- Computer game developer Stephanie Barrett, who identifies as female and took up archery at 37 years old, qualified to compete at the Tokyo Olympics this year. In May, Barrett scored a 652 in the qualification round at the World Cup stop in Switzerland, the highest ever by a Canadian woman in an international competition
- Inuk leader and former ambassador Mary Simon is set to be the first Indigenous person to be appointed as Governor General of Canada.
- CNN reports black female athletes are subject to a “wave” of penalizations and criticisms ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Two Namibian female sprinters are ruled ineligible for the Tokyo Olympics due to naturally high testosterone levels, despite trans-identified male Laurel Hubbard’s placement on New Zealand’s women’s weightlifting team.
- Spain’s government approves legislation to define all non-consensual sex as rape, part of a legal overhaul to crack down on sexual assault by toughening penalties and mandating more support systems for survivors.
- Egyptian women who say they were sexually abused by government authorities during invasive searches and medical exams are speaking out for the first time in a New York Times feature.