A woman in Brazil is currently under police investigation for “transphobia” after she posted a joke online about archaeologists being able to discern a person’s sex by observing differences in bone structure. Speaking at a women’s rights protest in Rio de Janeiro in April, Karen Mizuno revealed that she was notified by police that she was facing possible criminal charges because she had mocked a trans activist who had stated that “archaeologists are transphobic.”

Mizuno explained that her ordeal began after an article was circulated about Lucy, a well-known fossil of a female human ancestor which dates back approximately 3.2 million years.

“The situation was, there was an article going around about the bones belonging to the fossil of Lucy, and how the archaeologists found out that she was a woman, because of the pelvic bone,” Mizuno said. “Trans activists were saying that attesting that Lucy was a woman, because of her female pelvic bone, was transphobia. In other words, they said she could be a trans man. They really think that someone who lived three million years ago had a ‘gender identity.’ It’s an unreasonable argument, an anachronism.”

This is one of the stories of persecution shared at @StandingforXX in Rio. Karen (@lesbianheresy) is being investigated by the police because one of her tweet was shared by Isabella Cepa, who faces possible arrest for "transphobia" here in Brazil. Karen's tweet simply made a joke… pic.twitter.com/cPeGfOJjU0

— MATRIA (Brasil) (@MATRIAoficial) April 5, 2025

She continued: “I took screen shots of the tweet with these accusations of alleged ‘transphobia’ by the archaeologists, which said exactly the following: ‘This tweet reminds me of something I never see people talking about. Archaeologists are indeed transphobic. That so-called Lucy, for example, are they inferring she was a woman based on the bones alone? Does that mean that if I die, in 500 or 5000 years someone might disrespect my gender because of that?”

Mizuno took a screen shot of the comment and posted it with her own commentary, writing: “With each passing day, human extinction ceases to become a fear and becomes something to hope for.” Mizuno explains that it was intended to be a light-hearted joke.

“I said nothing about ‘trans,’ there was no hateful speech, I only suggested that the question in the post was ridiculous, and clamored for the extinction of the planet.”

Mizuno told Reduxx that months later, two police officers came to her home to notify her that a criminal investigation had been opened into her comments.

“I was notified on November 19, 2024. The police came to my house but I wasn’t at home. They told my mother if I didn’t go to the police station on the scheduled date they would arrest me,” she said. “In other words, I could literally be arrested for agreeing with the archaeologists that a 3 million year-old fossil, which had a female pelvis, had been a woman.”

Mizuno explains that police first became aware of her while they were probing the social media of Isabela Cêpa, another women’s rights activist who they were similarly investigating for criminal “transphobia.” As previously reported by Reduxx, Cêpa has been threatened with up to 25 years in prison for “misgendering” a transgender politician named Erika Hilton.

Hilton was elected to São Paolo’s municipal government in November of 2020, winning his seat by a landslide that gave him the title of the most voted-for ‘woman’ in Brazil.

At the time of his victory, Hilton was celebrated in international media as being a “symbolic triumph” for transgender people. Hilton was amongst the top 10 most-voted for candidates in all of Brazil, and was touted as the “only woman” to make the list. Hilton filed a criminal complaint against Cêpa after she referred to him as a “man” on social media, noting that the “most voted for woman in Brazil is a man.”

Cêpa has been under criminal investigation for years, and her social media is reportedly combed by authorities regularly as they gather “evidence” of her transphobic views.

After Cêpa shared Mizuno’s archeology joke, police decided to place her under investigation for transphobia as well.

The criminal complaint against Mizuno mentions Cêpa by name, and indicates that the complaint against Mizuno was lodged after law enforcement conducted an “investigation” into posts from other accounts shared by Cêpa.

“The owner of the Twitter account ISA @afeminisa, identified as Isabel Alves Cêpa, had made a transphobic post related to councilwoman Erika Hilton,” the criminal complaint states.

“After the conclusion of the investigations, the Prosecutor’s Office carried out research on this account, observing that Isabela had republished posts shared from third parties, also transphobic, denying transgender women their gender identity.”

EXCLUSIVE:

A Brazilian feminist is facing up to 25 years in prison after being charged for calling a transgender politician a "man."

Isabela Cêpa currently has no formal copy of the charges being laid against her.https://t.co/vquJ0G4oqb

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) June 24, 2022

Mizuno’s legal defense is herself a former member of PSOL who was expelled from her role as a co-deputy for the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo on the basis of “transphobia.” Attorney Raquel Marques was expelled from PSOL in 2021 after she made a social media post which was intended to call attention to the rights of children and youth who were being denied an education during COVID-19 pandemic policies.

“I hope one day the disrespect for the rights of children and adolescents will generate the same outrage in the minds of the left that transphobia causes,” Marques wrote.

On February 2, 2021, Marques shared the news of her suspension from PSOL along with her feelings of shock and betrayal. “The shocking justification was two posts where I defended the importance of children and adolescents’ rights and their meaning was distorted to accuse me, an LGBTQ+ woman, of transphobia. Defending children’s rights is a capital crime, as you can see.”

