Category: Inequity

UPDATED: HS Volleyball Player injured by Transgender Competitor in North Carolina

During a girls’ tournament last month, a Highlands High volleyball player pelted a Hiwassee Dam High player in the forehead with the ball during a return.

The Hiwassee Dam player, a biological girl, suffered severe head and neck injuries, resulting in long-term concussion symptoms, including vision problems. The girl has still not yet been cleared to play again by her primary care physician or a neurologist.

With a 5-1 vote, the Cherokee County Board of Education declared the event a “safety issue” and canceled all remaining games against Highlands High.

The perspective of a longtime coach swayed Cherokee Board Member Joe Wood:

“I’ll never put a child in a position to be seriously injured,” Wood said.

“I think the odds (of injury) in these non-contact sports aren’t high. But in particular, in this meeting, a coach of 40 years said they’d never seen a hit like this. That was really what sealed the decision, at least on my part.”

Biological boys playing against girls on the volleyball team is dangerous and unfair, as these Cherokee Board Members correctly pointed out. This fact is supported by studies (and common sense).

The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research also confirmed male dominance in the sport. The jump height and explosive power of males are significantly higher than those of females, according to scientists.

Source: UPDATED: HS Volleyball Player injured by Transgender Competitor in North Carolina

Federal government to extend paid parental leave to six months

The federal government will boost paid parental leave for families by an additional six weeks, taking it to a total of six months.

Source: Federal government to extend paid parental leave to six months

EXCLUSIVE: Girl track stars take Connecticut to court over biological males in their sport | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Opening arguments began on Thursday in the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit case of Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools. This after the case was dismissed by a federal judge in 2021, but attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom, representing the young women, are determined to pursue fairness and seek justice for the student athletes under Title IX.

It’s clear which side of the divide the Biden administration is on, which is that gender identity should supercede considerations for biological sex in law, culture, and society. “The Biden administration has its head in the sand and is not paying attention to the real world impact of gender identity policies and how devastating they are for female athletes,” ADF Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer told The Post Millennial.

The two biological males who were permitted to compete against women, Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, began their pursuit of women’s titles and records in 2017-18. Yearwood and Miller were applauded for their bravery while female high school athletes were relegated to the sidelines.

In that case, Judge Robert N. Chatigny demanded that the Alliance Defending Freedom attorney who were representing the women refer to the two biological males as “transgender females,” stating that “referring to these ­individuals as ‘transgender ­females’ is consistent with science, common practice and perhaps human decency.”

“If a judge dictates what words parties have to use,” ADF attorneys said at the time “it can bias the case. It is essential that every litigant be able to present their case to an impartial court in the way that they believe is the most accurate and true to the facts. We’ve explained in our brief how the judge’s order prevents us from doing that for our clients.”

Source: EXCLUSIVE: Girl track stars take Connecticut to court over biological males in their sport | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Banks with more female directors lend less to big polluters, new study finds

Banks with more women in their boardrooms lend less to big polluting companies, according to new research by the European Central Bank.

“Female corporate directors and women in general are more likely to care about long-term societal issues, including climate change.”

The study is a world first, regarding the influences of gender on boardroom banks’ capability to “green” the economy, leading to evidence that a greater female representation in the boardroom contributes to advancing the fight against climate change.

The study also found that the “green” effect of female board members is stronger in countries with more female climate-oriented politicians.

Exploring the potential influence of women in the boardroom on banks’ lending strategies is a critical step towards fighting climate change. The study noted several other previous studies which found that women were more community-minded, altruistic and caring than men.

Female directors have a stronger orientation toward corporate social responsibility (CSR), compared to male directors who tend to be more focused on economic performance.

Source: Banks with more female directors lend less to big polluters, new study finds

Steve Price and the men who feel threatened by a status quo shift in sport

Steve Price has doubled down on comments made in an opinion piece in which he described the AFLW as “substandard” and “not elite sport”.

Price’s sole MO in raising this issue was not to provide constructive feedback to the AFLW, but to tear down a league which is working fearlessly to grow. The AFLW has already shifted the status quo in sport and enabled young female athletes a new outlook on their lives and careers.

In just five years, the AFLW has hit some momentous milestones including record crowds and sellouts. Only two months ago, the season’s first round clash between traditional rivals Essendon and Hawthorn had to be moved to Marvel Stadium after tickets for a smaller venue sold out within a day.

In just five years the AFLW has spurred a huge increase in the number of women and girls playing the game. 7.3 million Australians now express interest in the women’s competition and there are 2,540 girls’ and women’s community football teams scattered around the nation.

In just five years, the AFLW has risen to become the single biggest employer of professional sports for women in Australia with 420 players. A pay rise of an average of 94 percent across all four payment tiers was secured this year, enabling some players to focus solely on football and not supplementary careers.

Source: Steve Price and the men who feel threatened by a status quo shift in sport

Julia Gillard’s unbridled support of women is not without its black marks

Terese Edwards missed Julia Gillard’s famous misogyny speech. She was at Parliament House on October 9, 2012, but she was outside, on the parliament’s lawns, protesting against changes to the single-parenting payment passed into law that day by Gillard’s Labor government.

Edwards, the chief executive of the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children, says those changes plunged tens of thousands of single mothers into poverty, and their effects are still being felt a decade later.

October 9 marks the speech’s 10th anniversary.

“I wanted to clap and cheer and be part of that empowerment, but I couldn’t,” Edwards says.

“I was an inconvenient reality because I was saying: ‘This is not OK from our first female PM’.”

The Gillard government amendments, passed quietly into law that historic afternoon, pushed more than 80,000 single parents off the parenting payment and onto the lower Newstart payment, leaving some up to $110 a week worse off.

