German Gymnast Wears Full Body Suit to Competition

Women's gymnastics is sexualized. Women do not wear in practice what they are traditionally required to wear in competition, which is leotards that only cover their torsos. Men do not. 

Women's gymnastics has seen its share of sexual abuse of women athletes.

Sarah Voss wore ar full-body suit at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She was supported by her country's gymnastics federation. She is proud of her decision. "We hope gymnasts uncomfortable in the usual outfits will feel emboldened to follow our example," she said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56858863

Student Gets School District to Change Dress Policy to Gender Neutral

In a Texas district where 80% of the people identify as Republican,  Trevor Wilkinson, 17, has made a difference. The Clyde School Board has voted to change the wording of the student handbook so guidelines do not single out genders. 

Wilkinson had received an in-school suspension for his painted nails. Wilkinson started a petition for support that received over 400,000 signatures, saying that if girls are allowed to paint their nails, boys should not be reprimanded for doing the same. 

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/549627-a-gay-student-reprimanded-for-nail-polish-convinced-his?fbclid=IwAR1dt7CylijIjO3jLmSo40iVE9RCK7mAMj9_xbT6ea7c0oidewYaWbOo7MY

Disney Adds Inclusion to its Keys for Successful Employees

Disney has not added a fifth key to its Four Keys. Joining Safety, Courtesy, Show, and Efficiency is Inclusion.  

Theme park employees will be allowed to dress in a manner that better expresses their cultures and individuality. This includes allowing gender-inclusive hairstyles, jewelry, nail styles, costume choices and appropriate, visible tattoos.

https://abc7.com/disney-dress-code-look-world-disneyland/10513174/

Men's D1 NCAA Viewers Decrease, Women's Game Viewership Increases

The men's NCAA D1 basketball tournament gets the money, the promotion, the game distribution, the publicity, get to play on network television. flashier facilities and courts, and promoted as the only college game in town in March. So, of course, their following is larger than the women's tournament. The NCAA for years has worked to make sure the men are the stars, and the women are the far behind afterthought. 

This year however has brought encouraging statistics to the game of college basketball. 

ESPN said the women’s championship game on Sunday averaged 4 million viewers and is the most-watched women’s title game since 2014.

The 2021 NCAA men’s basketball championship averaged 16.9 million viewers, the least viewed title game for CBS since it started broadcasting them in 1982, although it beat ratings for the 2018 title game broadcast on Turner.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/06/ncaa-2021-final-four-championship-ratings-mens-down-14percent-womens-up.html

Evangelicals Continue Hierarchies by Denying Vaccines

Evangelicals are again acting in ways that again show they are not concerned about the good of the whole, but only in the people who believe like they do.

Some evangelicals are depicted people taking the COVID vaccines as satanic or unsafe, or are suggesting pastors taking the vaccine are complicit in government propaganda.

Recent polls have shown that Vaccine skepticism is more widespread among white evangelicals than almost any other major bloc of Americans.

In a March poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 40% of white evangelical Protestants said they likely won’t get vaccinated, compared with 25% of all Americans, 28% of white mainline Protestants and 27% of nonwhite Protestants.

https://news.yahoo.com/vaccine-skepticism-runs-deep-among-174642595.html

Fathers Have to Pay for Prenatal Care

A new state law in Utah will legally require that biological fathers pay half of women’s pregnancy expenses. Some states, such as New York and Wisconsin, have similar financial provisions for pregnancies.

The bill, signed by Gov. Spencer Cox (R) and sponsored by Rep. Brady Brammer (R), was well-received by Utah’s Republican-majority Legislature and will apply to “pregnancy-related medical costs” and health insurance premiums 

However, fathers will not have to pay for abortions, accept with rape or when the mother's life is in danger, which of course, means men aren't being totally held accountable. 

People who oppose abortion hope the law will decrease the financial burden of pregnancy. 

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/546556-new-utah-law-requires-fathers-to-pay-50-percent-of