- Brendt Christensen, 30, is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release for kidnapping and killing visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017. Christensen was discovered to have been visiting a FetLife forum called “Abduction 101” and participated in “perfect abduction fantasy” threads weeks before he kidnapped, tortured, and killed Zhang.
- Activists at University of California-Santa Barbara urge administration to fire Laura Tanner, a graduate student in the Department of Feminist Studies, who has been working as a teaching assistant since 2015. She has been targeted on account of tweets challenging gender identity ideology.
- A man who raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl “execution style” to prevent her from exposing him as an abuser is jailed for life.
- A workplace investigation finds that Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief, Morley Googoo, engaged in “gender-based”gendered harassment and discrimination against a former leader of the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association and other First Nations women.
- The UN predicts the global cost of preventing women from dying in childbirth will increase sixfold by 2030, requiring billions to be spent before preventable maternal mortality is eliminated.