What’s Current: Germany’s women’s gymnastics team protests sexualization in unitards at Tokyo Olympics

 

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  • Germany’s women’s gymnastics team wears unitards instead of bikini-cut leotards while competing in the Tokyo Olympics to protest sexualization of women in gymnastics.
  • The Feminist Legal Clinic is evicted from their Sydney office for refusing to remove gender critical material and resources from their website.
  • The Women’s Liberation Front reports several contacts inside a California women’s prison confirm at least one woman is pregnant after being housed with a trans-identified male inmate who was transferred to the institution under new state guidelines.
  • More women and children in Afghanistan were killed and injured in the first half of 2021 than the first six months of any year since the United Nations began keeping track in 2009.
Meghan McCarty

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