What’s Current: Macy Gray rescinds statements on trans, saying, ‘You are whoever you believe you are’

  • Celebrities Bette Midler and Macy Gray are received major backlash for openly standing for women’s sex-based rights, leading Gray to rescind her statements saying, “Just because you change your parts, doesn’t make you a woman.” On Thursday, the singer told Hoda Kobt on the Today Show, she had “learned a lot” and that “You are whoever you believe you are.”
  • News outlets report the 21-year-old man responsible for the July 4 Highland Park shooting wore women’s clothing to disguise himself and avoid capture following the attack that left at least seven dead and 30 wounded.
  • Berlin’s Humboldt University cancels a public lecture on the evolution of binary sex following pressure from trans student activists decrying the topic as“outdated” and “anti-trans.”
  • Public hospitals in Turkey are refusing to provide abortions despite Turkish law allowing the procedure, leaving women unable to access safe and affordable abortions.
Meghan McCarty

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