Rep. Mary Peltola has made herself out to be the defender of women. But by “women,” she means “men who want to use women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.” And by “girls,” she means allowing schools to transition children into a different gender identity without their parents’ knowledge.

As Alaska’s only member of Congress, Peltola voted against a bill to allow parents to even see the curriculum their children are being taught at public schools.

At the same time, she was accepting tens of thousands of dollars from gender identity warrior groups and asking Alaskans to donate to Identity Inc., Alaska’s leading organization that encourages children to join their transgender tribe and transition their sexual characteristics.

In March of 2023, Peltola voted “No” on the Parents Bill of Rights Act, which would require schools to get permission from parents before helping a child make a gender identity switch at school. The bill also required schools to inform parents of violent activity. The bill passed along party lines, with all Democrats voting against it.

Peltola accepted $20,000 from the leftist National Education Association, and $15,000 from the American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO). Both organizations are part of the war on parents and advocate for books like “Gender Queer,” a gay sex manual with graphic illustrations, to be assigned summer reading for children.

Peltola has accepted another $6,000 from the Human Rights Campaign, which has the mission of transitioning children, including surgical mutilation of their genitals.

The Heritage Foundation has documented several cases of men pretending to be transgender in order to gain access to women’s bathrooms. They include:

1. In 2009, a sex offender named Richard Rendler was arrested for wearing fake breasts and a wig while loitering in a women’s restroom in a Campbell, California, shopping center. Rendler had previously been arrested on charges of child molestation and indecent exposure.
2. In 2010, Berkeley police arrested Gregorio Hernandez. Hernandez had disguised himself as a woman on two separate occasions to get inside a UC Berkeley locker room. Once in the locker room, Hernandez allegedly used his cell phone to photograph women.
3. In 2013, Jason Pomare was arrested for cross-dressing in order to gain access to the women’s restroom at a Macy’s department store in Palmdale, California. Pomare snuck a video camera in to secretly videotape women while they used the restroom.
4. In 2014, Christopher Hambrook—who faked being a transgender person named Jessica—was jailed in Toronto, Canada. Hambrook preyed on women at two Toronto shelters, and had previously preyed on other women and girls as young as 5 years old to as old as 53. Hambrook’s case in particular shows the importance of protecting the privacy and safety of some of our most vulnerable citizens: the homeless and others who seek emergency shelter. 
5. In 2015, two spying instances were recorded in Virginia—one at a mall and one at a Wal-Mart. Both instances involved a man in women’s clothing who used a mirror and camera to take pictures of a mother and her 5-year-old daughter and a 53-year-old woman while they were in neighboring restroom stalls. The suspect wore a pink shirt and a long wig to present himself as a woman.
6. In 2016, a man used a women’s locker room at a public swimming pool in Washington state to undress in front of young girls who were changing for swim practice. When Seattle Parks and Recreation staff asked him to leave, the man claimed that “the law has changed and I have a right to be here.” The man was apparently referring to a Washington state rule that allows individuals to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. However, the man made no attempt to present as a woman.

The Family Research Council has also documented cases of predators using women’s bathrooms as a way to film or watch women use the toilet or undress:

CBS Chicago: Man Tried To Film Girl In Target Dressing Room In Palatine (March 29, 2017)

WBIR: Peeping Tom caught in the act at West Knoxville Target (March 28, 2017)

WPRI: Man Charged With Voyeurism in Target Bathroom (January 17, 2017)
Lincoln, R.I. – A man was charged with video voyeurism after he placed a camera in a Target
bathroom.

Fox News: Man Used Cellphone to Record Woman Undressing at Target in Dallas, Tex.
(September 15, 2016)

ABC 7: Man Seen Recording Women in Target Changing Room (September 12, 2016)
Brick, N.J. – A man was observed reaching under the stalls of a unisex dressing room with a
cellphone in a Target store to record women.

FOX 4: Man Accused of Taking Photos in Target Dressing Room (September 7, 2016)
Dallas, Tex. – Police were seeking a man who is accused of pointing a cellphone camera at a
woman in a Target changing room.

Post Register: Transgender woman arrested for voyeurism at Target (July 12, 2016)
Ammon, Idaho – A biological male claiming to be a woman was arrested after taking cellphone
pictures of a woman in the adjoining stall of a women’s dressing room at a Target store. The man,
who was dressed as a woman, ran out of the store after the victim attempted to confront him.

Mass Resistance: Female Office Worker Encounters Man Urinating in Ladies’ Room Exposed
(February 21, 2016)
Waltham, Mass. – A woman said that when she walked into a women’s restroom at her place of
employment she saw a man, through an open stall door, sitting on a toilet urinating, with his
private parts exposed. She reported that she immediately turned around and left the restroom,
and felt unsafe about returning to that restroom again.

Bedford Police: Man Arrested for Recording Juvenile Girls in Target Dressing Room (June 24,
2016)
Bedford, N.H. – A man was arrested after he was caught recording juvenile girls in a dressing
room at a Target store.

WDAY 6: Man Caught Placing Cellphone Under Dressing Room Door in Target (June 16, 2016)
Bismarck, N.D. – A 16-year-old girl reported that a man used a cellphone to record her inside a
Target dressing room by placing the phone under her stall door.

FOX 25: Man Caught Looking over Changing Room Wall in Target (June 14, 2016)
Revere, Mass. – A man was seen peering over a Target changing room wall into the next stall
where a young female was changing.

