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Court rejects lawsuit alleging gender bias in Title IX law
A federal court yesterday dismissed a suit claiming the Education Department discriminated against male athletes in enforcing equal opportunities for women. The decision was based on procedural issues.
The court ruled that the National Wrestling Coaches Association and other athletic groups fell far short in showing they were entitled to bring the suit over Title IX. The law, credited with spurring huge growth in girls' and women's sports, prohibits discrimination based on gender in sports or academics by a school that receives federal money.

Britain at sex disease crisis point, say MPs
Britain faces a public health emergency caused by the failure of ministers over many years to confront the issue of sexual disease, MPs say today.
The cross-party Commons health committee says in a report that it is "appalled by the crisis in sexual health".

Psychiatric Association Debates Reclassifying Pedophilia
In a step critics charge could result in decriminalizing sexual contact between adults and children, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently sponsored a symposium in which participants discussed the removal of pedophilia from an upcoming edition of the psychiatric manual of mental disorders.

Some mental health professionals attending an annual APA convention May 19 in San Francisco proposed removing several long-recognized categories of mental illness - including pedophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, transvestism, voyeurism and sadomasochism - from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

In freer Iraq, new curbs on women's wear
The only parts of Maryam Mohammed and Zeinab Sarowa visible to the world are their hands and faces. But when they come for Friday prayers at the Shiite mosque where they have worshiped all their lives, they are turned away.
The reason: though covered head to toe, they're not wearing the dark, billowing clothing the guard says is required for Muslim women during prayer.

Bill: ERs must offer rape victims contraceptive
Hospital emergency rooms, including Catholic ones, would be required to offer rape victims the ``morning after'' pill under legislation strongly opposed by abortion foes.
The bill - sparking anew the debate over when life begins - would also make it easier for all women to get emergency contraception through pharmacies without having to see a doctor first.

Genital mutilation 'still common'
A survey of university students, published in the medical journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, also revealed that three-quarters of men would prefer their wife not to be circumcised. This casts doubt on the traditional argument that circumcision increases a girl's chances of marriage.

Help for men attacked in their homes
The plight of 'battered husbands' - men attacked by violent partners - is to be officially recognised for the first time.
Men in abusive relationships are just as entitled to protection as women, the Government will announce in a major crackdown on domestic violence.
Ministers want to help lift the stigma from males afraid of being considered weak if they admit to suffering.

Boys lagging in classroom could spell significant education changes in future
While girls may have overcome the gender gap in science and math at school, recent research from around the world shows boys continue to struggle with reading and writing, raising new concerns they could find themselves lagging behind for the rest of their lives.
"In a matter of less than a decade and a half, males have gone from being a disproportionate number in universities and specialty programs to a number that's perhaps 30-plus per cent," said Paul Cappon, director general of the Council of Ministers of Education.

CDC threatens to cut funding for risque AIDS workshops
An HIV/AIDS prevention program in San Francisco is once again on the defensive from federal health officials who say some of its workshops are too sexy.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the nonprofit Stop AIDS Project Friday that its federal funding will be cut unless it stops offering classes that "encourage or promote sexual activity" in violation of federal guidelines.

Gay marriage issue splitting Canadians
The issue of gay marriage is splitting Canadians at all levels of society, leaving the federal cabinet with no national consensus on whether to appeal a ruling this week striking down Ontario's refusal to license such marriages, a new poll suggests.

Women aroused by male, female images: Study
Researchers studying female sexuality have found that women, regardless of their sexual orientation, are aroused by erotic images of both men and women, contrasting sharply with male arousal patterns.
Does this suggest women are generally bisexual?
Not necessarily so, say the scientists at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Landmark gay ruling may put Bush in bind
The Supreme Court will decide within the next two weeks one of the most important cases in the history of civil rights for lesbian and gay Americans, reigniting a battle in the Republican Party that President Bush has delicately sought to avoid.
At issue in Lawrence and Garner vs. Texas is a state sodomy law that strikes the most fundamental chords within the GOP and threatens to split two party blocs pivotal to Bush's re-election

Time For Tubby Bye Bye? Fat as a public health issue
Your weight is now a public issue. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has declared, "In the United States, obesity has risen at an epidemic rate the past twenty years." Fat is news, too. Just four years ago, between the months of October and December, there were only 50 articles in magazines and newspapers focusing on obesity as a public health issue. During the same period last year there were more than 1,200. Statistics detailing the "obesity epidemic" are flying out of universities, think tanks, and government agencies. Obesity is allegedly responsible for more than 300,000 deaths a year in the United States

Cooking Our Own Goose?
Feminism originally sprang from women's legitimate need to free our sex from gender based oppression. To the sad extent that feminism has now become a means of inhibiting men's rights and freedoms, it has become the very enemy it set out to overcome: Gender based oppression. As females or males, no doubt we all experience some form of sexual bias or outright intolerance at times. Really, it's time to stop giving the opposite gender "a taste of its own medicine"… the same sauce that's so good for the gander will be served up with the goose again eventually

13 Zero Tolerance Horror Stories
It is a common conceit of many reformers and lawmakers that the problems of society can be solved simply by passing a law--then another, and another.
The Volstead Act of 1919 is the best example of such hubris. As an anti-Prohibition verse of the 1920s put it, the eventual result of this approach is the realization, “Goodness sakes, it’s really awful--now almost everything’s unlawful!”
The same couplet could be applied to today’s Zero Tolerance laws, where the complete lack of intent to commit any offense counts for nothing.

