EXCLUSIVE: Macy Gray addresses her controversial comments about gender identity with @hodakotb: “This was a huge learning experience for me.” pic.twitter.com/CTRNOJtsI2
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- 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a public lecture on the evolution of binary sex following pressure from trans student activists decrying the topic as“outdated” and “anti-trans.”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.