What’s Current: Canadian women’s national team pledge to ‘fight for the truth’ in Hockey Canada investigation

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  • Canadian women’s hockey players pledge in an open letter to help “fight for the truth” into recent sexual assault allegations made against men’s junior hockey players.
  • World-renowned female activists, experts, athletes, and public figures joined to keep women’s sports single-sex at the first Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) in Las Vegas last month. The ICONS conference followed a Biden administration proposal to open Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in education to include gender identity.
  • Britain’s first medical guide for trans-identified patients instructs doctors to use the term “chestfeeding” and encourage “inclusivity” in treatment for childbirth, cancer, and fertility.
  • Egyptian social media influencer Tala Safwan is arrested in Saudi Arabia, accused of posting sexually suggestive content amid claims that a recent video has lesbian undertones.
Meghan McCarty

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