Speaking to Reduxx, Mizuno explains that all of Brazil is facing a “very difficult situation” with respect to its embrace of gender ideology and gender self-identification. Despite being a very conservative country, Brazil has some of the most extensive laws against transphobia in the world. In 2019, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court ruled that discrimination against ‘LGBTQ Community’ constituted a penal offense, but fell under existing race-based protections as a form of “social racism.”

“The actual government and the left here is sponsored by some international NGOs that imposes their demands, ones that are not accepted by the people and only serve to divide and conquer. But now that the US Government has changed and USAID has stopped, the ‘activists’ here who were sponsored by them are desperate,” Mizuno explains.

“I’m associated with MATRIA, which is an organization of women who are critical of the gender self-identification laws,” she says. “We are trying to resist [gender ideology] and have had some victories in favor of child safeguarding, like the ban on puberty blockers on kids. The Federal Council of Medicine also raised the minimum age for prescribing cross-sex hormones to 18, and have now banned transgender surgeries that would cause sterilization until 21. But trans activists are mad and organizing marches to try to pressure the government to reverse these changes.”

If Mizuno is found guilty of the crime of “transphobia,” she could face a prison sentence of up to 3 years.

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CONTENT NOTICE: This article contains graphic references to the forced prostitution and sexual abuse of children, as detailed in court proceedings. Reader discretion is advised.

In a shocking conclusion to one of Germany’s most depraved child abuse cases, a Munich court has handed down the sentences for a millionaire pedophile and his transgender accomplice who were involved in the depraved sexual abuse and trafficking of prepubescent girls.

A Munich court has ruled that 81-year-old millionaire Helmut Reiner Dorsch must serve 4 years and 4 months in prison for his role in the crime, while his transgender assistant, known only as Arbend S., will serve 5 years and 6 months for his role.

Reduxx can now exclusively reveal that Arbend, a 31-year-old male who identifies as a “trans woman,” received particular leniency in his sentencing due to his self-declared transgender status, with the court citing his “heightened prison sensitivity” as a mitigating factor. 

The trial, which began in September of 2024 and spanned 46 days, exposed a sickening collaboration between Dorsch, a multi-millionaire, and Arbend, who procured young girls for Dorsch to abuse at his villa in Pullach, Munich. As previously reported by Reduxx, Dorsch had a preference for girls “as small and slim as possible,” often under 8 years old. He paid thousands of euros for them to be delivered to his mansion so that he could rape them.

Presiding judge Matthias Braumandl described the two as “symbiotically intertwined,” noting that Dorsch viewed children as “mere sexual objects” and displayed a “life-dominating obsession” with pedophilia. But Dorsch depended on Arbend to access his victims, who reportedly had a “remarkable ability” to gain children’s trust and lure them to Dorsch, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung.  

The court established that Dorsch and Arbend met in 2018 through an online platform, where Dorsch paid Arbend for sexual services and repeatedly asked Arbend to procure children for abuse in exchange for thousands of euros. Arbend complied, and personally delivered children to Dorsch’s villa. 

According to the public prosecutor’s office, Dorsch is said to have first sought out vulnerable mothers on the internet between 2005 and 2017 in order to coerce them into prostitution and making their daughters available for sexual abuse in exchange for money.

According to the Rheinische Post, at least two women handed their children over to him and were even present during the rape. In one of the sickening incidents, a 12-year-old girl was forced to call Dorsch “daddy” while he sexually abused her.

During another occasion, Arbend invited a friend with a 5-year-old daughter to Munich for a spa day, offering to watch the child while the unsuspecting mother enjoyed wellness treatments he had organized. While she was at the spa, Arbend took the girl to Dorsch’s estate. At the villa, Dorsch undressed the child, leaving her naked to walk around and then forced her to sit on his lap to abuse her. Dorsch paid Arbend €1,800 for this act. On another occasion, Arbend is said to have arranged for Dorsch to rape his 7-year-old cousin.

Arbend subsequently demanded more money from Dorsch, secretly recording him abusing children to use the footage as leverage in financial demands. By threatening to release the videos, he extorted an additional €200,000 from Dorsch.

The pair also planned a large-scale “child abuse program,” using drastic language about how they could rape six children at the same time and discussing details such as food provisions for their captive victims. Braumandl noted that this “orgy,” as the pair called it, was meticulously planned but fortunately never executed.

Arbend and Dorsch were taken into custody in June of 2023 after authorities began investigating Arbend’s online activity. A raid on Dorsch’s villa uncovered hundreds of child abuse recordings, including images of infants, while Arbend was found to have created child pornography by altering adult content.

Dorsch also contacted a woman through the online platform “mysugardaddy,” instructing her to visit his home dressed in childlike clothing and to role-play as his 8-year-old daughter. During the encounter, he showed her child pornography, played recordings of his own acts of child abuse, and attempted to pressure her into procuring children for him, offering payment. She refused and left.

On May 6, 2025, the 20th Criminal Chamber of Munich Regional Court I delivered its verdict. Dorsch was convicted of severe sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography, and planning sexual abuse of children, receiving 4 years and 4 months in prison. The court also considered Dorsch’s prior conviction for possessing child pornography, which resulted in a fine but did not deter his actions, a point Braumandl criticized for lacking sufficient investigative rigor, according to the press release from Munich Higher Regional Court. 

