- Australia’s Royal Australasian College of Physicians is set to begin an inquiry into the safety and ethics of treatment guidelines for children diagnosed with gender identity disorder.
- Court-mandated reforms to Canada’s Indian Act will treat First Nations women equally with men in passing tribal status to their children, regardless of whether they marry an Indigenous man.
- A UK man has been jailed for life after stabbing a lesbian to death for refusing to have sex with him.
- Hundreds of women protested in Mexico City Friday, demanding protection from the city’s police force after several recent incidents of officers sexually assaulting girls and young women.
- All 11,000 untested rape kits found in a Detroit warehouse 10 years ago have been tested. Police have implemented new policies to prevent rape kit backlog, including a tracking system for survivors to follow their kit throughout the investigation.