What’s Current: Female inmate reports rape by trans-identified male in her cell

  • The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a possible sexual assault at the county jail. The accuser reported being raped by another inmate in her cell “who is a biological male who identifies as a female and is believed to be in some stage of gender transition.”
  • A young woman tears up, telling Santee City Council she saw a nude man in the women’s locker rooms at the Santee YMCA.
  • Alicyn Simpson of the UPMC Children’s Hospital Gender program suggests taking women’s reproductive organs from live women who identify as “trans men” to transplant them into biological men who identify as “trans women.”
  • The Brit Awards went gender neutral last year; this year, all the nominees were men.
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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.