The German federal government was responsible for funding a research project labeling “organized transphobia” a threat to democracy. The project, which was made in collaboration with a trans-identified male known for threatening violence against women he disagrees with, classifies those opposed to Germany’s radical gender self-identification laws as “enemies” of society.

Days ago, the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ Jena) published a brochure reporting the outcome of a research project it had undertaken on “Organized Transphobia: Concepts, Actors, Narratives, and Counter-Strategies.” In the 92-page release, it concluded that transphobia poses a danger to democratic co-existence and outlines strategies to tackle radical feminists who define biological sex as binary.

The research project, published in collaboration with the Federal Association for Transgender People (BVT), was funded by the German government through the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, which provided it a total of 228,833 Euros.

The project portrays feminists critical of gender ideology as enemies of the state who, together with right-wing extremists, pursue a political agenda to maintain an “endo-cis-binary gender system” – something that is deemed incompatible with the “principles of liberal democracy.”

The research itself claims it was conducted using a “scientifically grounded foundational work” and empirical surveys in the form of interviews with so-called “experts” who were all part of the “queer community.” Most of the project’s main researchers and the authors are transgender, according to their self-describing statements.

One of those “experts” is a trans-identified male named Mine Wenzel, formerly known as Benjamin, who goes by the pseudonym  “Mine Pleasure Bouvar.”

Wenzel, who identifies as a “non-binary lesbian femme,” has previously been invited to act as an expert for state-funded projects and lectures. He is well-known for his calls for violence against women, and has accused lesbians of bigotry for declining to have sex with trans-identified males.

Erstmalig stimmt ja so nicht, Mine Wenzel. Aber es klingt natürlich dramatischer. Erinnern wir uns daran, was Mine Wenzel so von Frauen- und Lesbenrechten hält. pic.twitter.com/RX8Z1zLXMu

— Rona (@ronalyze) March 22, 2023

In a 2021 article by the Heinrich Böll Foundation titled “TERFs False Friends – Feminism for Privileged Women,” Wenzel labeled feminists who advocate for their sex-based rights as FARTs, claiming they maintained an “outdated” understanding of biology to secure their privileges. 

Together with the Robert Koch Institute, a German federal agency and biomedical research center, Wenzel also developed a questionnaire for a study on the “sexual health of transgender individuals,” in which women and girls are referred to as “people with short urethras” whose primary genital organs are called a “front hole” or “pussy.”

The Robert Koch Institute, a leading biomedical research facility associated with the German government, is under fire for a survey where it describes females as “people with short urethras” whose primary sex organs are the “front hole” or “p*ssy.”https://t.co/BcZ4n3RC44

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) April 28, 2022

Wenzel has also previously worked under his pseudonym “Mine Pleasure Bouvar” as an anti-discrimination and education trainer invited by German universities to give lectures on “transmisogyny.”

Disturbingly, while hosting his own podcast series, Wenzel admitted to masturbating while wearing his sister’s clothing and pretending to be a female character from Japanese animation.

In the document published by IDZ Jena, Wenzel was one of the experts who called for the creation of more taxpayer-funded initiatives to combat “transphobia” in Germany, adding that schools should participate in the “decriminalization of trans-people” through educational initiatives targeting youth. Additionally, the report calls for a national monitoring system for “transphobic hate crimes” in order to make transphobia visible as a threat to democracy.

Much of the research revolved around condemning critical attitudes towards Germany’s new gender self-identification bill.

The bill was first introduced in April of 2024, when the German Bundestag voted for the Self-Determination Act, which allows people to simply change their sex and first name at the registry office and threatens with a fine of €10,000 if someone reveals their previous first name and real sex. The Act came into effect on November 1.

Politicians who have expressed concerns about the bill and its impact on women and children have been faced criticism, even from within their own parties.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FPD) is seeking to prohibit the re-election of two female members who voted against the law. Katja Adler and Linda Teuteberg are the only two women in the FDP who voted against the law, with both expressing concerns about the implications gender ideology has for women’s safety. As a result, the FDP is seeking to remove both of them from standing in the upcoming election, and replace them with members who supported the Self-Determination Act.

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A trans-identified male in Quebec, Canada, has been found guilty of murdering his wife and two children in a grisly triple homicide that took place at a Brossard condominium in 2022. Mohamad Al Ballouz, 38, began identifying as a woman after being arrested and now calls himself “Levana.”

As previously reported by Reduxx, Al Ballouz was first arrested in September of 2022 after firefighters responded to an alarm originating from his 12th floor condo unit. Inside, they found a bonfire had been lit in the bedroom, where Al Ballouz was found lying on his bed beside the corpse of his wife, Synthia Bussières. Their two children were also on the bed, seemingly lifeless. First responders immediately noted that Bussières’ body had a number of stab wounds.

All four were rushed to the hospital, but Bussières and her children were declared dead shortly after. Al Ballouz had reportedly consumed windshield wiper liquid in an apparent suicide attempt, but he was placed under arrest after being treated for his self-imposed illness.

