Girls as young as 14 have had elective double mastectomies at a cosmetic surgery clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina, prompting outrage from members of the public.
On April 8, screenshots began circulating on Twitter showing “before and after” photos of young girls who had undergone “top surgery” — a voluntary removal of both breasts as part of “gender affirming” transgender care, sometimes also including the removal of the nipple. The screenshots, which were captured by Twitter user @SherriBissel and posted by Blaze TV host Sara Gonzales, had patient ages as young as 14 listed.
The youth appear to have been patients of The Cosmetic Concierge, a plastic surgery clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina.
🚨 DISGUSTING: Charlotte, NC doctor @hopesheriemd is chopping the breasts off of girls as young as 14.🚨@NCGOP make this stop now.
The photos appear to have been removed from the clinic’s website. The most recent archive version of the “before and after” page, dating January 22, reveals the photos had been present on the site at the time, but had disappeared shortly after.
In the clinic’s FAQs, a note on underage surgeries is included under an information panel on transgender surgeries.
“When considering gender confirming procedures for patients under the age of 18, we do require the consent of a parent or guardian along with the recommendation of a therapist,” it reads, noting that for individuals above the age of 18 “informed consent” is used, and no documentation is required to clear an individual for surgery.
The surgeon behind the procedures is ex-air force doctor Hope Sherie, whose specialty appears to have recently pivoted towards “gender affirming” surgeries targeted at transgender people, specifically females who identify as men.
Through her clinic, Sherie has provided sponsorship to Point of Pride, a non-profit which provides financial assistance to youth who identify as transgender. The charity also offers free binders to young girls, explicitly noting that there is no age requirement to fill out their form and submit a request for a breast compression garment. While the FAQs do note that youth under the age of 13 must have parental consent, Reduxx found the form allows the user to self-declare age with no verification required.
After posting the screenshots, Blaze host Sara Gonzalez called on North Carolina’s GOP to “make it stop,” tagging the party in her post. Others in her reply section demanded stricter regulations on “gender affirming” surgical interventions — something which may become a reality soon thanks to the North Carolina GOP’s new supermajority.
Last week, the NCGOP filed five Senate bills, some of which which would seek to ban the medical transitioning of minors. The move came after the GOP was able to get a supermajority made possible by the floor crossing formerly Democrat representative Tricia Cotham.
Cotham announced she was changing her party affiliation on Wednesday, but cautioned that she would not be “pigeonholed” into voting in step with every Republican issue, meaning the GOP may still have to solicit support from across the aisle to pass bills.
Prior to being elected, Cotham ran on a platform of being pro-LGBTQ+ and opposing past legislation on single-sex spaces. Her 2022 campaign website, which was taken down following her floor crossing, stated her commitment to “stand strong against discriminatory legislation” and “work to pass more protections” for LGBTQ+ North Carolinians.
Cotham’s decision to leave the Democrat party came after she says she was heavily criticized for having used the American flag and praying hands emoji on Twitter. Cotham says she received personal attacks from Democrats over her use of the American flag, stating at a press conference: “Democrats have been “blasting me on Twitter, calling me names, coming after my family, coming after my children.”
The surgical transitioning of youth who claim to be transgender has been at the forefront of the debate surrounding gender ideology, with many expressing concerns that minors may experience regret if allowed to undergo permanent, body-altering procedures early in life. Over the past few years, several advocates calling themselves “detransitioners” have risen to widespread prominence after coming forward with information about their experience having been rushed through medical transition.
I deserved a childhood but the doctors gave me hormones and a mastectomy instead.
Last year, Reduxx reported that a Florida lawyer was making an effort to file a formal complaint with the Florida Attorney General regarding “gender surgeon” Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher on the basis of deceptive and unfair practices.
Kendra Parris of Parris Law in Orlando, Florida told Reduxx that she was seeking information on past patients of Dr. Gallagher after hearing reports of potentially unethical, improper behavior from the surgeon, including that she had been advertising cosmetic and ‘gender affirming’ surgeries directly to minors on social media.
Dr. Gallagher was also the subject of controversy after photos from her Facebook began to circulate on Twitter, showing the grinning surgeon standing next to one of her patients. The patient was ostensibly a very young woman whose body was littered in what appeared to be self-harm scars.
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El ex entrenador de Athletics Canada ha dado a conocer que los abogados del Comité Olímpico Canadiense lo amenazaron por expresar su descontento con los resultados de los 800 metros femeninos en los Juegos Olímpicos de 2016, donde tres hombres ocuparon lor primeros puestos, desplazando a la representante canadiense al cuarto lugar.
Peter Eriksson, el ex entrenador jefe del programa olímpico y paralímpico que ha llevado a los atletas de Canadá a batir récords, habló con Reduxx sobre lo ocurrido aquel día de 2016 en Río y las consecuencias a las que se enfrentaba si hablaba en favor de la atleta canadiense Melissa Bishop. Bishop quedó en cuarto lugar tras los tres hombres que compitieron en la división femenina.
En los 800 metros femeninos, Caster Semenya, de Sudáfrica se llevó el oro, Francine Niyonsaba, de Burundi, la plata y Margaret Nyairera Wambui, de Kenia, el bronce. Los tres atletas tienen Diferencias de Desarrollo Sexual (DSD) y aunque legalmente se los consideran “mujeres”, poseen cromosomas XY y son biológicamente hombres.
Rio de Janeiro – Semifinais dos 800m feminino nos Jogos Rio 2016, no Estádio Olímpico. (Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil)
Semenya, en particular, ha sido objeto de una gran controversia que se remonta a 2009, cuando comenzó a participar en el deporte femenino de élite. Las rápidas mejoras en el rendimiento de Semenya inicialmente provocaron sospechas de consumo de drogas, y World Athletics (entonces llamado IAAF) fue condenado internacionalmente por pedir a Semenya que se sometiera a una prueba para determinar su sexo biológico.
La mayoría de las mujeres, incluidas las deportistas de élite, tienen niveles naturales de testosterona de 0.12 a 1.79 nanomoles por litro (nmol/L), pero Semenya tiene gónadas masculinas que producen un nivel normal de testosterona para un hombre. En 2011, se le midieron a Semenya 15.6 y 29.3 nmol/L. Años más tarde, una decisión en el Tribunal de Arbitraje Deportivo reveló que Semenya tiene un trastorno genético en el que el desarrollo sexual masculino normal falla en el útero, lo que resulta en genitales externos que parecen al nacer una vagina, pero que en realidad es un pene subdesarrollado.
Los entrenadores nacionales solían buscar activamente atletas con DSD similares a los de Semenya debido a su tremenda ventaja “natural”.
En declaraciones a Reduxx, Peter Eriksson, ex entrenador jefe de Athletics Canada, dice que estaba indignado por los resultados de los 800 metros femeninos de 2016, y que quería denunciar la injusticia en nombre de Melissa Bishop, la corredora canadiense que habría quedado en primer lugar de no ser por los tres atletas masculinos.
Peter Eriksson.
“Fui el primero en ver a Melissa después de la carrera y ¿qué le dices en esa situación? ‘ ¿Eres la mejor mujer de la carrera?” No te dan una medalla por eso”, dice Eriksson. “Fue una injusticia tan grande que quise hablar, pero recibí una llamada del abogado del Comité Olímpico Canadiense diciendo que si abría la boca, me inhabilitarían de por vida en el deporte”.
Eriksson explicó que, en aquel momento, World Athletics alegaba que faltaban pruebas sobre la ventaja que poseían los atletas con DSD, pero que a nadie le cabía la mínima duda acerca de lo que eran Semenya y los otros.