Arbend was convicted of severe sexual abuse of children, forced prostitution, extortion, and producing child pornography. But despite the severity of his crimes, he was handed a prison sentence of just 5 years and 6 months, with the court citing his “heightened prison sensitivity” without further explanation.

Reduxx contacted the Press Office for Criminal Matters at the Munich Higher Regional Court to clarify the lenient sentencing. A court spokesperson confirmed that Arbend’s self-identification as a “trans woman“ was a factor in the consideration of “heightened prison sensitivity.” 

The spokesperson stated that Judge Braumandl, during the oral justification of the verdict, noted “that he assumes a heightened prison sensitivity for a trans-person, so that pre-trial detention, unlike the usual case, exceptionally served as a mitigating factor in this instance.” It was further verified that Arbend is housed in a men’s prison but was addressed with feminine pronouns throughout the trial, per his request.

The decision to take Arbend’s transgender identity into consideration for sentencing comes as Germany’s Self-Determination Act, in force since November 2024, has come under increasing scrutiny. The law allows individuals to change their name and legal sex with a simple declaration at the registry office, even while incarcerated.

A similar case reported by Reduxx in March highlights ongoing concerns about Germany’s judicial approach to trans-identified offenders.

In Gießen, a 42-year-old trans-identified male, known as “Sophie KoKo,” received 10 months probation for exposing his genitals to migrant children, soliciting them for sexual abuse, and spraying them with urine, with the court citing his actions as an attempt to “affirm his femininity.” 

Like Arbend’s case, KoKo’s self-declared transgender status resulted in a lenient sentence, raising alarms about prioritizing perpetrators’ identities over child safety under Germany’s Self-Determination Act.

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American men’s interest magazine Esquire has been honored with its first-ever Pulitzer Prize for the publication of an article mourning the death of a “transgender” mayor who had been posting photos of local women to porn sites. The now-deceased Smiths station Mayor, F.L. “Bubba” Copeland committed suicide in late 2023 after a damning expose was released by 1819 News which published the sick details of his secret online “transgender” double-life — one that included penning erotic fantasies of murdering a local woman.

Announcing the reception of the prestigious award on May 5, Esquire described their article, written by Mark Warren, as an “extraordinary, deeply moving account” of the “beloved” cross-dressing Alabama mayor Copeland, who “took his own life after a right-wing news website exposed private online activities he’d engaged in that involved transgender role play.”

“With great sensitivity, Warren, an author and a former longtime editor at Esquire, interviewed scores of Copeland’s friends, family, townspeople, and fellow congregants in order to render a heartbreaking account of the man’s final days, and to portray the full scope of the visceral, grief-stricken, perhaps counterintuitive response of a small southern town in all its rich complexity,” said the Esquire editorial team in their statement.

“In so doing, he illuminates how very much was lost when Copeland was driven to despair. The story explores themes of immediate, even urgent relevance: our evolving norms of gender and sexual difference, the brutal culture wars that have us tearing at one another often without thought or regard, the profound effect of social media on our lives, and the astonishing power of the Internet.”

The article, titled “Right-Wing Media and the Death of an Alabama Pastor: An American Tragedy,” lauds Copeland as “the heart and soul of his community.” It opens by depicting Copeland in his role as a pastor at the First Baptist Church of Phenix City, Alabama, on the last Sunday of October 2023 — just days before he would commit suicide.

“Bubba would often talk about how his life had been suffused with a grace that was beyond his comprehension. He believed that was the essence of God, and today he was telling his congregation that if God could love him—of all people—it was a sure sign that God loved everyone created in His image,” Esquire editor Warren wrote.

However, the bulk of the 11,000-word essay focuses on Copeland’s friends and family, with very brief mention of the disturbing behavior demonstrated by the former mayor revealed by women who came forward to disclose how he had stolen their identities or used them as props in fetish content.

Among the revelations were that Copeland operated multiple secret social media accounts where he had been posting transgender fetish content and graphic sexual narratives across platforms. Copeland shared photos of himself dressed to resemble a blonde woman, and in one of many disturbing short stories he published online, Copeland, who owned a local grocery store, wrote about watching women on in-store security cameras, then saving the videos for his “private collection.”

When engaging in erotic cross-dressing, Copeland used the name “Brittini Blaire Summerlin.” At least a portion of his cross-dressing alter-ego was stolen from the identities and likenesses of other women. Ansley Summerlin, who alleged Copeland appropriated her identity, told local news WTVM after his death that she had discovered her name and likeness posted to multiple porn sites.

“I had some people start sending me photos that were posted of me on multiple porn sites, that also had pictures of ‘Brittini’ as well. He proceeded to use my first and middle name on these sites. There are about nine sites now that have five or six photos of my face and my name across the internet,” Summerlin said.

Another woman who declined to identify herself stated that she had also been victimized by Copeland.

“It said my first and last name, and it was basically describing the way that I look — and intensified, I guess, as a porn star,” the unidentified woman told WTVM. “And it went into very graphic detail. I didn’t get past the first page because I honestly couldn’t stomach it.”

As previously reported by Reduxx, Copeland posted transgender fetish content on his Tumblr account, while promoting the use of feminizing hormones for men who wish to “become [a] whore.” The theme of “bimbofication” extended throughout his online persona, with Copeland expressing arousal and enjoyment at the thought of being reduced to a feminine sexual object for male use.

