A surgeon and professor is being mocked after criticizing a crossword puzzle which used “adult human female” as the definition for “woman,” calling it “un-inclusive.”
On January 18, Dr. Rhea Liang posted a screenshot to her Twitter calling attention to a crossword she had seen in a Gardening Australia magazine. Liang expressed she was “disappointed” to see “un-inclusive” language being used as a hint for one of the crossword lines. In her screenshot, Liang underlined a hint which read “adult human female.”
Liang claimed the definition was a “siren call for hatred,” and tagged Gardening Australia‘s parent media group, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Liang is a breast and gender surgeon at Robina Hospital in the Australian state of Queensland. She’s also a co-lead and clinical associate professor in the faculty of sciences and medicine at Bond University.
On her Bond University profile, Liang is described as having a particular research focus on breast cancer management, as well as “diversity and inclusion in medicine.”
Despite having a both a background in advocating for women in the medical field and a specialization in women’s healthcare, Liang began to attract attention on social media for her post railing against a definition of “woman.”
Many users initially believed Liang was joking, or was a parody account intended to mock the absurdity of trans activists. Some expressed shock when they realized she was being serious.
I thought this was parody and actually laughed out loud.
But no.
You really just called a crossword puzzle a transphobic siren call for hatred.
For the 10,000th time: Woman is not a dirty word. The definition of woman IS “adult human female”. Grow up and get some self-respect.
“Unbelievable, this person claims to be a breast surgeon in her bio, but thinks adult human female is un-inclusive. Honestly you literally couldn’t make this up,” tweeted one user in response.
Some Twitter users were also quick to point out that as a doctor specializing in breast cancer, Liang should be aware of what a woman is.
Sall Grover, the founder of women-only social media application Giggle, replied to Liang’s post and noted that an understanding of biological sex should be considered important in women’s healthcare.
You’re a doctor. If you won’t acknowledge the *fact* that a woman is an adult human female, why should anyone let you come anywhere near them to practice medicine on them, because if you’ll ignore that biological fact what else will you ignore?
Liang responded to Grover, writing: “A woman is most commonly an adult female human, (the word order is important) but there are a proportion who are also adults, born genetically male, who are women.”
Liang continued to call the definition “adult human female” a “hate phrase” stating: “You only need to google the phrase ‘adult human female’ to get pages of anti-trans hate. It’s such a known hate phrase it’s caused a ban from standing for the UK Parliament.”
In an effort to prove her point, the women’s health doctor then shared an article about Natalie Bird, a mother of two and domestic abuse survivor, who was banned from running for public office for wearing a shirt that said ‘Woman: Adult, Human, Female.’ Bird was also targeted by trans activists after asserting that women’s refuges should be segregated based on sex.
“Adult human female” has been used as a slogan by women’s rights campaigners who aim to protect single sex spaces by reaffirming that males cannot be women.
Despite being a long-standing definition, the words were popularized as a political slogan by Standing for Women, a rights campaign established by Kellie-Jay Keen. Keen sells t-shirts reading the definition, such as the one Natalie Bird was reprimanded for wearing, to fund her campaign.
Many critics of gender ideology have also pointed out that trans activists have failed to provide a coherent alternative definition for the word woman.
The question “what is a woman?” became a popularized slogan after conservative podcaster Matt Walsh made a documentary in 2022 highlighting the harms of gender ideology. A focal point of the feature were interviews with trans activists who seemed unable to provide a definition for “woman.”
Confusingly, Liang added a tweet to her original post today asserting that “adult female humans” is a more “inclusive” way to define “woman.” Ironically, Liang is frequently consulted by Australian media on the experiences of “female” doctors.
I think I inadvertently proved the point of the tweet.😱
To be clear, I’m not against the word ‘woman’- I’m one myself. I’m merely asking for the correct phrase ‘adult female human’ to be used, rather than the phrase ‘adult human female’. Such a small change to be inclusive.
The definition of the word woman has become so divisive that Dictionary.com labelled “woman” as their 2022 Word of the Year.
“Searches for the word woman on Dictionary.com spiked significantly multiple times in relation to separate high-profile events,” the Dictionary brand wrote on their site.
According to Dictionary.com, searches for the word “woman” increased 1,400% after Ketanji Brown Jackson’s supreme court confirmation hearing where she failed to give a definition of the word, claiming she did not have the specialty to do so.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn: "Can you provide a definition for the word woman?"
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: "I can't… I'm not a biologist."
In October of 2022, Cambridge Dictionary came under fire after abruptly adding an alternative definition to the word “woman,” describing it as “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”
Their definition for female reads, “belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or produce eggs,” which undermines their newly expanded definition of the word woman as males do not belong to the sex that can give birth. Many have stated that this second definition renders the word meaningless.
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An app created to help women track their menstrual cycles is under fire after it was revealed biological males were using private chat functions within the app to communicate with women on intimate matters.
Flo is a popular period tracking app that allows women to track their menstrual cycle allowing them to predict their next period, track their fertility, and to better understand their reproductive health. Though it is ranked the #7 most popular health app in the Apple Store, Flo is now sparking backlash after it was learned males who identify as “women” are being welcomed to use the app.
On January 12, a feminist account on Twitter kicked off the upset, calling attention to the fact she had witnessed self-described “trans women” using the app’s forums to communicate with female users about menstruation.
Flo responded to the user saying: “We aim to support everyone with periods – regardless of gender.”
Hi there.
We aim to support everyone with periods – regardless of gender 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://t.co/tKOos2rdcJ
Despite Flo’s tweet that the app is suitable for “anyone with periods,” screenshots from the apps message boards, known as secret chats, began to circulate showing the app was being used by biological males who were communicating directly with the female users.
On Twitter, women began to rally under Flo’s posts, asserting that males do not have periods and thus should not be accepted on the application where women are discussing intimate details of their reproductive healthcare. Some insisted they would uninstall the app, disappointed with Flo’s response.
“That’s me uninstalling Flo App then. Can’t use an app that gaslights women into thinking men can have periods,” one Twitter user responded.
