From best-selling authors such as JK Rowling, to world-class athletes like Martina Navratilova and academics like Prof Kathleen Stock, those who spoke out risked their reputations and their careers.
Angered by the the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman, protesters marched through central London last 19 April. Draped in blue, pink and white, they chanted calls for trans liberation, blocked traffic and held up placards which read "No feminism without trans women" and "Biology is not binary".
Trans women can be excluded from some single-sex spaces and groups under the U.K. Equality Act, the five judges of the top court ruled. These spaces and groups include changing rooms, homeless shelters, swimming areas and medical or counseling services provided only to women.
The bill from state Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Leeds, and Sen. April Weaver, R-Alabaster, would adjust state law to explicitly define "man," "woman," "boy," "girl," "father," "mother," "male," female" and "sex."
Last 28 January, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it will be looking into the Denver Public Schools District for allegedly discriminating against its female students after converting a female bathroom into an "all-gender" bathroom at one of its largest high schools.
"I believe I speak for all females in Los Angeles when I say we want a strong man to rescue us," Kelly said on her podcast, "The Megyn Kelly Show".
In an update to its hate speech policy last 7 January, spotted first by The Independent, the apps' parent company Meta deleted numerous clauses banning specific derogatory statements about protected groups, while adding detailed exceptions for anti-trans speech.
In December 2022, the Taliban authorities - who are not internationally recognized - issued a similar order, directing all NGOs to suspend the employment of female Afghan employees until further notice.
The National Defense Authorization Act passed both the House and Senate in recent weeks after months of negotiating between Democrats and Republicans. One issue in the bill was a measure to ban the military’s insurance Tricare from covering some gender-affirming care treatments.
Even Tennis legend Martina Navratilova chimed in together with other prominent people to blast the piece online for the characterization, stating the outlet should just be referring to biological women as women.
Plaintiffs Kaitlyn and Taylor, two athletes at Martin Luther King High School in ninth and eleventh grade, respectively, wore T-shirts bearing the messages "Save Girls’ Sports" and "It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY."
It was just not expected that the "Harry Potter" author was one of those who responed to the "Last Week Tonight" host’s tirade.
In a scathing news last 28 October, the country’s minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice announced the bizarre new restriction on women’s behaviour.
Gareth Jones, 41, told news outlets that it took more than a year of therapy to begin to recover from months of emotional and physical abuse from a woman he met online in July 2021.
The group of five at Darlington Memorial Hospital launched a legal case last June alleging sexual harassment against their employer, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.
As automakers add ever more sophisticated technology to their cars, instances of stalking and harassment using features such as location tracking and remote controls have begun to emerge.
The 34-year-old has eight children and competes in beauty pageants. Her social media accounts reference the intense ballet training she experienced at the Juilliard School and the Utah farm she runs with her husband. Onlookers frequently debate whether Hannah should be praised or criticized for the perfectly manicured life she has been broadcasting online for nearly a decade.
The term, which has garnered significant social media traction in recent months, is shorthand for "traditional wife" and most broadly refers to a woman who practices conventional gender roles within a relationship. On TikTok and Instagram, however, the trend has manifested through popular content creators who've gained large followings by showing off their lives as homemakers, from their elaborate homemade meals to their 1950s-inspired wardrobes.