A man who threatened to massacre pupils at schools for girls in response to the treatment of “transwomen” has been sentenced to 28 months in custody. Darren Rigby, 21, specifically targeted all-girls schools when he sent a series of messages threatening to “shoot and stab all of your girls,” and referred to the students using the slur “TERFs,” a derogatory acronym which stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist.”

Rigby was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on June 1 after he admitted to making threats to three girls’ schools across Merseyside over the space of a week in January. In each case, Rigby contacted school officials via email and threatened to murder students in retaliation for the plight of trans-identified men, commonly referred to as “trans women.”

As reported by The Southport Lead, the court heard that Rigby described the “oppression” of “trans women,” but had had no prior interaction with anyone affiliated with the schools he targeted. The only link connecting the schools was the fact that they were exclusively for females. Reporter Jamie Lopez was present for Rigby’s hearings and reported the contents of the hoax letters he sent to the schools as they were read out by Prosecutor Iain Criddle.

In the first incident, which occurred on January 19, Rigby claimed he was already hiding inside the Holly Lodge Girls’ College in West Derby and waiting to attack. The only way to prevent students from being slaughtered, Rigby said, would be for the women and girls to make a public apology to “trans women.” Police were called and the school was forced to shut down for the day.

In a statement, head teacher Andrew Keen said, “”The staff had to react quickly to a lockdown without knowing the reason why. They had to talk with the students in their care to keep them safe all while wondering what was happening and what would happen next. Students see schools as a safe place to come to be themselves and be safe. For them to be told we were locked for their safety in school was a real shock… Several parents were reluctant to send their daughters into school because of their anxiety.”

On January 23, Rigby contacted Greenbank High School in Southport. The court heard that an email was sent at 12:53pm which warned that he would massacre the girls in attendance in order to make a point about “misgendering trans women like me.”

It continued: “I am on my way to the school with a revolver and a machete and I’m going to shoot and stab all of your girls. You TERFs are going to learn to stop mocking, deadnaming and misgendering transwomen like me. If anyone attempts to stop me, they will be shot and I will release a blood agent into the school which will poison you.”

“TERF” is an acronym which stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist.” TERF is considered by many to be a derogatory term, as it is often used to justify violence against women who oppose gender ideology.

Headteacher Davina Aspinall said she felt “physically sick” after reading the email. “Children were crying, shaking, asking if they were going to be harmed, asking if the threat was real,” Aspinall said. “At this point we had little information that we could provide the children.”

Three days later, January 26, Rigby sent threats to The Belvedere Academy in Liverpool. At 8:30am, headteacher Julie Taylor was informed that a threatening message had been sent during the night.

The email read: “I have managed to gain access to the school and I’m now hiding somewhere in the school with a crossbow and a sword. When your girls come into school I will be jumping out. I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across.” The academy was placed in lockdown for the day.

Headteacher Taylor said: “There have been numerous conversations between pupils around the lockdown. The more vulnerable pupils and pupils with special educational needs have found it difficult to regulate and have had to relearn that school is a safe place. For a number of them, this has taken significant time.

“25% of our pupils have special needs. There are 47 pupils that require specialist support and 75 pupils who have neurodiverse diagnoses. Experiencing lockdown for these children was very upsetting.”

While the case did receive some coverage in the United Kingdom, major mainstream outlets have come under fire for explicitly failing to include any details on Rigby’s motives in their articles.

In a June 1 article on Rigby’s sentencing, the BBC did not mention why Rigby had targeted the schools even though the information was widely available.

Liverpool Echo similarly failed to mention Rigby’s motives, as did the Irish Mirror.

According to the Southport Lead, Rigby had disclosed that he had been struggling with his gender identity prior to making the threats. However, he was referred to with masculine pronouns in court.

His attorney, Rebecca Smith, said “It’s clear from the defendant’s own admissions, the difficulties of internal struggles he felt led to the impulsive responses in sending these messages … [but] his issues with injustice, turmoil and confrontation with himself were heightened by cannabis use and heavy alcohol consumption.”

Smith continued: “It is not pleasant for any person to hear whispers from others calling them names, putting them in boxes and stereotyping them. That is something Mr. Rigby needs to come to terms with and understand how to deal with.”

Rigby was ultimately sentenced to 28 months in prison.

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A Virginia Circuit Court has dismissed criminal charges against Richard Cox, a registered sex offender who identifies as a transgender woman and who was accused of exposing himself to women and girls in female locker rooms across Northern Virginia.

In court, Cox argued that he had a right to access female-only facilities based on his gender identity, citing local policies in Fairfax and Arlington counties that allow individuals to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their self-declared gender.

The controversy first emerged in 2024, when Cox began frequenting women’s locker rooms and changing facilities at public recreation centers and school-based aquatic facilities throughout Fairfax and Arlington counties. According to police reports and court filings, Cox used women’s locker rooms at multiple locations, including facilities located inside Arlington County high schools, where he accessed public swimming pools during community-use hours.

Women and girls subsequently reported Cox to authorities, alleging that he exposed his penis while using the facilities. The complaints prompted investigations by both Fairfax County and Arlington County law enforcement.

When questioned by police, Cox maintained that local policies permitted his use of women’s facilities. In body-camera footage obtained by local media, Cox told officers that his civil rights as a “transgender woman” entitled him to use public restrooms and changing rooms consistent with his gender identity.

As the case gained public attention, it emerged that Cox was a registered sex offender. According to the Virginia Sex Offender Registry, Cox is classified as a Tier III offender—the highest level under Virginia law—which generally requires lifetime registration and monitoring.

Court records indicate that Cox has been listed on the Virginia Sex Offender Registry since at least 1998. Public records and court filings show a lengthy criminal history, including prior child-pornography-related convictions that contributed to his status as a registered sex offender.

Arlington County authorities ultimately pursued criminal charges related to Cox’s presence near schools and youth programs, as well as allegations that he exposed himself in women’s locker rooms.