“Right. And since males don’t have periods they have no business being in chats with women who do,” stated another.
Faith commentator and influencer Allie Beth Stuckey similarly called attention to the ordeal, reporting to her more than 390,000 followers that Flo was allowing men to take part in chats with women discussing intimate healthcare. Stuckey posted screenshots showing she had been blocked by the app’s official social media page after them “‘trans women’ don’t have periods. Women do.”
Flo period tracker defended allowing men who identify as women on their apps, taking part in chats with women sharing intimate details about their bodies. pic.twitter.com/oxn99TvngS
But Stuckey was just one of dozens of women Flo quickly blocked for issuing criticism of their “all genders get periods” mantra. Reduxx discovered our social media account was preemptively blocked by Flo despite never having interacted with it.
Screenshots rapidly began to circulate from women showing they had been blocked by Flo after pointing out that males do not have a uterus, and thus, do not experience menstruation.
“Flo App blocked me, a woman who uses their app for my period tracking and fertility, for asking why they allow men on their period app. They allow ‘transwomen’ in their chats,” said one user.
Reduxx has obtained further screenshots from Flo’s “secret chats” which show men discussing their “periods” and bathroom access with female users.
Screenshots from the Flo “secret chats.”
In some conversations held in the “secret chats,” trans-identified males discussed the possibility of getting uterus transplants. In one post seen by Reduxx, a trans-identified female offered up her womb to a male who was expressing a desire to have a baby.
A common theme amongst the trans-identified males using the app is the insistence they experience the symptoms of menstruation, including “cramps.”
“When the wall of the womb contracts, it compresses the blood vessels lining your womb. This temporarily cuts off the blood supply – and oxygen supply – to your womb. Without oxygen, the tissues in your womb release chemicals that trigger pain,” explains the medical authority.
The revelation that Flo welcomes males onto their app comes at a time where there has been a pointed uptick of males on social media platforms like TikTok claiming they experience “periods” or period-like symptoms as a result of taking cross-sex hormones. Many women have taken issue with this calling it a mockery, appropriation, and fetishization.
Despite males not having a womb, it has become commonplace on social media for trans-identified males to report having accessed healthcare services to relieve them of their uterine cramping.
A male Twitter user claiming to have received medical treatment for his “cramping.”
According to Flo’s terms of use, “Flo Secret Chats is a special feature of the App that allows users to communicate with each other on a set of different topics related to women’s health and wellbeing.” In the secret chat rules it states that users as young as 13 years old are allowed to participate in the chat community, potentially
This is not the first time Flo has received backlash in 2021 a lawsuit was filed against the organisation alleging they were disclosing their users intimate data to third-parties.
Flo Health allegedly violated users’ privacy by disclosing their information to third parties through software development kits incorporated into its app, despite the company’s privacy policies and “public assurances” that it would not share data, stated the complaint.
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For more than two years, Canadian nurse Amy Hamm has been going through an ordeal that can only be described as Kafkaesque.
In November of 2020, Hamm had been informed by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) that she was under investigation for her “off-duty conduct.”
Two members of the public – neither of whom were Hamm’s patients – had complained, essentially, that she was a “transphobe.”
Despite Hamm’s flawless track record and her history working with transgender patients over the course of her decade-long career, the BCCNM took the random complaints seriously. Six months later, Hamm was sent a document over 300-pages in length detailing dubious “evidence” of her transphobia in the form of her published articles and posts on social media.
Hamm is an advocate for women’s single-sex spaces, and has been involved in the Canadian iteration of the debate around gender ideology – the idea that one’s self-declared “gender identity” is more important than their biological sex. BCCNM took the position that Hamm’s personal views made her unfit to be a nurse.
“Men are not women. Humans are a dimorphic species. Women and men are biologically different from one another. Women and girls have sex-based rights as a result of those differences. Those rights are under threat. This is the truth. It has always been the truth. Speaking the truth should not be a punishable offense.”
Hamm has written and spoken publicly about gender ideology in addition to organizing large events where this topic can be debated and differing perspectives can be heard. While she had been doing this for almost 7 years, what eventually triggered the two complaints against Hamm was her involvement in erecting a billboard in Vancouver that simply said “I [heart] JK Rowling.”
The billboard didn’t last long, and was vandalized repeatedly in its short time being up on Hastings Street.
Amy Hamm standing in front of the billboard she helped erect in 2020.
For this, she was put at risk of losing her nursing license and her livelihood on the charge that she has made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people while identifying herself as a nurse.
Initially, her disciplinary hearing, which is taking place over video, was scheduled for May 30 through June 3, 2022. However, it quickly ballooned to an expected seven days and was rescheduled for September 21-23 and October 24-27, 2022.
After the first seven days, four more days were subsequently added the week of January 10. The fourth day in January was canceled when it became obvious that the hearing was nowhere near completion, and it was decided that another eight days would be added.
Those dates have not yet been scheduled, but one wonders if even the added days will be sufficient to conclude what has so far been a demonstration of the ideological capture of the BCCNM.
It all kicked off on day one when BCCNM legal counsel Michael Seaborn (who displays he/him pronouns next to his name, like the rest of the BCCNM legal team) declared that insisting there are only two sexes denies the very existence of transgender people.
Elizabeth Saewyc.
The BCCNM contends that, as a regulated professional, Hamm is not allowed to make such basic, factually accurate statements.
One of the highlights of Saewyc’s testimony was when she had great trouble (or, at least, pretended to have great trouble) understanding that lesbians are females attracted to other females. In fact, she opined that it might be transphobic for a lesbian to openly state her exclusive interest in other females.
The next witness for the BCCNM was Dr. Greta Bauer, a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. Bauer is also a member of WPATH.
Dr. Greta Bower.
Bauer continued to present ludicrous ideas about sex and gender identity as if they were universally accepted and unquestioned.
She spoke confidently about toddlers having gender identities and people changing sex over the course of their life. At the same time, she was unable to define terms like “gender,” “sex,” “women,” and “female.”
