Across the country, all eyes were on Virginia when it came to the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. In November, Virginians made history when they flipped their House and Senate to a gender equality sense majority — the first time in more than 40 years. Those elected officials made landmark progress in delivering the will of the 80% of Virginians that wanted constitutionalized gender equality when they became the 38th and final state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

The United States’ House of Representatives continued this battle when they passed H.J. Res 79, the resolution to remove the deadline on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, on February 13th. With bipartisan support, they brought our country one step closer to guaranteeing equality regardless of gender by removing the 1979 deadline placed on the amendment.

But S.J. Res 6, the piece of legislation to remove the deadline in the Senate, is facing an uphill battle. With the future of girls and children beyond the binary on the line, we must act to pressure our Senators to listen to the will of the American people. Future generations should not have to live in a world without being protected by the Constitution because of their gender.

On March 31st, the last day of women’s history month, Generation Ratify’s DC based team will be hand delivering letters to Senators to urge them to remove the deadline on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. And we want you to write the letters.

Check out our toolkit here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lpdi7PaH-JwO9bjmz-1ax1WfXCUhtpIiZCU77qbMR8o/edit?usp=sharing