During his final public address to his church, Copeland responded to some of the revelations by saying his online fetish behavior was a hobby to relieve stress, and portrayed the article as “an internet attack.” “Congregation, church, Facebook, I have been an object of an internet attack.” Copeland said. “The article is not who or what I am. Yes, I have taken pictures with my wife in the privacy of our home in an attempt of humor because I know I’m not a handsome man, nor a beautiful woman either. I apologize for any embarrassment caused by my private personal life that has gone publicly,” he said.

However, at that time, the full extent of his twisted fantasies had not yet come to light. Nor had the several women who were personally impacted yet spoken out about being used in Copeland’s “private” and “personal” fetish content.

Shortly after his suicide, anonymous sources shed light on erotic stories authored by Copeland and posted to Fictionmania, a self-publication platform for erotic stories. Copeland authored at least four tales centered around becoming a woman. While his first story, titled Becoming Christine, was rated “G” for a lack of graphic content, all of Copeland’s subsequent stories were rated “XXX.”

In the two-part story “The Recruit,” Copeland weaves a first-person account about a young man who becomes a “she-male” in order “make it” in the porn business. The story opens with Copeland writing: “That feels so good! Deeper, deeper! Hit it, daddy, harder, ohhh yes! Yes! To you, it may seem a bit odd! Being fucked from behind like a dog, But it’s my job. Like you show up to work every day, I do too; however, my job is to be a sexy, hot receptacle for men.”

Trans activists are mourning the suicide of an Alabama politician who they say was "involuntarily outed" as a "trans woman."

Smiths Station Mayor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland had written erotic fantasies about killing a local woman and assuming her identity.https://t.co/lO9g8r4jgo

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) November 4, 2023

In many of Copeland’s writings, he presents feminization as being a “sexual punishment” or a “bimbo transformation.” The motivation for transition is described as being for sexual gratification, or in order to increase sexual access for the men he fantasizes about satisfying.

But Copeland’s fictional erotica took a dark turn in 2021, when he published a story titled “Dangerous Obsession.” In the story, Copeland describes becoming obsessed with a local business owner, who he ultimately murders to assume her identity. The woman murdered in the story is a real individual who was living in Copeland’s community at the time.

“In my cubicle I scanned her page. She posted a new picture! Excited I screenshot it to add to my ever-growing collection,” Copeland wrote. “To say I was a stalker would be a bit of an understatement. Every post she made I studied it, analyzing and taking notes of her daily routine. What she ate, what she drank, from her favorite coffee to her favorite alcoholic drink. Her life had become my obsession.” 

“I wanted her life! Staring at her on the latest social media application, all I could think about was how amazing it must be to be her,” he continued. “At 29 years old, married, and due to gastric bypass surgery had lost a lot of weight, she looked on top of the world.”

Copeland’s narration describes undergoing dramatic plastic surgery to “become” a woman. He then pursues the victim on a cruise ship. After a violent struggle in which the woman screams and cries, Copeland pushes her over the rail of the ship.

Before murdering her, Copeland’s character steals the victim’s wedding ring.

Some of the photos and shared images featured on Copeland’s Tumblr blog had a theme of younger boys being transitioned into girls. While the images, which sometimes included photos of actual minors, were non-sexual in appearance, they were shared through “erotica” communities.

One meme featured a photo of a local brother and sister, at least one of which was a minor. Copeland had saved their images from social media accounts. “Take the shots, get implants, become the whore,” he captioned the meme, intending to imply that the young boy had been medically transitioned into a young girl.

The style of memes created by Copeland is referred to within online transgender erotica groups as “sissy captions.” They are designed to be sexually suggestive while not explicitly pornographic so that they may easily be shared online while avoiding censorship. Frequently, sissy captions feature young women or underage girls, though they may sometimes include young boys, as well. In some cases, boys are depicted wearing lingerie or dresses. In more graphic content, young women and underage girls are posed suggestively and text alongside the stolen images express an ostensible desire to be forcibly “transitioned,” sexually abused, or even raped and sex trafficked.

Copeland, while using photographs of minors to produce fetish content, was also active in Reddit forums where he encouraged several other participants to begin taking hormones. Following his death, Copeland was memorialized in a transgender Reddit community which focuses on those who begin to declare a transgender status later on in life.

“It’s easy to see that Bubba was wrong and crossed an ethical line in using the names and images of people he knew in his fiction and other posts,” Warren writes for Esquire. “But in this Alabama skirmish in a hellish culture war—over gender and speech and objective reality itself—with its dehumanized politics and competing conceptions of heaven, suffused with rage and loss and bereft of much clarity, two things are clear: First, 1819 News wanted the whole world to see Bubba’s posts, without fully understanding what they contained.”

Here, Warren neglects to highlight that Copeland’s posts contained personal information belonging to local residents, and further that the “gender erotica” content was published publicly for “the whole world to see.”

Warren continues: “Before posting its stories, the editorial team there also didn’t seem to know much beyond the few facts they had discovered, things they saw as sensational and repugnant. And second, Bubba Copeland was desperate for his hidden life to remain hidden and never intended for anyone other than perhaps his wife and the other pseudonymous members of his online community to see his posts. He was shattered at the sudden collision of his private and public identities and killed himself.”