At one point, Lisa Bildy, legal counsel for Hamm, put to Bauer a definition of “female,” coined by biologist Heather Heying, that accounts for all possible caveats: “Females are individuals who do or did or will or would, but for developmental or genetic anomalies, produce eggs.”
Bauer could not agree with this definition. When Bildy pressed further, legal counsel for BCCNM Barbara Findley objected, claiming that the definition of “female” was outside of the scope of Bauer’s expertise.
Like Saewyc, Bauer did not agree that lesbians are females who are exclusively attracted to other females. She said that lesbians should examine why they are not attracted to men who identify as women and likened sexual orientation to sexual racial preferences.
Bauer also dismissed concerns about the potential harms of placing trans-identified male prisoners, many of them sex offenders, into women’s prisons. She hand-waved away the suggestion that this situation may create an unacceptable level of risk by saying that “cisgender” women assault each other in prison as well.
On the topic of gender-affirming medical procedures for minors, Bauer stated that it would be transphobic to question any of the extreme and experimental interventions that are being performed.
When Bildy suggested that one of the side effects of hormonal interventions for young trans-identified females is early menopause and corresponding symptoms like hot flashes, Bauer remarked that some adolescents might be “excited about that.”
She then asked Bauer if the man wearing the enormous prosthetic breasts is a woman.
“If she identifies as a woman, then her gender identity is a woman,” Bauer responded.
“With full access to female spaces?” Bildy pressed.
“As per the law,” Bauer said.
Hamm is, essentially, in trouble for holding the opposite position.
After Bauer’s cross-examination was complete, it should have been time for Hamm’s witnesses to give their testimony. However, counsel for BCCNM has spent a good portion of the 10 days of proceedings trying to get her impeccably qualified witnesses dismissed.
Legal counsel for Hamm intends to call Dr. Miriam Grossman, Dr. Kathleen Stock, Dr. Linda Blade, and Heather Mason. All have extensive knowledge of the gender ideology debate and experience in different areas pertaining to it.
Dr. Grossman is a practicing psychiatrist who works with trans-identified patients and has been raising concerns about gender ideology since 2006.
Dr. Stock is a philosopher, a writer, and the author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism.
Dr. Blade is the president of Athletics Alberta and co-author, along with journalist Barbara Kay, of Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport.
Mason is an advocate for women in prison and a former federal prisoner who knows more than anyone what is happening to the marginalized women who are bearing the brunt of Canada’s disastrous policies regarding the placement of trans-identified male prisoners.
BCCNM counsel has argued that none of these witnesses’ experience, expertise, and opinions are relevant to Hamm’s case, despite the fact that they clearly demonstrate the existence of an ongoing debate of great public interest.
On day 10 of the hearing, Karen Bastow, legal counsel for Hamm, reiterated that what is taking place is not a negligence case but a free speech case. She stressed that Hamm’s speech is protected by her charter right of freedom of expression.
Opposing counsel Findlay made it clear that the BCCNM cares nothing for Hamm’s charter rights by launching into a description of how Canadian institutions have been completely captured by gender identity ideology as if this is a positive and desirable state of affairs.
“A transgender youth in Canada, or an adult for that matter, may discover their identity as transgender and, when they do, they find it in the context of a medical and a legal system and an educational system that recognizes and understands, accepts, and assists with their identity as transgender people. The schools teach it, the doctors practice it, the nurses care with it.”
She concluded, “there is no debate here. Here, the debate is settled.”
Except the debate is not settled in Canada: it has not even begun. The BCCNM is trying to prevent it from even starting by silencing Hamm and not allowing her witnesses a chance to testify.
What is happening to Hamm should not happen in a free and sane society. It is an example of the totalitarian nature of gender ideology and its “no debate” mantra come to manifest.
Amy Eileen Hamm is a dedicated nurse who has never faced any workplace discipline. She is a mother of two young children. And she is now facing the loss of her job for stating basic facts that most people agree with. This should concern everyone.
Our society should be applauding the kind of people who can stand up to social pressure and against atrocities like the sterilization of children and the destruction of women’s boundaries. Instead, it has cowed to a regressive orthodoxy that is burning heretics at the stake.
No, the debate is not settled. Amy Eileen Hamm’s hearing is only its beginning.
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Ha salido a la luz un inquietante post en Reddit en la que un padre se jacta de que su hija transidentificada le regaló sus pezones por Navidad después de que se le cayeran durante la recuperación de una “cirugía de arriba”.
El post se compartió por primera vez el 5 de enero a través del subreddit r/CisParentTransKid, que es un foro para padres no transgénero que dicen tener hijos transgénero. Los padres suelen compartir historias y apoyo, y se intercambian recursos entre ellos. Pero la publicación, hecha por un padre con el alias “Pedantichrist“, tenía un tono claramente diferente.
El usuario, que es un poderoso moderador de Reddit, afirmaba ser el padre de un “hijo” transgénero, una niña que se identifica como niño. Describió cómo parte de los pezones de su hija se habían caído durante la recuperación de una doble mastectomía electiva, comúnmente conocida como “cirugía de arriba”.
“Después de la cirugía de arriba, [ella] conservaba [sus, de ella] pezones originales, pero obviamente hay que moverlos y se forman costras y se cae una capa. [Su, de ella] regalo de Navidad para mí fue el izquierdo, enmarcado y montado (el derecho se rompió en pequeños pedazos)”, describió el padre en Reddit, usando pronombres masculinos para referirse a su hija.
“Mi hijo me regaló su pezón izquierdo por Navidad. Después de la cirugía de arriba, ella conservaba sus pezones originales, pero obviamente hay que moverlos y se forman costras y se cae una capa. Su regalo de Navidad para mí fue el izquierdo, enmarcado y montado (el derecho se rompió en pequeños pedazos) No esperaba esto, pero estoy irracionalmente complacido de que sea capaz de hacer este tipo de bromas. Sé que, por ejemplo, es incapaz de mirarse a sí mismo ahí abajo cuando se ducha, incluso después de la cirugía de arriba, por lo que este fue un gran paso en la aceptación. Y sí, es raro de cojones, pero no está tan lejos de mi sentido del humor normal. Lo he colgado en la pared. En fin, un post un poco diferente a lo habitual, con la intención de ser positivo y hacer reír a la gente.”