“Todo el mundo sabía que Caster Semenya, por ejemplo, era un hombre. Todo el mundo era consciente de ello, pero creo que World Athletics no quería hacer nada”, dice Eriksson. “Esto está ahora también documentado en las actas judiciales. [Él] tiene niveles muy altos de testosterona y es XY. Unos años antes [él] había tratado de bajar [su] testosterona y comenzó a tener malos resultados, así que lo dejó”.
Eriksson fue contratado como entrenador jefe de Athletics Canada en 2013, y, durante su ejercicio, hizo historia al llevar a Canadá a un número récord de medallas en grandes eventos. También se consolidó como el entrenador jefe con más medallas en la historia del atletismo canadiense.
Sin embargo, el contrato de Eriksson fue cancelado apenas unos meses después de los Juegos Olímpicos de Río, a pesar de haber llevado al equipo de Canadá a conseguir el mayor número de medallas en atletismo desde 1932. Eriksson dice que nunca le dieron una razón, pero Athletics Canada declaró que la decisión se debió a “cambios en su estructura de alto rendimiento”.
Ahora jubilado, Eriksson cuenta que para Bishop, el haber perdido esa carrera tuvo un enorme impacto en su vida, tanto emocional como financiero.
El entrenador de toda la vida de Bishop estaba muy enfermo durante los Juegos Olímpicos de 2016, pero hizo un gran esfuerzo para estar presente y presenciar la carrera más importante de su vida. Bishop se tomó su cuarto puesto como un fracaso y la afectó mucho.
Eriksson dice que él fue el primero en hablar con Bishop después de la carrera, y que ella estaba llorando. Aunque fue la mujer que verdaderamente había ganado, no recibió la medalla de oro y se perdió las enormes ganancias económicas que podría haber obtenido de haber ganado la medalla.
Eriksson contó a Reduxx que Bishop podría haber ganado “mucho dinero” con su contrato con Nike si se hubiera clasificado entre las tres primeras y que era una de las candidatas principales a convertirse en una de las atletas estrella de la marca. Pero todas sus oportunidades se perdieron por haberse quedado sin medalla.
“En aquel momento, Melissa tenía 27 años y estaba en la mejor edad para ser una atleta de alto nivel en esa prueba y para ser medallista, y se lo arrebataron. Y nadie lo decía y el equipo canadiense no se pronunciaba”, dice. “Melissa sabía que su vida se había ido con todo esto”.
Lynsey Sharp, una corredora escocesa que ocupó el sexto lugar en los 800 metros, fue una de las pocas atletas en hablar públicamente sobre los resultados. Sharp fue entrevistada después de la carrera y explicó entre lágrimas que había sido “difícil” competir contra Semenya y otros atletas hiperandrogénicos.
Lynsey Sharp hablando con BBC Sport después de su carrera de 800 metros.
“No podía seguir el ritmo de lo que estaba sucediendo en el frente, y lo sabía”, dijo una Sharp sin aliento a BBC Sport. “Nosotras [las atletas] sabemos cómo nos sentimos las demás, pero esto está fuera de nuestro control… Creo que el público también puede verlo … Todo lo que podemos hacer es dar lo mejor de nosotras”.
Sharp recibió críticas de activistas trans y algunos la acusaron de “racismo” por su reacción. Días después de la carrera de 800 metros, Sharp publicó en Twitter un comunicado en el que intentaba desmentir las acusaciones y zanjar el asunto.
“Siento un tremendo respeto por Caster … Creo que he dado una respuesta honesta y diplomática”, dijo Sharp. Aunque Sharp ha borrado su cuenta de Twitter, los archivos conservan el tweet junto con los comentarios de odio en la sección de respuestas dirigidas hacia Sharp y sus “lágrimas blancas”.
Según Eriksson, Sharp también recibió amenazas de muerte y amenazas contra su familia por parte de la comunidad transgénero después de su reacción televisada.
Linda Blade, entrenadora canadiense y firme defensora de los derechos de las atletas, fue la primera en renovar el interés en los resultados de los 800 metros femeninos de 2016 tras publicar información sobre las amenazas que Eriksson recibió en Twitter.
Blade añadió su propio comentario al asunto, tuiteando: “¡Los dirigentes de nuestro propio país prefieren venderse a una secta antes que defender a una de nuestras campeonas, incluso a costa de decir adiós al #Olympic Gold! Sacrifican a una mujer y toda su carrera en el altar de #GenderIdeology (#IdeologíaDeGénero). Intenta asimilar eso”.
Eriksson dijo a Reduxx que Melissa Bishop vio el tweet de Blade y la abrumadora respuesta favorable a él, y se emocionó.
“Cuando vio el tweet de Linda, llamó a una de las personas que estaba en el equipo y se emocionó. Estaba agradecida de que la gente lo recordara y de que yo hubiera hablado de ello”, dice Eriksson.
Blade ha pedido al Comité Olímpico Internacional y al World Athletics que rectifiquen los resultados de los Juegos Olímpicos de 2016 en favor de Bishop, pidiendo que el oro se reasigne retroactivamente de la misma manera que a veces se hace en los casos de dopaje.
Eriksson está de acuerdo con Blade, y también cree que deberían darle la medalla a Bishop.
“No puedes llegar y decir que eres una mujer y correr en la división femenina. Esto está mal. No es justo. Además, la ciencia tampoco miente”, dice.
En medio de un creciente rechazo, la Asociación Mundial de Atletismo anunció recientemente que prohibiría a los atletas transgénero que han pasado por la “pubertad masculina” competir en las pruebas femeninas de la clasificación mundial. Durante una rueda de prensa en marzo, el presidente de World Athletics, Sebastian Coe, aludió a la consideración científica y la equidad para las atletas femeninas, afirmando que tanto él como la organización “creen que la integridad de la categoría femenina en el atletismo es primordial”.
“Si, como mujer, tuvieras ese nivel de testosterona, te suspenderían de por vida”, dice, y añade: “El 99% de las mujeres tienen menos de 1 nmol/L de testosterona. Es hipocresía”.
Aún así, cree que “el problema no es World Athletics, sino el Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI)”, que tiene una política diferente con respecto a los atletas transgénero y con DSD. En diciembre, el COI publicó una actualización de sus directrices transgénero en un esfuerzo por responder a las críticas vertidas contra ellos por las atletas femeninas después de que su marco original fuera objeto de críticas.
El marco original del COI, publicado en noviembre de 2021, se centraba en la “no discriminación” y argumentaba que los atletas masculinos no deberían tener que reducir sus niveles de testosterona para competir en el deporte femenino.
Eriksson cree que los deportes deberían estar completamente segregados por sexo, y señala que los beneficios de la pubertad masculina que afectan a los huesos, los pulmones, los músculos y a la fuerza general no se pueden generar siendo mujer.
“Nadie dice que los atletas transgénero o con DSD no deberían poder competir en el deporte. Por supuesto que deberían poder hacerlo. Pero necesitan competir en la categoría que corresponde a su sexo. No en función de lo que creen que son”, dice Eriksson.
“Pueden tener sus propias clasificaciones, como en el deporte paralímpico. O pueden entrar en la categoría del sexo con el que han nacido. Pero necesitan estar con su sexo biológico”.
NOTA DE LA EDITORA 07/12/2023: La Asociación Mundial de Atletismo se ha puesto en contacto con Reduxx para rechazar la afirmación de Eriksson de que la Asociación Mundial de Atletismo era consciente de que Caster Semenya era un hombre pero “no quiso hacer nada.”
