House Committee on Energy and Commerce 2125 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 March 5, 2026 Dear Committee on Energy and Commerce Members, The Woodhull Freedom Foundation writes to express our opposition to the Kids Internet and Digital Safety…
Last summer, the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton weakened the First Amendment rights of adults, in the name of “protecting children.” Paxton centers on a Texas law that imposes an age-verification requirement on websites that contain…
In The Buckeye Institute v. Internal Revenue Service, The Buckeye Institute, a nonprofit policy organization based in Ohio, challenged a federal tax law that requires most 501(c)(3) charities to disclose the names and addresses of their major donors to the…
Did you know that the First Amendment protects sexual expression? Hard to believe, given how motivated our lawmakers are to ban all forms of sexual expression, from pornography to sex ed. We checked the facts about the First Amendment, free…
NetChoice v. Griffin is a federal court case challenging an Arkansas law that would force social media platforms to verify users’ ages and require parental consent before minors could create accounts. The law was promoted as a way to protect…
Woodhull Freedom Foundation is a national organization dedicated to defending sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. We are responding to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Proposed Rule, “Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services”,…
2025 was brutal for LGBTQ+ communities. We covered an array of attacks on queer and trans rights, from President Trump’s January 28, 2025, Executive Order, to the destruction of gender-affirming healthcare for NYC trans youth, to Texas’s Senate Bill 8…
We at the Woodhull Freedom Foundation have repeatedly sounded the alarm on age verification online, which threatens our fundamental human right to sexual freedom and the sanctity of the 1st Amendment. We’ve clarified that it’s not the same as “flashing…