El padre contó que, aunque no se esperaba el regalo, estaba encantado con él.
“Y sí, es raro de cojones, pero no está tan lejos de mi sentido del humor normal. Lo he colgado en la pared”, dijo. Su historial de publicaciones en Reddit sugiere que es padre de tres niños pequeños. Además de ser usuario en r/CisParentTransKid, Pedantichrist modera varios subreddits – incluyendo r/Unexpected, que tiene 9 millones de seguidores, así como un foro local para residentes de Devon, Reino Unido.
Su publicación recibió respuestas positivas en el subreddit r/CisParentTransKid. En el momento de escribir este artículo, tenía 112 “votos positivos” y el 98% del total de votos eran positivos.
“Qué bonita, esta historia me dio euforia”, dijo un usuario de reddit, respondiendo a la publicación. El término “euforia de género” se ha utilizado con frecuencia para describir un estado de excitación sexual provocado por la “afirmación” del género de un individuo transgénero.
“¡¡¡Me encanta!!! Todo lo que conseguí después de que mi hijo se hiciera la suya fue la clásica quema de sujetadores en el jardín”, respondió otro padre, refiriéndose a su hija trans-identificada quemando su ropa interior después de su doble mastectomía electiva.
Otro usuario lo atribuyó al típico “humor de chicos” de la niña.
— TERFin’ Over 9000!(Account will self destruct T-5) (@Terfin9000) January 10, 2023
“Qué cojones es esto?!”
Las mastectomías cosméticas se han convertido en el centro de los recientes debates en torno a la ideología de género y su impacto en los menores.
Se ha producido un aumento espectacular de niñas que solicitan mastectomías dobles tras adoptar una identidad “trans” o “no binaria”. Según un estudio reciente, el número de “cirugías de arriba” practicadas a niñas menores de 18 años en los Estados Unidos se ha multiplicado por 13 en la última década. El mismo estudio reveló que la mayoría de las niñas que se sometían a esta operación tenían antecedentes de salud mental: alrededor del 60% tenía ansiedad y/o depresión, y un 11% tenía antecedentes de trastornos alimentarios.
La creciente preocupación por la transición de los jóvenes ha llegado a la comunidad médica, y varias destacadas autoridades sanitarias hicieron declaraciones el año pasado desaconsejando las intervenciones quirúrgicas o químicas cuando un menor presenta disforia de género.
El pasado mes de febrero, la Academia Nacional de Medicina de Francia emitió un comunicado de prensa en el que instaba a los facultativos a tener “gran precaución médica” en el tratamiento de niños y adolescentes que afirmaban ser transgénero. La Academia señalaba que se había producido un aumento dramático en el número de jóvenes que declaraban tener identidades transgénero o no binarias. Un ejemplo que utilizó fue el del Royal Children’s Hospital en Melbourne, Australia, donde en 2003 solo se había diagnosticado disforia de género a un niño, mientras que pocos años después estaba tratando a casi 200 niños “disfóricos”.
En 2022, las mastectomías cosméticas “sin pezón” fueron objeto de críticas negativas generalizadas, con la aparición de una tendencia en TikTok de mujeres que se identificaban como transgénero o no binarias que hablaban de haberse sometido a una “cirugía de arriba sin pezón”.
“Ahora mismo esta ropa o ,me produce disforia, o no me deja respirar 😵💫 pero después de la operación!!!!Estoy tan emocionadaaaaaaa 🥺🥺💗💗”
Algunas personas que antes se identificaban como transgénero han empezado a expresar su arrepentimiento por las intervenciones médicas de “afirmación” a las que se les permitió acceder cuando eran menores.
Chloe Cole, de 18 años, es una de las docenas de mujeres jóvenes que antes se identificaban como transgénero y se ha convertido en una firme defensora de quienes se autodenominan “detransicionadores”. Después de identificarse como un niño en su juventud, Cole se sometió a una mastectomía doble electiva con solo 15 años.
I had an elective double mastectomy before I could get a drivers license.
“Me sometí a una doble mastectomía electiva antes de poder sacarme el carné de conducir.”
El 28 de enero, Cole hablará en un mitin en Murfreesboro, Tennessee, sobre sus experiencias como detransicionadora. El evento “Adolescentes contra la mutilación de género” estará protagonizado por adolescentes que, como Cole, sufrieron el impacto de la ideología de género.
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A man who identifies as transgender is standing trial on accusations that he sexually assaulted two women on separate occasions. Adam Graham, 31, now goes by the name “Isla Bryson” and was referred to by feminine pronouns both in court and in UK media coverage. Graham has been charged with raping the women with “her penis,” according to court documents.
The first alleged assault is said to have happened on September 16, 2016, in Clydebank. Graham reportedly pulled down the woman’s clothing and restrained her, forcibly penetrating her. According to the victim, Graham, being aware of the crime he committed, instructed the woman to “wash bedding” in an effort to destroy the evidence the following day. She also stated that Graham told her “not to disclose to anyone” the details of the assault.
In an attempt to secure her silence, Graham reportedly went on to threaten the victim’s family in order to secure her silence.
Though a pre-recorded statement, the victim gave testimony to the court noting that she had met Graham on dating app Badoo in July of 2016. After establishing rapport, Graham claimed he was being abused by a female partner. Concerned for his safety and wellbeing, the victim offered Graham shelter at her mother’s property, where she also lived, until which time he could be moved into a homeless unit.
Graham reportedly began to show dramatic swings in behavior while staying at the property, screaming at a young boy the victim had been caring for. After a few weeks, he was moved to a homeless unit, but the two continued to see each other, with Graham staying over on Friday nights.
According to the Clydebank Post, on the night of the assault, Graham entered the bedroom where she had been preparing for bed and locked the door. At first, the victim thought Graham was cuddling her, but said “everything felt weird and wrong.”