While Fairfax County police investigated complaints arising from Cox’s use of female facilities, Arlington prosecutors charged him under a Virginia statute restricting certain convicted sex offenders from loitering near schools and child-focused programs. Prosecutors alleged that Cox repeatedly entered facilities located near schools and youth activities, including school locker rooms and recreational centers, in violation of state law.

The Commonwealth also pursued charges stemming from allegations that Cox exposed himself to women and girls while using those facilities. In court, multiple women offered testimonies detailing inappropriate behavior by Cox while he was using the female facilities.

In one case, a disturbed mother said she and her 5-year-old daughter went to use a public women’s locker at an Arlington-area school after a swim class when she saw Cox touching himself while nude in a shower stall with the curtain open. In another, a different woman said that she and her two young daughters were at the Barcroft Sports and Fitness Center for a gymnastics class when they found Cox naked in the girls’ locker room.

A 17-year-old lifeguard who worked at one of the Arlington pools said she also witnessed Cox naked in a school locker room.

During the hearings, Cox reportedly reprimanded the prosecutor for “misgendering” him, and attempted to have the judge order the prosecution to refer to him using feminine pronouns. The judge declined.

Cox’s attorneys challenged the indictments, arguing that the “loitering” statute relied upon by prosecutors was unconstitutional.

On June 2, Arlington County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Lopez agreed, dismissing the indictments after concluding that the law was unconstitutionally vague.

In his ruling, Lopez found that the statute criminalized “loitering” within 100 feet of schools and child day programs for certain registered sex offenders, but failed to clearly define what conduct constituted loitering. The court concluded that the law did not provide adequate notice of what behavior was prohibited and could result in arbitrary or inconsistent enforcement.

The ruling is significant because it did not merely address how the statute was applied in Cox’s case. Instead, the court found that the statute itself was constitutionally defective.

The Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office has appealed the decision, and the case is now headed to the Virginia Court of Appeals. Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones is expected to represent the Commonwealth during the appeal.

Separate from the dismissed indictments, Cox continues to face additional legal troubles in both Arlington and Fairfax counties.

At the time of his arrest in 2024, Cox was found to be in possession of child sexual abuse material, and investigators found schedules on his phone pertaining to girls’ gymnastics and swimming classes at the very recreation centers he was known to frequent.

Cox was recently convicted by a jury on the charges involving possession of child pornography.

Separately, Cox is also facing a sexual-assault charge connected to allegations dating back to 1988. The complainant told local media that recent reporting about Cox’s use of women’s locker rooms prompted her to come forward and report the decades-old allegation to police.

That Fairfax County case remains active and is continuing through the court system. Cox has not been convicted of the sexual-assault allegation, and the charge remains pending.

For now, Cox remains in custody at the Arlington County jail as prosecutors pursue their appeal and the remaining criminal cases proceed through Virginia’s courts.

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A prominent LGBTQ activist and drag queen has been charged with the possession of child pornography. Berlin-based performer “Jurassica Parka,” whose real name is Mario Olszinski, has been charged with hoarding 131 video files containing suspected child pornography, totaling five hours and 25 minutes in length, as well as 28 images.

In July of 2025, the Berlin public prosecutor’s office confirmed that police searched Olszinski’s apartment in Schöneberg after receiving a tip from the US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which linked the Olszinski’s IP address to suspected child-pornography access and storage.

An investigation was opened, and it revealed that Olszinski had previously been convicted by the Tiergarten District Court in October 2023 for acquiring, possessing, and distributing child pornography. Olszinski was handed a reduced sentence at the time, because, according to the judgement, he was “remorseful and confessed, the act was spontaneous, and the offense had occurred some time ago.” As a result he was charged a fine of approximately €11,000, or, a €70 daily fee over the course of 160 days.

Olszinski was not immediately charged, and attempted to initially defend himself on social media.

But formal charges have now been lodged against Olszinski after months of investigation, and police have made it clear that the content is independent of Olszinski’s 2023 conviction and pertain to new instances and materials.

A spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office told German outlet WELT that Olszinski’s prior conviction could have an aggravating effect on his current case, and may result in a prison sentence.

Despite the fact that Olszinski identifies as a gay man, most German-language news outlets referred to him using feminine pronouns.

In a 2015 interview, Olszinski explained that the “the urge to wear women’s clothes has always been in me,” and described childhood memories wearing his grandmother’s clothes. In that same interview, Olszinski claimed that wearing women’s clothes was a way for him to “express” himself.

“I have for myself found a channel through which I could release energy, immediately I was hooked,” he told the interviewer.

“Jurassica Parka” is a well-known activist in Berlin’s political and cultural scene for over a decade, and even performed his own theater show in Berlin-Kreuzberg. has previously held the title of “Miss Christopher Street Day” at Berlin’s annual pride event. He has also acted as a “Queer Berlin Ambassador” for the tourism campaign by Place2Be Berlin, officially representing the LGBTIQ scene in the city.

As a result of his prominence, Olszinski has been photographed rubbing shoulders with top politicians and celebrities in Germany, and frequently gets invited to influential entertainment events. He frequently appeared as a campaign supporter for the Berlin Social Democratic Party (SPD), especially during the 2021 state parliament election.

In April 2024, the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) and German Embassy in Tokyo invited Olszinski to the Tokyo Rainbow Pride (Tokyo CSD), where he participated in the parade and offered face painting services to children.

The total cost to taxpayers for the trip was €6,000, as confirmed by the Foreign Office in response to a NIUS inquiry. At the time, he had already been convicted in 2023 for distributing child pornography material.

On July 14, 2025, Olszinski moderated the Gemeinsambunt benefit gala at the Theater des Westens in Berlin. The event was organized with involvement from the Berlin Police, among others, and was under the patronage (Schirmherrschaft) of Berlin’s Police President Barbara Slowik.

This is not the first instance in which a sexual predator has had support from the Berlin Police. In 2023, Reduxx revealed that a trans-identified male working for the Berlin police force had been posting fetish content online, some of which involved themes of transitioning and sexualizing children. Ria Cybill Geyer, born Reiner Geyer, also had led LGBTQ workshops at schools.

