Gender & Sexuality

2020-09-21

Israel to extradite woman to Australia over child sex abuse

Arye ben-Shaoul Gender & Sexuality, Law & Crime 0

Article Link: https://www.dw.com/en/israel-to-extradite-woman-to-australia-over-child-sex-abuse/a-54999916

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday approved the extradition of a former school principal wanted in Australia on charges of child sex abuse, following a six-year-long legal battle. Malka L. is accused of sexually abusing several former students. Lawyers said she would stand trial for 74 charges of child sex abuse against girls. The defendant was both a former teacher and principal at an ultra-Orthodox school in Melbourne, where she had emigrated to from her native Israel.

2020-09-20

Ruth Bader Ginsburg death: Trump to nominate woman to fill Supreme Court seat

Arye ben-Shaoul Gender & Sexuality, Politics & Economics 0

Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54216710

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Earlier, Mr Trump praised two female judges who serve on federal courts of appeals as possible choices. Both judges – Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa – are conservatives who would tip the balance of the Supreme Court in favour of Republicans. Democrats have vigorously opposed any nomination before November’s election, arguing that Senate Republicans blocked Democratic President Barack Obama’s choice for the US top court in 2016. At the time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell justified the move on grounds that it was an election year. But on Friday Senator McConnell said he intended to act on any nomination Mr Trump made and bring it to a vote in the Senate before election day.

2020-09-19

Pakistan outcry over police victim-blaming of gang-raped mother

Arye ben-Shaoul Culture & Race, Gender & Sexuality, Law & Crime, Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54186609

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Pakistan is in shock after robbers gang-raped a woman in front of her children near a motorway. But in a country where sexual violence towards women is common, why has this incident caused people to come out onto the streets and demand change, asks the BBC’s Saira Asher. Women in Pakistan are often advised by family members or relatives not to be out late at night, or to make sure they have a male companion with them for their safety. But when a top police official, charged with finding the attackers, implied the victim had been partly to blame for being out after dark alone, it ignited fury. Comments that previously may not have been publicly questioned are now being called out as victim-blaming.

2020-09-19

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court justice and women’s rights champion, dead at 87

Arye ben-Shaoul Gender & Sexuality, Law & Crime 0

Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead-1.5730809

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington, the court says. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Her death just over six weeks before election day in the United States is likely to set off a heated battle over whether President Donald Trump should nominate, and the Republican-led Senate should confirm, her replacement, or if the seat should remain vacant until the outcome of his race against Democrat Joe Biden is known. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said late Friday that the Senate will vote on Trump’s pick to replace Ginsburg, even though it’s an election year.

2020-09-16

J.K. Rowling sparks outrage for including cross-dressing serial killer in new book

Arye ben-Shaoul Arts & Entertainment, Gender & Sexuality 0

Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/rowling-book-outrage-1.5724915

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has set off a wave of anger for including what many are calling a transphobic plot line in her new book. Penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood is Rowling’s fifth book to feature private investigator Cormoran Strike. An early review of the book by Telegraph writer Jake Kerridge described it as featuring a “transvestite serial killer,” which inspired readers’ anger and spawned the Twitter hashtag #RIPJKRowling — a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the author’s career. The backlash comes on the heels of several accusations of transphobia in recent months against Rowling, and trangender activists said the new book appeared to take a deliberate swipe at the community.

2020-09-13

Vancouver billboard declaring ‘I ❤ J.K. Rowling’ defaced, removed

Arye ben-Shaoul Canada, Gender & Sexuality 0

Article Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/7331718/vancouver-billboard-j-k-rowling-defaced/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

The controversy around Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling‘s stance on transgender issues landed decisively in Vancouver on Saturday. In a period of about 36 hours, a billboard declaring “I ❤️️ J.K. Rowling” went up, was defaced with paint, and was removed from an intersection at East Hastings and Glen Drive. Rowling has faced intense criticism in recent months for repeated comments about transgender people, including a 3,600 word essay in which she alleged allowing transgender people to use bathrooms that match their gender identity will make girls and women “less safe” because it will “throw open the door” to “any and all men.”

2020-09-12

‘Transsexual Satanist anarchist’ wins GOP nomination for sheriff NH

IRWeasel Gender & Sexuality, Law & Crime 0

Article Link: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/transexual-satanist-anarchist-picks-up-gop-sheriff-nh-county

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

A self-described “transsexual Satanist anarchist” has won the Republican nomination for the sheriff’s job in Cheshire County, N.H. — a victory she says proves “the system is utterly and hopelessly broken.” Aria DiMezzo, who ran with the campaign slogan “F*** the Police” and says she had expected to lose to a write-in candidate, won the nomination for Cheshire County sheriff on Tuesday. The victory was first reported by Inside Sources.

2020-09-09

Ghislaine Maxwell’s privacy does not justify keeping deposition sealed, says Epstein accuser

IRWeasel Gender & Sexuality, Law & Crime 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/ghislaine-maxwells-privacy-does-not-justify-keeping-deposition-sealed-says-epstein-accuser/wcm/9811c293-82b8-4894-b96a-2d9f877fabbc/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

NEW YORK — A woman who said she was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking told a U.S. appeals court that Ghislaine Maxwell’s desire for privacy failed to justify the continued sealing of a deposition that the British socialite has fought to keep out of the public eye. Lawyers for Virginia Giuffre made the argument in a Wednesday filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ahead of Sept. 22 oral arguments over the release of materials from her now-settled defamation lawsuit against Maxwell.

2020-09-09

U.S. Justice Department moves to defend Trump against rape accuser’s defamation lawsuit

IRWeasel Gender & Sexuality, Law & Crime, Politics & Economics 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/u-s-justice-department-moves-to-defend-trump-against-rape-accusers-defamation-lawsuit/wcm/2f4964fb-8e2d-4cfc-ada3-79dea882f2f1/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

NEW YORK — U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday defended his office’s intervention in a defamation lawsuit by a woman who accused President Donald Trump of raping her, when it moved the case to federal court and sought to install its own lawyers to replace Trump’s private legal team. In a court filing on Tuesday, the Department of Justice said Trump acted “within the scope of his office as president” when he denied raping former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s, and denied knowing her.

2020-09-07

Porn to prison: Sexxx-rated stars doing hard time

IRWeasel Gender & Sexuality, Law & Crime 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/porn-to-prison-sexxx-rated-stars-doing-hard-time/wcm/a97a83ea-548e-47a6-b62c-8b75332b83da/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

Ron “The Hedgehog” Jeremy went from being hunky to chunky during a nearly 40-year career in sex-rated cinema. But in that time, he also became porn’s everyman. If Ron Jeremy can pull hot women, why can’t I? “If you saw him on the rainbow on Sunset Strip, he didn’t lack for female companionship … women, young and old, were all over him,” one awestruck observer told the Toronto Sun.

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