Nicole Jeffer, representante del organismo rector, declaró: “La Asociación Mundial de Atletismo no descuidó su reglamento DSD en 2016: fue anulado por el Tribunal de Arbitraje Deportivo en el caso Dutee Chand en 2015. No tuvimos tiempo de volver al TAS con nuevas pruebas antes de los Juegos Olímpicos de 2016″. El nuevo reglamento entró en vigor en 2018”.
Reduxx se puso en contacto con Peter Eriksson, que rebatió la afirmación de la Asociación Mundial de Atletismo.
“Es interesante que digan que la razón por la que no pudieron hacer nada en aquel momento fue por el fallo del Tribunal de Arbitraje Deportivo en 2015, porque el hecho es que [en] el último campeonato mundial en 2022 permitieron que uno de esos atletas compitiera en las carreras de 100 y 200 metros. Un atleta DSD se llevó una medalla de plata en una de las carreras”, afirma Eriksson.
“¿Por qué hubo que esperar hasta finales de 2022 para que se hicieran cambios? A día de hoy, no se ha implantado en todas las pruebas. En las carreras de más de 1.500 metros hay atletas con DSD, al igual que en las pruebas de lanzamiento. ¿Y por qué la descripción de su reglamento sigue incluyendo a los hombres en la categoría femenina?”.
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The infamous red-backlit windows may soon disappear from Amsterdam as the Dutch capital attempts a new strategy to deal with the on-going criminal activity plaguing its legal red-light districts.
Though Amsterdam has become synonymous with normalized, legal prostitution in pop culture, the city has been struggling to combat the unsavory side-effects of having a sexual free-for-all — grappling with everything from littering, drunk rioting, public masturbation, rape, and trafficking in what was once touted as a model approach to prostitution.
The city’s response? Construct a giant, multi-story “erotic center” with 100 rentable rooms. Investors are being courted by the city and asked to propose a plan which includes security, social services, health care, hospitality, a strip club, entertainment, sex education, and Pride events for the public – in the hopes that the sex trade in Amsterdam will finally become “clean” and “safe.”
In other words… a mega-brothel.
The “Red Light” District in Amsterdam.
This is not a novel idea.
In Germany, these sex industry citadels have been around for decades. For example, look at Pascha in Cologne, which is a 12-story, 126-room high-rise built in the early 1970s for the specific purpose of removing prostitution from the inner city. The project had the blessing of the local government, and the building features a self-contained internal economy including a restaurant, pizzeria, several bistros and bars, a beauty salon, clothing boutique, tanning studio, and gym. The brothel even has its own newspaper.
The ground floor is largely taken up by a strip club which is rented out for cultural events including concerts. In 2013, there were 150 women renting rooms and 90 supplementary staffers working in the bar, cleaning, cooking, providing security, and doing administrative tasks.
During a TV interview, owner Hermann Müller boasted how every woman was paying her taxes, securely insured, and well-cared for.
“Pascha” brothel owner Hermann Müller.
Despite all these supposedly wonderful measures to “protect” the prostituted women, a 28-year-old Thai woman was robbed and stabbed to death by a sex-buyer inside her room at Pascha in 2003. The next year, two 15-year-old girls were found to have been working in the brothel after a police raid. The year after that, authorities uncovered weaponry and cocaine in the building, and arrested 23 individuals who had fake documentation. Amongst them were young African women whose ages could not be verified.
Various aid organizations can attest to other trafficking cases involving Pascha or its affiliated brothels over the years, including at least one 17-year-old girl who had not been allowed out of her room for 9 months. In 2006, another young woman was nearly fatally wounded by a sex-buyer using a knife. In 2015, a man strangled a woman after renting her, with the victim just barely making it to her panic button to call for help. Among the most disturbing incidents I can recall was how in 2007, an 18-year-old woman inside a Pascha chain brothel in Salzburg, Austria, gave birth. In a fit of complete shock and post-natal psychosis, she threw the infant out of the window.
And these are just some of the incidents that made it into the press, and not remotely exhaustive.
Legal brothels will often point to retained security services as evidence they care about the well-being of the women in the facility, but those familiar with the industry know the “protection” comes with a dark trade off.
“Guenther, 55,” from portraits of German sex-buyers by Bettina Flitner.
As many prostitution survivors can attest, the men who work brothel security are often dangerous individuals and not necessarily “allies” to the women. Security firms are notorious for being run by gang-members and ex-cons – with Pascha being an excellent illustration of this fact.
In 2010, five brothel bouncers were charged with aggravated assault for beating a man likely to have been a member of a rival gang within an inch of his life. A witness described them as having been wearing gloves with sand inserts and shoes with steel caps. This force is perceived as being able to easily intimidate or beat women into silence.
This is exactly what happened at the Paradise mega-brothel in Stuttgart, Germany. The self-described “wellness center” was funded to the tune of €6,000,000 (approx.$6.5 million USD) in 2008. Operators boasted about having two administrators for women’s complaints, an in-house gynecologist and a round-table with municipal regulators, tax officers and police. Other supposed displays of benevolence included educational events for the women regarding retirement funds and healthy eating.
Every prostituted woman at Paradise had to fill out a form with the precise sexual practices she offered, agree to have her coming and goings tracked, and allow her documentation to be openly shared with authorities.
And yet, despite all of these measures, it only took one year for the first trafficking victim to be uncovered — an 18-year-old who was being exploited by a personal friend of the brothel’s operators.
Paradise was raided in 2014 by police, and its owners were charged with sex trafficking, physical assault, and the forced “branding” of women as though they were human cattle.
Just two years later, a married father-of-four stabbed a 25-year-old Romanian prostituted woman to death, and soon after Paradise’s public relations manager was sentenced for bodily assault – his tenth time being charged by a German court.
Paradise operators were finally held to account in 2019 after admitting to utilizing gangs to keep the brothel “supplied with women.” The victims were often raped by up to 10 men per day. And all of it was happening in a legal, “clean,” well-staffed brothel.
A multi-offering brothel in Berlin, Germany. Photo Credit: Pellepojken.
But Pascha and Paradise are not outliers.
The Leierkasten – Bavaria’s biggest brothel – was operated for years by a man implicated in contract killing.
The Artemis in Berlin, a mega-brothel famous for having hosted socialist, pro-“sex work” streamer Hasan Piker, was known to have been a site of sex trafficking involving the Turkish Hells Angels.
The Pussy Club chain – an “all-you-can-fuck” brothel – was discovered to have been involved in the trafficking of very young Romanian women who were raped by up to 60 men per day, some to the point of collapse.
The Eros Center brothel chain has been the site of several rapes, kidnappings, trafficking of adults and minors as well as murders.
Many more mega-brothels have been exposed as sites of criminal activity – the list is endless.
There is overwhelming evidence that, despite the claims of liberal activists, mega-brothels, like other manifestations of the “legal” sex trade, only benefit pimps and johns. But beyond that, they exist as a kind of distinct marker in a city’s landscape that makes clear its position on women’s place as commodities.
Such institutions give a veneer of lawfulness and safety while delivering neither. Its tight-knit internal economies are a gift to sex traffickers who can let their victims eat pizza, get their hair done, and get STI screening without ever leaving the premises. Women’s coming and goings are tightly controlled by bouncers, themselves a highly shady group of men.
As though it were not already obvious that such institutions were premised on shrouding their activities in darkness, most mega-brothels also bar entry to non-prostituted women, lest they be sexually harassed or disturb the “man-cave” atmosphere by witnessing what really happens inside those walls.
