Report: Beneath the surface - Athena Forum Read how gender identity is reshaping Europe.

Exciting to see the launch of Athena Forum, founded by human rights advocate @elnagashi.at.

Read their first report - Beneath the surface: How gender identity is reshaping Europe athena-forum.eu/publications...

Stolen from the other place.

“Disproportionately, these regulations ... have impacted athletes from the Global South. "
Correct.
Athletes with male DSDs from the Global South.
So the athletes who benefit most from the DSD regulations are female athletes from the Global South.
Good.

Netherlands join boycott of Eurovision 2026 over Israeli participation The Dutch public broadcaster, AVROTROS, has confirmed the Netherlands will join Slovenia, Iceland, Spain and Ireland in boycotting next year's Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is involved.

The Dutch public broadcaster, AVROTROS, has confirmed the Netherlands will join Slovenia, Iceland, Spain and Ireland in boycotting next year's Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is involved.

World Boxing confirms mandatory sex testing will apply in the female category at the inaugural World Boxing Championships 2025 - World Boxing New eligibility policy introduces mandatory sex testing for all World Boxing competitions World Boxing has introduced mandatory sex testing, to determine the eligibility of male and female athletes th...

'Athletes deemed to be male at birth, as evidenced by the presence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a difference of sexual development (DSD) where male androgenization occurs, will be eligible to compete in the male category.'
Good.
Fair.
Safe.
worldboxing.org/world-boxing...

Painting of a white womanwith dark hair in a green dress facing left in the act of busily painting holding a palette and brush

"As long as I live I will have control over my being"
- Artemisia Gentileschi

#UnlockingWomensArt

Pushed into Poverty: the impact of pregnancy on working women  - Maternity & Midwifery Forum Maternity Action’s Senior Policy Officer Annah Psarros reports on the charity’s latest research into new mothers’ experiences of maternity pay and the implications for maternal and infant health    Ma...

Message from @maternityaction.bsky.social

'For many Women, a period of maternity pay effectively meant being ‘pushed into poverty'... You can join our call on the Government to increase #maternity pay by taking action here.'

maternityandmidwifery.co.uk/pushed-into-...

LWD Statement on Postponement of National Women's Conference - Labour Women's Declaration We welcome the Labour Party’s decision to change its policies in light of the Supreme Court’s clarification of the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010. We now call upon the Government to show lead...

LWD statement in which we:
🌹welcome @UKLabour decision to revise policies in line with Equality Act

🌹call on public bodies to immediately follow its example

😡deplore cancellation of women's conference

♀️call for rescheduled conf to be held by July 26

labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/lwd-statemen...

Print featuring stylised plants with seedheads and blossoms in a meadow under an orange glowing sun

Angie Lewin, contemporary UK printmaker #womensart #Summer

The demo against the ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS v Scottish Ministers. The #BeKind people.

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Great letter in the times today.

At last, a moment of clarity – the UK supreme court has upheld the rights of women | Susanna Rustin It is vital that we give credit to the tireless campaigners who brought us to this point, says Guardian writer Susanna Rustin

‘The plaudits this week should go to @forwomenscotland.bsky.social. The determination to hold on to sex-based rights & protections...has galvanised an extraordinary renaissance of the women’s movement in Britain.’ @susannarustin.bsky.social

#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work.

The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.

I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

‘Mother Earth Is the First Woman to Be Violated' — FiLiA Women and nature are both exploited under capitalist patriarchy - both legally and illegally. In addition, the climate crisis already disproportionately impacts women, who comprise 70% of the world's ...

It’s #MothersDay in the #UK 👩‍👧

‘Motherhood generally is, however, both venerated and denigrated within capitalist patriarchy, located as the summit and the limit of female worth’

#WomensHistoryMonth #MotheringSunday #MothersDay2025 #FiLiA2025

🔗➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

BREAKING: MPs' pay will rise by 2.8% for the next financial year, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has confirmed

When Nicola Sturgeon looks back on her career, it is she who should feel shame The former first minister helped gouge a jagged wound in Scottish politics so raw it can hurt

When Nicola Sturgeon looks back on her career, it is she who should feel shame, says Mandy Rhodes www.holyrood.com/editors-colu...

Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber Duncan Gardham a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en- A judge has praised a patient who trance to the hospital. persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon Newby was returning from a walk a suicide attack with a home-made when he saw Farooq. He later told bomb on the hospital he worked at. police that he appeared "depressed Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in and upset" so he tried to cheer him. "T'm quite good at reading people's Leeds with a bomb made from a pres- body language," he said. "I thought sure cooker and low explosives. would go over and see if he's all right." Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb Newby said they had a "totally nor- praised the patient, Nathan Newby, mal chat" before Farooq opened a when she sentenced Farooq to life in bag to show him the pressure cooker She said he was a man ero a man, and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en- "prepared to do the unthinkable". trance and, after three hours, con- Sheffield crown court was told he vinced him to let him call the police. had followed a terrorist manual for Newby later told officers: "I was "lone wolf mujahedeen" and created shocked I had managed to talk him a device similar to the bomb used at out of it. I gave him a hug and said the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing." killed three people. Detective Superintendent Paul Farooq had first planned to attack Greenwood, a head of investigations the listening station at RAF Menwith for counter terrorism, said Newby Hill in North Yorkshire but found had performed an "act of real brav- that the security was too tight. ery". ". He added that the explosion Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating. prosecution, said he then went to the The judge told the court that New- hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a "modest and gentle man, ty and seek his own martyrdom". whose evidence was…

give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero

Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender An independent review by Professor Alice Sullivan that looks at data, statistics and research on sex and gender.

🚨Announcement!🚨

The government-commissioned Sullivan Review of Data and Statistics on Sex and Gender has been published by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Can you spare a minute to help Marjory Robertson? Demand Spotify Remove Andrew Tate’s Harmful Courses on How to Traffic Women

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GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

Cypriot police 'failed' Briton in gang rape case, judges say The woman took her case to the European Court of Human Rights over the way it was handled.

'The court found "the Cypriot authorities failed in their obligation to effectively investigate the applicant's complaint of rape and to adopt a victim‑sensitive approach when doing so".'

#Cyprus #AyiaNapa #WeBelieveHer #Europe

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

EXCEPTIONAL TROPICAL HEAT
Thousands of records will be smashed with extreme margins next days in every corner of the tropics:South America,allover Oceania,allover tropical Africa,SE Asia and Australia
There has never been anything remotely comparable to this scale of records

This is exactly why 'choking porn' should be banned ‘I left his house the next morning, covered in bruises’.

Harms of sexual strangulation?
It's giving young women brain damage & consent does not protect you.
We need to be doing more to share the latest medical evidence & reduce the prevalence of this material in mainstream prn.
Read more ⬇️ with my comments
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/chok...

Ban pornography depicting strangulation, review urges UK ministers Independent review also calls for ban on other ‘legal but harmful’ material that is degrading, violent or misogynistic

“Pornography depicting strangulation should be made illegal along with other kinds of “legal but harmful” sexual material, according to an independent review for the UK government.”

Agreed!

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Peggie v NHS Fife: More casualties to come Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife: More casualties to come

"Requiring women to expose their naked bodies before members of the opposite sex as a condition of accessing employment is without doubt a breach of privacy, dignity, decency and human rights," says Claire Methven O'Brien www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Britain to offer EU youth mobility scheme in Brexit reset talks The ‘Australian-style’ agreement would allow tens of thousands of young EU citizens to live and work in the UK for up to three years

Britain to offer EU youth mobility scheme in Brexit reset talks 👏

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

RECORD HEAT IN THE MALDIVES
Endless record heat allover the tropics goes on:
Today 33.6C at Male Int. AP ties its hottest February day on record.

Every single tropical country has been breaking heat records in the past weeks: insane.