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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden called for an end to discrimination Thursday after an autopsy found a nonbinary teenager died by suicide a day after clashing with three other students. The case of Nex Benedict, 16, from Oklahoma, had drawn widespread outrage and calls for change in the way trans and nonbinary people are treated. "Nex Benedict, a kid who just wanted to be accepted, should still be here with us today," Biden said in a statement, adding that he and First Lady Jill Biden were "heartbroken" by the teen's death on February 8. "Nonbinary and transgender people are some of t...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The share of Hollywood films with women in the lead role fell last year, new research showed Thursday, despite standout successes like "Barbie." In the year that the feminist blockbuster starring Margot Robbie blew its competitors away at the box office, just a third of movies had a woman at the top of the bill, according to the Hollywood Diversity Report. Greta Gerwig's fun-packed feminist satire, which took more than $1.4 billion at the global box office, also garnered eight nominations for this weekend's Oscars, including best picture. "Even as 'Barbie' broke box office ...
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New York (AFP) - One by one, a line of young African American and biracial women dressed in ball gowns took to the ice in New York's Central Park to the soundtracks of "Barbie" and "Wonder Woman." "Figure Skating in Harlem" (FSH) was staging its annual winter show before a delighted audience under a bright moon, its light reflecting off the glistening rink. Most of the 300 students who participate in FSH's programs every year live in Harlem or the Bronx. They are among the poorest corners of New York, a city of 8.5 million riven by inequality despite being an economic engine of the United Sta...
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New York (AFP) - A lengthy essay speculating over superstar Taylor Swift's sexuality has triggered anger online, with some social media users calling for its retraction. The 5,000-word guest column published in the paper's opinion pages suggests the wildly popular singer is sending veiled signals to her fans that she is queer, despite identifying publicly as straight. Neither The Times nor Swift's representatives immediately responded to an AFP request for comment over the piece or the backlash. Speaking anonymously to CNN, a person in Swift's camp called the column "invasive, untrue, and inap...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Dozens of Jewish women and their supporters marched in front of UN headquarters Monday to highlight the brutal October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas which saw dozens of women and children taken hostage. Chanting "shame on UN", demonstrators sported banners reading "rape is rape", while speakers attacked the UN for inaction over the mistreatment of Israeli women. "I call it the 'United Nothing'... why do we have to be here to tell the UN to protect people?" said demonstrator Hillary Larson, 64, a pediatric nurse from New York. "First they should condemn (Ha...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Twitter's head of trust and safety on Friday confirmed she had quit the company, her departure coming after owner Elon Musk endorsed an anti-transgender video shared on the platform. "I know there's been a lot of speculation regarding what happened," read a post on Ella Irwin's Twitter account late Friday, a day after her resignation was reported in US media. "I did resign but this has been a once in a lifetime experience," she added, without revealing any reason for suddenly leaving her job at Twitter. Irwin is the second head of trust and safety to quit Twitter since ec...
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New York (AFP) - The first Harry Potter television series is set to be made, with author JK Rowling acting as an executive producer, Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Wednesday. Rowling has recently faced accusations of transphobia for putting an emphasis on biological sex over gender identity in comments about trans women. She denies the accusation. Warner Bros. Discovery said the series will be "a faithful adaptation" of Rowling's mega-selling books about the boy wizard and will air on the entertainment company's rebranded streaming service Max. The announcement confirms recent speculation...
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Washington (AFP) - Deadly mass shootings in the United States have fueled a torrent of online disinformation targeting an unlikely group: transgender people. Before police identified the gunman who killed five people Monday at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, users on the fringe internet forum 4chan speculated that the shooter was transgender. Once Connor Sturgeon was named, right-wing commentators such as former Donald Trump aide Sebastian Gorka shared screenshots of the suspect's LinkedIn page, pointing out that it included his pronouns. The narrative is the latest to fuel anti-LGBTQ disinfor...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US government proposal which would prevent schools from implementing blanket bans on transgender students participating in sports matching their gender identity has triggered a furious backlash from both conservative politicians and trans rights activists. The Department of Education unveiled a proposal last Thursday which aims to provide clarity on the issue of transgender athletes competing in school and college sports across the United States. The department said in its proposal that outright bans of transgender athletes would violate Title IX, the landmark civil right...
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Washington (AFP) - Leo is 14 years old and has been taking testosterone for about six months. "It definitely helps me. It makes me feel more confident," the teenager from rural Pennsylvania told AFP. "I feel more in tune with my gender identity." Leo is worried, however, about laws adopted in a number of conservative US states that ban hormone treatments for minors like him, who do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. "I just want to be able to take my shot every week," Leo said, adding that he feels "less depressed" thanks to the testosterone that blocks his menstrual per...
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