- Police response to ex-officer Harry Miller’s allegedly transphobic Twitter activity was unlawful, and a “disproportionate interference” with his freedom of expression, the High Court rules.
- Kate Scottow has been found guilty of using social media to “cause annoyance, inconvenience, and anxiety,” after referring to a trans-identified male as “he” and “him” and describing him as a “pig in a wig.”
- Hundreds of Iraqi women gathered in Baghdad to protest a tweet by Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, which called for gender segregation at anti-government rallies.
- Ten women have filed a lawsuit against fashion mogul Peter Nygard, alleging he raped them at his mansion, and operated a “sex trafficking ring.” According to the lawsuit, “[Nygard] recruited, lured and enticed young, impressionable and often impoverished children and women, with cash payments and false promises of lucrative modeling opportunities to assault, rape and sodomize them.”
- Seattle’s sex trafficking industry was significantly disrupted by a Seattle Against Slavery campaign that used decoy chatbots posing as prostitutes in conversations with tens of thousands of men looking to buy sex.