Sarah’s News Roundup 11.03.18

Caitlyn Jenner

Transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner has ended her support for Trump over his record on transgender rights.

She said she had “remained hopeful” that she could work with Trump’s administration but realised this week that her position had been a “mistake”.

“The reality is that the trans community is being relentlessly attacked by this president.”

Sylvestor Stallone will not face rape charges as prosecutors in California found there was “insufficient evidence”.

In 2017 an unidentified survivor said Stallone had assaulted her in the early 1990s but Stallone claimed the allegation was “completely fabricated”.

The allegation also fell outside the statute of limitations.

Harvey Weinstein has been accused of forcing a 16-year-old Polish girl to touch his penis, subjecting her to years of harassment and emotional abuse, and blocking her from a successful acting career because she refused his advances.

The unidentified accuser alleges that Weinstein assaulted her at his New York apartment in 2002, just days after they met at a modeling agency event.

Weinstein still denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex.

Staff at Google offices around the world have staged an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company’s treatment of women.

The employees are demanding key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations are dealt with, including a call to end false arbitration – a move which would allow women who had been a victim of sexual harassment or assault sue.

Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has told staff he supports their right to do this: “I am fully committed to making progress on an issue that has persisted for far too long in our society…and yes, here at Google too.”

Over 1,600 scientists have sent a letter condemning Trump’s proposal of defining gender as biological and established at birth.

The letter states: “This proposal is fundamentally inconsistent not only with science, but also with ethical practices, human rights, and basic dignity.

The relationship between sex chromosomes, genitalia, and gender identity is complex, and not fully understood.

No scientific test can unambiguously determine gender, or even sex.

Even if such tests existed, it would be unconscionable to use the pretext of science to enact policies that overrule the lived experience of people’s own gender identities.”

Scott Beierle, the man who shot dead two women, injured five others and then killed himself at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, was a far-right extremist and self-proclaimed misogynist.

In a series of online videos and songs he attacked women, black people and immigrants, offering extremely racist and misogynistic opinions and calling women “sluts” and “whores”.

He also identified as a so-called incel, someone who considers themself to be “involuntary celibate”.

Police said he had previously been arrested for sexually harassing and assaulting women.

Sarah

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