Graham then pulled the woman’s pajamas down and raped her despite her vocal protests. The assault only stopped when the victim’s mother turned on the hallway light outside of the bedroom.
Three years later, on June 27, 2019, Graham is said to have assaulted a second woman at an apartment in Glasgow.
After having engaged in consensual sexual activity, the victim states, Graham became sexually violent and assaulted her. The court heard that Graham allegedly bit the victim, lay on top of her and restrained her, and went on to rape the woman “to her injury.”
An assault charge states that Graham additionally punched the woman the next day.
Defense advocate Edward Targowski told the High Court in Glasgow his client was pleading not guilty to all charges and was lodging a special defense of consent to two, as reported by The Scottish Sun.
A letter from Graham’s family doctor was presented in court as evidence of his transgender status. Dated August 5, 2022, the document stated Graham was “currently receiving the maximum recommended doses of Spironolactone and Finasteride” with a hormone prescription provided by Glasgow’s specialist sexual health service Sandyford Clinic.
Graham’s trial is expected to continue for at least five days more, and, if convicted, it is anticipated that he may be housed in a correctional facility for women.
Earlier this week, it came to light earlier that a serial rapist who targeted women in changing rooms and restrooms had begun identifying as transgender and is seeking a transfer to a women’s prison.
Last fall, it was revealed that half of Scotland’s prisoners who claim a transgender status began doing so only after they had been convicted of a crime. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) confirmed there were 16 trans inmates in Scots prisons, of whom eight began to identify as transgender while “being cared for in custody following their remand or conviction for their current offence”.
However, the SPS said it was unable to disclose whether or not there were allegations of sexual misconduct involving the trans-identifying male prisoners due to the cost that would be involved in providing the information.
Scotland recently attempted to pass controversial amendments to the Gender Recognition Act which would streamline the process of altering sex markers on legal documents. Notably, an amendment to the bill which would have prohibited anyone convicted of a sexual offense from changing their legal sex was rejected.
Yet the final outcome of Scotland’s proposed Gender Recognition Reform Bill currently hangs in limbo. On January 17 and for the first time in the United Kingdom’s history, Westminster chose to invoke a Section 35 Order to block the bill from obtaining Royal Assent.
Under Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998, Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack can prevent a Holyrood bill from becoming a law if it is believed that the legislation would have an “adverse effect” on the application of laws reserved to Westminster.
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Un violador en serie que atacaba a mujeres en vestuarios y baños se identifica ahora como transgénero y está tratando de conseguir el traslado a una cárcel de mujeres en Escocia.
Jonathon Mallon, de 40 años, fue condenado a cadena perpetua en 2014 por una serie de cargos de violación. Ahora ha comenzado a referirse a sí mismo como “Charlene” y supuestamente ha estado “alardeando” de que estará en una prisión de mujeres para la primavera, según un informe de The Scottish Sun. El violador en serie se encuentra actualmente en una prisión para hombres en Edimburgo.
Mallon tiene un largo historial delictivo relacionado con la violencia contra las mujeres. A lo largo de un período de 14 años, Mallon acumuló 21 cargos en las comunidades de Glasgow, Ayr, Renfrewshire y Greenock. Entre diciembre de 1999 y marzo de 2013, Mallon violó a cinco mujeres y abusó sexualmente de una sexta. Todas las víctimas de Mallon tenían 31 años o menos. Dos de sus víctimas eran mujeres que había conocido en la iglesia.
En 2014, la fiscal Kath Harper declaró ante el tribunal que Mallon ya había sido condenado anteriormente por maltrato doméstico, violencia, porte de arma blanca y por provocar incendios.
Durante la sentencia, una sobreviviente contó al tribunal cómo Mallon la violó en un cubículo de los baños de Scotstoun Swimming Baths mientras familias con niños pequeños se encontraban cerca. Añadió que tras, el incidente, Mallon le dijo: “¿Sabes lo que te acabo de hacer? Te he violado’. Parecía que se estaba regodeando”.
Otra víctima fue violada en el baño del cine Odeon de Glasgow.
El juez del Tribunal Superior de Glasgow le dijo a Mallon que su conducta “solo podía describirse como monstruosa”, y señaló que sus delitos se llevaron a cabo contra seis mujeres en total, “… cada una de las cuales era vulnerable de una manera u otra. Está claro que vio mujeres que eran vulnerables y las explotó despiadadamente para tu propia satisfacción sexual”.
Después de leer la condena, el juez le dijo a Mallon, que “lloraba en el banquillo”: “Espero que sus lágrimas sean para las mujeres cuyas vidas ha arruinado”.
Diez años después, Mallon está ansioso por estar cerca de mujeres una vez más, dijeron fuentes internas a The Sun. Un compañero de prisión dijo que Mallon “… ha estado diciendo a la gente que ha cambiado el nombre oficialmente y que irá al módulo de mujeres dentro de tres meses. Pero no lo creo. No sé cómo pueden poner a un delincuente sexual que viola a mujeres en un módulo de mujeres. Estoy seguro de que los jefes de la prisión se darán cuenta”.
El diputado conservador del Parlamento escocés (MSP) Russell Findlay, que propuso la enmienda, dijo que “evitaría que esos delincuentes masculinos, que ya mienten y engañan, cometan delitos graves y cuyas víctimas son casi siempre mujeres y niñas”.
En diciembre, los diputados del parlamento escocés aprobaron por 86 votos a favor y 39 en contra, el proyecto de ley de Reforma del Reconocimiento de Género (GRR), eliminando la necesidad de un diagnóstico médico de “disforia de género” para obtener un “certificado de reconocimiento de género” (GRC).
Shona Robison, Secretaria de Justicia Social, dijo que el proyecto de ley GRR “simplifica y mejora el proceso para que una persona trans obtenga un certificado de reconocimiento de género, que muchos actualmente encuentran intrusivo y demasiado medicalizado y burocrático … La aprobación de este proyecto de ley es un importante paso adelante en la creación de una Escocia más igualitaria, donde las personas trans se sientan valoradas, incluidas y empoderadas”.