Al Ballouz was initially assigned some of the best defense lawyers in Quebec, but fired all of them due to disagreements. He represented himself in court, and delivered his closing arguments at the Longueuil courthouse in Québec last week. In his statement, he alleged that Bussières had tried to kill him after murdering their children, and that she had rearranged items in their home and stabbed herself to make it look like he had attacked her.

However, according to the prosecution, Al Ballouz stabbed Bussières repeatedly before suffocating the two boys with a pillow. Expert witness Maria Fiorello, a crime scene expert with 20 years of experience, testified that traces of Al Ballouz’s blood were found in many parts of the family’s condominium.

The accused killer’s blood was identified on the walls of the children’s bedroom, inside the shower, on the handle of the front door, on the handle of a mop, and on a box of garbage bags.

“The mop was still wet, so it appears it was used to clean up blood,” Fiorello said. She further explained that in her expert opinion, the location of Al Ballouz’s blood stains indicated he had been attempting to clean up the crime scene. Not only was the mop bloody, but the accused’s blood was on the washing machine, and he had changed his clothes.

While the exact motive of the crime remains unclear despite the trial, Bussières’ mother recently came forward to reveal that her daughter appeared increasingly troubled in the two years leading up to the murder.

“She had been with this man for 12 years, but in the last two years, she had changed. I didn’t recognize her anymore,” Sylvie Guertin told Les 2 Rives in September of 2023. She also said that she had seen Bussières in the weeks before her death, and had observed that her daughter looked frail.

Triple murder in Brossard: Motive remains unknown, prosecutor tells jury https://t.co/qoRhP4Nu9K pic.twitter.com/Y1vHcuSJ8E

— Montreal Gazette (@mtlgazette) November 11, 2024

“In August [of 2022], I saw that something was wrong, but I didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to look like the mother who gets involved in something that doesn’t concern her,” Guertin said. “I thought she had lost weight.”

On Monday, the jury rejected Al Ballouz’ version of the events, finding him guilty of the second-degree murder of his wife, and the first-degree murders of their two sons. He is now facing life in prison without parole for at least 25 years.

Throughout the hearings, Al Ballouz attended court wearing a blond wig and makeup. There is currently no indication that Al Ballouz was experiencing a change in his self-perceived “gender identity” prior to the trial, suggesting his claim of being transgender followed his arrest.

The court “respected” Al Ballouz’ newfound identity. According to CBC, the prosecution had to “warn” the jury that several witnesses would refer to Al Ballouz as a man to preempt any concerns about “disrespect.”

Canadian media outlets covering the trial have similarly referred to Al Ballouz as a “woman” or by using feminine pronouns. Global News opted to only refer to Al Ballouz by his feminine “chosen name,” declining to use his birth name throughout their coverage. Once sentenced, Al Ballouz will be entitled to request housing in accordance with his gender identity under Canadian law.

Largely due to the efforts of the governing Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau, the category of “gender identity” was made a protected characteristic after it was added to the Canadian Human Rights Act via a controversial piece of legislation known as Bill C-16. The amendments granted men access to single-sex female spaces like washrooms, changing rooms, prisons, and rape shelters on the basis of their identity.

While the Canadian government claimed the bill had been assessed for its impact on women prior to approval, it has refused to release any details of the assessment’s findings. In 2020, a copy of the assessment was given to journalist Anna Slatz via an Access To Information Request but was 96% redacted.

Since Bill C-16 was enacted in 2017, a number of violent and sexually depraved male inmates have been transferred to women’s prisons across Canada.

As previously reported by Reduxx, one egregious example includes a trans-identified male who raped an infant before being transferred to a women’s prison.

Tara Desousa, also known as Adam Laboucan, sexually assaulted a three-month-old baby boy in Quesnel, British Columbia in 1997. The infant was so brutally injured by the attack that he had to be flown to Vancouver, 410 miles away, to undergo reconstructive surgery. After declaring a transgender status, Desousa was transferred to the Fraser Valley Institution for Women, where he is one of multiple trans-identified males with a history of sexual violence at the facility. Desousa is designated a “dangerous offender” and is considered such a risk to public safety that he is serving an indeterminate prison sentence.

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A trans-identified male convicted of murdering his own parents is attempting to be get back into a women’s prison after being transferred out due to his sexual behavior with the female inmates. Amber FayeFox Kim, 35, whose birth name is Bryan, is suing the state’s Department of Corrections, claiming that being housed in a male prison is “cruel and unusual punishment.”

On June 21, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) transferred Kim out of the Washington Correctional Center for Women (WCCW) and to the Monroe Correctional Facility, a men’s prison. Kim had been detained at the WCCW for three and a half years, but was moved due to “safety concerns” after he reportedly had been observed having prohibited sexual interactions with a female inmate at WCCW.

According to The National Review, a prison guard witnessed Kim and his 25-year-old cellmate, Sincer-A Marie Nerton, “actively having sex” on the floor of the cell. The guard, who chose to remain anonymous when speaking with the outlet, filed a report in March detailing a firsthand account.