Pulitzer prize-winners for an article in a magazine are handed a $15,000 payout along with a certificate verifying their status as a recipient. The Pulitzer Prize is funded via an investment income which was the endowment of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The awards and funds are distributed through Columbia University.

As Reduxx has exclusively revealed, a prominent professor at Columbia University was influential in pressuring the World Health Organization (WHO) to depathologize certain sexual pathologies associated with what is today referred to as transgenderism. Dr. Richard B. Krueger, a sexologist and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, urged the WHO to remove transvestic fetishism and sadomasochism from the the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

Krueger, who has served as Medical Director of the Sexual Behavior Clinic at New York State Psychiatric Institute, was a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Paraphilias Subworkgroup, and responsible for the APA’s fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) entry for pedophilia.

During the DSM revision process, Krueger consulted with pro-pedophile activist group B4U-Act, which campaigns to have pedophilia recognized as a sexual orientation.

In 2023, Columbia University awarded a Pulitzer prize to a trans-identified male academic who claimed that his pornography addiction motivated his decision to “transition.” Andrea Long Chu, born Andrew, wrote a book titled Females, published in 2019, which argued that being penetrated during sex transforms one into a woman.

“Almost every night, for at least a year before I transitioned, I would wait till my girlfriend had fallen asleep and slip out of bed for the bathroom with my phone. I was going on Tumblr to look at something called sissy porn,” Chu writes. “Getting fucked makes you female because fucked is what a female is… Pornography is what it feels like when you think you have an object, but really the object has you. It is therefore a quintessential expression of femaleness.”

Long Chu penned an essay for New York Magazine last year which argues for “the right of anybody, at any age, to change their sex.”

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A 29-year-old trans-identified male is suing a women-only gym in Erlangen, Germany, after being denied membership. Laura Holstein, formerly known as Nicolas, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Doris Lange, the owner of Lady’s First Fitness Studio, after repeated rejections of his membership. A court hearing is expected to take place in the near future.

In addition to the fitness studio lawsuit, Holstein is also taking legal action against several German media outlets. With support from the publicly funded nonprofit organization HateAid, he is seeking to prohibit the publication of his former name, any photographs of him, and what he describes as “misgendering” in press coverage.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Holstein made headlines last year as the first trans-identified male athlete to compete in Bavarian women’s football. He was granted approval by the Bavarian Football Association (BFA) to play in the women’s district league for SG Effeltrich/Hetzles. Grit Labahn, head of policy at the BFA, defended the decision, stating that Holstein’s hormone therapy had sufficiently reduced his muscle mass, eliminating any presumed physical advantage.

A balding trans-identified will be allowed to play in a women's football league in Germany, months before he is set to change his legal sex to "female."

Players have been warned that they may be punished for "transphobic" remarks about Laura Holstein.https://t.co/eReYRlKBJA

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) April 6, 2024

Concerns arose among female football players, some of whom were minors, over Holstein’s use of the women’s locker room while playing for SG Effeltrich/Hetzles, according to a report by the Y-Kollektiv podcast. In an effort to defuse tensions, the team implemented a shower schedule for the women’s facilities, giving Holstein special times to use the showers separate from the women and girls. Holstein reportedly failed to adhere to this schedule. Team coach Christian Wagner defended Holstein, warning players that any comments deemed discriminatory toward his “trans identity” could lead to suspension.

In March of 2024, Holstein applied for membership at “Lady’s First,” a women-only fitness studio in Erlangen. To address concerns about his membership, he reportedly offered to wear swim trunks in the communal shower area. However, the proposal drew sharp criticism from some members.

“Imagine the scene,” one client told the news outlet NiUS. “He’s standing there in swim trunks while women come out of the shower naked. How does he think this is going to work? It’s unimaginable to me.”

The studio’s owner, Doris Lange, ultimately rejected Holstein’s membership request, citing the need to protect her clients. She noted that 20 percent of her customers are Muslim women who rely on the space remaining female-only. Holstein responded by posting a negative review online, accusing the gym of disrespecting him. He then contacted the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency.

Following the complaint, Ferda Ataman, Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination, demanded €1,000 in compensation on Holstein’s behalf, arguing the rejection violated the country’s General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).

A women's gym in Bavaria has been ordered to pay a balding trans-identified male €1000 in compensation after refusing to allow him in the showers.

The Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination ruled that Laura Holstein had suffered "personal injury."https://t.co/2XRmMRGjTC

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) May 30, 2024

Supported by her lawyer, Dr. Christoph Franke, Lange refused the payment, asserting that her decision was justified to protect her clients.

But Holstein quickly escalated his complaint. His lawyers, Friederike Boll and Katrin Giere, demanded €2,500 in damages and threatened a €5,000 penalty if Lange continued to deny him access. Lange responded by filing a negative declaratory action to have a court confirm that Holstein had no right to membership. However, this action was overtaken by Holstein’s lawsuit, which is set to be heard at the Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court, as reported by the German press agency. 

Alongside the lawsuit against the fitness studio owner, Holstein is pursuing legal actions against media outlets that report on his birth name or sex.