It saved $728 million over four years, and a 2020 Parliamentary Budget Office analysis found the Howard and Gillard changes combined had saved taxpayers $5 billion.

Parents on the single parenting payment were already required to look for work, and to accept part-time employment if their youngest child was six years or over.

“It had absolutely nothing to do with assisting or requiring those parents to take up part-time employment,” he says.

“It was an appalling policy. It was a cost-saving at the expense of families and children in the deepest poverty.”

The Poverty in Australia report 2018, conducted by ACOSS and the University of NSW, charted the impact of the policy, with the data showing a “sharp rise in poverty among households with sole parents who were unemployed, from 35 per cent in 2013 to 59 per cent in 2015”.

Anthony Albanese, Bill Shorten and Jenny Macklin, who was the community services minister when the cuts were made, later disowned the policy and said it should never have been implemented.

Source: Julia Gillard’s unbridled support of women is not without its black marks

Homelessness Victoria: Vulnerable women and children waiting longer than ever for housing

Vulnerable women and children fleeing family violence are finding it harder than ever to find long-term housing, while survivors in acute danger are waiting almost 18 months to get priority access to public housing.

Source: Homelessness Victoria: Vulnerable women and children waiting longer than ever for housing

Indigenous deaths in custody: NSW coroner says more must be done

The state’s top coroner says the continued rate of Indigenous deaths in custody is unacceptable and more must be done to prevent incarceration after the highest-ever number of First Nations people died in NSW prisons and police operations last year.

Sixteen Indigenous people died in custody in 2021 – double the previous record in NSW, which was eight deaths in 1998. It marked the highest number of First Nations deaths recorded in both correctional centres (eight deaths) and police operations (seven deaths) in a single year since records began in 1995. One person died in an inpatient facility.

Aboriginal people represented 37.2 per cent of deaths in custody and police operations in NSW – more than 10 times the proportion of Aboriginal people in the state.

Asked whether the court had been able to achieve the changes O’Sullivan desired when she took on the role, the coroner said: “To reduce the number of First Nations deaths in custody, there needs to be a reduction in the number of First Nations people in custody and coming into contact with the criminal justice system.”

But the latest data from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research showed the Aboriginal population in prisons had grown, despite the overall prison population declining based on 2019 numbers.

The bureau’s report on the June quarter, published last month, also showed an increase in Indigenous people’s over-representation: Aboriginal men accounted for 28 per cent of the male prison population and Aboriginal women comprised 40 per cent of the female prison population.

Source: Indigenous deaths in custody: NSW coroner says more must be done

Iran restricts social media as hijab protests widen

Seven people have been killed as violent protests erupt across Iran after the death of a woman detained for failing to wear her hijab properly.

Iranian authorities restricted access to social media such as WhatsApp and Instagram on Thursday, the fifth day of widespread protests at the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan who died last week after being arrested in Tehran for “unsuitable attire”.

Ms Amini was reportedly detained by morality police because some of her hair was showing from her loosely-styled hijab.

After being taken to a detention centre, Ms Amini was reportedly brutally beaten by officers, and sustained serious head injuries.

She spent three days in a coma before dying in a Tehran hospital on September 16.

Ms Amini’s death has unleashed anger over repressive conditions in the Islamic Republic, and an economy reeling from sanctions.

Women have waved and burnt their veils during protests, with some cutting their hair in public.

Since the country’s Islamic revolution in 1978, Iran’s laws state women above the age of nine must wear hijabs that cover their head, neck and hair, and cover their bodies in loose-fitting clothing.

This applies to all women who visit the country, regardless of nationality or religion.

Official punishments for failing the veiling laws can include arrest, a prison sentence, flogging or a fine, and Iran’s morality police have been known to enforce the rules with further physical violence.

The Iranian government expressed its intent to further crack down on the veiling laws earlier this month.

Videos showed women shouting “death to the dictator”, in reference to the nation’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

 

Source: Iran restricts social media as hijab protests widen

JAPAN: Gender Counselors Hired to Convince Female Students to Accept Trans-Identified Males – Reduxx

Female students at a women’s university in Japan are being asked to speak with “gender-specialist counselors” in order to convince them that men who identify as transgender are “female.”

Japan Women’s University (JWU) recently announced it would be adopting a self-identification policy that would allow men to apply for admission so long as they stated they were female. The policy will be implemented at the start of 2024, despite half of the female students currently enrolled expressing opposition or hesitation, as reported by the Asahi Shimbun.

Dr. Caroline Norma, who lectures in the Master of Translating and Interpreting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, spoke with Reduxx about the growing impact gender ideology is having on Japanese women’s already precarious situation.

Having written extensively on the issues impacting Japanese women, Dr. Norma said that recent efforts to coerce female students to accept trans-identified men in universities exemplify how the system has become “infected with gender identity propaganda from the West.” She specifically pointed to the humanities departments and the NGO sector as examples.

Commenting on the deliberate denial of females into mixed-sex universities, Dr. Norma highlighted how profitable the medical industry is, and how women in Japan “are systematically shut out of opportunities” to earn an independent income.

“Japanese women are forced to fight things like negative quotas operating for gender identity and male advancement in the absence of liberal values of women’s rights. Only 25% of Japan’s doctors are female, even though the medical system is filled with old female patients,” she says. “Birthing women are rarely given pain relief, and spycam incidents involving male doctors arise regularly in the news. But none of this is seen as reason to improve chances for women, and no particular nationwide policies are in place to reverse the situation of women in Japan.”

International rankings, including those from the World Economic Forum, consistently place Japan as one of the most unequal countries in the developed world in terms of political representation and economic opportunities for women.

Source: JAPAN: Gender Counselors Hired to Convince Female Students to Accept Trans-Identified Males – Reduxx