“Kim’s hands were on Nerton’s buttox [sic] in a spread open position while Kim’s erect penis was penetrating Nerton’s vagina,” the report read. “This is against MSU rules and policy. WAC-504-Engaging in a sex act with another person within the facility that is not otherwise included in these rules, except in an approved extended family visit.”

Now, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington has announced their legal support for Kim in a bid to have him transferred back into a women’s prison while arguing that incarceration at a men’s detention center places him “at imminent risk of harm.” A press release issued by the ACLU on December 17 argues that the placement of Kim in Monroe, a prison for men, is “unconstitutional” and an example of transphobia.

“Ms. Kim has lived at the WCCW since 2021,” reads the ACLU statement issued by Attorney Adrien Leavitt, which refers to Kim with feminine pronouns. “On March 14, 2024, Ms. Kim and her cellmate, a cisgender woman, were caught having consensual sexual contact and were each found guilty of a 504 infraction for violating rules around sexual contact.”

The press release continued: “In its filing, the ACLU of Washington argues that the transfer violates Article I, Section 14 of the Washington Constitution, which prohibits cruel punishment … Transfer to a men’s prison exposes Ms. Kim to an imminent danger of violence, sexual assault, and harassment.”

An affidavit filed December 17 by the ACLU on Kim’s behalf contains testimony from the convicted killer. “I read the encyclopedia off and on for years. When I reached the letter ‘T,’ I found a word for the secret of me, ‘transsexual.’ I was in middle school,” Kim states.

“Throughout middle and high school, I went by the name ‘Kim.’ Although my friends and peers thought they were just calling me ‘Kim’ because it was my last name, I loved being called a female name and it helped me emotionally as I struggled with gender dysphoria,” he continues.

When Kim was incarcerated at the age of 18, he claims that he became “the target of constant bullying due to being effeminate” and other inmates perceiving him as being homosexual.

“I survived two attempted sexual assaults at Walla Walla. Each time, I was able to physically defend myself and ward off the attacks. I know that, had I not fought back, I would have been raped. I feel that I was targeted for these attempted sexual assaults because of my effeminate appearance.”

While incarcerated among the male prison population, Kim alleges that he “was heckled, cat-called, hit-on, objectified, sexualized, and stalked by men,” and that he received “a nearly constant stream of notes from other inmates” propositioning him for “anonymous sex in the showers.”

Kim says that he “became involved in a coalition supporting transgender prisoners” which assisted him in legally changing his name from Bryan to Amber Fayefox, adding, “My name change was used as a template for other incarcerated transgender people who wanted to change their names.”

Bizarrely, Kim adds his rationale for choosing the feminine name ‘Amber,’ saying, “I chose the name Amber because it is one of few precious stones that was once part of a living being; it preserves the past within it and yet is electrically alive. I was also draw to the name Amber because, in Greek mythology, the name Amber is equivalent to the name of the Greek goddess Electra… The name Amber reflects my true identity.”

The convicted murderer also claims that his 2021 transfer to the female prison estate was “a massive improvement” because he could “truly live and be seen as a woman.”

While held at WCCW, Kim began receiving electrolysis for facial hair removal on the taxpayer’s dime, and was placed on a waitlist for genital surgery. Kim claims he received genital surgery “shortly after” he was transferred back to a men’s prison after having engaged in sexual interactions with a female inmate at WCCW.

After Kim was transferred out of women’s prison WCCW at the end of June, The Huffington Post reported sympathetically on the case while referring to Kim with feminine pronouns and condemning the “transphobic rationale” that had seen Kim placed in a male correctional facility for fifteen years.

According to the outlet, Kim requested to see documentation authorizing his transfer during the relocation process. When his requests were denied, he refused to continue walking. As a result, guards were left no other option than to restrain and forcibly relocate Kim, where he was also placed in solitary confinement as a disciplinary action for refusing the transfer.

Immediately following Kim’s transfer to Monroe, he began a hunger strike in protest. After 17 days, he discontinued the hunger strike because, according to Kim, he was told he would be denied state-funded genital surgeries if he did not comply.

In November 2023, The Huffington Post had also portrayed Kim in a compassionate light in an article on trans-identifying male inmates – despite the fact that Kim has previously been described by a psychiatrist as suffering from antisocial personality disorder and having “no conscience.” In a 2022 psychiatrist report, Kim is quoted as saying that he was “no good at being a boy but not allowed to be a girl” during his childhood. Kim claimed that his parents had made multiple threats to kill him leading up to the murder, and that they had refused to let him move out.

“Kim fatally stabbed her father and killed her mother when she returned home,” read the Huffington Post article. “Kim, 18 at the time, was sentenced to die in prison. Her plans of coming out now seemed impossible.”

In 2008, at the age of 19, Kim was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his father, Richard Kim, and the bludgeoning and strangulation of his mother, Terri Kim reported The Spokesman-Review. The Kims were killed by their son at their home in Mount Spokane on December 5, 2006.

During his closing remarks at the trial, Chief Deputy Criminal Prosecutor Jack Driscoll told the jury Bryan Kim killed his parents because they had been charging him $1,000 for rent and were prepared to evict him from their home. “His parents had given him a deadline. They needed to die so he could have what he felt he was entitled go,” Driscoll told the jury.

