Reduxx has learned that a registered sex offender was amongst a small group of trans activists who recently protested outside of a San Francisco spa and demanded access to clothing-optional female-only events. Dwight Austin, who began calling himself Dakota Rose Austin in 2022, was interviewed sympathetically by the media as a victim of the spa’s “discriminatory” policies.
As previously reported by Reduxx, a group of trans activists gathered at the entrance of a Russian-style bathhouse on the shores of the San Francisco Bay to protest their sex-segregated events. The spa holds nights where only males or only females are allowed into the clothing-optional facility on the basis that practitioners of certain religions prohibit the unclothed mixing of the sexes.
The demonstration was organized after one trans-identified male who calls himself Breath Mormorer claimed he was a victim of “transphobia.” Mormorer said Archimedes’ staff told him he would have to remain clothed at all times if he wanted to attend the female-only night.
Trans activists in San Francisco are protesting outside of a nude spa after a trans-identified male was told he could not be naked during a female-only event.
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) March 5, 2025
Breath Mormorer is accusing the spa of "prejudice and hate."https://t.co/1qPKLqlphb
The protest was featured on local news, where Austin was interviewed by reporter Kelsi Thorud.
“As Latinos, as trans, as queer, as African American, the fear is turned now. If you weaponize DEI and affirmative action and all these other things that were a benefit of everyone in America and you weaponize them against us, now I’m in fear,” Austin said. He was also featured in a number of other articles, quoted as being a trans activist.
However, despite professing to be living in “fear,” Reduxx has learned that Austin is listed on California’s state registry as a level 4 sex offender, according to a 2022 risk assessment. The ranking positions Austin as a moderate to high risk, with an “above average risk” of reoffending. The crime which saw Austin placed on the registry: rape by force or fear.
Within the same year as his sex offender high risk designation, Dwight Austin began calling himself Dakota Rose and utilizing multiple social media accounts in a bid to become a prominent trans activist, and quickly racked up like-minded followers.
One high profile account to have followed Austin’s social media account on Instagram is another trans-identified male, Suzanne Ford, the Executive Director of San Francisco Pride.
According to his most recent Facebook profile, Austin has been canvassing for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In recent years the ACLU has filed dozens of lawsuits across the United States in defense of male criminals who claim to be transgender. In many cases, trans-identified male convicts represented by the ACLU in human rights complaints have been sex offenders and violent killers.
After the initial boycott started, Archimedes Banya issued a statement claiming that they stood by the “diversity of the Bay Area,” and wanted to respect both their “commitment to inclusivity” and the needs of religious and cultural communities who require sex-segregated spaces.
As such, they announced the introduction of two different events: an Inclusive Women’s Night, which they described as “open to all individuals who identify as women,” and a Cultural and Religious Women’s Night, which they state is “designed to provide a space that aligns with the needs of women from religious or cultural backgrounds who observe practices requiring a female-only environment based on sex assigned at birth.”
In response to criticism, Archimedes Banya posted a statement to social media which argued that women are entitled to a “phallus-free” environment.
“We have seen messages claiming that cis women don’t deserve space, that asking for a phallus-free environment is inherently hateful, and that any separation is an act of exclusion. That is categorically not true,” read the statement.
“The request for a phallic-free space is not about exclusion, it is about recognizing that some members of our community experience a different reaction to that part of the human body. Whether that reaction is based on personal history, trauma, cultural or religious beliefs, or simply comfort, it is valid.”
However, trans activists continued to demand full access to spa facilities where women are undressing or in the nude, and the facility was inundated with one-star reviews online, leading to Yelp suspending users’ ability to rate the spa.
In a statement, the Human Rights Commission said it recognized that the bathhouse’s policy change came “at a time when transgender and non-binary people are facing a barrage of attacks, and we want to be clear that the City and County of San Francisco is committed to ensuring that transgender people are protected from unlawful discrimination.”
As a result, Archimedes Banya had no choice but to comply with their demands or engage in a litigation. In California, it is against the law to discriminate based on self-declared “gender identity,” and this extends to access to sex-segregated facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, and showers.
On social media, Mormorer, who led the demonstration against Archimedes Banya alongside Austin, has been boasting about forcing the spa to comply with their demands.
If the trans contingent including Austin is permitted to participate in the female-only events, it will represent the second time a sex offender was granted access to the women’s section of a nude spa.
In 2021, a Korean spa in California made international headlines after a trans-identified 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 would later be verified by police who issued a warrant for the arrest of Darren Agee Merager, a registered sex offender. Merager was arrested in December of 2022.
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