The science that informs medicine “routinely fails to consider the impact of sex and gender”. "This happens in the earliest stages of research, when females are excluded from studies or the sex of the animals isn’t stated in the results." ...
Polish police came under criticism for using tear gas and force on mostly female and young protesters during the latest in a string of women-led protests against a top court ruling restricting abortion. #Strajkobiet #piekłokobiet ...
At least 43 women have alleged misconduct by Dr Mahendra Amin – and six have been deported as 105 members of Congress signed a petition to halt these deportations. #SexNotGender #AbolishICE https://t.co/bMvL0P...
Stella Dadzie's new book, A Kick in the Belly, explores how enslaved women in the West Indies found ways to fight back. She is a founding member of Owaad, a group that emerged in the late 1970s to campaign for black women’s rights. #ReadWomen ...
RT @circuIopolar: Today at the Mexican embassy in Bern Switzerland, several feminists showed their support for Mexican feminists for the femicides that occurred on November 8th in Cancun, Quintana Roo and those that occur every day. #NiUnaMenos ...
"Even as officials urge college-educated, Han Chinese women to marry and get pregnant, they are discouraging, sometimes through coercion, ethnic minorities with high birthrates — particularly Uighurs — from having more children.” #SexNotGender ...
Men lead debates on women’s equality in the chamber, with politics seen as “men’s work,”. Issues such as sex-based violence are excluded from the political agenda. Moreover, 521 investigations were launched against 23 female politicians. ...
India — A man released on bail three years after he was arrested for raping and murdering a 56-year-old woman was arrested for raping his 75-year-old neighbour. #SexNotGender #MVAW https://t.co/9PyZpr...
Cynthia Chandler spearheaded the investigation into involuntary sterilizations at the CCWF, the largest women’s prison in the world. She “uncovered California’s coercive sterilization of women in prison through 2012," & led efforts to end it. ...
D.C. police arrested a transgender woman on a charge of destruction of property for smashing a large glass window at a community services center, "because it made me feel great.” The incident was blamed on "trauma associated with being transgender." ...
Women working to remove sexually explicit images put online without their consent are now being subjected to rape and death threats. People are being targeted on social media as the attackers aim to silence women who are speaking out. #SexNotGender ...
The British government sourced PPE from factories in China where hundreds of North Korean women have been working in conditions of modern slavery. The workers, who are mostly women, work for up to 18 hours a day, with little or no time off. ...
The real bullies in the gender debate are the ones claiming victim status to justify censorship, name-calling, threats of violence, and actual violence. It's very disturbing how quickly so many major institutions have folded to their unreasonable ...
Susana, who was missing since Nov 7, was found dead near the home of her ex-partner, a police officer. #JusticiaParaSusana #Feminicidio #SexNotGender https://t.co/L7Sqqu...
"One of [John Money's] theories of how children form their 'gender schemas' was that they must understand at a very early age the differences between male and female sex organs. Pornography, he believed, was ideal for this purpose." #SexNotGender ...
NY Gov Cuomo, who used the pandemic to legalize commercial surrogacy against the wishes of women, has released a "Gender Identity Toolkit" to all state agencies, and announced that 11 landmarks across the state will be illuminated in pink and blue. ...
RT @AlessandraAster: If it is impossible to tell a transwoman from a woman, transphobia does not exist.
Prof Janine Benedet, who stepped in as interim dean of the Allard School of Law, is under attack from students who say she is "anti-sex work" and "anti-trans," citing her work with @VanRapeRelief and her support for criminalizing pimps. ...
Prof Janine Benedet, who stepped in as interim dean of the Allard School of Law, is under attack from students who say she is "anti-sex work" and "anti-trains," citing her work with @VanRapeRelief and her support for criminalizing pimps. ...
"A top doctor has told a jury that a man accused of rape may have been unaware he was having sex because of a condition called ‘sexsomnia’." The man raped a woman and her 15 year-old daughter and claimed he was sleep-walking. #SexNotGender ...