Can trans women and biological women share an identity? This case may provide an answer
Opinion
Gender

Can trans women and biological women share an identity? This case may provide an answer

Identity is fundamental to what it is to be human. The Tickle v Giggle case is exploring whether a trans woman can occupy the same space as someone born female.

  • byParnell Palme McGuinness

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Eight women,one man:Casual encounters and the murky issue of consent
Analysis
Law

Eight women,one man:Casual encounters and the murky issue of consent

Eleven charges of rape and sexual assault over a 4½-year period and at the heart of every one,the looming question;did the women involved consent to those encounters?

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Sex is back for the Olympics in the city of love

Sex is back for the Olympics in the city of love

After intimacy was banned during the COVID-affected Tokyo Olympics,organisers in Paris will provide 300,000 condoms in the athletes’ village.

  • byBillie Eder
What this woman went through at 16 was awful. Now it’s an award-winning film

What this woman went through at 16 was awful. Now it’s an award-winning film

Molly Manning Walker’s new film How To Have Sex sprang from a single memory from her years clubbing in the Mediterranean.

  • byKarl Quinn
Magic mushrooms ‘can improve sex lives in struggling relationships’,study finds

Magic mushrooms ‘can improve sex lives in struggling relationships’,study finds

Magic mushrooms,LSD and other psychedelic drugs increase sexual function and may be able to save struggling relationships,a new study suggests.

  • byJoe Pinkstone
A MAFS bride broke the toilet taboo,and women everywhere nodded

A MAFS bride broke the toilet taboo,and women everywhere nodded

There is something inherently and devastatingly unsexy about shared bathrooms. It took a reality TV show to get me to confront my hang-up.

  • byKate Halfpenny
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Schoolgirls endure sexual harassment that no employer would tolerate

Schoolgirls endure sexual harassment that no employer would tolerate

The accounts of sexual harassment and abuse at schools are truly shocking. Sometimes,the way schools deal with it is the problem. Sometimes,it’s parents.

  • byJordan Baker
I didn’t recognise my boss’ sexual harassment. Years later a phone call brought clarity

I didn’t recognise my boss’ sexual harassment. Years later a phone call brought clarity

Too often,women fail to recognise and report their own violations,opting instead to bear the brunt and simply cope.

  • byHannah Ferguson
Getting the pill just got easier for women in NSW

Getting the pill just got easier for women in NSW

Ella Hall has applauded the move to give pharmacists the power to prescribe the contraceptive pill,saying it was a big cost saving for women.

  • byLaura Banks
For Gen Z and Millennials,sex isn’t what it used to be

For Gen Z and Millennials,sex isn’t what it used to be

The definition of sex is changing. But what do our new attitudes tell us about the value we place on intimacy?

  • byKatrina Marson
Why couples should split the bill on the pill

Why couples should split the bill on the pill

There are all kinds of jobs involved in heterosexual sex,but it’s women who have long been tasked with outlaying the time and money to facilitate baby-free bangs.

  • byHannah Vanderheide