What’s Current: U.S. women campaign to introduce ‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ defining women as female

  • Grassroots women’s rights groups in the United States are fighting to introduce a Women’s Bill of Rights that would officially define sex-related words like “woman” in state laws.
  • British intelligence agency MI5 saw evidence that 15-year-old Rhianan Rudd was being sexually exploited and groomed online, yet charged her with terrorism offences. Her mother says investigators should have treated her daughter “as a victim rather than a terrorist.”
  • Women working at Denver’s Regional Transportation District are allegedly threatened with being fired if they refuse to accept their male coworker’s gender identity.
  • Former UFC fighter Phil Baroni is arrested in Mexico for allegedly murdering his girlfriend in a domestic violence incident.
Meghan McCarty

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