What’s Current: Trans Journalist Association encourages media outlets to kill stories on detransitioners and trans criminals

  • The Trans Journalist Association releases a style guide encouraging media outlets to kill stories covering trans-identified criminals, silence detransitioners, and refrain from referencing biological sex.
  • The Guardian reports preferences for male children in India has caused an estimated 46 million females to go “missing” over the past 50 years due to sex-selective abortion.
  • Dozens of women march through Afghanistan’s capital, demanding women’s rights be respected, and accusing the Taliban of covertly killing soldiers who served under the country’s former government.
  • Gaming company Riot Games agrees to pay a $100 million settlement in a class action gender-based discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed in 2018 after two former women employees alleged sexual misconduct and a “culture of sexism” at Riot Games.
Meghan McCarty

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