Women's Voices

 

17 April 2021

 

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Insurgents in Mozambique have abducted hundreds of women and girls, forcing many into sexual relations with fighters and possibly trafficking others elsewhere in Africa. Most of the abducted women are under 18, with the youngest about 12 years old. ...

April 17th @ 11:58 pm |

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A parent refused to accept a gender non-conforming child and gave them "puberty blockers" to preserve a feminine singing voice. The practice of castrating young boys who had good singing voices was common in Italy in the 1600's; they were called ...

April 17th @ 10:15 pm |

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A woman whose husband has begun insisting on wearing her clothes during intercourse asks for advice. She's been taking anxiety meds as a result & wants to tell him she isn't into it. She is told to avoid shaming him & to work on a compromise. ...

April 17th @ 3:02 pm |

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In South Africa, a woman is killed every 3 hours; half are killed by male partners. Yet less than 20% of all femicides making it into the press at all. This leads to inaccurate notions of violence against women, including who the perpetrators of this ...

April 17th @ 1:10 pm |

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RT @Blackbolt777: "That name of the new conversion therapy is ‘child transition’. ‘Transgender children’. No one knows the side effects for sure, beyond one: no ‘transgender child’ will be fertile after a complete treatment. In some cases, they might ...

April 17th @ 12:24 pm |

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This is powerful and thorough. Drugs rebranded as "puberty blockers," and Lupron in particular, are toxic, and I don't say that lightly. Early menopause, memory disruption, dissociation, brittle bones, chronic pain -- giving Lupron to children is ...

April 17th @ 12:02 pm |

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RT @jo_bartosch: Dear fellow journos. Please stop saying ‘transgender children.’ Having ‘gender dysphoria’ does not mean a child, or indeed an adult, is ‘trans.’ There is no such thing as a ‘trans child.’ https://t.co/U5wJBh...

April 17th @ 9:35 am |

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A women's NGO in Hyderabad "supplied surrogate mothers & egg donors" to an infertility clinic while taking the bulk of the payments, about $3,500 for each child, a "heinous exploitation of the wombs of poor and destitute surrogate mothers." ...

April 17th @ 7:36 am |

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Plans by the @ScottishGreens to scrap the recording of sex and gender on birth certificates could see women “cease to exist as a legal category,” said one of the world’s foremost human rights experts, Robert Wintemute, of King's College London. ...

April 17th @ 4:42 am |

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Police Scotland said that if a rape or attempted rape was perpetrated by a “male who self-identifies as a woman... the male who self-identifies as a woman would be expected to be recorded as a female on relevant police systems.” #NotOurCrimes ...

April 17th @ 12:00 am |