Sunday, October 25, 2020
Post

Gender & Sexuality

DM

Social media abuse drives girls off Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: poll

, 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/technology/social-media-abuse-drives-girls-off-facebook-instagram-twitter-poll

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

LONDON — Online abuse is driving girls to quit social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, with nearly 60% experiencing harassment, a global study showed on Sunday. One in five girls and young women has abandoned or cut down on using a social media platform after being targeted, with some saying harassment started when they were as young as eight, the survey by girls’ rights group Plan International showed.

DM

Liberals revive bill that seeks to outlaw forced LGBTQ conversion therapy

, , 0

Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/politics-conversion-therapy-lametti-liberals-lgbtq-legislation-1.5746433

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

The federal Liberals have reintroduced a bill that would ban the act of forcing children or adults to undergo therapy aimed at altering their sexual orientation or gender identity. The government originally introduced the legislation in March, just before Parliament shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Liberals’ decision to prorogue in August erased the bill from the House of Commons agenda. Diversity Minister Bardish Chagger, who put the bill forward in the House of Commons today, said choosing to reintroduce a bill to ban so-called conversion therapy just days into the new parliamentary session sends a strong signal. She called conversion therapy destructive, harmful and deadly. “On this side of the House, we focus on advancing and protecting LGBTQ2 rights,” she said.

DM

Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing male inmates who identify as ‘women’ to be housed in women’s prisons in California

, , 0

Article Link: https://thepostmillennial.com/gov-newsom-signs-bill-allow-male-inmates-womens-prisons-california

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Saturday to end sex-segregated prisons in that state, to allow inmates to be housed based on the gender with which they identify as opposed to dividing them by sex. The caveat of the bill is that this privilege is only for those inmates with which the penal system does not have “management or security concerns.” This collection of bills, designed with the aim of “strengthening protections for LGBTQ+ Californians,” does little for women or children, as it opens female prisons to male-bodied persons, and enables tax payer funds to go toward the medical transitioning of minors. There is also funding to find the impact of COVID-19, which is an illness that primarily affects the elderly and those with existing health complications, on the LGBT+ community.

DM

Women on arctic research mission told not to wear tight-fitting clothing

0

Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mosaic-dress-code-sexism-arctic-research-1.5739547

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

A prominent Arctic research mission is coming under fire for a dress code policy that has highlighted concerns about systemic sexism in the polar sciences. The MOSAiC expedition, an international research mission led by Germany’s Alfred-Wegener-Institut, embedded polar researchers in Arctic sea ice for a full year to make groundbreaking observations about the Arctic climate. But shortly after the journey began, women on board a support vessel for the mission, the Akademik Fedorov, were told they could not dress in tight-fitting clothing due to safety concerns. Journalist Chelsea Harvey was on board the ship for six weeks in October 2019 when the policy was first disclosed. She recently wrote about the rules for energy and environmental research trade publication E&E News.

DM

Angry Dads Leave Registered Sex Offender Bloody and Dazed After What He Allegedly Did in Cracker Barrel Bathroom

, 0

Article Link: https://www.westernjournal.com/angry-dads-leave-registered-sex-offender-bloody-dazed-allegedly-cracker-barrel-bathroom/

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

A convicted sex offender is accused of spying on at least one underage girl in a restaurant bathroom — an accusation that led to him being left bloody and dazed in a parking lot shortly before being arrested. The confrontation began inside of a Cracker Barrel in Duncan, South Carolina, on Sept. 20. Police said a 15-year-old girl alerted her father that a man had spied on her in the women’s bathroom, WSPA-TV reported. The girl said she first saw movement at her feet before realizing it was an adult male’s head coming from the next stall over. Witnesses said the 15-year-old was not the only girl in the bathroom at the time.

DM

Why the death of the college experience is so detrimental for queer students

, , 0

Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-queer-students-university-pandemic-1.5739203

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

If September is any indication, the global pandemic has all but eradicated any semblance of the “university experience” as we know it. Gone are the days of frat parties, sporting events and 300-person lecture halls. The loss of the university experience means the absence of direct access to professors via office hours, campus resources, library access and clubs. But one of the lesser-known casualties of this shift to remote learning is also one of the most fundamental aspects of university life: the on-campus community. For queer students like myself, the on-campus experience is an indispensable opportunity.

DM

Argentine lawmaker quits after kissing wife’s breast during virtual session

, 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/argentine-lawmaker-quits-after-kissing-wifes-breast-during-virtual-session

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine lawmaker has resigned after being caught on a live camera caressing his partner before appearing to partially pull down her top and kiss her breast during a virtual session of the country’s lower house of Congress on Thursday. The lower house of deputies said in a statement on Twitter early on Friday that it had voted to accept the resignation of Juan Ameri, a representative from the northern province of Salta in the ruling coalition.

DM

Israel to extradite woman to Australia over child sex abuse

, 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.

DM

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

, 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.

DM

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

, , , 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.

‹ 1 2 3 4 5 ›»