As Geyer discussed in a debate for Klartext, he had been involved in “SCHLAU workshops,” which are held with youth to “promote the acceptance of diversity.” The programs receive funding from the Ministry for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Flight and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

One of the first accounts followed by Geyer on Pinterest, Sabine Satin, shares a variety of images known as “sissy captions,” featuring photos of young women in lingerie, sometimes bound and gagged and appearing to be in pain, with sexual text displayed alongside the images.

“Become this girl. Tell me how it feels,” read one caption. Another depicted a young woman wearing a collar and a leash and says “own me, take me, use me.” Other images depicted underage boys in lingerie.

In addition to his role as a police officer, Geyer boasted several other titles connected to the government and trans activism. Like Olszinski, he was appointed as a representative for the Social Democratic party (SPD), and in that capacity, he worked with law enforcement as an “SPDqueer” officer.

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A trans-identified male student has won gold in both girls shot put and discus at a New York high school sectional championship, defeating his female rivals by significant margins.

Jeff “Julia” Arnold, a trans-identified grade 12 athlete from Cicero-North Syracuse High School, claimed first place in both of the competitions he participated in in the Section III Class A-1 Championships hosted at his school on Wednesday.

In the shot put competition, Arnold claimed a personal best throw of 42 feet 5.5 inches, significantly ahead of second-place Keyonna Mitchell of Rome Free Academy with 38 feet 0.5 inches. Despite Mitchell herself earning a personal best, she still ended up still well behind Arnold’s mark.

In the discus competition, the results were even more stark. Arnold took first place with a throw of 132 feet, with Mitchell once again relegated to second place with a throw of 120 feet and 5 inches. However, below Mitchell, the third place competitor only managed a result of 93 feet and 10 inches, with Arnold out-throwing her by a staggering 39 feet.

This spring season, Arnold entered eight discus and shot put competitions, and came first in seven of them. The elite track and field Glenn D. Loucks Memorial Games, held in White Plains, New York each May, saw Arnold’s only non-first place finishes, when he came 3rd in the shot put and 2nd in the discus.

In social media posts, CNS Athletics celebrated Arnold’s success at the Section III Championships. One commenter said that Arnold’s numbers in the discus and shot put were “impressive,” with another correctly pointing out that the only reason why they were is because Arnold is “a male competing against females.”

With his performance at the Section III Championships, Arnold is expected to compete at the NYSPHSAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which is scheduled to be held on June 13 and June 14 at Webster Schroeder High School in Webster, New York.

Arnold is currently ranked #1 in girls 4KG shot put according to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, making him the highest performing “female” in the state in that category. He is also ranked #1 in his region and #2 in the state in girls 1KG discus.

In addition to participating in girls shot put and discus, Arnold has competed in on his school’s chess team. At the 2026 Upstate New York Scholastic Chess Championship, where Cicero-North Syracuse High School took first place, he was the only “girl” on his school’s team.

On his Hudl profile, Arnold features a Vatican City flag alongside the trans pride flag.

In January of 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14201, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which directed federal agencies to interpret protections in Title IX on the basis of biological sex, not gender. The order stated that any federally funded educational institutions, such as schools or universities, who allow men to compete in women’s sports would lose their funding. However, New York is one of the states that has permitted students to compete in athletics not based on their biological sex, but the gender identity that they claim to be.

Responding to the executive order at the time, New York State Education Department officials issued joint guidance with the state Attorney General reaffirming that any students who were trans-identified could continue to play in their sports, with the guidance also stating that New York has “robust protections” for trans-identified students, and that schools were not allowed to ask students what their biological sex was before they could participate in sports.

A spokesperson from HeCheated, an independent platform that tracks male participation in female sports, noted that Arnold’s performance in girls athletics is particularly damning, and that he outperforms even other trans-identified male athletes currently known to be participating in girls shot put in the US.

“There is a huge sex-based performance difference in throwing, which is why the boys’ shot put is over three pounds heavier than the girls’. It is no longer possible to pretend these boys do not have any sort of advantage over girls and that their participation is fair. The athletic authorities in charge can’t possibly justify this while claiming to support female athletics. It’s just plain wrong.”

Marshi Smith of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) echoed HeCheated’s concerns, and called upon the Department of Education and the Department of Justice to clamp down on schools refusing to protect the female athletic categories.

“The perception that the travesty of boys competing in girls’ sports is over and resolved simply isn’t true. Particularly in blue states across the country, schools, districts, and sports associations continue their flagrant defiance of federal law and openly challenge the current administration by refusing to comply with its clear ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’ Executive Order,” Smith said.

“Until there is accountability and painful punishment for schools, districts, and states that violate the rights of girls, there will continue to be no deterrent to undermining the accomplishments and dreams of female athletes nationwide,” she continued.

“Parents, coaches, and community members must speak out loudly against these injustices and be willing to challenge these violations in court. The Department of Education and the Department of Justice should use every available lever to make an example of those who violate the law. Inaction only emboldens those determined to erode the protections that generations of female athletes have fought to achieve.”

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A trans-identified male has been secretly playing on a girls’ lacrosse team in Michigan. Branson “Sophie” Waitz, 17, is a junior at Dexter High School, where he also participates in girl’s cheerleading and may have roomed with female students during overnight trips.

According to a 2015 name change petition reviewed by Reduxx, Waitz’s parents legally changed his name from Branson to Sophie when he was just 6 years old. Significantly, the judge that approved their request ordered the State Registrar to re-issue a changed birth certificate and sealed the original, making it publicly impossible to know it was altered.

Waitz has been competing in girls’ sports without the apparent knowledge of the state’s governing body, the Michigan High School Athletics Association (MHSAA).

The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit athletic body comprised of more than 1,500 public and private schools. The organization’s current policy allows boys who identify as transgender to participate on girl’s teams through a waiver process. However, Waitz has apparently been competing against girls without disclosing his biological sex, having not applied for a waiver.

