Zahra Lari, a 19 year old woman from the UAE, is the first person to ever represent the UAE in an international figure skating competition. She is also the first international competitor to do so while wearing the hijab.
“Some people are saying ‘Why is she doing that? A girl shouldn’t be doing that, a girl should stay at home’ and all that kind of thing. I don’t listen to that. A girl doesn’t have to stay at home and do nothing.”
Bree Newsome takes down the Confederate flag in Charleston, South Carolina, with the help of James Tyson.
AWESOME!!!
Trans Win Right to Self-Identify in Ireland
Transgender adults in Ireland will no longer need to find a psychiatrist or endocrinologist to testify on their behalf before seeing their gender legally recognized, reports The Journal. Instead, a transgender Irish citizen can simply self-declare their identity to update a passport, change the gender marker on a driver’s license, obtain a new birth certificate, or get married.
The upside of getting this “marriage equality” thing out of the way is that it makes legal gender changes a heck of a lot less complicated:
The government has also dropped another questionable element of the bill that would have forced trans people who are already married to get divorced in order to have their gender marker changed and for their transition to be officially recognized by the government.
Huge wins for equality in Ireland this month!
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You Don’t Say: Media Double Standards
About Black Protesters
“Wild animals burning buildings down”
“Who acts that way towards a police officer?”
About White Looters
“Young people danced on a flipped over car”
“It’s so tough to lose and unfortunately the ugly side that we sometimes see in sports”