The Daily Caller: Security Guard Arrested for Removing Man from Women’s Bathroom (May 19,
2016)
Washington, D.C. – A female security guard who worked at a grocery store was arrested for
removing a male from the women’s restroom after he entered dressed as a woman. When the
security guard asked the man to leave, he refused saying he identified as a woman. The security
guard physically removed the man from the women’s restroom. The man called the police on the
security guard upon leaving the store.

Fox News: Man Used Cellphone to Record Woman Undressing at Target in Frisco, Tex. (May
2016)

CBS DFW: Shopper Upset Man Allowed to use Women’s Dressing Room in Ross (May 17, 2016)
Mesquite, Tex. – In May of 2016, a woman was in a Ross Department store dressing room when
she heard a man’s voice in the dressing room. She reported this to the manager who informed the
woman that, despite the man being dressed as a male and having a 5 o’clock shadow, the man
was “representing himself as a woman today.” The Ross manager informed the woman that if
she was bothered by this, she would need to wait until he was finished.

15. NY Daily News: Seattle Man Undresses in Women’s Locker Room at Local Pool to Test New
    Transgender Bathroom Rule (February 17, 2016)
    Seattle, Wash. – In February of 2016, a man, dressed as a male, walked into a women’s locker
    room at a local pool and proceeded to undress. The women in the locker room attempted to kick
    him out, but the man refused saying, “The law has changed and I have the right to be here.” The
    man returned to the locker room later that day when young girls were there changing for swim
    practice.
16. NBC Washington: Man Dressed as Woman Arrested for Spying into Mall Bathroom Stall, Police
    Say (November 17, 2015)
    Fredericksburg, Va. – In May of 2015, Richard Rodriguez, a 30-year-old man dressed in women’s
    clothing, attempted to film a woman in a bathroom stall. The victim told police she saw a bag
    “protruding from underneath a neighboring stall.” When she confronted the suspect, the man
    dressed in women’s clothing exited the stall and entered another stall next to another woman.
    Rodriquez was charged with three counts of unlawful filming of a nonconsenting person and
    three counts of peeping.
17. KTLA5: DA: Cross-Dressing Man Secretly Taped Women at Macy’s (May 14, 2013)
    Palmdale, Calif. – In May of 2013, Jason Pomare, a 33-year-old male, dressed as a woman
    multiple times in order to secretly videotape women in women’s restrooms. A woman reported
    to security officers that there was a man, wearing a wig and dressed as a woman, acting
    suspiciously in the women’s restroom in Macy’s. Pomare was charged with six counts of
    unlawful use of a concealed camera for purposes of sexual gratification.
18. Oregon Live: Cross-Dressing Sex Predator Sentenced for Clackamas Aquatic Park Crimes
    (October 27, 2011)
    Oak Grove, Ore. – In July of 2011, Thomas Benson, a 39-year-old male with a prior conviction for
    sexual abusing children, was arrested and charged with unlawful contact with a child and
    unlawfully being in a location where children congregate because, dressed as a woman, Benson
    entered the women’s locker room at the Clackamas Aquatic Park to talk with children. When he
    left the Park, Benson left in men’s clothing. Benson was followed out of the Park and he fled.
    Benson was later arrested.
19. Abc7news.com: Police: Calif. Locker Room Suspect Used Disguise (October 22, 2010)
    Berkeley, Calif. – In October of 2010, Gregorio Hernandez, a 29-year-old male, was arrested for
    disguising himself as a woman twice to get inside a UC Berkeley women’s locker room. Once
    inside, the man used his cell phone to photograph women in the locker room.
20. WSBTV: Police: Man Undresses in Front of Children in Walmart Restroom (March 24, 2010)
    Calhoun, Ga. – In March of 2010, Norwood Smith Burnes, a 51-year-old male, was arrested and
    charged with public indecency, disorderly conduct, and criminal trespass for undressing in front
    of children in a women’s restroom at a Walmart. When the police arrived, Burnes was wearing
    women’s clothing.
21. The Mercury News: San Jose Sex Offender Wearing Fake Breasts, Wig Arrested for Loitering in
    Women’s Restroom (January 26, 2009)
    San Jose, Calif. – In January of 2009, Richard Rendler, a 60-year-old male and registered sex
    offender, was arrested for wearing fake breasts and a wig while loitering inside a women’s
    restroom. Rendler was arrested on misdemeanor loitering charges, having previously been
    arrested on charges of child molestation and indecent exposure.
22. Purdue University: Purdue Police Investigate Report of Man Taking Photographs in Women’s
    Restroom (March 31, 2008)
    West Lafayette, Ind. – In March of 2008, an unidentified man wearing makeup and women’s
    clothing was confronted for taking pictures of a woman in a bathroom stall. When confronted by
    the woman, he denied he had any pictures of the victim. A staff member who was in the
    restroom asked the man to accompany her to the main office, but the man ran off.
23. St. Petersburg Times: Cross-Dressing Man Sentenced for Battery (September 25, 1999)
    Pasco County, Fla. – In 1999, Patrick Hagan punched a woman in the mouth when she
    questioned his presence in the women’s restroom.

Liberty Counsel has its own list of documented cases of male predators in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms at this link.

“Mary Peltola has supported biological men in women’s locker rooms and private facilities, biological men competing in women’s sports, preventing parents from knowing their children’s public school curriculum, what books are being made available to their children, or what pronouns are being used for their child at school,” said Nick Begich, who is running to replace Peltola.

“Peltola has even encouraged donations be sent to Identity, Inc., an organization that provides gender transition treatments to children in Alaska. Like so many things in life there’s a big difference between the ads and the truth. In taking these positions, Peltola supports neither women nor families but in fact supports policies that erode the opportunities and rights of both,” he said.