The Frankfurt Regional Court, at Holstein’s request, ordered the deletion of an episode of the Hoss & Hopf podcast in which Holstein was referred to as a man and prohibited hosts Kiarash Hossainpour and Philip Hopf from using male pronouns, under threat of fines up to €250,000 or imprisonment.

Against the news portal NiUS, the court issued a preliminary injunction in July 2024, banning the designation of Holstein as a man. However, the injunction was lifted due to a procedural error, as it was not served to NIUS’s legal representative. According to Legal Tribune Online (LTO), the court’s press chamber emphasized at the start of its reasoning about the procedural error, that it upheld its legal assessment.

A further injunction from Holstein ordered NiUS editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt to remove a post on X dated November 15, 2024, in which he announced the lifting of a prior injunction and used an unpixelated photo of Holstein and called him a man.

“We may […] once again and continue to refer to the man who wanted to enter the women’s locker room as what he is: a man! The preliminary injunction has been LIFTED!” The now-deleted post is accessible via archive.

Holstein was represented by HateAid, a Berlin-based nonprofit organization that has supported victims of so-called “online hate speech” since 2018 with process cost financing, despite “hate speech” not being a criminal offense in Germany.

The organization is funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs with more than €1 million annually (approx. $1.09 million USD). 

Holstein’s legal team has threatened journalists with cease-and-desist notices for “misgendering” or disclosing his name, asserting that such actions infringe upon his personal rights. The online magazine Tichys Einblick received correspondence from Holstein’s lawyers stating that they are prohibited from publishing even a pixelated photo of him and that: “Misgendering constitutes an inadmissible expression of opinion, as a result of which our client’s personal rights are violated.”

In addition to being represented by the taxpayer-funded organization HateAid, Holstein is raising funds for his legal battles under the pseudonym “Monica Weiß,” a name his lawyers employed in communications with WELT to conceal his identity and cast him in a positive light.

He is seeking financial support to defend himself “against discrimination” and what he describes as “prejudicial reporting” while advocating for his “human rights as a woman” in the face of “transmisogynistic narratives.”

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A trans-identified pedophile has complained in court about the “distress” he has experienced by being held in a male prison after previously being turned loose following a child pornography conviction.

Reduxx reported in August 2023 how Dominic Carter, now going by “Sophie,” was convicted on three counts of making indecent images of children after being arrested in April of 2021. Despite two images on his phone coming under the classification of Category A, reserved for the most serious type of child sexual abuse content, Carter was spared an immediate prison sentence. He was instead handed 18 months, suspended on the condition of good behavior and compliance with release conditions.

During the trial, his attorney attempted to argue that he had a history of child abuse and alcoholism, in order to mitigate. It was only at the sentencing hearing when Carter revealed he identified as transgender, with the court immediately swapping to referring to him as “she/her” and “Miss.”

In serving his suspended sentence in the community, Carter had to adhere to various restrictions and conditions, including completing 60 hours of rehabilitation sessions, 120 hours of unpaid work, and registering as a sex offender. He is also subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years.

However, after conviction, Carter allegedly ended up living a “chaotic” lifestyle, including being made homeless. He was no longer staying at his registered address, and according to prosecutors, even faked being kidnapped to the police. He told police that he was being held hostage for £140, with police speaking to him throughout the day until they arrested him.

Since his conviction, he has appeared in court four times total, with prosecutor Hannah Douglas telling Southampton Crown Court that his breaches, including failing to comply with notification requirements, were “deliberate.” He pled guilty to three offenses in total, which also included failure to attend probation appointments.

Carter has been held in remand at HMP Winchester, a Category B male prison, which the defense told the court created “additional difficulties” for him. The “male environment” of the prison was creating “some distress and concern.” He couldn’t turn up to his probation appointments, the defense argued, because he had been kicked out of his parent’s house, and was “assaulted” while living on the streets. 

“That particular chaotic lifestyle made them disengage with probation,” said defense lead Eve Shelley. “This defendant has been remanded in custody since the first of April this year and has used the time in custody in a positive way. They are now no longer using illicit drugs. This defendant has expressed to me an understating that upon receiving a sentence of immediate custody… that it is an opportunity to use that time positively,” she added.

As a result, Judge Nicholas Rownland gave Carter six months in prison, saying he had “no choice” but to finally remand him to custody.

“I appreciate that your lifestyle is chaotic. That last thing I want to do is to have to send you to prison for these offences,” Judge Rowland concluded. “I have given full credit for your plea. I have much hope that now this slate is wiped clean that there won’t be another one in the future. You need to sort this out otherwise you will go to prison for longer and longer periods.”

After the initial 2023 prosecution, Standing for Women Hampshire told Reduxx they were concerned about the fact the court referred to him with female pronouns, something that also occurred in the most recent prosecution, leading to him likely being recorded on the crime statistics as a woman. 

“Once again we see the thing that never happens, a male sex offender claiming a female identity to mitigate his punishment. It’s beyond comprehension that the courts are falling for this nonsense,” the representative told Reduxx.