Expert witness Dr. William Grant, of Eastern State Hospital, testified that he believed Kim had “no conscience” and diagnosed him as displaying symptoms of antisocial personality disorder, as evidenced in part by the violent outbursts which he had been prescribed medication to control.

The public defender’s expert, Dr. Michael Arambula, of San Antonio, argued that the medication had aggravated his condition and as such was not entirely responsible for the murders of his parents. Arambula said Kim suffered from depression at an unusually early age and hadn’t been properly treated.

Both psychiatrists agreed, however, that Kim was mentally ill. After brutally killing his parents, Kim attempted to clean up the crime scene, and had earlier that same day stolen his father’s debit card. Before the murders, Kim withdrew $1,000 from his father’s account and went shopping.

During court proceedings, Kim’s sister Jessica testified that her brother suffered from bipolar disorder. She also knew him to be “fascinated with Zip ties” and remarked that he “slept with a knife under his pillow”.

Similarly, a former girlfriend, Marina Ritchey, told the court of the “violent images” Kim said would flood his mind whenever he thought of his parents. Tensions were high in the home and disputes broke out frequently over Bryan’s refusal to take his medication to treat his bipolar disorder. According to Sgt. Dave Reagan of the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, there was also a “history of assault behavior” between Kim and his parents leading up to the murders.

Last October, the Washington Department of Corrections reached a settlement with the nonprofit organization Disability Rights Washington that updated the prison system’s policies in regards to trans-identifying inmates.

“Patients with gender dysphoria will also be promptly evaluated for gender-affirming surgeries and procedures by a community expert in gender-affirming care and patients will have access to gender-affirming mental health care,” reads a press release announcing the decision.

According to the updated prison policy, an inmate’s “gender expression / transition status or gender identity … will be maintained as confidential and will only be disclosed within the Department on a need-to-know basis.” DOC Secretary Cheryl Strange hailed the “landmark agreement” as “a step in the right direction.”

Kim is not the first trans-identified male inmate caught having sexual contact with a female inmate at WCCW in recent years.

As previously exclusively reported by Reduxx, another trans-identified male transfer at WCCW sexually assaulted a female inmate in 2022. The woman, who was identified under the pseudonym “Mary,” came forward to tell Reduxx that violent sex offender Christopher Williams sexually abused her after he was moved into her cell.

The situation took a turn for the worse after Mary was prescribed sleeping medication to help with her anxiety at night.

“I’m not sure how many times he touched me because of my [meds]. But one day I came back to my cell from a work shift and he had two strap-on dildos and asked me to use them on him. I refused. That night, I was woken up to him touching me.”

While Kim’s transfer to the male estate is a first for the state of Washington, it is not an isolated case nationally. At least one other male inmate who has claimed to be a woman has been transferred out of a women’s prison – though unlike Kim, the decision was made to protect him, rather than to safeguard women.

Raequan ‘Rae’ Rollins was previously held at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCF) in New Jersey. In 2019 he was sentenced to four years in prison for a violent robbery incident, and after spending five months in a male facility, Rollins changed his legal gender marker to ‘female’ and was subsequently transferred to the Edna Mahan women’s estate in October of that year.

EXCLUSIVE:

A trans-identified male inmate whose story of being abused in a women's prison was highlighted by national news reports was allegedly abusing staff and female inmates at the facility, according to a whistleblower.https://t.co/e0fFEPYen2

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) June 30, 2022

While detained at EMCF, Rollins assaulted several prison officers and sexually harassed female guards and inmates. Rollins would ultimately provoke one of the most violent prison riots at EMCF’s history in January of 2021, during which he was beaten, and six women were severely battered by guards.

After filing a lawsuit that year, Rollins was transferred out of the women’s prison for his safety and temporarily placed in the male estate at the New Jersey State Prison, before being transferred again to Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Muncy, a facility for adult female offenders.

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The German federal state of Saxony has released records on the amount of trans-identified males housed in women’s prisons, but only after demanding an egregious €1,100 fee. The effort, spearheaded by Let Women Speak, revealed that a number of male sex offenders were being housed with women.

In May of 2024, Initiative “Let Women Speak” (Lasst Frauen Sprechen) began to file Freedom of Information requests requesting data on the amount of males being housed with women in various state facilities across Germany. Most of the states responded with data which indicated that trans-identified males had been transferred to women’s prisons far ahead of any federal law requiring them to be accommodated according to their “gender identity.”

The Ministry of Justice in Saxony, a region led by the pro-trans Green Party, was the only federal state which demanded a prohibitive fee of €1,100 to access the records. As a result, Let Women Speak was forced to withdraw their request and requested local assistance in getting the information.

In response to their call for help, right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) submitted an inquiry asking how many individuals with a “deviating gender identity” had been imprisoned in the state of Saxony since January 2020. The Ministry of Justice responded to their request, admitting that there were nine people with “deviating gender identities” in their facilities. However, they did not provide any information about what sex these people are or where they had been accommodated. The Ministry further revealed that inmates who legally changed their gender identity prior to being imprisoned would not be recorded as having a “deviating gender identity.”

