What’s Current: Former Mumsnet intern Emma Healey publishes private user information over trans debate

  • UK parenting site, Mumsnet, has reported the exposure of some of its users’ IP addresses on Twitter by a paid, former intern, to UK data regulators. Emma Healey tells The Guardian she published this information because of “misgendering” and “deadnaming” ot trans-identified people.
  • In Liverpool, UK, prostituted women are forced to sell sex for less than £4 per encounter following an influx of competition from trafficked Serbian and Croatian women.
  • Zachary T. McClimans, a trans-identified male who now prefers to be called Claire Wolfever, has pleaded guilty in a Pennsylvania court to attempting to murder a WalMart coworker with whom he had argued over his planned gender transition. The judge ordered that McClimans be referred to as if he were female during the proceedings.
  • Proposed changes to New Zealand’s Births Act that would allow people to change their legal sex based on self-identification, combined with recent changes to Corrections guidelines that use birth certificates as the basis for determining prison housing by sex may endanger female inmates.
Natasha Chart

Natasha Chart is an online organizer and feminist living in the United States. She does not recant her heresy.