What’s Current: Campaigners urge Britain’s leading LGBT group to stop stifling debate on transgender politics

  • Britain’s leading LGBT group, Stonewall, is under fire for refusing to open a debate platform over gender identity politics and repeatedly silencing opposing viewpoints.
  • Reports indicate that the #MeToo movement has changed the way media outlets are reporting on sexual assault, with the number of articles on sexual abuse being up thirty per cent since May 2017.
  • The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to anti-rape activists Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege. The two recipients both actively campaign against rape as a war tactic.
  • A hair stylist has been fired from his job after a video of him roundhouse kicking an anti-abortion protestor went viral.
  • USA Swimming’s House of Delegates has voted to implement a new “stated gender” section for registering athletes, allowing swimmers to pick whether they identify as male or female “for the purpose of athlete swimming eligibility, competition, selection and records.”
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.