have any place in women’s locker/bath rooms. XY DNA = male no matter the disfigurement or the delusion.
So well concisely stated Jamie. It’s hard to believe people are actually out there who would disagree with such simple truths you just stated. Thank you.
What is a woman?
No… you do not need to be a biologist to answer that question. It is apparent to anyone with half a functioning brain cell.
But… the left… well make your own assumption about brain cells.
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The left is not about reality, they are about feelz. And, because some mentally ill individuals want to play dress up, they suddenly cannot say what a woman is. The contortions they go through to avoid actually using the science they claim to believe in is unbelievable.
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Net result. The term Woman has officially become diluted. Corrupted even. And, it is well past time for those with any inkling of intelligence to bring it back.
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Thank you Jamie Allard for this column, and thank you for bringing some semblance of common sense to the Legislature.
What ever happened to Rosie the Riveter?? One month to recognize women now days, how long will it be before a transgender gets to be recognized as a female? God made us as a male and a female. This is getting out of hand. Common sense is trying to be eliminated. Wake up people!!! I can’t get pregnant, and my wife can’t impregnate me!! Get it?
No one is obsessed with trans women except the tranny and people like yourself who, I’m assuming, want everyone else to accept the implied and expressed mental disorder that accompanies said condition. Dave Chappelle said it best: “I accept anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?” Today, we see activist judges seeking to force participate or, suffer legal consequences. My response: No thanks and, never.
Sick Leftie, much?
Get another Covid booster shot, please.
For the trannie children, of course…
Another solution looking for a problem.
Let’s be clear. No two people on Earth are created equal; rather, we are created uniquely. Therefore, Obsessing over true equality is therefore irrational. What is equal is our God-given human rights. As to physical similarities women have more in common with other women than men; and vice-versa . Our culture has drifted where the equality obsession has brought us. Women want to be men and men want to be women.
I wonder what woman first pops into people’s minds when they think of “Women’s History Month”. The first one who pops into my mind, is Marie Curie.
Boudica!
Standing up to the Romans! What a gal!
Seek Help needs to do and their post is so out of line it should not have been allowed. The fake name is all that protects them from retribution. Hopefully someone figures out who they are and outs them. Then it might get interesting.
Correct. It is gone now.
Are you running out of Teslas to burn?