También se votó en contra de una propuesta para impedir que las personas se autoidentificaran mientras esperaban un juicio por agresión sexual.
Robison dijo: “No hay pruebas de que los hombres depredadores y abusivos hayan tenido que solicitar el reconocimiento legal de género para comportarse como lo hacen”.
El Parlamento finalmente aprobó una enmienda que eliminaba el derecho de cualquier persona con una orden de alejamiento por daños sexuales o delitos sexuales a obtener un documento legal de cambio de género. Como consecuencia, la solicitud de Mallon del traslado de cárcel puede ser bloqueada.
Findlay dijo que la solicitud de Mallon “… es el último ejemplo de un depredador y delincuente sexual masculino que pretende acceder a una prisión de mujeres. La nueva ley de autoidentificación de género de Nicola Sturgeon conducirá a un aumento inevitable de estos casos, poniendo a algunas de las mujeres más vulnerables de Escocia en un riesgo aún mayor”.
Como reveló anteriormenteReduxx, el abusador sexual infantil en serie Katie Dolatowski fue enviado recientemente a una institución para mujeres para cumplir una condena de 4 meses a pesar de su largo historial de ataques sexuales a niñas en instalaciones públicas. A Dolatowski, de 22 años, se le permitió identificarse como mujer para acceder a una prisión de mujeres a pesar de que el tribunal sabía que había agredido violentamente a una reclusa en 2021 mientras estaba encarcelado en una centro para hombres.
Cornton Vale, la prisión donde Dolatowski cumple actualmente su condena, es un centro nacional escocés para mujeres, tanto condenadas como en prisión preventiva. Está diseñado para albergar a un máximo de 119 mujeres, y tiene una Unidad de Madres y Bebés separada con 7 plazas.
Si se aprueba la solicitud de traslado de Mallon, también podría acabar en Cornton Vale o en el ala Ratho House de la cárcel.
La política que permite el traslado de reclusos varones a centros penitenciarios femeninos fue respaldada por un alto funcionario del Servicio de Prisiones de Escocia que fue condenado en 2016 por cargos relacionados con la posesión de materiales de abuso sexual infantil. Gordon Pike, responsable de la “política de identidad de género y reasignación de género” del Servicio de Prisiones, se declaró culpable ante el tribunal del sheriff de Paisley de almacenar 22,000 fotos indecentes de niños.
El pasado mes de abril se reveló que un recluso masculino transidentificado condenado por asesinato había comenzado a identificarse como bebé y a exigir pañales a los funcionarios de prisiones. Poco después de su detención, los funcionarios de prisiones le pusieron a Sophie Eastwood el apodo de “Hannibal Lecter Jr.” debido a los “juegos mentales escalofriantes” que el recluso realizaba con el personal, uno de los cuales hizo que una guardia abandonara su puesto tras un solo turno con él.
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A staff member at a controversial charity has been caught operating pseudonymous accounts where he admits to being a pedophile and masturbating to photos of children.
Reduxx has learned that “Prescott Bayern,” the general manager of Prostasia, has been active on one of the world’s largest pedophile message boards dedicated to homosexual men who call themselves “boy lovers.”
Founded in 2018, Prostasia bills itself as a “child protection organization” seeking to prevent child sexual abuse through “evidence” rather than “emotion”. Despite its lofty pro-child safeguarding claims, the types of advocacy and information Prostasia pushes has been labeled “pro-pedophile” by many critics, and the organization has come under increasing levels of scrutiny over the years.
Prostasia’s staff has changed frequently over the years. In late 2022, the organization stopped providing the public with information on who comprised its team, citing “targeted attacks”. However, as of the last available archive made in September of 2022, Prostasia listed its general manager of operations as Prescott Bayern.
On Prostasia’s site, Bayern’s profile states he has “always been passionate about preserving individual rights and responsibilities. He is an advocate for human rights, free speech, privacy, anti-censorship, sex worker’s rights, criminal legal system reform, and child sexual abuse prevention.”
According to ZoomInfo, Bayern is currently employed at an environmental service company in Wayne, New Jersey.
Bayern’s profile on the Prostasia website, archived in September of 2022.
While calling himself “Prescott” on the Prostasia Team page, Bayern’s full name is actually Lawrence P. Bayern. He uses the same profile photo on Facebook as he does on the Prostasia forums, where he goes by the name “Larry.”
Under that handle, Bayern is active on the Prostasia forums, where he commonly gets into discussions around “minor attraction” and his own pedophilic desires. Bayern also frequently posts in the comment section of Prostasia blog entries. Beneath one article, titled “3 simple steps to reduce [child sexual abuse],” Bayern advocates for giving children their own sex dolls.
In one discussion from October of 2021 on Prostasia’s dedicated forum, Bayern stated he was married to a woman who was unaware of his sexual attraction to children. The woman is reportedly a survivor of child sexual abuse, and Bayern admits to concealing his pedophilia from her as she “just wouldn’t have understood.”
In that same post, Bayern states that he has had a “desire for adolescents” for 4 decades, but claims never to have sexually abused one.
“I read stories, I look at (legal) pictures of naked children, I fantasize about things I can’t have. I even bought a doll. Lot of good that did me. The idiots didn’t create the orifices needed and I couldn’t do anything about that,” Bayern says.
On his Twitter profile, Bayern claims to be a libertarian, and his political stance appears to inform many of his arguments on pedophilia.
In one post from March of 2022, Bayern claims that child sexual abuse material “does not equate to actually abusing a child.” Bayern continues: “There are people that say the act of looking at a [child pornography] picture abuses the child, but that is subject to debate. How would the victim know someone is looking at their picture?”
Bayern appears to strongly support the legal availability of animated child sexual abuse material, and admits to viewing both animated and real photos of naked children. He claims the photos of actual children are “legal” images.
“There should be a way to search it without looking over your shoulder for the FBI or Interpol,” Bayern says. “I ‘scratch my itch’ with cartoons and 3D renders. Prior to this all that was legally available were art books with nude children. I also read text stories.”
