- A new bill in New York City will allow those who identify as “non-binary” to obtain an “X” on their birth certificates, rather than “male” or “female.”
- Michelle Lewin, born Shaun Purdell, was convicted of 12 sex offences against underage girls. He has reportedly received a gender recognition certificate and been transferred to a female prison.
- Police in Caledon, Ont. are working to bring three men to justice on charges related to running a local sex trafficking ring.
- Girls in the UK are increasingly reporting cases of relationship and sexual abuse from teenage boys.
- A 25-year-old Manitoba man has been charged with extortion and voyeurism over threatening a 22-year-old woman whom he met on Tindr with distributing nude pictures of her when she refused to have sex with him.
- UNICEF reports that up to 65 per cent of women in the Kenyan slum of Kibera have been forced to sell sex in exchange for menstrual products.