Australia’s largest medical research foundation has been criticised for prioritising “equality” over “merits” after cutting the University of Melbourne from future grants because the school awarded its honorary doctorates to six white men. The Snow Medical Research Foundation, which has donated over $90 million to medical research in the last two years and donated $16…

Australia’s largest medical research foundation has been criticised for prioritising “equality” over “merits” after cutting the University of Melbourne from future grants because the school awarded its honorary doctorates to six white men. The Snow Medical Research Foundation, which has donated over AU$90 million (US$65 million) to medical research in the last two years and…

Changing words like ‘women’ and ‘mothers’ to gender-inclusive terms like ‘vagina owners’ or ‘birthers’ in medical research has the potential to dehumanise women and diminish the importance of the mother-child relationship, leading researchers have said. In an opinion article officially published in the journal Frontiers in Global Women’s Health on Feb. 7, 10 women’s health…

Australian Senator Claire Chandler has criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing a trans weightlifter to compete in the female heavy-weightlifting category at the Tokyo Games. New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard, who was born male, took the spot that 18-year-old Roviel Detenamo would have won, if it wasn’t for the IOC’s trans inclusion policy, according…