A trans-identified male in Edmonton, Alberta, has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting multiple women at a women’s shelter in the city. Mika Lin Katz, 37, is also known as Michael Collins.
On January 24, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) issued a press release on the incidents, revealing that Katz had first come to their attention in August of 2024 after two women came forward to report they had been victimized by Katz. Following an investigation, Katz was arrested and charged with two counts of sexual assault.
Despite the serious nature of the charges, Katz was then released with conditions, including to not contact or communicate with any of the complainants; not possess any weapons, firearms or ammunition; and not be within 50 meters of any women’s shelter in Alberta.
However, two additional victims have since come forward and reported that Katz had also victimized them in August of 2024 at the same shelter. The incidents took place on different days. On Thursday, January 23, Katz was re-arrested by EPS and faces two additional charges of criminal harassment and sexual assault.
The EPS is now asking any additional complainants to come forward, as Katz is believed to have potentially victimized more women.
Anyone who feels they may have been harmed by Katz is asked to contact the EPS at 780-423-4567
Reduxx has identified multiple social media profiles believed to belong to Katz, including one where he claims to have started taking cross-sex hormones in January of 2024. Katz identifies himself using “she/her/they/them” pronouns, and utilizes a “transgender pride” banner across several of his Facebook accounts.
On one of his Instagram accounts, Katz calls himself a “woman trapped in a man’s body”,” and follows a number of transgender and lesbian-focused pornography accounts.
Katz also operated a profile on ChatKK, a free chat site, seeking “female friends” explicitly, and claiming to have been “widowed due to unforseen” circumstances.
This is not the first incident involving a trans-identified male being accused of sexually assaulting women at a female shelter in Canada.
In April of 2023, a man was apprehended in Windsor, Ontario, in relation to a sexual assault that had taken place at a local women’s shelter. The suspect was identified by Windsor Police Service as 32-year-old Desiree Anderson, also known as Cody D’Entremont. Anderson, who appears to have since detransitioned, was later acquitted of the charges after his lawyer argued that the victim was not credible.
Similarly, in 2022, it was reported that a woman was allegedly raped by a sex offender at a women’s shelter in West Parry Sound after the predator identified as transgender in order to gain access to the facility.
Shane Jacob Green, 25, was arrested on August 24, 2022, by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). At the time, the OPP issued a notice stating Green had been charged with two counts of sexual assault, four counts of failing to comply with a probation order, and one count of failing to comply with a release order. But it was later revealed that the crimes had occurred while Green was staying in a local women’s shelter.
A woman was reportedly raped by a known sex offender at a women's shelter in Ontario, Canada after the predator identified as transgender in order to gain access to the facility.
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Shane Jacob Green, 25, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault.https://t.co/ngdcibhCpO
Despite Canada’s vast size, there is only one known single-sex shelter in the country.
Vancouver Rape Relief (VRR), located in British Columbia, is Canada’s oldest rape crisis shelter. In 2019 it was stripped of its city funding after asserting it had a right to provide services to females only. Trans activists successfully lobbied the city government to make the shelter’s funding contingent on accepting males who identified as transgender.
As a result of its hardline stance on being exclusively for women in need, VRR was targeted by trans activists repeatedly in incidents of disturbing vandalism which included nailing the corpses of dead animals to its charity shop door.
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