German outlet NiUS also facilitated a request for similar information and received a response from the Ministry of Justice in Saxony indicating that three males had been housed at the Chemnitz correctional facility for women between 2023 and 2024. The inmates had criminal records indicating assault, sexual assault, sexual harassment and assault on law enforcement officers. One of them was convicted of rape.

While the identities of the men are not known, multiple female inmates have come forward this year to report that they had been housed with a sexually abusive trans-identified man in Chemnitz.

According to the women, who spoke to Freie Presse earlier this year, the trans-identified male inmate repeatedly ambushed them during activities and was aggressive, verbally abusive and threatened to beat them.

The man had also reportedly forced the women, including female correctional officers, to watch him masturbate. According to Freie Presse, he was eventually transferred back to the men’s prison.

In another incident out of Chemnitz, a trans-identified man identified as Jan Daniel K. almost murdered a female correctional officer by strangulation. According to BILD, Jan Daniel was a violent criminal and pimp who had been sentenced to 13 years in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. He declared himself “female” during his sentencing hearing, and was transferred to a women’s prison shortly after.

Jan Daniel targeted the female correctional officer after being penalized by her, and took his revenge by dragging her into his cell during routine checks and strangling her. It is unclear whether he was transferred back to the male estate or was allowed to remain in the women’s facility.

Despite there being several known problems in Chemnitz as a result of male inmates being moved in, the Saxon Green Party initiated a change to the state’s prison law in December 2023 intended to further satisfy “trans inmates.”

The draft of the law states its intention is to improve the treatment of “transsexual, intersex and non-binary prisoners” and “prisoners with diverse or no sex marker” in their legal documents. The law includes “sexual identity” as a protected characteristic, thus removing the principle of separation between male and female inmates as soon as a detainee proclaims he is a “woman.”

The law would further strengthen Germany’s already-radical gender Self-Determination Act (SBGG), which came into force November 1. The SBGG allows individuals to change their name and sex with few restrictions and imposes harsh punishments for those who fail to treat individuals in accordance with their self-declared gender identity.

Speaking to Reduxx, Hanna-Katarina Zippel of Let Women Speak said that she was “shocked” with the information released by the Ministry of Justice in Saxony, which demonstrated that the government was moving men into women’s prisons even before they were legally obligated to.

“It was shocking to learn that so many men were already being held in women’s prisons even before the self-identification law came into force. At the same time, however, the fact that so many media outlets and also some politicians took up our research shows me that it was worth making the inquiry to begin with,” she said.

“In order to fight for the withdrawal of self-identification law, it is crucial to educate people, especially women, about what it really means for them and to show them real-life examples. I hope that with our research we have reached many people who were not aware of the consequences of the new German self-ID law and that we have encouraged many people to speak out critically, so that hopefully one day no woman will have to endure being incarcerated with a man anymore.”

Despite female inmates having come forward about abuses they have suffered, all 16 federal state ministries deny that any sexual assaults have taken place in female facilities as a result of trans-identified males being housed with women.

René Müller, Federal Chairman of the Association of Prison Officers in Germany, has publicly expressed doubts about the official information. Speaking to Die Welt, Müller said that not every incident would have been recorded or reported by those affected. In its response to the AfD, the Ministry of Justice in Saxony also admitted that the sexual abuse or harassment of female inmates by trans-identified males would not be recorded.

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A trans-identified male in India has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after brutally raping an 8-year-old girl. Farin Kinar reportedly tried to claim his transgender identity made it “impossible” for him to have raped the child.

The sexual assault occurred in March of 2022 in the city of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. The child had visited the home of Kinar’s aunt to watch television, but was soon targeted by the man who led her to his own nearby residence. Kinar’s exact age is unknown, and he has been reported as being between 20 and 30 years of age.

When the girl returned to her mother, she was experiencing vaginal bleeding and had to be rushed to the hospital, where she was admitted and spent 10 days in treatment. During an interview with police, the girl revealed that Kinar had threatened her against speaking out about what happened.

According to the Times of India, Kinar was arrested on June 22, and booked on charges of “rape on a woman less than 12 years of age” and criminal intimidation. 

In a bizarre turn, Kinar’s defense lawyer attempted to argue in court that Kinar was “female transgender by birth and cannot commit rape,” adding that his gender identity made it impossible for him to have committed the assault. The court then ordered Kinar to undertake a sex test, demonstrating he was biologically male.

During final proceedings on Monday, Special Judge Umashankar Khar found Kinar guilty based on both DNA evidence and victim testimony, and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment. Kinar was also ordered to pay a fine of 12,000 rupees (approx. $140 USD) to his victim.

While limited details on the case have been made available, likely in part due to the young age of the victim, it is speculated that Kinar may belong to the “Hijra” subculture. While initially defined as a “third gender” in India, Hijra have increasingly been referred to as “transgender” both locally and in news reports.

Hijra are primarily characterized by the development of their feminine identity through their sexual receptiveness to men as well as a castration ceremony that some, but not all, undertake. Hijra wear stereotypically feminine clothes, and often leave their families to join fictive kinship hierarchies with other Hijra, many of which are criminal gangs.