But what is inside often spills out, with drunk brothel customers sometimes being spotted surrounding neighborhoods. Such concerns have already lead the Amsterdam mega-brothel to consider relocating. One Dutch mother recently spoke to her local press and expressed her concerns that one of the proposed locations would be too close to her daughter’s primary school.
The reality is that these “mega-brothels” do nothing to improve the safety or dignity of the prostituted women inside, and will be dubiously successful at best in its attempt to contain the filth the sex trade brings to its surroundings outside. If anything, Amsterdam’s latest venture should be seen as an admission that its legal sex trade project has been a failure. Now, rather than walking that failure back, it’s simply trying to control its profoundly damaging impact.
The city will get its tax money but, if history is any indication, the women inside the “mega-brothel” won’t leave with much, if they leave at all.
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Un adolescente que se dice transgénero está detenido bajo la sospecha de que planeaba llevar a cabo tiroteos masivos en diferentes escuelas de Colorado Springs, Colorado.
William Whitworth, de 19 años, fue arrestado el 31 de marzo por cargos que incluían la sospecha de intento de asesinato en primer grado tras admitir que planeaba cometer tiroteos en escuelas de la zona de Colorado Springs. Whitworth es varón, pero usa pronombres femeninos y se refiere a sí mismo como “Lilly” o “Lily”.
Eric Ross, portavoz de la Fiscalía del 18° Distrito Judicial, ha confirmado que Whitworth está “transicionando de hombre a mujer”.
La policía acudió a la residencia de Whitworth después de que su hermana llamara y denunciara que se estaba comportando de forma violenta y que había hecho referencias a tiroteos en escuelas. Según una declaración jurada obtenida por The Gazette, la hermana de Whitworth utilizaba pronombres femeninos para referirse a su hermano.
La policía encontró a Whitworth borracho en su habitación, que estaba llena de suciedad. La casa estaba en un estado de deterioro extremo, y los agentes observaron que “había basura amontonada por toda la casa hasta el punto de que resultaba difícil caminar por su interior”.
***CHARGES FILED*** Today, formal charges were filed against William Whitworth, 19, following an investigation into threats involving schools in Colorado Springs Academy District 20. Case #: 2023CR17 pic.twitter.com/z9ttVs11lY
***CARGOS PRESENTADOS*** Hoy se han presentado cargos formales contra William Whitworth, de 19 años, tras una investigación sobre amenazas en escuelas del Distrito Académico 20 de Colorado Springs. Caso #: 2023CR17
El acta de detención continúa: “Había numerosos recipientes llenos de comida a medio consumir con moho en su interior y numerosos envases de bebidas alcohólicas por toda la casa”.
Los agentes localizaron un “manifiesto” con los nombres de asesinos en masa cuando registraron la casa de Whitworth.
También encontraron un cuaderno con instrucciones sobre cómo fabricar armas de fuego usando una impresora 3D y cómo construir bombas rudimentarias. Whitworth admitió haber visto videos en YouTube sobre cómo fabricar un detonador, según la declaración jurada obtenida por The Gazette.
Entre las pertenencias de Whitworth había una pizarra con un plano de planta de la Escuela Secundaria Timberview, que él describió como el “objetivo principal”, pero la escuela Prairie Hills Elementary y el instituto Pine Creek High School también figuraban como “objetivos” en otro de los cuadernos de Whitworth. Tenía en su poder además, una lista “detallada” de personas que planeaba asesinar.
Whitworth también le dijo a la policía que las iglesias estaban entre sus otros “objetivos”.
Cuando la policía le preguntó por qué quería cometer un acto de asesinato en masa, Whitworth les dijo que no había “ninguna razón específica”, y confesó que había estado muy cerca de llevar a cabo sus planes.
No se encontraron armas en el domicilio de Whitworth.
Whitworth está acusado de dos cargos de intento de asesinato en primer grado, amenazas, daños criminales e interferencia con el personal, los profesores o los alumnos de instituciones educativas. Está detenido bajo fianza de 75,000 dólares, y tiene prevista una vista preliminar el 5 de mayo.
La policía usó pronombres femeninos para referirse a Whitworth en su informe de detención. Los medios de comunicación locales evitaron usar pronombres al referirse a él, o usaron pronombres femeninos.
La noticia del horrible plan se produce pocas semanas después de un tiroteo masivo en una escuela de Nashville, Tennessee, que se saldó con 6 víctimas mortales. Audrey Hale, una mujer biológica que usaba pronombres masculinos, asesinó a 3 menores y 3 miembros del personal escolar al azar en la masacre de The Covenant School.
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Athletics Canada’s former head coach has come forward to reveal that he was threatened by the Canadian Olympic Committee lawyers after expressing discontent with the results of the women’s 800m at the 2016 Olympic Games. The competition saw three biological males take the top spots, displacing the female Canadian bid to fourth place.
Peter Eriksson, the record-making former head coach for the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic program, spoke to Reduxx about what happened at the 2016 session in Rio, and the consequences he faced if he spoke out on behalf of Canadian athlete Melissa Bishop. Bishop placed fourth after three males competed in the female division.
In the 800m women’s race, Caster Semenya of South Africa took home gold, with Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi placing silver and Margaret Nyairera Wambui of Kenya finishing with bronze. All three of the athletes have Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) and while they are recognized as “female” legally, they possess XY chromosomes and are biologically male.
Semenya in particular has been the subject of much controversy dating back to 2009 when he first began participating in elite women’s sport. Semenya’s rapid improvements in performance initially triggered suspicions of drug use, and World Athletics (then called IAAF) was internationally denounced for requesting Semenya take a test to ascertain his biological sex.
Most women, including elite female athletes, have natural testosterone levels of 0.12 to 1.79 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L), but Semenya has male gonads producing a normal level of testosterone for a male. In 2011, Semenya was measured as having 15.6 and 29.3 nmol/L. Years later, a decision in the Court of Arbitration for Sport revealed that Semenya has a genetic disorder where the normal male sexual development fails in utero, resulting in external genitals that appear to be a vagina at birth, but is in fact an underdeveloped penis.
Athletes with DSDs similar to Semenya’s were once actively sought out by national coaches because of their tremendous “natural” advantage.
Speaking to Reduxx, former Athletics Canada head coach Peter Eriksson says that he was outraged at the results of the 2016 women’s 800m, and had wanted to speak out agains the injustice on behalf of Melissa Bishop, the Canadian female runner who would have come in first place if not for the three male athletes.
Peter Eriksson. Photo Credit: Athletics Canada.
“I was the first one to see Melissa after the race and what do you even say in that scenario? ‘You’re the best woman in the race?’ You don’t get a medal for that,” Eriksson says. “This was such an injustice I wanted to speak out, and then I got a call from the Canadian Olympic Committee’s lawyer saying that if I opened my mouth, I would be banned for life in sport.”
Eriksson explained that, at the time, World Athletics claimed there was a lack of evidence on the advantage possessed by DSD athletes, but that there had been no confusion on the ground about what Semenya and the others were.
“Everybody knew Caster Semenya, for example, was a male. Everybody was aware of it, but I think that World Athletics didn’t want to do anything,” Eriksson says. “This is now also documented in court records. [He] has very high testosterone and is XY. A few years earlier [he] had tried to lower [his] testosterone and began to perform poorly, so [he] stopped.”
Eriksson was hired to the head coach position at Athletics Canada in 2013, and, during his tenure, Eriksson made history by leading Canada to record medal counts at major events. He also established himself as the most medal-winning head coach in Canadian athletic history.
