Round-Up: Mar. 24, 2015

• Ontario NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo has tabled a private member’s bill to ban conversion therapy for LGBT people in Ontario, and the discussion is prompting Toronto’s Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH) to review how it’s treating trans youth (Metro).
• Cindy Gladue was a 34-year-old aboriginal mother and sex worker who was brutally murdered by a john. Naomi at kwetoday has a powerful piece about why we need to be outraged about the attacker’s acquittal and the colonial system that allows this kind of violence to continue.
• Cheryl Chastine, an American physician who provides abortions, makes a persuasive argument for why we need to use trans-inclusive language when talking about abortion rights, and how de-centering biology in the discussion can help cisgender women too (RH Reality Check).
• As we near the end of Women’s History Month, Ms. profiles 10 badass Sikh women in history.
• Writer Hilary Beard shares what she learned about gender, race and sport from working with Little League superstar Mo’ne Davis on her autobiography (The Root).
• Alex Bozikovic at the Globe and Mail does a great job breaking down the bizarre politics behind Ottawa’s planned Memorial to the Victims of Communism.
• El Gibbs writes on the social model of disability and how the online world still needs to do a lot more in terms of accessibility (Model View Culture).
• Monica Lewinsky is back in the public eye on her own terms, speaking out against slut-shaming and cyberbullying (New York Times).