- A top U.K. government official has called for an end to recording male offenders as female in national crime statistics. U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered her office to begin working on a new procedure for officers to record the sex of criminals.
- Women politicians in Japan, both candidates and elected officials, report frequent sexual harassment. A survey of 1,247 female local assembly members revealed that 57.6 per cent said they had been sexually harassed by voters, supporters or other assembly members.
- The U.S. State Department has issued the first American passport with an “X” gender marker on their travel document, rather than male or female.
- Feminists in South Korea are boycotting Netflix’s popular series Squid Game on the grounds that its portrayals of female characters are misogynistic.