Last year, Geoff Kimmerly, director of communications for the MHSAA, told CBS News that the MHSAA had not received a waiver application for neither the 2024-25 winter season nor the 2025 spring season.

In another report from last May, Kimmerly told local press that “no trans athletes played in girls’ sports” that season, and that only two trans-identified male students in the state of Michigan had received a waiver to play.

However, Waitz has been playing girls lacrosse since 2023, suggesting that he is doing so without the explicit knowledge of the MHSAA. He has been a top-performer on his lacrosse team at Dexter, which is currently just three regional games away from the Michigan state lacrosse championship.

As a result, Waitz’s participation on the girls’ lacrosse team may be a violation of MHSAA policies, as well as an Executive Order on female sports signed last year by President Trump. The Executive Order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” outlined measures that would be taken to enforce the protection of female sports within public education institutions, including at the high school level.

Despite this, Kimmerly has insisted, via a written statement, that the MHSAA has been in compliance with the laws.

“The MHSAA follows and will continue to follow all applicable state and federal laws. We are monitoring developments in this regard closely, including federal litigation challenging the recent Executive Order and potential changes to state law that have been introduced in the Michigan legislature. The MHSAA plays no role in either, however.”

Concerningly, Waitz appears to have been transitioned as a very young child by his parents. Posts on his father’s Facebook account from 2013 show him being referred to as a boy at age 3 or 4, but soon after he appears on his mother’s Facebook account wearing feminine clothing and bathing suits.

In 2017, Waitz’ parents signed an open letter to the Trump administration in collaboration with the Human Rights Campaign. The letter was described as being from “parents of transgender and non-binary youth” who wanted to condemned the “attempt to roll back critical protections for their children and young people across the United States.”

Waitz represents the latest in an emerging pattern of boys who were transitioned at extremely young ages and are attempting to go “stealth,” meaning they try to present themselves as being born female and may not have disclosed their biological sex with their teammates or athletic officials.

Speaking to Reduxx, Kim Jones of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports expressed concern about these cases.

“We are now seeing the first cases of boys who were subjected to medical intervention and puberty blockers excelling in girls’ sports,” Jones said. “Many of their parents have changed legal birth records, which are then used to deceive students, teachers, and coaches and to circumvent federal law.”

Jones noted that policies intended to protect women’s sports are falling short due to the extreme measures some families are taking to conceal their sons’ biological sex in order to allow them access to girls’ sports and girls’ locker rooms.

“Most of these policies rely on legal documents as a barrier to entry, such as the sex listed on birth certificates or passports. The problem is that, in most states and many countries around the world, those documents can be altered. Female students have rights and protections on the basis of their sex. These rights and protections can only be upheld if males cannot hide their sex. Calling this deception male ‘privacy’ simply removes consent, as well as federal and constitutional rights, from girls. This is why sex screening, such as the testing being implemented by the Olympics, represents the future of protecting the rights of women and girls and should become a necessary part of athletic registration and school enrollment.”

Sex screening through cheek swabbing involves collecting a small saliva sample from the inside of an athlete’s cheek using a sterile cotton swab to determine biological sex. The process is commonly described as quick and noninvasive.

“Until we have sex testing implemented across the board, female athletes cannot be truly guaranteed fairness in their sport, as we are learning from these increasingly common ‘stealth’ cases.”

Waitz is not the only “stealth” male known to be participating in girls lacrosse.

In Massachusetts, a boy named Michael “Millie” McDonald has been attracting accolades for his performance against girls. McDonald is a freshman at Winchester High School, and appears to have been transitioned by his parents when he was approximately 5 or 6 years of age.

Earlier this month, McDonald was highlighted in a Mass Live article calling attention to the top performers in the state’s girls high school lacrosse scene. In it, his coach, Suzanne Onto, noted that he had “one of the best freshman campaigns [Ontso] had seen in her three-plus decades on the sidelines.”

Ontso was quoted as saying: “Millie’s speed, stick skills and game sense set her apart … She’s already drawing face guards in games. Millie will be a name you’ll hear in the future.”

Winchester coach Suzanne Ontso: "For us, this senior class has just been phenomenal. They really set a tone for us. We finished 13-7. We hadn’t had a winning record in a couple years. They really put in the work."

On freshman Millie McDonald, who had 6 goals: "She’s a phenomenal…

— Trevor Hass (@TrevorHass) May 26, 2026

Ontso also praised McDonald as a “phenomenal player” who was going to be a “dominant player for [Winchester].”

McDonald is also known to be participating on a girls’ ice hockey team, and is a top performer on the girls cross-country team at Winchester. Last year, McDonald placed third at the sectional championship, leading the Winchester girls’ team to their first sectional title in program history.

A spokesperson from HeCheated, an independent platform that tracks male participation in female sports, clarified that it is a common mistake to believe that boys who are transitioned earlier, like Waitz and McDonald, have less of a physical advantage over their female counterparts when it comes to sports.

“Boys who are more effeminate looking and especially those who have blocked puberty tend to garner more sympathy than boys who are more masculine looking when it comes to girls’ sports. This difference in treatment is not based on any sort of merit or difference in character, and certainly not on a lack of competitive advantage,” the spokesperson said.

“In the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple boys who have blocked puberty excelling in girls’ athletics. They’ve led their teams to state championships in softball and basketball, won national championships in volleyball, even taking a California Interscholastic Federation MVP award. They have been ranked in the top 10 in the entire nation in track and field and one boy just recently took a state title in the shot put. This mentality of lookism, where boys who are more effeminate receive more favorable treatment, is discriminatory even within the group of trans-identified boys themselves.

“Girls’ sports are not for or low-performing males or males who can occasionally pass themselves off as girls. The entry into girls’ sports is not based on how someone looks or how good someone is at sports, but on sex. This needs to be enforced.”

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Children in a sex education class in Germany were instructed to design a brothel “for everyone” as part of their course, sparking backlash from parents and even other students at the school.