But Eriksson’s contract was cancelled just months Rio Olympics despite him having led Team Canada to the highest medal count in track and field since 1932. Eriksson says he was never given a reason, but Athletics Canada stated the decision was due to “changes to its high performance structure.”
Now retired, Eriksson recounts that Bishop’s loss had a massive impact on her life both emotionally and financially.
Bishop’s lifelong coach had been very sick during the 2016 Olympic Games, but had made great effort to be present and witness her most important competition ever. Bishop took her fourth place ranking as a failure and it impacted her greatly.
Eriksson says that he was the first to speak to Bishop after her race, and that she had been in tears. Although she was the true female winner, she didn’t receive the gold medal and lost out on massive earnings that could have followed if she had earned the medal.
Eriksson told Reduxx that Bishop had stood to gain “lots of money” through her Nike contract had she placed in the top 3 and that she was a prime candidate to be a flagship female athlete for them. But all of her opportunities were lost without a medal placement.
“At the time, Melissa was 27 years old and that’s a prime age for being a top athlete on that event and being a medalist and it was taken away. And nobody was saying it and the Canadian team wouldn’t speak up,” he says. “Melissa knew her life went away with all of this.”
Lynsey Sharp, a Scottish runner who placed sixth in the 800m, had been one of the few athletes to publicly speak about the results. Sharp was interviewed after the race, and, in tears, explained that it had been “difficult” to compete against Semenya and other hyperandrogenic athletes.
Lynsey Sharp speaking to BBC Sport following her 800m race.
“I couldn’t keep up with what was going on in the front, and I knew that,” a breathless Sharp said to BBC Sport. “We [female athletes] know how each other feel, but it’s out of our control … I think the public can see as well … All we can do is give it our best.”
Sharp was slammed by trans activists and those who accused her of “racism” for her reaction. Taking to Twitter just days after the 800m race, Sharp posted a statement attempting to refute the claims and settle the matter.
“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Caster … I felt I gave an honest and diplomatic response,” Sharp said. While Sharp has since deleted her Twitter account, archives preserve the tweet along with the hateful comments in the reply section directed towards Sharp and her “white tears.”
According to Eriksson, Sharp also received threats against her life and against her family from the transgender community following her televised reaction.
Linda Blade, a Canadian coach and vocal advocate for the rights of female athletes, was first to renew interest in the results of the 2016 women’s 800m results after posting information about the threats Eriksson received to her Twitter.
Blade added her own commentary to the matter, tweeting: “Our own country’s leadership would rather sellout to a cult rather than to defend one of our champions – even at the expense of waving GOODBYE to #Olympic Gold!! Sacrificing a woman and her entire career on the alter of #GenderIdeology. Just let that sink in.”
Eriksson told Reduxx that Melissa Bishop saw Blade’s tweet and the overwhelmingly sympathetic response to it, and became emotional.
“When she saw the tweet from Linda, she called up one of the people who was on the team and she was emotional. She was thankful that people remember it and that I spoke up about it,” Eriksson says.
Blade has called on the International Olympic Committee and World Athletics to rectify the results of the 2016 Olympics for Bishop, asking for the gold to be retroactively reassigned in the same way that is sometimes done in doping cases.
Eriksson agrees with Blade, and also believes that Bishop should be given her medal.
“You can’t say that you’re just a woman and run in the women’s division. This is wrong. There’s no fairness in that. Plus, the science tells you the true story as well,” he says.
Amidst growing pushback, World Athletics recently announced they would be prohibiting transgender athletes who have undergone “male puberty” from competing in women’s world ranking competitions. During a press conference in March, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe cited scientific consideration and fairness for female athletes, stating he and the organization “believe the integrity of female category in athletics is paramount.”
“If you had that level of testosterone as a woman, you’d get a life suspension,” he says, adding: “99% of women have under 1 nmol/L of testosterone. It is hypocrisy.”
Still, he believes “the problem is not World Athletics, but the International Olympics Committee (IOC),” which has a different policy with respect to transgender and DSD athletes. In December, the IOC released an update to their transgender guidance in an effort to address the criticisms leveled against them by female athletes after their original frame work came under fire.
The IOC’s original framework, published in November 2021, was centered around “non-discrimination,” and argued that male athletes should not have to drop their testosterone levels in order to compete in women’s sport.
Eriksson believes sports should be fully sex-segregated, and notes that the benefits of male puberty which effect bones, lungs, muscles, and overall strength cannot be generated as a woman.
“There is no one who says that transgender or DSD athletes should not be able to compete in sport. Of course they should be able to. But they need to compete in the category of their sex. Not based on what you think you are,” Eriksson says.
“They can either have their own classifications, like in Paralympic sport. Or they can go into the class of the sex they are born with. But you need to stay in your biological sex.”
EDITOR’S NOTE 07/12/2023: World Athletics has reached out to Reduxx to reject Eriksson’s statement that World Athletics was aware that Caster Semenya was male but “didn’t want to do anything.”
Nicole Jeffer, a representative with the governing body, stated: “World Athletics did not neglect its DSD regulations in 2016 – they were struck down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the Dutee Chand case in 2015. We didn’t have time to return to CAS with new evidence before the 2016 Olympics. The new regulations came into force in 2018.”
Reduxx reached out to Peter Eriksson, who challenged World Athletic’s statement.
“It’s interesting that they say the reason they were unable to do anything at the time was because of the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling in 2015, because the fact is that [at] the last world championship in 2022 they allowed a these male athlete to compete in the 100 and 200 meter races. A DSD athlete took a silver medal in one of the races,” Eriksson says.
“Why did it take until late 2022 before changes were made? To this day, it is not in place for all events. Racesover 1500 meters have DSD athletes, as do throwing events. And why does the description in their rule book still include males in the female category?”
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Una de las cadenas de televisión más vistas del Reino Unido está recibiendo críticas tras estrenar un programa centrado en mostrar a los niños los cuerpos de adultos desnudos con el fin de educar sobre la “positividad corporal”.
Naked Education (Educación Desnuda) estrenó su primera temporada en Channel 4 anoche. El programa, presentado por la popular figura de la televisión Anna Richardson, mostraba a un grupo de adultos desnudándose frente a niños de 14 a 16 años.
“Va todo de positividad corporal, y Anna Richardson, Yinka Bokinni y el Dr. Alex George se embarcan en una misión para normalizar todos los tipos de cuerpo, defender nuestras diferencias y acabar con los estereotipos”, reza la descripción. El programa está patrocinado por Bosch, un fabricante de electrodomésticos reconocido internacionalmente.
Ayer se estrenaron seis episodios de 47 minutos de duración, y, a pesar de que aparecen jóvenes adolescentes, los episodios tienen una advertencia en el sitio web de Channel 4 que informa a los espectadores sobre la desnudez gratuita. El Canal 4 está gestionado por la empresa pública Channel Four Television Corporation y se considera de propiedad pública y sin ánimo de lucro.
Entre los contenidos de los diferentes episodios se incluye la exposición de jóvenes a información sobre anatomía, vello corporal, envejecimiento corporal, discapacidades y cirugía estética, tanto para hombres como para mujeres. También se ve a adultos discutiendo información íntima entre ellos, sin la presencia de los adolescentes.
Pero lo que podrían ser sesiones educativas apropiadas para su edad sobre la sexualidad humana empieza a causar asombro cuando se trae a adultos desnudos y se les hace desfilar frente al grupo de jóvenes en lo que llaman “lecciones de educación al desnudo”.
