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Are trans women dominating Women’s sports leagues?

Earlier this year 18-time Grand Slam tennis champion Martina Navratilova divided many in women’s sports by suggesting that trans women participating in men’s sports were effectively ‘cheating’.

VIDEO: International Women’s Day… who’s your most inspirational female?

Today is International Women’s Day and to celebrate, MM took to the streets of Manchester to find out which women inspire them the most.

Everyone thinks I’m a woman! Brave Manchester model abused on Grindr and turned away from Canal Street bars

A male Manchester model, who has suffered a life of alienation and been the victim of abuse on Grindr, is accusing Canal Street bars of discrimination

‘Orthodox priests’ strike a pose for NSFW homoerotic calendar to fight Russia’s oppression of LGBT people

A homoerotic calendar is arousing the intrigue of people across the globe thanks to the stunning photography of muscular, almost naked models wearing symbols of the Orthodox religion – including one who looks an awful lot like a certain Russian ruler.

MM’s top five…. ways Disney ruined my life (and probably yours too)

Here are five ways – beyond the usual ‘it ruined my body confidence’ although it probably did – those ‘tales as old as time’ have tarnished my existence

‘We can’t neglect half world’s brains’: Manchester lead fight for gender equity in sciences

Figures in a recent Sunday Times report revealed that, for a professorship in science, women get paid an average of £5,000 less than men – the figure rising to as much as £21,000 in some institutions.

The murder project: Married Manchester Uni professors explore how gender, sex and age impact Britain’s killers

The most in-depth and comprehensive study of murder in Britain has been completed by a husband and wife team and is the subject of a new book entitled When Men Murder Women, published by Oxford University Press.

‘We gained a place in society’: Ten years since trans people won right to change legal gender

Ten years to the day since trans people were given the right to change their legal gender, MM caught up with Christine Burns MBE on how she managed to push through the pivotal bill.

Gender inequality is our ‘apartheid’, human rights campaigner tells Manchester

A shocked Manchester University audience were told last week that gender inequality ‘is apartheid’, with human rights figurehead Shami Chakrabarti calling it ‘the greatest and most entrenched’ human rights issue facing the world today.

GCSEs make teens feel stupid even when they’re NOT, says Manchester education boss

As the GCSE results gender gap widens, a Manchester education boss is claiming the exams don’t just make boys feel stupid but girls too ‘even when they’re not’.

Does The Sun’s Page 3 exploit or empower women? Manchester’s verdict

This morning’s mischievous revelation by The Sun that they will continue to publish photographs of topless women on their notorious Page Three has sparked anger among campaigners, who were – just hours ago – celebrating a victory for the No More Page Three campaign.

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