Nevertheless, undaunted by local circumstance in Columbia, others in different parts of the country began forming groups associated with the Maryland organization.

Two new groups formed chapters in Boston, Massachusetts (Headed by Frederic Hayward, founder of Men's Rights, Inc. A strong supporter was Robert A.

Sides who went on to represent NCFM on national television and radio talk shows) and Nassau County, New York.

By October 1981 the chapter had been responsible for inspiring and forming other groups in Suffolk County, New York and New Milford, Connecticut.

The organization argued that the bill written by Senate Democrats excluded heterosexual men and would empower "false accusers at the expense of true victims",[7][8][9] and encouraged women present in the country without legal documents to make false accusations of abuse in order to stay in the country.

The NCFM has engaged in controversial behavior such as publicly outing alleged sexual assault victims whose cases were dismissed due to lack of evidence and labelling these women as "false accusers".

[12] In July 2020, NCFM's vice president and main attorney in several lawsuits, Marc Angelucci, was murdered at his home.

[20] On February 22, 2019 Judge Gray H. Miller issued a declaratory judgement that the male-only registration requirement is unconstitutional.

[21][22] In 2021, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court on behalf of the National Coalition of Men.

SPLC accuses NCM of cherry-picking statistics and creating false equivalences in the oppression of men and women.