En el episodio 2, a los adolescentes se les enseña un grupo de hombres adultos desnudos, y se les dice que les inspeccionen los penes de cerca mientras se les educa sobre la circuncisión y el tamaño.
“De todos los hombres de la fila, ¿cuál es el que crees que tiene un pene de tamaño medio?”, es la primera pregunta que se les hace a los jóvenes cuando los hombres se quitan los albornoces blancos con las que se cubrían.
En varios momentos del episodio se muestran primeros planos de los penes y las nalgas de los hombres, pero los jóvenes ya habían estado expuestos a esos adultos desconocidos durante un largo período de tiempo. A lo largo de la “sesión de educación al desnudo”, se muestran cortes de entrevistas con adolescentes, y dos niñas, de 16 y 14 años, se sonrojan visiblemente al contar que han visto las áreas íntimas de los hombres adultos.
En las redes sociales, la gente expresó su indignación por el programa, y muchos llamaron “pedófilos” a los participantes.
There is absolutely no conceivable reason to allow this than to normalise adults exposing themselves to children.
No hay absolutamente ninguna razón concebible para permitir esto que no sea normalizar que los adultos hagan exhibicionismo enfrente de niños. Son todos una panda de pedófilos depravados.
“Asqueroso. ¿Qué clase de individuo va a querer participar en ese exhibicionismo ante niños?”, preguntó un usuario, y una respuesta decía simplemente: “pederastas”.
“¿Por qué los padres les permitieron participar? Deben rendir cuentas por connivencia en lo que equivale a abuso infantil”, escribió otra usuaria. “No porque el cuerpo desnudo sea vergonzoso, sino por filmar a niños demasiado pequeños para consentir en verlos y que sus reacciones se muestren como entretenimiento”.
El estreno del programa de Channel 4 se produce pocos días después de que las redes sociales ardieran con la polémica sobre un programa similar de los Países Bajos llamado Gewoon Bloot, o Simplemente Desnudo.
El programa, que en realidad se emitió en 2021, ha vuelto a causar indignación recientemente después de que comenzaron a circular por Twitter viejos clips en los que se veía a niños pequeños expuestos a adultos transgénero desnudos.
Gewoon Bloot fue tan controvertido que un hombre de Utrecht fue acusado penalmente después de amenazar a los creadores del programa, enfurecido por la falta de protección. El hombre fue condenado a dos semanas de prisión en suspenso, con un período de prueba de dos años. También se le ordenó completar 40 horas de servicio comunitario.
En 2019, la televisión pública de Dinamarca presentó un concepto similar, con niños de tan solo 11 años expuestos a adultos desnudos en aras de la “educación sexual”. Ultra Smider Tøjet, o Ultra Strips Down, se enfrentó a una reacción negativa generalizada cuando se estrenó, y algunos críticos lo calificaron de “depravado”.
El galardonado programa, financiado con fondos públicos, se centraba en enseñar a un público infantil sobre los cuerpos humanos, la sexualidad y la positividad corporal. Una característica importante del programa era que los niños se encontraban con adultos que se desnudaban durante el espectáculo y que mostraban sus cuerpos desnudos delante de ellos.
En 2021, la emisora danesa DR eliminó discretamente uno de los episodios archivados del programa tras descubrir que uno de los hombres que había sido llevados al programa para desnudarse frente a la audiencia infantil había sido condenado por abusar sexualmente de un menor y poseer más de 3,000 materiales de explotación sexual infantil.
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A trans-identified male teenager is in custody on suspicion he was planning on carrying out mass shootings at schools in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
William Whitworth, 19, was arrested on March 31 on charges that included suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after he admitted to planning to commit shootings at schools in the Colorado Springs area. Whitworth was born male but uses “she/her” pronouns and refers to himself as “Lilly” or “Lily.”
Eric Ross, a spokesperson for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, has confirmed that Whitworth s transitioning from male to “female.”
Police were called to Whitworth’s residence after his sister called and claimed that he was behaving violently and had made references to school shootings. According to an affidavit obtained by The Gazette, Whitworth’s sister used “she/her” pronouns to refer to her brother.
When police arrived, they found Whitworth drunk in his room, which was littered with filth. The house was in extreme disrepair, and deputies noted that “there was trash piled up all around the house to where it made it hard to walk inside.”
***CHARGES FILED*** Today, formal charges were filed against William Whitworth, 19, following an investigation into threats involving schools in Colorado Springs Academy District 20. Case #: 2023CR17 pic.twitter.com/z9ttVs11lY
The arrest record continues: “There were numerous containers filled with half eaten food with mold growing inside and numerous alcoholic beverage containers laying around the house.”
Deputies did locate a “manifesto” with the names of mass shooters while searching Whitworth’s home.
They also found a notebook with instructions on how to make firearms using a 3D printer and how to build rudimentary bombs. Whitworth admitted to watching YouTube videos on how to craft a detonator, according to the affidavit obtained by The Gazette.
Amongst Whitworth’s belongings was a whiteboard with a floor plan to Timberview Middle School, which he described as a “main target,” but Prairie Hills Elementary and Pine Creek High School were reportedly also listed as “targets” in one of Whitworth’s other notebooks. He was in possession of a “detailed” hit list of people he was planning to murder.
Whitworth also told police that churches were among his other “targets.”
When police asked why he wanted to commit an act of mass murder, Whitworth told them that there was “no specific reason,” but went on to state that he was very close to having carried out his plans.
No weapons were found in Whitworth’s home.
Whitworth is charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, menacing, criminal mischief and interference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutions. He is being held on a $75,000 bond, and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on May 5.
Police used “she/her” pronouns to refer to Whitworth in their arrest report. Local media either avoided using pronouns when referring to Whitworth, or used “she/her” pronouns.
News of the horrific plot comes just weeks after a mass school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, which left 6 victims dead. Audrey Hale, a biological female who used “he/him” pronouns, murdered 3 schoolchildren and 3 school staff members at random while on a rampage through The Covenant School.
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Un hombre que se dice trans ha ganado el campeonato femenino de golf Australian Women’s Classic, celebrado este fin de semana en el Bonvile Golf Resort en Nueva Gales del Sur.
Breanna Gill, un hombre, se hizo con el trofeo de golf profesional femenino y un cuantioso premio en metálico. Aunque el WPGA (Women’s Professional Golf Association, Asociación de Golf Profesional Femenino) Tour of Australia declaró que era la primera victoria profesional de Gill, éste ha dominado las competiciones en el pasado. En 2019, Gill fue nombrado campeón Pro-Am de New Zealand Professional Women Golfers Trust.
El año anterior, en 2018, Gill fue nombrado “la primera mujer” en ganar un torneo oficial de golf profesional femenino celebrado en las Islas del Pacífico Sur tras ganar el título Pro-Am en el New Caledonia Deva Golf Resort.
WPGA Tour of Australasia publicó varias fotos en Twitter de Gill con el trofeo en la mano, e incluso cambió la cabecera de su cuenta de Twitter por una foto de Gill, pero se encontró con una abrumadora reacción negativa de los usuarios, que inundaron la publicación de respuestas condenatorias por permitir que un hombre participara en el torneo femenino.
Algunos mencionaron a Danni Vásquez, la golfista que quedó en segundo lugar, como la “verdadera ganadora” de la competición. Vásquez y Gill estuvieron muy igualados durante todo el partido, y el ganador finalmente se decidió en un desempate a muerte súbita.
