Transgender rights activists demonstrate outside the Victorian parliament in 2022.

Police invoke powers to unmask disruptors as women’s rights rally returns to scene of neo-Nazi stunt

Tough search-and-arrest powers will be in force on Saturday around state parliament,where trans-rights activists plan to disrupt a women’s rights rally which last year was crashed by right-wing extremists.

  • Chip Le Grand

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The political fight for female votes comes as women shift away from the Coalition in opinion polling.

Labor drums up fight for female vote as Dutton prepares his pitch

Labor has sharpened its attack on gender issues and released new domestic violence policies,a day after Dutton said he was preparing to unveil his own.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Ella Rich.

Ella was locked in a psych ward at 19 weeks pregnant,but doctors had misdiagnosed her

The pregnant mother of two just wanted some relief for severe nausea. She was in disbelief when she was later admitted to a mental health unit.

  • Kate Aubusson
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A woman thought she had a stalker. Authorities sent her to a psych ward

This masthead has uncovered a series of disturbing cases where women say they have been disbelieved,misdiagnosed,and wrongly admitted to mental health wards. Others have been told their pain is “all in their head”.

  • Aisha Dow andKate Aubusson
Art by Monique Westermann.

The $8.5 billion health pledge doctors say will disadvantage women

Longer consults already attract a smaller rate of funding per minute than shorter consults. The gap is set to widen despite additional funding.

  • Aisha Dow andKate Aubusson
Jenny Piper has been told she has just months to live.

‘Never taken seriously’:Jenny says doctors dismissed her concerns for years. Now she’s dying

More than 1800 women told us their stories of medical misogyny. Today we begin sharing those stories and building the case for change.

  • Kate Aubusson,Aisha Dow andEmily Kaine
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Gender roles.

Australian Gen Z men more conservative than forebears

Those aged 15 to 24 are more likely to embrace traditional gender roles than Millennials or Gen X.

  • Millie Muroi
Celebrations outside London’s Supreme Court following its unanimous ruling that “the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.

Trans women not legally women,UK’s highest court rules

The unanimous decision – hailed by gender-critical campaigners but condemned by trans rights advocates – could have implications in healthcare,education and sport.

  • Rob Harris
Peter Dutton and Donald Trump have both run unapologetic “anti-woke” campaigns.

The problem with going after ‘woke’ diversity? It’s actually good for us

The kindest thing that can be said about dismantling diversity programs is that it’s retrograde. And by retrograde,I’m not just referring to a Happy Days self-image of society.

  • Sonia Orchard
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with the former Liberal candidate for Whitlam,Benjamin Britton,in January.

Dutton vows to support women in combat after dumped candidate goes on attack

Former Liberal candidate Benjamin Britton claimed the party’s defence spokesman Andrew Hastie shared his view that women should not be in combat units.

  • Olivia Ireland,Natassia Chrysanthos andMatthew Knott