The children, aged between 13 and 15, received the assignment at the Cardinal von Galen Gymnasium in Kevelaer, a small town in North-Rhine Westphalia close to the Dutch border with a population of just 28,000. The community is most known for being a religious pilgrimage site for Roman Catholics, who descend upon the town once per year to honor the Virgin Mary.

But despite being a fairly religious community, the local secondary school issued a disturbing assignment to its youth centered around prostitution.

The assignment was leaked to news outlet WDR, and sections from the workbook began to circulate on social media last week. According to the excerpts, the children were tasked with modernizing an existing brothel in a large city, effectively simulating operating the facility as though they were a manager. Titled “Puff für alle,” with “Puff” being a German slang word for brothel, the workbook appeared to be primarily framed not just around upgrading the brothel, but making it more sexually “inclusive.”

According to the introduction of the assignment, the children were asked to “modernize, in group work, an already existing brothel in a large city. The floor plan is predetermined and cannot be expanded (see worksheet: floor plan of the brothel to be modernized). For structural reasons, it is also not possible to change the interior area, including the walls. Only the installation of doors and staircases is allowed. As part of the modernization, you are now supposed to create a ‘brothel for everyone’ or rather a ‘house of pleasure for sexual fulfillment.'”

The questions in the assignment asked children to consider “what sexual preferences need to be addressed and catered to in these spaces,” along with what type of different “services” need to be offered in the brothel, and what “skills and abilities” of the prostitutes would be needed so “that all kinds of people could be served and satisfied.”

The exercise was part of a larger syllabus entitled “Sexual Education of Diversity: Practical Methods on Identities, Relationships, Bodies, and Prevention for Schools and Youth Work.”

One older student at the school offered WDR a critical perspective on the assignment, and said that people should be questioning the acceptance “surrounding the topic of sex work.” The girl argued that it “belongs in social studies classes, where students learn to critique sex work and, ideally, to condemn it from a modern perspective.” She added that “95 percent of all sex workers being women, and a significant number of them being girls, I believe it’s inappropriate to address brothels in sex education and, above all, to fail to differentiate and explore the topic in an assignment.”

In a statement to WDR, Christina Diehr, the headmistress of the school, claimed that the material was “deliberately designed to be provocative in order to stimulate discussion,” that it “responds to developments in our society with a diversity of lifestyles and gender roles,” and that it also “addresses the heavy use of social media channels by children and young people and the associated flood of information about various forms of sexuality.”

However, following a concerted uproar among parents, the school has confirmed that they don’t intend to re-issue the assignment in future.

This is not the first time prostitution has intersected with youth education in Germany.

In 2023, the city of Berlin has prompted outrage from locals after offering a graphic picture book on prostitution to children via its official website. The book, titled Rosie Needs Money (Rosi sucht Geld), was advertised as a resource for youth aged 6 to 12 years old, and was illustrated using drawings sourced from children in the community.

The story was written from the perspective of a child named Maryam, whose family relocated to Germany from Syria.  Maryam narrates as she and her equally-young schoolmate, Martin, look for Rosie, a woman from Bulgaria who is in the sex trade. Maryam says that her mother told her that Rosie is often “looking for money” in the street.

The Berlin government is offering children a pro-prostitution picture book intended to teach them that the sex trade is safe and enjoyable.

"Rosie Needs Money," which is written from the perspective of a little girl, is targeted at children aged 6-12.https://t.co/r5FlkE0kGW

— REDUXX (@reduxx) September 25, 2023

“But they don’t seem to find much money. Their clothes are not enough. Their breasts and legs must freeze in winter,” observes Maryam. “Today we decided to finally ask Rosie what she does with men. Actually, we already know. They give her money and want to make love.”

Martin then appears to reference pornography, saying: “It’s different from mom and dad. Mom makes love to dad, but Rosie’s men don’t make love, they make sex like on TV.”

In the book, Rosie suggests that men use prostitutes due to loneliness, and advertises the sex trade as a legitimate and important field.

After Reduxx reported on the book, the city of Berlin removed the book from its official website.

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A trans-identified male responsible for the sadistic rape and killing of a young woman has avoided jail after violating the conditions of his release. Mark Richard Lawrence, who now identifies as a woman named “Maryanne,” had previousl placed under a supervision order despite concerns that he poses an imminent threat to the public.

Lawrence amassed a lengthy criminal record beginning in adolescence, years before carrying out a brutal killing that would make national headlines, once admitting to police that he had harbored violent fantasies since he was 15.

Court records show Lawrence first appeared before a judge in 1978 at age 17 after being charged with the aggravated assault of a young boy, but he was released with a warning. Within months, he was back in court facing allegations involving another young victim. The Herald Sun reported that he then received a two-year probation sentence.

In 1979, Lawrence was charged with assaulting a 17-year-old girl. He avoided imprisonment again, receiving three years’ probation and being ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation. Later that year, he was charged once more with aggravated assault against a child and fined just $75 for the crime.

By 1981, Lawrence had been committed to Wolston Park Hospital, a psychiatric institution in Queensland. While detained there, he escaped and attempted to rob a man at knifepoint. He was sentenced to four months in prison before being returned to the hospital, where he reportedly described repeated fantasies involving rape and murder.

It was at Wolston Park that Lawrence met 29-year-old Julie Ann Muirhead, another patient undergoing treatment for self-harm. Investigators later alleged that Lawrence persuaded Muirhead to leave the hospital grounds before attacking and killing her.

AUSTRALIA: A sadistic killer has "come out" as transgender while serving a sentence for the horrific rape and murder of a vulnerable woman.

Mark Richard Lawrence is "undergoing transition" behind bars and now calls himself "Maryanne."https://t.co/61JXQVxbMM

— REDUXX (@reduxx) January 19, 2026

Muirhead was reported missing on December 26, 1983. Due to staffing shortages, hospital staff reportedly did not immediately conduct a full search of the grounds. Her decomposing body was discovered on January 4 beneath a tree about 50 meters from the facility. Investigators found evidence that the body had been partially burned.