That's a man cheating to win women's competition. You're a disgrace. Stop pandering to the men who claim special identities, you're crapping all over actual women in the process. #SaveWomensSports
Ese es un hombre haciendo trampas para ganar la competición femenina. Sois una vergüenza. Dejad de complacer los deseos de los hombres que reclaman identidades especiales, os estáis cagando en las mujeres reales en el proceso. #SaveWomensSports
WPGA Tour of Australasia cerró rápidamente su sección de respuestas ante la avalancha de opiniones negativas, impidiendo así los comentarios públicos. Los usuarios que habían podido responder antes de que se cambiara la configuración del tuit han visto sus comentarios “ocultos” por WPGA Tour of Australasia.
“¿Por qué se permite la presencia de hombres en los deportes femeninos? ¿Por qué se consiente que a una mujer le roben su premio?”, preguntó Haringey ReSisters, una de las pocas usuarias que había podido dejar su comentario antes de que WPGA Tour of Australasia desactivara sus respuestas.
“Esto no es justo. Mantened a los hombres fuera del deporte femenino”, respondió Speak Up For Women.
🏌️Trans-identifying male golfer, Breanna Gill just won the Australian Women's Classic.
This is one of several of Gill's professional wins in the women's category. The golfer has been playing in the ladies category since 2015… https://t.co/tudroM8uds
🏌️Golfista varón trans-identificado, Breanna Gill, acaba de ganar el Australian Women’s Classic. Esta es una de las varias victorias profesionales de Gill en la categoría femenina. El golfista lleva jugando en categoría femenina desde 2015….
“¡Esto es hacer trampa, estáis permitiendo que alguien con una ventaja física masculina conocida robe premios que son para las mujeres [y] el dinero de los premios que debería ser suyo! Es discriminación sexual [y] una desigualdad vergonzosa en el deporte, una actividad física”, agregó la atleta olímpica Sharron Davies en un retuit.
Riley Gaines, portavoz del Foro de Mujeres Independientes y una experta nadadora All American, también llamó la atención sobre la foto de Gill besando el trofeo, y condenó al WPGA Tour of Australasia con un comentario mordaz.
“¿A quién le sorprende de que un hombre sea reconocido como el ‘ganador’ en la categoría femenina … tienes razón @WPGATour, verdaderos nervios de acero”, escribió Gaines.
Who's surprised a male is being recognized as the "winner" in the women's category….you're right @WPGATour, real nerves of steel! https://t.co/XbBjQKVh7g
En el momento de escribir este artículo, hay más de 2,600 retweets con citas abrumadoramente negativas frente a sólo 95 “me gusta” en el tweet de WPGA Tour of Australasia sobre Gill.
Las competiciones atléticas femeninas se han convertido en un tema importante en el debate sobre la ideología de género y su impacto en las mujeres.
La cuestión cobró relevancia pública después de que un nadador varón que se dice trans, Lia Thomas, comenzara a batir récords femeninos y a ganar medallas destinadas a atletas femeninas en 2021. Desde entonces, ha habido varios casos de atletas masculinos que se dicen trans que han subido al podio en eventos deportivos femeninos. Pero también se han registrado múltiples casos de resistencia por parte de las atletas femeninas y sus aliados.
La semana pasada, Reduxx informó que un entrenador de levantamiento de pesas de Canadá se autoidentificó como mujer para acceder a una categoría femenina con el objeto de burlarse de las políticas de autoidentificación de género. Avi Silverberg, experto en levantamiento de pesas que ha trabajado con el Equipo de Canadá, participó como mujer en el Heroes Classic Powerlifting Meet celebrado en Lethbridge, Alberta, para poner de relieve la ventaja injusta que tienen los hombres cuando compiten en pruebas femeninas.
Un levantador de pesas se identificó como mujer para batir un récord femenino de press de banca en protesta por la autoidentificación de género en el deporte.
Avi Silverberg realizó el provocativo acto delante del actual récord femenino, un hombre.
En febrero, un equipo de baloncesto femenino juvenil (artículo en español) saltó a los titulares internacionales después de retirarse de su torneo estatal en protesta por la presencia de un hombre que se dice trans en el equipo contrario. Las Mid Vermont Christian School Eagles (MVCS) perdieron su partido de playoffs contra las Long Trail School Mountain Lions (LTS) tras enterarse de que la jugadora estrella de LTS, Rose Johnson, era un hombre, y desde entonces se les ha prohibido participar en competiciones estatales.
Aunque se han citado la equidad y la oportunidad como causas principales de la reacción negativa contra la política deportiva “inclusiva”, otros han señalado también que las mujeres o niñas que compiten contra atletas masculinos corren un mayor riesgo de lesionarse.
La semana pasada, se presentaron miles de quejas (artículo en español) ante Football New South Wales en Australia después de que un hombre transidentificado dejara a varias jugadoras lesionadas en las ligas femeninas. Parece que una jugadora tuvo que recibir atención médica a consecuencia de sus lesiones.
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A symposium in Nantes intended to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan and Iranian women has been postponed after trans activists threatened to violently ambush the event because of the presence of a gender critical speaker.
The Comité Laïcité République (CLR – Republic Secularism Committee), an organization dedicated to promoting secularism “as a force for reflection, dialogue, with a balanced tone,” issued a statement on April 5 announcing that their symposium – entitled “Women, Life, Freedom” after the mantra of the Iranian women’s protest movement – would be postponed to a later and as yet unspecified date. The event had previously been planned for April 15 at the Château des ducs de Bretagne in Nantes.
The activists were enraged over the planned presence of Marguerite Stern, a French women’s rights campaigner known for having critical stances on gender ideology and the sex trade.
Le CLR a décidé de reporter le colloque de soutien aux femmes iraniennes et afghanes prévu à Nantes le 15/04 prochain. Il sera organisé dans les meilleurs délais à Paris avec la participation de tous les intervenants pressentis, dont @Margueritestern. Communiqué ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/tau2XIVnhP
— Comité Laïcité République (@comitelaicite) April 5, 2023
“Numerous threats inciting violence were made on social media, including the distribution of our poster announcing the event crossed out with a knife, with calls for counter-demonstrations due to the presence of Ms. Stern, an activist feminist, critic of transgender ideology,” read the CLR’s statement.
“This led the organizers to postpone this event for the sake of preserving the safety of the speakers, of all the participants, and to prevent the Château from suffering any damage. The Comité Laïcité République lodged a complaint and informed the Prefect of these threats.”
The CLR added that as a “staunch defender of freedom of expression since its creation,” the group would not participate in the censorship of Stern, and especially not “under the threat of violent groups who excel in insults, and do not ever argue.”
Speaking with Le Figaro regarding the threats of violence from trans activists, Stern compared the accusation of “transphobia” to the label of “Islamophobia”, saying that both terms are used to silence critics. She noted that, according to her detractors, “recalling biological facts and wanting to protect women and children is considered the worst affront.”
⚠️ Face aux menaces, le @comitelaicite annule ma venue à son colloque du 15 avril de Nantes. Je ne comprends pas que cette association qui se prétend laïque cède face à la chapelle violente et sectaire des transgenristes. pic.twitter.com/btRKYwr5u0
Stern is set to speak at the event regarding the state of feminism following the Me Too era. The description of her presentation also mentions that Stern was ousted from her own movement in direct response to her concerns about transgender ideology. Les Collages Contre les Féminicides, a direct action campaign she launched in 2019, involved the creation of murals calling attention to male violence against women and girls.
By January 2020, just under a year after she founded the collective, Stern’s project had been “hijacked” by gender ideology, a situation that she described in a series of posts on Twitter.
