Lady small. Man big. Ladies: small hands, small noses. Men: big hands, big noses. This is the caveman logic of Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark, who once upon a time not so very long ago thought it was a good idea release a line of “Mansize” tissues just for men.
During the first part of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s gutting testimony, she was asked about the circumstances surrounding the polygraph test she took prior to testifying. Her response was tearful but restrained; she choked her emotions back in an attempt to make the proceedings easier for everyone around her. “I…
Gender nonconforming and non-binary people born in New York City will soon be able to have birth certificates that reflect that. The New York Daily News reports that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to sign the gender maker bill into law, which passed in the City Council by a vote of 41 in favor and six…
On Wednesday the California State Legislature passed a new legislation condemning “corrective” surgeries on intersex children, becoming the first state to do so.
Here is a fun little fact to keep in mind should you ever find yourself doctor-shopping mid-cardiac-arrest: Women are less likely to survive a heart attack if they are treated by a man, according to new research.
This week, a federal judge in Oregon ruled that forcing trans students to use restrooms that don’t correspond with their gender identity violates their civil rights and contributes to their trauma.
Women at ZhenÂjiang College in China are getting lessons in how to sit, dress, and properly apply makeup—or, as the Washington Post puts it, “how to be a woman in the time of President Xi Jinping.” This new class in “feminine virtue” is a response to a broader push under Xi’s presidency toward traditional gender…
Following Oregon and California, Maine becomes the third state to offer nonbinary residents a gender-neutral driver’s license.
It takes, on average, about four to six weeks to obtain passport from the federal government. For Dana Zzyym, it has taken four years.
The University of Texas at Austin has launched a new program, dubbed MasculinUT, to help expand definitions of masculinity on campus. Part of the project has been a poster campaign featuring images of students with messages suggesting that you can cry, be queer, put on makeup, or treat women with respect and—imagine…
New York City is planning to start housing inmates according to their gender identity, reports the Observer. By early October, transgender and gender non-conforming individuals will be given “safe and gender-affirming housing options,” according to a press release. The Department of Correction (DOC) will also…
A new study affirms what many of us already know to be true: Men have an inflated sense of intelligence over women that hasn’t been earned. Researchers at Arizona State University found that gender has a massive impact on how one perceives their intelligence and their intelligence compared to others. The study focused…
If you live in New York City or Washington, D.C. and work in a certain kind of industry, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of The Wing. If you haven’t: Founded in 2016 as a private social club and co-working space for women, the company currently operates three locations, collects dues from more than 1,500 members…
A lawsuit accusing tech giant Yahoo of favoring women over men in the workplace has been dismissed.
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—The “#UsToo: Left Out by the Left”—one of the few CPAC panels dedicated to women—came near the end of the three-day conference. The conference had already thinned out, half of the press had packed up, and even Sebastian Gorka had driven away in his black Mustang covered with American flags while…
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—Everyone was confused at “How to Win Women,” a CPAC panel originally scheduled for the afternoon of February 22. It was unclear whether or not the panel, hosted by the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), was going to happen, or whether or not it had been silently abandoned. The volunteers staffing…
On Thursday, GQ published a profile entitled “What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser?” The piece is long and sad and meandering, and has a frustrating answer to its central question—which is that he never really went anywhere. Fraser has been acting consistently for the better part of three decades, and though his…
Well, it’s here: an op-ed, published by The Daily Beast, politely wondering whether Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is “too transparently opportunistic to be a viable candidate” in 2020 “after the rejection of another New York politician criticized for basing her positions on supposedly canny calculations rather than on…
