- A Canadian court has ruled that a 14-year-old child can start a gender transition hormone regimen despite their father’s objections, and has further decreed that “misgendering” or use of the child’s birth name will be considered “family violence.”
- Sharron Davies, an English former Olympic swimming champion, says she agrees with Martina Navratilova that males shouldn’t compete in women’s sports. Lucy Clark, a trans-identified male football referee, says of these outspoken, female athletes: “I wouldn’t say they’re transphobic, but they need to be careful what they tweet.”
- The UK’s first transgender hate crime trial, brought by the mother of a trans-identified child, Helen Islam, against male transsexual, Miranda Yardley, ended on the first day due to lack of evidence that any wrongdoing had occurred.
- The World Bank says only six countries in the world give women equal work rights with men, and even so, that enforcement is uneven.
- Gwak Ye-nam, a former “comfort woman” during WWII, has died at the age of 94. Japanese occupiers of her native Korea kidnapped and enslaved Ye-nam in a Japanese military brothel.