What’s Current: Duke University to study impact of puberty blockers on children’s sleep and insulin resistance

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  • Duke University will study trans-identified youth who plan to undergo treatment at the university’s gender clinic. The study, estimated to begin in September, will observe how cross-sex hormones and puberty blocking medications affect sleep and insulin resistance in adolescents.
  • A New Zealand man known for filming women inappropriately narrowly avoids another jail sentence, and is handed a “final warning” for secretly recording 63 women’s bottoms in public.
  • Lesbian women gather at Dyke March in Hamburg to peacefully protest a trans-identified male politician and self-identified lesbian scheduled to speak at the event. Reports allege the group was met with “extreme hostility,” and at least one woman was physically assaulted by trans activists.
  • The New York Times reports women in the United States are “self-managing” abortion access through information networks and online aid services to obtain medication abortions following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Meghan McCarty

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