“Debates on trans activism are taking up more and more space in feminism, and even garnering all the attention. I interpret this as a new male attempt to prevent women from expressing themselves,” she wrote. “At all times, men have tried to silence women by silencing their revolts. Today they are doing it from within by infiltrating our struggles and taking center stage.”
Marguerite Stern created Les Collages Contre les Feminicides in 2019 to raise awareness of male violence. Photo Source: margueritestern.com
“I am in favor of deconstructing gender stereotypes, and I believe that trans activism only reinforces them. I observe that men who want to be women suddenly start wearing makeup, to wear dresses and heels. And I consider it an insult to women to consider that it is the tools invented by the patriarchy that make us women. We are women because we have vulvas. It is a biological fact,” Stern elaborated.
She revealed that as the collective made the decision to expel her, they posted a photo to the group’s Instagram account of some of the members next to a mural which read, “Des sisters, pas des cisterfs“, or, “Sisters, not cisterfs,” a portmanteau of the term “cisgender” and “TERF,” a slur frequently used to call for violence against women who reject the belief that men can become women.
Over the past three years, Stern has become a lightening rod for trans activist aggression, enduring harassment both online and in public. After being ostracized by her own collective, Stern continued to campaign for women’s rights and in 2020 she created L’Amazone, which expands upon her previous street artwork but also organizes demonstrations against the prostitution and pornography industries.
Trans activists have targeted L’Amazone‘s street murals, and last summer went so far as to destroy a memorial to the infant victims of shaken baby syndrome.
Trans activists in France have destroyed a mural for infant victims of 'shaken baby syndrome' – a form of severe brain trauma caused by abuse.
The activists reportedly said they had targeted the memorial because it was created by "transphobic feminists."https://t.co/YJflIok0Bl
The mural was paper-based art plastered near a sidewalk creating a collage with the names and ages of 14 babies who had died as a result of the injury. Most of the infants were aged 1 to 13 months.
On International Women’s Day 2021, Stern was pelted with eggs by trans activists in a coordinated and premeditated assault. She, along with members of L’Amazone and the Collective for the Abolition of Pornography and Prostitution (CAPP) had gathered to hold a demonstration at the Place de la République in Paris. The women soon found themselves swarmed and outnumbered by trans activists who called them “SWERFs”, for Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist, and shouted, “No feminism without whores.”
Many of the women protesting against the sex industry were themselves survivors of prostitution, but this didn’t deter the trans activists. A menacing threat was spray painted on a statue where the women were gathered which read, “Save a trans person, kill a TERF.”
Last October, women of L’Amazone were physically assaulted by trans activists who tore up their signs and hurled slurs at them while they marched in Paris. Surrounding the women, trans activists screamed “men can have abortions” in apparent retort to the participants’ opposition to gender ideology. They also yelled “TERFs get out,” and “stop transphobia!” During the attack, one women’s rights advocate sustained a broken finger as she was grabbed and shoved.
“I got used to the idea that my life, on a personal and professional scale, will never be the same again. When we start to speak publicly about transgenderism, there is a before and an after,” Stern told Le Figaro. “Only one thing terrifies me more than the threats I receive: the idea of stopping talking.”
A venue has offered to host a talk by Stern in May in support of her campaigning. Café Laïque Bruxelles shared news of the speech by praising “her courageous fight” and promising prospective attendants that “this conference will not be cancelled.” Just three months prior, the cafe was targeted by trans activists who stormed inside and hurled feces in protest over speakers critical of childhood medical transitioning.
Most recently, Stern has partnered with female sexuality influencer Dora Moutot on a project they call Femelliste, which “fights to maintain the sex-based rights of women.”
“Being a woman is not a feeling or a sentiment or a fantasy or a taste in clothes but a biological and sexual reality,” the Femelliste manifesto reads. “Gender is a set of social constructions that lock women and men into stereotyped shackles from which feminists have always tried to free themselves.”
For discussing female anatomy and sexuality, co-founder Moutot was similarly targeted by trans activists for abuse, and is currently facing a criminal complaint, the first of its kind in the nation, over accusations of “misgendering” two transgender public figures.
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One of the UK’s most-watched television networks is under fire after releasing a show centered around showing children the bodies of naked adults for the purposes of educating on “body positivity.”
Naked Education premiered its first season on Channel 4 last night. The show, hosted by popular personality Anna Richardson, featured a group of adults stripping naked in front of children aged 14 to 16.
“It’s all about body positivity, as Anna Richardson, Yinka Bokinni and Dr. Alex George go on a mission normalize all body types, champion our differences and break down stereotypes,” reads the description. The show is sponsored by Bosch, an internationally-recognized home appliance manufacturer.
Six 47-minute long episodes were released yesterday, and, despite featuring young teens, the episodes have a warning on the Channel 4 website informing viewers about gratuitous nudity. Channel 4 is operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation and is considered publicly owned and non-profit.
Amongst the content of the different episodes includes youth being exposed to information about anatomy, body hair, aging bodies, disabilities, and cosmetic surgery for both males and females. Adults are also seen discussing intimate information with each other, without the presence of the teens.
But what could be age-appropriate educational sessions about human sexuality quickly raises eyebrows the moment naked adults are brought in and paraded in front of the youth cohort in what are called “naked education lessons.”
UK network Channel 4 is under fire after premiering a new "body positive" program yesterday.
The episodes feature segments in which young teens are exposed to fully nude adults.
In Episode 2, the teens are given an “eyeful” of naked adult men, and told to inspect their penises closely as they are provided education on circumcision and size.
“Out of the men in our lineup, who do you think has the average-sized penis,” the youth are asked as their first question after the men remove the white robes they had been using to cover-up.
Close-up shots of the men’s penises and buttocks are shown at various points during the episode, but the youth would have been exposed to the strange adults for an extended period of time. Throughout the “naked education session,” cut-away interviews with the teens are shown, with the two young girls — aged 16 and 14 — visibly flushed as they recount seeing the adult men’s intimate areas.
On social media, people expressed outrage over the program, with many calling the participants “pedophiles.”
There is absolutely no conceivable reason to allow this than to normalise adults exposing themselves to children.
“Disgusting. What sort of individual would actually want to participate in this exhibitionism to children,” one user asked, with a response reading simply: “Nonces.”
“Why did parents allow them to participate? They should be held to account for colluding in what is tantamount to child abuse,” another user wrote. “Not because the naked body is shameful, but for filming kids too young to consent to seening them and having their reactions shown as entertainment.”
The release of the Channel 4 program comes just days after social media was ablaze with controversy over a similar program from the Netherlands called Gewoon Bloot, or Simply Naked.
The show, which actually aired in 2021, recently renewed outrage after old clips began circulating on Twitter showing young children being exposed to naked transgender adults.
Gewoon Bloot was so controversial that a man from Utrecht was criminally charged after threatening the makers of the show, enraged over its lack of safeguarding. The man was handed a suspended prison sentence of two weeks, with a probationary period of two years. He was also ordered to complete 40 hours of community service.
In 2019, Denmark public television featured a similar concept, with children as young as 11 being exposed to naked adults for the sake of “sex education.” Ultra Smider Tøjet, or Ultra Strips Down, faced massive backlash when it was first released, with critics calling it “depraved.”
The award-winning, publicly-funded program was centered around teaching a child audience about human bodies, sexuality, and body positivity. A prime feature of the program was children meeting with adults who would display their naked bodies in front of them, stripping during the show.
In 2021, Danish broadcaster DR quietly scrubbed one of the archived episodes of the show after discovering one of the men who had been brought on the program to strip in front of the child audience had been convicted of sexually abusing a child and possessing over 3,000 child sexual exploitation materials.
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