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Supporters of Judge Amy Coney Barrett blocked feminist protesters at the Supreme Court on Saturday as the anti-Trump activists gathered in the nation’s capital for the Women’s March.

The anti-Trump Women’s March is underway in D.C. and in cities across the nation Saturday, as self-described feminists gather to protest both President Trump and his Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

Several left-wing feminists failed to rally around Judge Amy Coney Barrett as her confirmation hearings kicked off, mocking her and belittling her status as a mother of seven children.

An Oregon State University professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has alleged that “white Christians” are to blame for West Coast wildfires because of their “denial of climate science.”

An online mob descended upon Harry Potter author JK Rowling, accusing her of being transphobic for featuring a transvestite killer in her latest novel.

The ACLU is promoting its campaign calling for the decriminalization of “sex work” in order to destigmatize it and, particularly, to provide “greater equality” for “trans women of color.”

Having previously pledged to impose a “code of conduct” on all sites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, staff have finally published a draft version of the document for review by contributors to Foundation-owned sites. Numerous provisions, including on “preferred pronoun” usage, immediately raised concerns among users about their implications for free speech with some harassment provisions also seen as potentially undermining efforts to rein in bad editing.

Thousands of women are trapped in “marital captivity” in the United Kingdom as the government has refused to make the registration of sharia marriages mandatory out of fear of appearing “Islamophobic”, a report has found.

Joe Biden claimed women “never had a fair shot” in America in a policy document titled “The Biden Agenda for Women.”

Conservative MP Ben Bradley said that he has cancelled his BBC licence in reaction to a recent podcast on “white privilege” and “Karens”, which he described as racist towards white women.

A little-noticed detail in Reddit’s official “hate speech” policy specifically exempts “people who are in the majority” — which, in the United States would include white people and women — from its protections.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, recently announced that it will impose a “universal code of conduct” on the site and others owned by the Foundation to make them “safe spaces” and improve the “diversity” of the community. The move comes a year after the Foundation took the unprecedented step of banning a veteran administrator, breaching the traditionally self-governing nature of Wikipedia’s community and sparking a revolt that ultimately saw the ban overturned.

Amazon-owned live-streaming site Twitch has reportedly appointed a transgender “deer-girl” with links to the ADL to its “Safety Advisory Council.” The streamer, known as “FerociouslySteph” on the site, argues that voice chat in video games is a tool of oppression and that “a lot of you gamers are actually white supremacists.”

The University of Portland is facing an investigation by the Department of Education over the exclusion of white students and faculty from a feminist student organization. The investigation is the result of a complaint by University of Michigan-Flint Professor Mark J. Perry who alleged that the practice constitutes a violation of Title VI, which prohibits discrimination based on race and color.

Sir. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks the web is “not working for women and girls.”

London mayor Sadiq Khan declared himself a “proud feminist” and “ally” — “unlike the President of the USA” — and claimed climate change “impacts women and girls more than anyone else”.

A group of 31 women formed a topless human chain in London to protest against allegedly man-made climate change on International Women’s Day. (Warning: explicit images.)

Chrissy Teigen says she’s raising her son, Miles, to support women and be the “ultimate feminist.”

LGBT activists forced a local council in England to take down flags bearing the dictionary definition of ‘female’ ahead of International Woman’s Day, saying the message was transphobic.

Paris — The controversial film director Roman Polanski told AFP on Thursday he will not attend the French Oscars because he fears a “public lynching” by feminist activists.

Northeastern University Professor Suzanna Danuta Walters, who is perhaps best known for her Washington Post column entitled “Why Can’t We Hate Men?” is back this week with a new column in which she claims that Senator Elizabeth Warren is the first “intersectional” candidate for president.

A lesbian YouTuber says she’s quitting the LGBT community and becoming a “conservative” because of intolerance by pro-transgender activists.

A candidate in the battle to replace Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party, Lisa Nandy, has said biological men should be allowed into all-female prisons, regardless of the crimes they have committed.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley spoke on the House floor on Wednesday in support of a bill to extend the expired deadline for states to ratify the controversial Equal Rights Amendment, claiming during her speech that women are still in “shackles” and that the Constitution is “sexist by its very design.”

Pro-transgender protesters tried and failed to block a Seattle debate by “gender critical” feminists who argue that women’s rights and status will be lost if men can switch legal sexes whenever they wish.

Fox Sports Networks would not give Faces of Choice, an abortion survivors’ group, clearance to purchase a Super Bowl ad, said Lyric Gillett.

West Point cadets attended mandatory events — framed by the military academy as educational curriculum — on “inclusion,” “diversity,” and “gender norms,” Breitbart News has learned. The programming included discussion groups led by upper-class cadets, labeled “facilitators,” making references to “toxic masculinity,” leading one cadet to comment, “I’m being taught how not to be a man.”

Evelyn Yang, wife of Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang (D), stumped for her husband at the Women’s March in New York on Saturday, declaring that he is fighting for “big structural change.”

A radical feminist group has claimed responsibility for recently vandalizing two churches in Germany and torching a pro-life journalist’s car.

In an interview that breaks every rule of the Hollywood PR handbook, iconoclastic filmmaker Terry Gilliam said that white men are unfairly blamed for everything that is wrong in the world and that the #MeToo movement has become a witch hunt as well as an excuse for some women to avoid taking responsibility for poor decisions.

Joe Biden bragged on Thursday that the same “sexism” he claimed derailed 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would not deter him from beating President Donald Trump.

Actress Jane Fonda celebrated her 82nd birthday by protesting climate change with fellow feminist activist Gloria Steinem.

Remarks by Estonia’s interior minister towards Finland’s new millennial female-led government have provoked a backlash, including a confidence vote in the Estonian parliament.

Finland’s new leftist coalition government has appointed a women-majority cabinet, with women outnumbering men nearly two-to-one.

An anti-mass migration feminist group was forcibly removed from a protest against violence towards women, claiming it was because they denounced migrant sex attackers.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is using the Thanksgiving holiday to remind voters to choose female candidates as way to transform America’s “misogynist society.”