Police said Muirhead had been stripped to her underwear, with her trousers pulled down around her ankles. A towel had been wrapped around her neck, and some of her clothing could not be located.

Authorities initially considered whether Muirhead’s death may have been self-inflicted. That theory was later abandoned after investigators concluded Lawrence and fellow patient Robin Joseph Sirett, then 21, had lured her away from the facility with promises of beer in an attempt to carry out one of Lawrence’s violent sexual fantasies.

Investigators alleged Lawrence sexually assaulted Muirhead before fatally slashing her throat with a broken bottle while Sirett restrained her. The pair then allegedly attempted to burn the body.

In 1985, Lawrence and Sirett were convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Former detective Bob Munt, who investigated the case, later said he believed Lawrence posed an ongoing danger to the public and should never be released.

“I still think he is crazy,” Munt told reporters years later. “I believe he will reoffend without doubt.”

Lawrence committed another violent offense while incarcerated at Moreton Correctional Centre in 1999, when he raped his cellmate. The conviction added seven years to his sentence. An earlier escape attempt in 1991 resulted in an additional year being added, extending his expected release date to 2008.

As that date approached, Queensland authorities sought to keep Lawrence imprisoned indefinitely under the Dangerous Prisoner (Sexual Offender) Act, arguing he remained a serious threat and continued to harbor sadistic sexual fantasies. Lawrence appealed the move, and the Supreme Court eventually ruled he could be released under strict supervision conditions.

One of those conditions required Lawrence to undergo regular injections of Goserelin Acetate, a drug used in the chemical castration of high-risk sexual offenders. However, then-attorney general Jarrod Bleijie intervened in an effort to block his release, resulting in Lawrence remaining behind bars for another decade.

Lawrence was ultimately released in April 2020 under a supervision order issued pursuant to the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003. Justice Debra Bowskill ordered him to comply with any “reasonable direction” issued by corrective services officers, including restrictions on who he could contact, for a period of 20 years.

Since 2022, Lawrence has challenged the conditions of that supervision order through the courts. In December 2024, the High Court of Australia ruled in his favor.

That same month, he was admitted to Princess Alexandra Hospital following a suspected overdose of prescription medication. While there, he exposed himself to staff and was caught masturbating, despite being on medications intended to lower his sex drive. Hospital staff reported that Lawrence was exposing his genitals and whispering to female workers to come closer to him.

Lawrence was charged with four counts of committing an indecent act with intent to insult or offend, and was briefly returned to prison. It is understood that he began identifying as transgender while in custody.

In November of 2025, he faced magistrates court where those charges were dropped and replaced with a single count of wilful exposure to offend or embarrass. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to time served. But despite finding that Lawrence had contravened a condition of his supervision order, he has avoided jail.

On May 22, the Supreme Court opted against sending Lawrence back to prison, and instead allowed him to remain at a special facility for convicted sex offenders in Brisbane. While not a jail, the site is near several jails and the Queensland Corrective Services Academy.

However, a forensic psychiatrist testified that if Lawrence did reoffend while on release, the crime was likely to be devastating.

“Should the respondent reoffend sexually … it may take the form of planned or impulsive violent sexual assault of a vulnerable adult or child,” Dr. Andrew Aboud said. “Any such offense would likely be driven by a need for sexual gratification. Extreme violence may be employed to subdue his victim … Given his past offending history, it must be recognized that should he reoffend, there is a potential for the offense behavior to be very serious, namely the committal of a sexually sadistic murder.”

But Dr. Aboud added that if Lawrence remained on his anti-libidinal medications, the risk was “moderate to low,” the Courier reported.

According to The Noticer, Justice Scott McLeod decided the incident at the hospital did not constitute “serious sexual offending,” and the supervision order had “in effect been working as intended.”

The state government is now looking into whether it can appeal the decision, and Deputy Premier and acting Attorney General Jarrod Bleijie said the legal advice had been requested.

While Lawrence is not allowed to leave the sex offender facility unaccompanied, he is allowed to request written permission for leave.

Under the terms of his order Lawrence must get written permission from a Queensland Corrective Services officer to go to a public park, visit a shopping centre, be in a place where there is a children’s play area or child minding area, or join any club or organization in which children are involved.

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A woman in New Hampshire has had her Planet Fitness membership revoked after voicing concerns about a trans-identified male in the women’s locker room. The man observed in the women’s locker room was later identified by a local predator hunter as Christopher Beaulieu, a registered child sex offender.

Speaking to WMUR9, Concord woman Judy Walcott explained that she had been using the locker room at Planet Fitness on April 11 when she noticed a man hanging up his belongings outside of a shower. Walcott left the facilities to lodge a complaint.

“He gave me goosebumps,” Walcott said. “I went to the front desk. I said, ‘There’s somebody there who’s really creepy, and it’s freaking me out.’ And it was just a kid, you know, I think he was new even, and he just said, ‘There’s nothing I can do about it.'”

Walcott told the outlet that she believed the incident was not investigated by staff. Disturbed by the encounter, she pressed the matter further in the following days by raising further concerns about the man she said she encountered in the locker room to another staff member. In response, she was called “transphobic” and subsequently, her membership of over a decade was revoked.

“She just kept calling me transphobic,” Walcott said. “Told me I should quit if I didn’t like it. Pointed to the door. So I just walked away. And it was a few hours later that the assistant manager in Concord called me and canceled me. She didn’t ask me anything. She wasn’t present for any of it. She just canceled me for a policy violation.”

Walcott discovered her membership had been cancelled by a Planet Fitness employee on her behalf. According to Walcott, a Planet Fitness employee submitted a cancellation request in her name that included the notation “Nondiscrimination Trans.” Walcott alleges the signature on the form was not hers, and had been forged by the employee.

Having paid for her membership, Walcott returned to Planet Fitness to use the facilities when she says the staff called the police and filed a report against her. She said she was issued a no-trespass order by Concord police.