In some regions of India, Hijra were traditionally invited to bless new born children in exchange for gifts and money. But the tradition has been declining in recent years, while Hijra participation in crime, particularly sex trafficking and child abuse, has skyrocketed over the past decade.

As previously reported by Reduxx in February, a trans-identified male was sentenced to death after a Mumbai court convicted him of raping a three-month old infant. The perpetrator, who did openly identify as a Hijra, abducted the baby girl, sexually tormented her, and murdered her in an act of vengeance against the family for not offering him a customary money gift, or “badhai,” after the child’s birth.

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A Canadian man currently on trial for the brutal murders of his wife and two young sons has blamed the mother of his children for the slayings. Mohamad Al Ballouz, 38, has been charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, Synthia Bussières, and the first-degree murders of their two sons, Eliam and Zac, aged just 5 and 2 years old. Al Ballouz, who recently adopted the feminine name Levana and has been referred to as a “woman” by Canadian press, argued in court that his now-deceased wife Synthia Bussières was responsible for the murders.

On September 24, 2022, firefighters attended Al Ballouz’s 12th floor condo in Brossard, Quebec, in response to an apparent house fire. Inside, they found Al Ballouz lying in bed between the two children, and a small bonfire of household items had been lit next to the mattress. Bussières was discovered riddled with stab wounds in the bathroom.

All four were rushed to the hospital, but Bussières and her children were declared dead shortly after. Al Ballouz, who was also injured, had reportedly consumed windshield wiper liquid in an apparent suicide attempt, but he was placed under arrest after being treated. Al Ballouz has no previous criminal history.

CANADA: A man currently standing trial on charges of murdering his wife and two young children has begun identifying as transgender and wearing a wig to court.

Mohamad Al Ballouz is now being referred to as a "woman" by Canadian media outlets.https://t.co/e47z44Nh87

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) November 13, 2024

Representing himself after firing all of his lawyers, Al Ballouz delivered his closing arguments at the Longueuil courthouse in Québec on Wednesday. In his statement to the court, he alleged that Bussières tried to kill him after murdering the children, despite the multiple stab wounds Bussières had suffered. The accused claimed that the boys’ mother had rearranged items in their home to make it look like Al Ballouz had attacked her.

Referring to the panel as “charming members of the jury,” Al Ballouz argued that because expert witnesses were unable to identify with certainty which victim was killed first, it was therefore the case that Bussières had murdered the toddlers before self-inflicting the 23 “superficial” stab wounds which led to her death.

However, according to the prosecution, Al Ballouz stabbed Bussières repeatedly before suffocating the two boys with a pillow. Expert witness Maria Fiorello, a crime scene expert with 20 years of experience, testified that traces of Al Ballouz’s blood were found in many parts of the family’s condominium.

The accused killer’s blood was identified on the walls of the children’s bedroom, inside the shower, on the handle of the front door, on the handle of a mop, and on a box of garbage bags.

“The mop was still wet, so it appears it was used to clean up blood,” Fiorello said. She further explained that in her expert opinion, the location of Al Ballouz’s blood stains indicated he had been attempting to clean up the crime scene. Not only was the mop bloody, but the accused’s blood was on the washing machine, and he had changed his clothes.

The timeline presented during deliberations suggests that Al Ballouz stabbed Bussières before killing the two boys.

At approximately 8:26 p.m. that evening, Al Ballouz had left the family condominium in his car. Ten minutes later, he returned to the building carrying a case of beer. In security footage, Al Ballouz can be seen to have looked directly into the camera while winking – the first time that Al Ballouz had made such a gesture.

A neighbor told the court that screams could be heard a few minutes later, at about 8:30 p.m. “I suggest to you that Synthia Bussières was defenseless, near the bath, while the accused stabbed her in the face, neck and hands. Not a single stab wound. Not two. Twenty-three wounds, including 11 defensive wounds,” stated the presiding Judge Lamoureux.

According to the Crown prosecution, Al Ballouz suffocated his two sons shortly after. Once his children were dead, Al Ballouz detached the apartment’s smoke detectors, then started a fire at the foot of the bed. He drank windshield wiper fluid and lay down between his sons in bed.

Al Ballouz’s trial began on November 11, but during the proceedings it was learned that he now identifies as a “woman” named Levana Ballouz. During his hearings, he appeared in court wearing a blonde, curly wig and nail polish. He is reportedly representing himself after firing his two criminal defense lawyers, both of whom were considered to be among the best in Quebec.

According to CBC, the prosecution had to “warn” the jury that several witnesses would refer to Al Ballouz as a man to preempt any concerns about “disrespect.” Prior to the start of the trial, no previous news coverage had documented that Al Ballouz was expressing a change in his self-perceived “gender identity,” suggesting his claim of being transgender was extremely recent.

Canadian media outlets are respecting Al Ballouz’ new identity, with multiple articles covering the trial referring to Al Ballouz as a “woman” or by using feminine pronouns.

While the trial is expected to last at least 10 more weeks, if Al Ballouz is found guilty and criminally responsible, he would be entitled to request housing in a women’s prison.

