- Canadian media celebrates the “first trans woman Rhodes Scholar,” 24-year-old Julia Levy. The self-described “trans woman” plans to pursue a master’s degree in computational chemistry next fall, explaining, “There’s something very powerful about coming into a scholarship that was not intended for you originally.” The Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest graduate scholarship in the world, was initially restricted to male applicants, but says now “selection is made without regard to gender or gender identity.”
- A 19-year-old man, who was aged 17 at the time of his offending, was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl two years ago in New Zealand. Jack Arthur Prenter arrived at a birthday party, “felt up” several girls, then raped a 16-year-old who was passed out from drinking too much, and had been put to bed in a bedroom.
- Skate Canada, the national governing body for figure skating in Canada, will allow pairs to compete outside the “male/female” binary, updating their definition of “team” from “one woman and one man,” to “two skaters.”