While the name of the man in question was not published by WMUR9, a local predator hunter and independent journalist who goes by the moniker Gator Boy appears to have identified the individual as registered sex offender Christopher Beaulieu.

On May 21, Gator Boy took to Facebook to post about Beaulieu, noting that he was known to frequent that Planet Fitness, as well as other venues in the Concord, New Hampshire, area.

Gator Boy has posted about Beaulieu in the past, noting he had been spotted at the community’s Chuck E. Cheese franchise, and expressed concerns for the safety of the children and families who frequent the establishment. Gator Boy has also reported receiving threatening emails he alleges are from Beaulieu in apparent retaliation for posting information on his whereabouts within the community.

During an interview with Newsmax on Thursday, Judy Walcott referenced Gator Boy’s identification of Beaulieu and stated that photographs circulating online of Beaulieu “look exactly the same” as the individual she recalled seeing in the locker room.

Gator Boy‘s findings were reposted by New Hampshire state representative Lisa Mazur on X.

Reduxx obtained Beaulieu’s court records, which reveal he began transitioning while in prison for sexual assault against a child who was between 13 and 16 years of age. Beaulieu also has convictions for theft, criminal mischief, receiving stolen property, breach of bail, criminal threatening, violation of probation-parole, criminal mischief, and violation of a protective order.

While in prison, Beaulieu filed multiple civil rights complaints against the prison he had been housed in and the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, alleging several civil rights violations after claiming to have been the victim of assault by other inmates and staff. Beaulieu also claimed that the institution’s medical staff had refused to diagnose him with gender dysphoria, thus making it difficult for him to access cross-sex hormones. As a result of his complaints, he was granted access to feminizing hormones in 2015. Beaulieu would later be sympathetically profiled by New Hampshire Public Radio for his experiences in prison.

A 2017 court filing is the first time Beaulieu’s gender identity is formally mentioned in court records, noting that he was changing his name to “Crystal” and preferred to be referred to using feminine pronouns, a courtesy the court granted.

In 2020, Beaulieu’s name change petition was approved, and he officially became known as Crystal Beaulieu. But, following his release from prison, he began using the name Krystal Robert Robie. In 2022 and 2023, Beaulieu would be convicted of failing to inform authorities of a change to his identity, a requirement under his sex offender registration status.

In 2024, Beaulieu was arrested once again after he failed to inform authorities about a secret Instagram account he had been operating.

While he is currently listed as transient in his New Hampshire sex offender profile, Beaulieu appears well-known amongst residents in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, and social media shows locals discussing concerning encounters they have had with him in their communities. He has been known to have been employed at local pizza establishments, including 911 Pizza and Little Caesar’s.

Reduxx found that Beaulieu operated several Facebook accounts, but has deleted all of them within the past month.

This is not the first time Planet Fitness has come under fire for allowing males to use the female restrooms, often with disturbing outcomes.

As previously reported by Reduxx in 2023, a man was arrested after repeatedly exposing himself to teenage girls in a women’s locker room at a Planet Fitness in Monroe, Georgia.

Despite being aware that the man had a history of indecent exposure, Planet Fitness employees reportedly stated the man had a “right” to use the women’s facilities as per the gym’s gender self-identification policy.

A man has been arrested in connection to multiple indecent exposure incidents in a women's locker room at a Planet Fitness in Georgia.

Staff said that JaKorbie Dixon had a "right" to use the women's facilities even after exposing himself to a teen girl.https://t.co/tHKQr0nkiz

— REDUXX (@reduxx) September 21, 2023

In another similar incident from 2021, a Korean spa in California made international headlines after a transgender sex offender had been granted access to the women’s facilities in accordance with California state law.

Wi Spa, a jjimjilbang-style establishment in Los Angeles was the subject of viral attention after a video recorded by a female patron began circulating on social media. In the video, the woman confronts spa staff because of a nude male who was exposing himself in front of women and girls in the women’s changing room.

The incident was initially dismissed as a “transphobic” hoax by progressive commentators, but the trans-identified male was identified as Darren Agee Merager, a registered sex offender, shortly after. Merager was arrested in December of 2022.

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A French women’s rights activist has been found guilty of “public insult” over a remark she made during a televised debate with a trans-identified male. Dora Moutot was informed on May 20 that she had been convicted of “public insult against a person or group of people on account of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity” due to her comment that women are “wary of people with penises.”

Moutot made the statement during an October 2022 episode of the popular talk show Quelle Époque!, where she had been invited as a guest to debate a trans-identified male named Marie Cau, the mayor of Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes. While discussing the issue of men who claim to be transgender women, Moutot stated that women have a need to be cautious in the presence of “people with penises.”

In its ruling, the court argued that Moutot had reduced “transgender women” to “their male attribute.”

“By referring to them as ‘penis people’ whom ‘women’ are ‘forced to distrust’, the defendant first assigns transgender women to their penis, that is, to their male sexual attribute of birth, while denying their female gender identity since they are opposed to ‘women’, the defendant thus implicitly considering that transgender women are not women,” the verdict read.

“This statement, which in a generalizing and essentializing way denies the gender identity of those concerned and assigns them to a masculine sexual attribute by associating the latter with a state of danger for cisgender women, is outrageous towards transgender women because of their sex and their gender identity.”

Incredibly Moutot was fined €1,000, to be paid to the state, as well as the payment of €500 in damages to each of the three trans activist associations who backed Cau’s legal complaint, and an additional €2,000 to cover the court costs, which had come from public funding.

Presenter Léa Salamé asked Moutot, “In what way do you, as a feminist, as a woman, feel that trans demands weaken you? Why do you see this as something that should be opposed? What does it take away from you, as a woman?”

In response, Moutot asserted that it was necessary to “find common ground.” She then cited specific examples of ways in which gender identity ideology policies impede on the rights of women and girls. “For example, in sports: today, a number of trans women—formerly men—compete in women’s categories. And sometimes, simply because they have different musculature, they win,” Moutot elaborated.

