What’s Current: Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s poster campaign defining women as female removed; labelled ‘hate’

  • Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s poster campaign has been removed after trans activist, Adrian Harrop, complained that her group, Standing for Women, was a “hate group.”
  • Linda Bellos was in court today, alongside activist Venice Allan, after  Giuliana Kendal, a trans-identified male, brought private prosecution against Bellos for saying she would defend herself against attacks from trans activists. Kendal attempted to have a woman in the public gallery removed for wearing a t-shirt with the slogan, “Woman equals adult human female.”
  • UK victims’ rights campaigners are concerned that excessive police data requests of sexual violence victims might discourage women from coming forward.
  • A prominent Mayan Ixil midwife and a founding member of the Network of Ixil Women, Juana Ramirez Santiago, has been murdered in Guatemala, where it’s becoming increasingly deadly to organize for human rights.
  • An Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has found in favor of the Association of Ontario Midwives, agreeing that the government owed them back pay for sex discrimination in contract negotiations.
Natasha Chart

Natasha Chart is an online organizer and feminist living in the United States. She does not recant her heresy.