Sunday, October 25, 2020
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Gender & Sexuality

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.”

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‘Transsexual Satanist anarchist’ wins GOP nomination for sheriff NH

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Porn to prison: Sexxx-rated stars doing hard time

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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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New California bill would lower penalties for adults who have sexual relations with a minor

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Article Link: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/new-california-bill-would-lower-penalties-for-adults-who-have-sexual-relations-with-a-minor

Discussion posted by: OFRU

LOS ANGELES – A new bill headed to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk would lower penalties for adults who have consensual sex with a minor if the offender is within 10 years of age with the victim. SB 145 passed in both houses of the State Legislature late Monday evening. “If signed into law, a 24-year-old could have sexual relations with a 15-year-old child without being required to register as a sex offender,” State Senator Shannon Grove wrote in a tweet.

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Separate Toilets ‘No Longer Necessary’: Anti-Discrimination Commissioner

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Article Link: https://nationandstate-clone.mystagingwebsite.com/2020/09/06/separate-toilets-no-longer-necessary-anti-discrimination-commissioner/

Discussion posted by: TheRage

The Equal Opportunity Commission has summoned Liberal Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler over remarks she made about free speech and that women’s sports and toilets should remain as spaces exclusively for biological women. The commissioner allegedly goes on to say in the letter that it is arguable that following shifts towards unisex toilets, it is no longer necessary to have separate toilets based on sex. On July 17, Chandler wrote an op-ed for The Mercury in which she wrote: “You don’t have to be a bigot to recognise the differences between the male and female sexes and understand why women’s sports, single-sex change rooms and toilets are important.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to be moved into general population at U.S. jail

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Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-loses-bid-to-be-moved-into-general-population-at-u-s-jail/wcm/ccf55783-d369-4810-b3ef-c0a35b38229b/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

NEW YORK — A U.S. judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s request to be moved into the general population at the Brooklyn jail where she is awaiting trial on charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls. Maxwell had objected to being treated worse than other pretrial inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center, citing “onerous” conditions including round-the-clock surveillance, numerous body scans, and being isolated in her cell most of the time.

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