“We also face issues in prisons. In certain countries—the United States, in California, or in England—men who have sometimes committed murders of women or rapes are first placed in men’s prisons,” she added. “Then they undergo a ‘gender-affirming’ program, transition while in prison, become women administratively, and are transferred to women’s prisons.”

She continued: “In some cases—I have to say it—there have been men who raped their female fellow inmates. I am not saying that all trans people do this, far from it, but as women we are obliged to be wary of people with penises.”

Cau, backed by three trans activist organizations who are funded by taxpayers – Adheos, Mousse and SOS Homophobie – filed a criminal complaint against Moutot over her comments in February 2023. Attorneys for Cau argued that her comments constitute “advocating violence against transgender individuals,” though the recent ruling tossed out that claim, stating her remarks did not “incite the public, implicitly or explicitly, to violence, discrimination or hatred”.

During the debate, Salamé had asked Moutot whether she regarded the mayor as a woman, to which Moutot replied, “To me, Marie Cau is a man.” A statement released by Mousse accused Moutot of “violently attacking” Cau by calling him both a man, and a “transfeminine man.”

Moutot shared details of the recent verdict in a post to her personal Substack, and expressed her concern for freedom of speech, noting that “it is now apparently formally forbidden to call for distrust of the opposite sex.”

“It is unacceptable that a woman can be criminally convicted for expressing, in a debate of general interest, a concern related to women’s safety and the reality of biological sex,” she said. “My point was simple: when someone has a male sex, regardless of their gender identity, many women instinctively feel a heightened sense of vigilance. This is neither hatred nor an incitement to violence. It is a protective reflex deeply rooted in the female experience. Apparently, simply mentioning this reality is now enough to be condemned.”

Moutot also stated that she intends to appeal the decision, saying that she is willing to take the case to the Court of Cassation, the highest court in France.

In response to Wednesday’s verdict, SOS Homophobie released a public statement suggesting that a part of the motivation for the lawsuit was to make an example of Moutot and to criminalize criticism of people who claim to be transgender.

“STOP homophobia welcomes a ruling that clearly establishes that statements targeting transgender people can be penalized by law, even without an explicit call to hatred… This case shows that discourse targeting transgender people does not come without consequences.”

Cau, whose given name is Nicolas, became well known in France after he was elected to political office in 2020 and was celebrated in media reports as the first transgender mayor in the nation. After he won the election in the small town of Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes, which has a population of approximately 500, Cau expressed an ambition to run for President.

In September 2022, Cau published an autobiography titled Madame Mayor (Madame le Maire) wherein he described his urge to wear women’s clothing, an activity which he says brings about the “height of happiness” for him.

“Once I was alone in the house, I put on my girl’s clothes. A feeling of happiness, of liberation. Dressed like this, I can talk about myself in feminine terms and I can breathe,” Cau wrote. “Finally. I am myself. Shortly after puberty, I would also wear make-up… It became a bit like a drug, an addiction, because it feels so good that I would try to find that pleasure again.”

In his autobiography, Cau also detailed his divorce from his wife, and railed against the justice system, which granted custody of their children to his former wife.

“The woman is always the victim, while the man is always the executioner, often accused of violence or alcoholism,” he wrote. The judge presiding over their divorce proceedings ordered him to leave the home and granted him limited visitation rights – a situation that Cau says “is one that the courts traditionally reserve for a failing or even violent father.”

In a staggering hypocrisy, though Moutot had been accused of “advocating violence against transgender individuals,” the author and women’s rights campaigner has herself been subjected to a targeted campaign of harassment, with trans activists explicitly calling for her murder.

Previously, prominent political figures in France have publicly condemned and even mocked Moutot on social media for her statements about biological sex. Following an interview published in Le Figaro, Senator Mélanie Vogel of The Greens (EELV) taunted Moutot on Twitter, commenting that “transphobes are not feminists.” The publication had shared a photo of Moutot alongside a quote: “A woman is an adult human female, this is a biological reality. Only women are able to give life. This is a privilege.”

Moutot, along with her colleague Marguerite Stern, have for years endured violent death threats. Since 2019, both women have been relentlessly harassed on social media, which escalated into the public sphere. Both women have been the target of “messages calling for us to ‘smash our heads off,’ slogans like ‘one TERF, one bullet’ or ‘transphobes to the fire’ chanted publicly,” and calls to “physically and violently oppose our entire existence.”

Moutot has documented public graffiti with her name, calling her a “danger” to society.

Other threats published online urged people to “settle things with knives,” while still others encouraged supporters to “burn” and “smash” her. Moutot filed a legal complaint against those who made violent threats against her, but her complaints were dismissed by the courts.

In May 2024, trans activists chanted death threats at Moutot and Stern outside of Assas University where they had been invited to speak about a book they wrote together critical of gender identity ideology titled “Transmania.”

Demonstrators surrounded the entrance and shouted, “A TERF, a bullet, social justice,” at the two women as they were escorted by police. “They have no shame,” said Stern in footage depicting the scene. “How can they say that in front of police?” marveled Moutot.

In September 2024, trans activists set off a bomb at a venue where Stern, co-author of the book “Transmania” with Moutot, was set to speak. The conference, titled Comment L’idéologie Transgenre Détruit des Vies? (How Transgender Ideology Destroys Lives), sought to discuss the harms of both medical transitioning and the aggression of trans activism. Vandalism on the front of the venue read: “Dirty TERF,” an acronym which stands for ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminist’ and is often used as a pejorative to harass or threaten violence against women who oppose gender identity ideology.

“Posters, publications, and slogans explicitly called for physical attacks against us. Around sixty hooded and armed individuals were even arrested on their way to a book signing for our book Transmania,” Moutot noted.

“We have lived under constant pressure: event cancellations, police presence, real fear of attack, massive harassment, smear campaigns, repeated threats. And yet? Cases were dismissed without further action each time we filed a complaint. No legal repercussions. No institutional outrage. No protection.”

She added: “Slogans calling for us to be killed seem to produce less of a legal reaction than a sentence expressing concern about women’s safety.”

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