In another post on the Prostasia forum, Bayern claims to enjoy watching children for masturbatory material. In a thread on the legality and ethics of using real children as fodder for sexual fantasy, Bayern lashes back at another user pointing out that it is illegal in the United Kingdom to sexualize pictures of actual children, even if the photos themselves are innocent.
“How would anyone know if I am ‘lusting in my heart’?” Bayern asks. “We have too many stupid, unenforceable, unnecessary and idiotic laws on the books now. Let’s not waste any time on more of them.”
Later in the forum, he tells the concerned user: “… tomorrow I am going to where ever I can find the most children, ogle and leer at them all day and then go home and self gratify myself until raw. And I will do it all in your honor.”
But Bayern’s activity is not limited to the Prostasia forums. He uses the same handle on BoyChat, the internet’s oldest pedophile message board.
BoyChat was launched in 1995 as a community hub for homosexual men calling themselves “boy lovers.” The site, which is hosted on a Canadian server, is freely accessible from the surface web, and remains active due to having certain rules dictating users maintain “legal” behavior. An archaic, HTML-style message board, users often sign their posts using photos of themselves when they were little boys.
In one archived thread, Bayern and others engage in a discussion about “dirty old men” being a benefit to the sexual development of boys.
“Everything you’ve said is quite true. In my younger days, I even had occasion myself to allow a fellow to have his way with me (ok, he just sucked me off in the empty bathroom of a gay bar),” one user wrote, continuing: “But I’ll take it a step further and point out that some people literally crave a dirty old man, and will go to some lengths to get one into their life. And these people do include, among others, boys. Especially teenaged boys.”
Bayern responds to the user, “I am the definition of a ‘dirty old man.’ I can no longer go out to find the boys who need me, so, I have set traps just outside of the front yard fence. One day, I’ll catch one.”
In another thread, Bayern and other users discuss having frivolities to honor “International Boy Lover’s Day,” and refers to a child he calls his “son.” While an adult now, Bayern alludes to the genitalia of the child.
“A toga party is something my son would really get behind. Although, he would probably not wear anything to cover his ‘manly bits’ … and they were manly in size.”
Attached to the post is a photo of a shirtless little boy kneeling on the floor and opening a Christmas gift.
In another discussion, Bayern vehemently agrees with a user claiming society is “grooming” male youth to the authorities when it comes to their sexual freedoms.”
Insight into Bayern’s unabashedly pedophilic alternate accounts was exclusively provided to Reduxx by Project Raven, a collaborative exercise in archiving and analyzing the online activity of pro-pedophilia organizations and their members.
Speaking to Reduxx on the investigation, Project Raven researcher Erin Holmes said she first became aware of Prostasia in 2021 after NBC contributor Noah Berlatsky joined the group as a spokesperson. Holmes said was immediately struck by the “manipulation” present in Prostasia’s tactics.
“Prostasia claims child abuse prevention should involve teaching children about fetishes and kink, and that viewing pornography can have a positive impact on children,” Holmes says. “Pedophiles want us to believe that contact with a child seems beyond reason, even to them. That they understand boundaries and will adhere to them. This becomes a key component in their activism, which is to convince others they are harmless and not worth the scrutiny society levies on them.”
Holmes argues that some pro-pedophilia organizations are selling themselves as “child protection charities,” styling themselves as having the best interests of children at heart while advocating for policies which break down child safeguarding measures.
“They are effective because they manipulate our capacity for good,” Holmes says.
Project Raven was established in July of 2022 with a number of mainly anonymous researchers interested in keeping tabs on organizations like Prostasia. One of the founders is Dr. Alaric Naudé, a Professor focused on the social sciences and linguistics at Suwon University in South Korea. In February of 2022, Naudè had his research on Prostasia removed from The British Journal of Sociology and History just 24 hours after it was first published after the group put pressure on the journal. Another named member is Jon Uhler, a veteran psychologist from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
Holmes says that the work Prostasia is doing shirks tested child safeguarding methods, and that their experimental approach promotes the work of academics sympathetic to pedophilia. Pro-pedophile sentiment, Holmes says, aids in “breaking down” the traditional methods and laws that protect children.
“Prostasia promotes the work of Michael Seto, who argues that classifying pedophilia as a sexual orientation will prevent child abuse and that removing the stigma of pedophilia will encourage those who want to offend to seek treatment for self-regulation,” Holmes explains. “Except self-regulation methods for pro-pedophilia advocates rely heavily on peer-to-peer support groups because they aren’t typically interested in traditional treatment methods.”
Holmes also says she is particularly concerned about Prostasia’s 503c tax-exempt status, which enables the organization to operate as a charitable group.
“Prostasia advocates for illicit practices while exploiting federal funding as a nonprofit … We should be asking ourselves how criminal enterprises are able to benefit from a non-profit status, selling themselves as a child protection charity.”
Reduxx reached out to the Internal Revenue Service, but did not receive a response in time for comment.
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Un ex voluntario de una importante organización benéfica escocesa para jóvenes LGBT ha revelado la escandalosa falta de medidas de protección infantil que presenció cuando trabajaba para la organización.
La organización LGBT Youth Scotland se denunció recientemente a sí misma a la policía a raíz de un informe de Reduxx (en español) en el que se recogían los testimonios de dos sobrevivientes que alegan haber sido captados y explotados por el personal de dicha organización cuando eran menores y utilizaban sus servicios.
Un antiguo voluntario de la organización ha presentado ahora nuevas acusaciones, afirmando rotundamente que no existía ningún tipo de medidas de protección infantil mientras él trabajaba para la organización benéfica.
Justin, cuyo nombre ha sido cambiado para proteger su identidad, explica que empezó trabajar con LGBT Youth Scotland en 2009. Como hombre gay con experiencia en terapia y asesoramiento, Justin dice que comenzó como voluntario debido a lo experimentado en su juventud, con la esperanza de poder ofrecer apoyo a los jóvenes que lidian con su sexualidad.
