- A victim of child sexual exploitation sues Twitter for allegedly profiting from and refusing to remove video clips of his abuse.
- Newly-elected US President Biden appoints Dr. Rachel Levine, a trans-identified male, as assistant Secretary of Health. Dr. Levine supports prescribing puberty blockers to gender non-conforming children and teens, claiming the drugs can be “life-saving.”
- Chinese celebrity Zeng Shuang’s contract with Prada was dropped following a controversy surrounding her US-based surrogacy arrangement. Shuang’s ex-boyfriend alleges she abandoned the children; in a leaked audio clip, Shuang can be heard complaining that she couldn’t have the mother undergo an abortion at seven months. Surrogacy is prohibited in China.
- Police in Pakistan refused to follow up on an investigation into three men who abducted a 12-year-old girl and forcibly married her. The girl was sexually abused and kept chained in a cattle pen; police alleged she willingly married her abuser.
- Cameroonian police opened an investigation into a baby trafficking network which targeted women in poverty and sold their infants to buyers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.