Nursing suspicion
How would you like to work in a job where you are so mistrusted that every time you carry out a basic task someone is watching over you? Where you have to undergo a programme of 'personal reconstruction'? In case you're tempted, you also need to know that you will be paid less than factory workers at Walkers Crisps.

Women's place is on field
Football: Despite playing a man's sport in near total obscurity, Baltimore Burn players relish their full-contact, part-time job

Scandal of self-harm in women's jails
Prison bosses have sent an emergency hit squad into a Manchester prison where five women have taken their lives in recent months, amid fears of an epidemic of self-harm and attempted suicides in Britain's female jails.
Women's prisons chief Niall Clifford took the unprecedented step of sending a specialist team into Styal prison, Cheshire, where four women had died since August. The fifth woman died as it began its work this month. Clifford told The Observer that a lethal cocktail of mental illness, drug addiction and overcrowding was making women's prisons increasingly difficult to govern.

Too many women are still feeling chill of exclusion
WOMEN have been making steady progress into Europe’s boardrooms over the past 20 years. It may be too slow for some but a female chief executive is no longer likely to raise many eyebrows. Witness the rise of Carly Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard and Barbara Cassani at Go. In Scotland there is now a healthy ratio of successful women: Margaret Ford, Susan Rice, Liz McAreavey, Rita Rusk, Anne Rushforth. The list, thankfully, is getting longer, and their positions are becoming more exalted.

How to Talk to Teenage Girls About Weight? Very Carefully
If there were a Hall of Adolescence, where the struggles of teenage girls were commemorated, those words might be inscribed over the door.
Nearly every human female between the ages of 11 and 18 has uttered them, as hormones transform lines into curves and flat surfaces into soft hills.

Grand jury to investigate troubled girls prison
Low pay, high staff turnover, forced overtime and workers with no previous experience handling troubled teenagers were typical at the state's only maximum-security prison for girls, according to former employees

Girls capture positive images of life in mural
A group of girls stands in a circle, playing a clapping game. Several inches away, two people read together. Just beyond that, some more children play basketball.
These are images of the positive things in the local community, according to 30 local girls, members of "Teens Climb High," an empowerment group for middle-school girls.

Girl suspended over 'Barbie is a Lesbian' T-shirt sues
A 14-year-old suspended from school for wearing a 'Barbie is a Lesbian' T-shirt is suing education chiefs, claiming she was harassed because she is gay.
Natalie Young, from New York, alleges that she was singled out by school officials because of her sexual orientation.

More U.S. Dads Balance Laptops, Kids on Laps
Many men today are taking better care of the kids and the house. That makes them the perfect people to honor this Father's Day, a holiday which originally honored a 1920s father who ably raised six children on his own.

French Teens Demand Freedom from Violence
"Neither Bitch nor Submissive," is the slogan that French activists are using to shock the public, mobilize officials and help girls who are being killed, beaten and oppressed in massive housing projects on the outskirts of many cities.

Media Hillary Bashing Segues into Teresa Trashing
"Teresa Trashing" is taking over from "Hillary Bashing" as the media's latest display of antagonism toward an outspoken, publicly minded woman shifts to Teresa Heinz Kerry from Hillary Clinton.

All-Female Asian University Underway in Bangladesh
An all-female university is about to break ground in Bangladesh. Planners hope that after graduating with master's degrees, students will return to their own countries ready to assume positions of leadership

High Court Bars Gender Bias in Family Leaves
The Supreme Court has ruled the Family and Medical Leave Act applied to a male state worker. Women's-rights activists celebrate the decision because it said employers could not rely on gender stereotypes when permitting employees to take family leaves.

D.E.B.S. the Movie: Will the Lesbians Stay in the Picture?
Last January, Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. about four high school girls-turned-undercover agents played to great audience response at Sundance and was subsequently picked up by Sony's Screen Gems division to be made into a feature film.
Deals get cut all the time at Sundance, so what is so significant about this one? From a lesbian-visibility standpoint, a lot: one of the high school secret agents is a lesbian, the villain is a lesbian, one of the actresses in the short film is a lesbian in real life (Tammy Lynn Michaels), the short was written and directed by a lesbian (Robinson) and produced by a grant from an organization (Power UP) which promotes gay women in entertainment.

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