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A trans-identified male college athlete has been quietly moved onto the women’s fencing team at Wagner College, and may now be collecting a women’s scholarship. Redmond Sullivan, who had previously competed on both the male and female teams simultaneously, seized gold in the women’s category at the Connecticut Division Junior Olympic Qualifier last week.

Sullivan first began competing in female sports while attending Daniel Hand High School in Connecticut, where he won a state championship in girls track and field for shot put during a Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) competition.

According to the results of the CIAC meet, Daniel Hand High School would have placed fourth had it not been for Sullivan’s dominating performance in the girls category, during which he threw the shot put nearly four feet farther than his second-place female competitor. Sullivan was the only student athlete to make it in the CIAC championship Top 10 during their first year of competition.

That same year, while competing in girls shot put and discus, he earned first, second, or third place in 14 separate competitions. Bizarrely, Sullivan was allowed to compete in girls track and field while he was also competing in boys fencing at the same school.

After graduation, Sullivan began attending Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. He joined the men’s fencing team, and participated in the New England Division USFA Pomme De Terre on June 17, 2023, during which he placed 29th out of 58 male competitors. As late as October of 2023, Sullivan was still classified as a fencer on the men’s team. But just one month later, he began competing in women’s fencing.

His transfer to the women’s team was unannounced by Wagner, and Sullivan enjoyed a significant improvement in his performance after beginning to compete against females.

At the Northeast Fencing Conference Varsity Meet in November, Sullivan won 3-0 in all of his matchups. Then, at the December 1 Seahawks Invitational, a fencing competition for Wagner College, Sullivan won two out of three fencing sets in the female category.

On Sunday, Sullivan won gold at the Connecticut Division Junior Olympic Qualifier in the Junior Women’s Foil.

Wagner College has not responded to a request for comment. On their website, the school claims to be “committed to stopping sex discrimination” in compliance with U.S. Title IX, a 1972 law that is supposed to guarantee equal opportunities for female students, including athletes.

In 2021, the Biden administration extended Title IX protections to transgender individuals, preventing the ability for colleges to keep males out of female sports. Several Republican states have sued over the federal changes to Title IX, arguing that it is unsafe and unfair for female athletes. President Elect Donald Trump has claimed he will, once in office, make changes to “keep men out of women’s sports.”

Wagner College also touts its “inclusive and supportive environments for LGBTQIA+ students.” They have published a list of “gender inclusive bathrooms” across the campus, and also instruct students to “honor the personal pronouns [of others] even when the person is not present” and to “not disclose a person’s gender identity unless you have obtained their consent.”

Marshi Smith, co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sport (ICONS), condemned Wagner College for allowing Sullivan to compete against females, and added that National Collegiate Athletics Association policies have emboldened colleges to protect trans-identified male athletes.

“The NCAA is repeatedly rewarding the replacement of women in order to champion men in women’s sports. This ongoing pattern of discrimination is why we are supporting a female athlete’s lawsuit against the organization. Legal action is necessary to hold the NCAA accountable for its repeated failures to uphold fairness and equality in women’s sports, with fencing being a particularly troubling example,” she says.

In March, ICONS filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on behalf of over one dozen female athletes for letting transgender athletes compete in women’s sports and use female locker rooms.

At the center of the class-action suit is Lia Thomas, a trans-identified male who dominated the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships while a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas fared poorly while participating in male sport, but began racking up medals after transferring to the women’s team.

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A trans-identified male serving a life sentence for murder who was quietly transferred in to a women’s prison is now sharing a shower with female inmates, causing them to feel “violated.” Bradley Richard Sirvio, 53, was transferred into Minnesota women’s prison MCF-Shakopee at the end of last year after claiming to identify as transgender and adopting the name “Aurora.”

In November of 1995, Sirvio beat a man to death with a hammer before setting the victim’s house on fire. According to court records, Sirvio was checking himself into a detoxification center when he “volunteered to a staff member during the intake process that he may have murdered someone named George and then set the house on fire to cover up what he had done.”

A repeat offender, Sirvio has several other convictions that include multiple charges of assault, burglary, and theft. He was quietly transferred to MCF-Shakopee, Minnesota’s only women’s prison, in November of 2023. The move was made a full five months ahead of the date that a newly-drafted gender identity prison policy was set to take effect, meaning that the state of Minnesota voluntarily chose to transfer Sirvio.

Now, two women who are housed next to Sirvio have come forward to protest the situation. The women reveal that female inmates have been told to share a shower with Sirvio, despite the convicted killer having had “no surgery whatsoever.” The women, whose names have been altered to protect their identities, say that Sirvio’s presence is causing them to feel anxious and violated.

One woman, Letitia, explained: “They put a man next door to me. He claimed to be transgender. I now have to share the same wing with him. I also share the same shower with no lock on the inside door … The whole wing of women share just one shower, and we do not have another shower besides this one. Some of the women live in the wing lounge, and this is their only bathroom.”

She continued: “This man is not transgender. No surgery has been done whatsoever. He is fully a man, and still has a man’s body part attached to him. He acts like a man, sounds like a man, behaves like a man.”