“We have serious concerns about how this man will be recorded, both in crime statistics and especially on the sex offender register. For the media to show such deference to the desires of a pedophile that they use his adopted name and she/her pronouns throughout their report is insulting and hugely disrespectful towards women and his very real victims,” she added.

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A trans-identified male incarcerated in a women’s prison in the Netherlands set fire to his cell before brutally beating a female prison guard. The victim has been described as having sustained “serious” injuries and has been hospitalized. The incident, which took place at Ter Peel prison for women, was first reported by De Telegraaf, and the outlet confirmed the assault with the Dutch Prison and Probation Service (DJI).

“A fire broke out in the cell of a detainee in the Ter Peel penitentiary institution this morning,” a spokeswoman told the newspaper. “After the fire and while rendering aid, an employee was suddenly attacked by this violent inmate and seriously injured.”

The prison guard was reportedly taken away from the scene via ambulance, and prison officials confirmed that her “teeth were knocked out of her mouth.”

The Dutch Prison and Probation Service refused to provide additional information about the trans-identified male inmate, and told the press: “We do not make any statements about individual prisoners. In the prison system, placement is in principle based on the gender stated in the passport. If there is reason to do so, this can be deviated from. This is always done on a customized basis, and is adjusted when necessary.”

A formal report has been lodged, with both law enforcement and prison officials investigating the circumstances leading up to the violent attack. Meanwhile, the trans-identified male has been transferred to another prison which, while unnamed, is said to have facilities that are more appropriate for aggressive inmates. Because the prisoner has not been identified, it is unclear whether the criminal has been relocated to another women’s prison or transferred into a men’s prison.

Authorities in the Netherlands have been secretive about the transfer of trans-identified male convicts into women’s prisons, often protecting their identities.

Last month Reduxx became aware that a sadistic pedophile who was discovered to be hoarding over 8 million child sexual abuse files had declared a transgender status. The man, whose name was not released to the public, had gathered a collection of sickening abuse images so expansive and heinous that investigators stopped cataloguing the files at about the 2 million mark – less than halfway through the total.

According to prosecutors, Jan had gained a notoriety amongst the pedophile community for sharing his extensive collection with others  online, which led to him receiving “prestige” from fellow predators. He also had a “manual” in his possession instructing men on how to have “safe and harmless sex” with a child.

“I have seen a lot of child pornography in my profession, but this is the most disgusting child and animal pornography that exists,” the prosecutor said during the trial.

Press declined to name the man, who Reduxx has referred to as ‘Jan.’ During the hearing on February 20, the court heard that Jan “is in transition and wants to be addressed as a woman.”

Following his conviction, the disturbed predator was transferred to one of three prisons for women in the nation: Ter Peel in Limburg, Nieuwersluis (Utrecht) and Zwolle. ‘Jan’ was sent to Zwolle, the only mixed-sex facility out of the three.

Once again, a spokesperson for the Dutch Prison and Probation Service (DJI) stated that the authoritative body will “never comment on the situation of individual prisoners.” Representative Charlotte Hees told the press: “Placement in the prison system takes place on the basis of the gender stated in the passport,” Hees explained. “Deviation is possible if there is reason to do so, for example for the safety of detainees. This is always custom work and is determined on the basis of a careful assessment and adjusted when necessary.”

In 2023, news reports surfaced which described how a Chilean national convicted of committing a brutal murder was placed in a women’s prison even in advance of his final hearings. “Daniela D” had stabbed a man 214 times, targeting his eyes, ears, and genitals.

Daniela D. had been residing illegally in the Netherlands since February 2022, where he was involved in the sex industry. The court heard that he came from a broken home and that he had been “bullied” as a youth by peers who did not accept his gender identity.

Despite having not undergone any form of genital surgery, Daniela was detained in Ter Peel women’s prison.

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Reduxx has learned that a trans-identified male high school student has been quietly participating in girls sports, earning accolades intended for young female athletes. Charlie Rothenberger, who now goes by “Marissa,” was transitioned by his parents at an extremely early age and is now drawing ire from his female teammates as more are becoming aware that he is biologically male.

Rothenberger is a 17-year-old student at Champlin Park High School in Champlin, Minnesota. He currently plays as a starting pitcher for his girl’s high school fastpitch team, where he has been credited with helping the school dominate softball competitions. Earlier this month, the first game of the new softball season kicked off against the Minnesota State Champions, Rogers High School. Rothenberger, who stands 6′ tall, was able to easily lead Champlin to victory against the defending champions with a “shut out” via 14 strikeouts and a double base hit of his own.

In an interview last year when he was a sophomore, one of the coaches said that Rothenberger had been doing a “phenomenal job,” with the pitcher himself suggesting his biological advantage was merely him “mixing different speeds” of the ball and “keeping [the other team] off-balanced.”

Another softball account on X dedicated to “highlighting the next generation of softball players” praised a “really hard hit to the outfield” by Rothenberger.

MSHSL section playoff softball already starts next week. Champlin Park enters the postseason red hot, winners of 14 in a row.

The Patriots closed out the regular season last night with a 2-1 win over Chaska. Marissa Rothenberger threw 10 k’s, only allowing 3 hits in 7 IP. pic.twitter.com/gYnl0UlHzG

— Chaz Mootz (@ChazMootzCCX) May 17, 2024

Rothenberger has also played for Midwest Speed Softball, an elite-level softball club team that travels around the country for competitions. On his player profile, he brags about having attained an All State Award last season due to his pitching.

“From watching college pitchers and trying to emulate them, to now striving to become one,” he writes. “I am passionate in doing what it takes to be the best I can be.”

In July of 2024, Rothenberger was named Player of the Month by the Heart of America Elite Fastpitch League. In his biography on the site, he lists one of his goals as playing “Division 1 softball in college.” 

While Rothenberger has participated in girls sports from an early age and has never publicly stated he identifies as transgender, Reduxx has obtained documents showing that his mother, Heather Rothenberger, applied to the Hennepin County District Court to alter his birth certificate shortly after his 9th birthday.

The petition was approved, and Rothenberger was issued a new birth certificate showing that he was born “female” and altering his name from “Charlie Dean” to “Marissa.” Minnesota is one of many states where altered birth certificates do not need to signify that the original document was altered.

But while Rothenberger has managed to conceal his sex throughout most of his school history, his teammates and competitors have recently become aware. One anonymous female softball player from Minnesota, who played on the same team as Rothenberger in 2023, spoke to Reduxx under the condition of anonymity.

The girl noted that it took years before she realized Rothenberger was a boy, believing at first he was simply just an “awkward” girl.

“We were never really that close because I never had anything in common with him. I never thought he was a boy, but after finding out he was a boy and then looking back on a lot of things I wouldn’t have looked at before, [it] definitely shows he is a boy, and I felt dumb for missing the clues,” she told Reduxx. The player said she initially discovered his true identity in July of 2024 during the 2023/24 season when “no one was really talking about it,” but added that by November of that year, “lots of people from the softball community found out the truth and were openly talking about it.”

According to the player, Rothenberger regularly used the female bathrooms, even rooming with other girls when the team travelled across the country, while none of the girls he shared facilities or bedrooms with was aware that he is male. “Looking back now, it disgusts me and is just scary,” she said.

The player described Rothenberger’s athletic performance compared to the other girls as being “completely unreal,” saying he is able to do “so much more” than girls who train with the exact same coaches. “He is able to be relied on as a pitcher, and took opportunities away from girls who deserved them most,” she said.

She told Reduxx that she felt “upset” and “uncomfortable” that males are being allowed to play on the same team as women, especially being told that “as a girl I just have to learn to accept that men can take advantage of you even if they just want to identify as a female.”

The girl adds that she is frustrated and hurt by the whole ordeal.

“Many players and I work so hard to achieve something through this sport and we find it unfair that our spot can be stolen from us,” she continued. “This shouldn’t be allowed and boys can stay in boys sports and leave us girls alone. I shouldn’t have to learn this lesson that girls don’t matter or that we need to just be silent while we lose out so a boy feels okay.”

The revelations have drawn concern from the Independent Council On Women’s Sport (ICONS), which is now raising the alarm about a concerning phenomenon involving a new wave of male athletes who were socially and medically transitioned as young boys. As some of them may have had their birth records falsified at an extremely early age, there may be no public record of their true sex, making it possible for them to participate in women’s sports virtually undetected and beyond the reach of many of the current policies intended to protect women’s sports.

Rothenberger is just one example of many trans-identified males who have managed to slip under the radar in women’s sports after transitioning at a young age, with legal records of their true identity often hidden away.

In 2023, Reduxx learned that Tate Drageset, a 17-year-old volleyball player from California, was set to become the first known male recipient of a women’s Division 1 (D1) athletic scholarship after having falsified his identity from the age of 6. Prior to the Reduxx exposé, no record existed that Drageset was biologically male. Following our report, Drageset’s mother e-mailed Reduxx and stated that the University of Washington had informed them that they would “no longer honor their verbal commitment” to him.

Speaking to Reduxx, Kim Jones of ICONS said it was “frustrating” to hear people argue that “so long as women and girls don’t know they are being replaced by a boy or competing against a boy or undressing next to a boy, then it’s ok, the girls shouldn’t care.” Jones compared tolerance for the deception to those who “hand-wave away voyeurism or sexual assault” when a victim is drunk, asleep, or unaware.

“It makes these young girls learn early in life that it is acceptable for them to be abused and taken advantage of by boys so long as everyone looks the other way and it’s hidden to a certain level of satisfaction,” Jones said. “These girls need to know they are important enough to be treated fairly in public while they play sports, as well as in private and that protection is incumbent upon leadership in sports and in schools to ensure.”

On the issue of boys like Rothenberger, whose documents were falsified at a young age to conceal their birth sex, Jones says the problem is bound to get worse.

“We are seeing the first drips through the faucet of young boys who were subjected to gender ideology from a really young age and there are thousands more of these boys out there now who are even younger and will impact girl’s sports for the next decade in increasing numbers,” she says.

Jones notes that current policies being drafted with the intention of protecting female athletes fail to address this growing problem.

“Policy makers need to think beyond men like Lia Thomas. Looking at birth certificates and enrollment history is not enough. We need sex screening so that girls and women aren’t left with an even more difficult situation in ten years. Sex is not private information and can be screened through already universally required pre-participation physicals, which include medical history, or a simple cheek swab.”

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