Letitia describes herself as a “vulnerable adult,” and adds that she feels exceedingly uncomfortable sharing an unlocked shower with a biological male.

“This violates my conscience. It causes me to feel uncomfortable when taking a shower, knowing there is no protection for me.” Letitia further noted how, despite voicing her concerns for her safety to prison officials, the matter was ignored and she was told, “there’s nothing [the authorities] can do about it unless something really happens to me.”

Letitia’s sentiment was echoed by another female inmate, who will be referred to as Kari.

“Men were brought to Shakopee, and us women were neither informed nor asked how we would feel about living with them,” Kari said, referring to a gender identity policy that was officially implemented in January of 2023.

“There are women here who have been assaulted by men, and may have PTSD because of it. We can’t go to staff and tell them how we feel about the situation because no one wants to discuss it. There are no locks on the bathroom door, so when taking a shower, I feel so unsafe,” Kari said.

“The first day that [Sirvio] moved in, I had an appointment with my mental health worker and I let her know why my anxiety was so high,” she said. “It makes me feel violated emotionally. She understood my concerns and said that she would feel the same way, knowing that they are violent and sex offenders … I just don’t understand why the DOC would put violent men and sex offenders around all these women. It’s sad that the staff doesn’t care about how we as women feel.”

Reduxx has seen communications from Sirvio wherein he explained that he first began to claim a transgender status approximately five years ago.

“I didn’t know too much about transgender stuff until then,” Sirvio said. “I always wanted to be a woman. I never was or am attracted to men, and I am open to things! I didn’t feel like a drag queen or a cross dresser and only found out about transgender stuff five years ago. I’ve been on hormones… and wearing women’s underclothes.”

The convicted killer commented that he had “anger issues” while incarcerated in the male facility MCF-Oak Park and “ended up hitting two [correctional officers]” with a pool stick, resulting in his transfer to USP Marion, in Illinois.

Sirvio also stated that his transfer into the women’s prison took place after he filed an application with the Minnesota Department of Corrections’ (DOC) Gender Identity Committee. However, according to an official announcement from the state, the gender identity policy was not set to take effect until April 1, 2024, whereas Sirvio was relocated to MCF-Shakopee in November 2023 – five months ahead of schedule.

He added that since he was moved into MCF-Shakopee, female prison staff, rather than male guards, are required to perform strip searches and pat downs on his person. This is done as a result of the new gender identity policy, which states, “pat and unclothed body searches of incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary must be done in accordance with the gender of the facility in which they are assigned… Incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary may request that they receive pat or unclothed body searches from security staff of a specific gender.”

As previously reported by Reduxx, there have been at least six male convicts transferred into MCF-Shakopee since 2023, half of whom are serving or have served sentences on charges related to the sexual abuse of children.

The prison policy was altered following a 2022 lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed in the female estate. The lawsuit, filed by trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice – which was recently revealed to have received nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funds from the administration of Governor Tim Walz.

The discrimination claim was filed by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice on behalf of Craig ‘Christina’ Lusk, who was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men.

“I was uneasy when Lusk lived on my wing because [he] still had [his] male anatomy, was built like a line backer, had a horrible temper, and would verbalize that [he] ‘still had a working unit,’” one woman, known as Janice, told Reduxx in October. “Thankfully [he] was discharged this past year.”

“I definitely have my concerns and opinions about the male inmates being admitted into our facility, but like most inmates there is a fear of speaking up or voicing those concerns because of potential retaliation, or because people will think you are being discriminatory or judgemental,” said Janice.

Commenting on Lusk’s transfer last November, Aaron Swanum with the Minnesota DOC remarked, “Minnesota has now joined 10 other states and the District of Columbia in approving transfers to facilities matching an inmate’s gender identity. The DOC is committed to providing supportive and safe environments for people of all gender identities and our new policy reflects this commitment.”

Upon his release this year, Lusk was awarded a $495,000 payout. But Lusk’s ex-wife came forward last year to tell The Daily Mail that she believed he was a “scammer” and a “big fat liar.” The two were married in 2005, but Lusk’s wife filed for divorce in 2008 due to his heavy drinking and violent behavior.

Janice currently shares a unit with Elijah Thomas Berryman, 26, who was first arrested in April 2022 and accused of sexually abusing a minor multiple times. He pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in March of this year, and according to the Minnesota DOC website, is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the women’s prison.

Last week, Reduxx revealed that a man who was convicted of sexually abusing a six year-old girl was transferred into MCF-Shakopee, where he had exposed himself to one of the female inmates. Despite having repeatedly lied about his identity to law enforcement in a bid to evade the law, Daniel Patrick Benz was permitted to change his name to Danielle Marie Whitebird in June of 2023 after his petition was approved by the state of Minnesota.

In addition to the name change, Benz also was supplied with a “replacement birth record” which declared his sex as female, despite not having undergone any surgeries, according to his own legal complaints.

Reduxx would like to extend a special thanks to Hands of Hope Prison Ministry for facilitating the inmate communications for this report.

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