“Cuando tenía 18 o 19 años, me costaba encajar porque no me gustaba el aspecto social del ambiente gay. Estaba muy enfocado en el alcohol, las drogas y el acostarse con cualquiera. Descubrí que el voluntariado en grupos gay y en líneas de ayuda era una experiencia más positiva”, dice Justin. “Por experiencia, descubrí que si entras en el ambiente social gay por primera vez, ser gay puede convertirse fácilmente en toda tu personalidad, así que pensé que apoyar al grupo de jóvenes sería una gran oportunidad para demostrar que no tiene por qué ser así”.
Pero empezó a notar problemas después de unirse a LGBT Youth Scotland como voluntario.
Justin dice que los voluntarios adultos imponían sus valores políticos y sociales a los jóvenes usuarios del servicio.
Durante una de las reuniones del grupo, recuerda que fue testigo de cómo un trabajador adulto se enfureció con un niño que había expresado cierto apoyo al Partido Conservador.
“De verdad que me asustó el nivel de ira que salió de aquel hombre”, dice Justin, y cuenta que el niño huyó de la sesión en medio de la noche.
“El joven abandonó el edificio y no fui capaz de localizarlo. Hay que tener en cuenta que esta oficina está en el centro de Glasgow y fuera estaba oscuro . . . no es el mejor entorno para un joven alterado”, dice Justin, explicando que otro voluntario le dijo que “no servía de nada” expresar su apoyo a nada que no fuera el Partido Nacional Escocés.
En otra reunión de apoyo grupal, el mismo miembro adulto del equipo regañó a dos niños por decir que no querían asistir a un desfile del Orgullo.
“Esto iba en contra de todo lo que había aprendido sobre proporcionar un entorno de apoyo y empoderar a los jóvenes, era más bien dirigirlos para que acabaran teniendo los puntos de vista que sus mayores homosexuales consideraban ‘correctos'”, explica Justin.
Justin dice que una de sus primeras tareas en la oficina como voluntario fue ayudar al personal a “destruir” cualquier referencia al ex director de la organización benéfica, James Rennie.
James Rennie, ex CEO de LGBT Youth Scotland.
Rennie, que había estado al frente de LGBT Youth Scotland durante años, acababa de ser condenado por dirigir la mayor red de pedofilia de Escocia. En lo que se calificó como el “peor juicio por abuso de la historia”, se descubrió que Rennie había estado abusando de su ahijado desde que éste tenía solo 3 meses de edad.
Mientras ejercía de director de LGBT Youth Scotland y recibía elogios en el parlamento escocés por su labor en favor de los derechos de los homosexuales, Rennie había estado solicitando materiales de abuso sexual infantil a otros pervertidos, incluidos aquellos protagonizados por “jóvenes con síndrome de Down o niños con dificultades de aprendizaje”.
La asquerosa red de depredadores que Rennie lideraba fue desarticulada en 2007, y finalmente fue declarado culpable en 2009, junto con otros ocho hombres, que sumaban más de 125,000 imágenes de abuso sexual infantil entre ellos.
“Si encontraba algún material promocional, informes impresos, cartas, cualquier cosa que tuviera su foto o nombre, tenía que pasarlo por la trituradora. Había que eliminar todo lo que recordaba a él, como si no hubiera existido”, dice Justin. “El personal apenas mencionaba su nombre… Me dijeron que no preguntara, pero no se me aseguró que hubieran cambiado nada por las lecciones aprendidas durante su trabajo allí”.
Justin explica que tenía la sensación de que el objetivo explícito de la oficina no era proporcionar servicios de calidad a los jóvenes, sino conseguir más dinero para dudosos proyectos de investigación.
“En ese momento la oficina contaba con unas 20 personas, muchas de ellas recibiendo un sueldo completo, que realizaban sus propias investigaciones y presentaban solicitudes de financiación para seguir cobrando y repetir el ciclo. A pesar de mis preguntas curiosas sobre cómo algunas de estas investigaciones presentes y pasadas habían ayudado directamente a los jóvenes que usaban este servicio, nunca se me dieron detalles reales”, recuerda Justin. “No entendía cómo los grupos de jóvenes que estaban más o menos dirigidos en su totalidad por voluntarios no remunerados y sin formación se beneficiaban del trabajo que yo veía en la oficina”.
Justin dice que fue entonces cuando comenzó a ver a LGBT Youth Scotland como un “grupo de presión bien financiado”, en el que los jóvenes usuarios del servicio solo se usaban como justificación para obtener financiación adicional.
“[La organización benéfica] utilizaba las experiencias vitales de las personas vulnerables a su cargo para seguir obteniendo fondos con los que continuar su ‘trabajo’. Esencialmente, los jóvenes estaban allí como objetos de investigación para continuar el concepto de ‘grupo vulnerable’ que necesita ser apoyado por una organización bien financiada”.
Pero no fue solo en la oficina donde Justin comenzó a preocuparse por cómo LGBT Youth Scotland llevaba a cabo sus operaciones.
Los voluntarios no remunerados, muchos de los cuales carecían de cualificación profesional, trabajan directamente con menores.
“Eran sobre todo los voluntarios no remunerados los que tendían a hacer el trabajo más directo con los jóvenes”, dice Justin, y añade que algunos de los menores usuarios del servicio habían llegado a la organización benéfica a través de los servicios sociales y eran considerados bastante vulnerables.
“A pesar de esta primera impresión, me quedé porque creía que los jóvenes merecían un mejor apoyo”, agregó Justin.
Justin afirma que no creía que hubiera medidas de protección infantil mientras estuvo en la organización benéfica, un problema persistente que contribuyó a un incidente perturbador del que fue testigo mientras trabajaba como voluntario en un evento en Glasgow.
Se trataba de un encuentro nacional de LGBT Youth Scotland que se celebraba en la ciudad y que requería alojamiento para los asistentes. Además de los empleados remunerados, también había un gran número de voluntarios adultos.
Durante un taller el primer día del encuentro, Justin cuenta que vio a un voluntario adulto nuevo en la organización “coquetear abiertamente” con dos de los usuarios adolescentes del servicio, que tenían entre 14 y 16 años.
“No solo fue un coqueteo verbal, como preguntarles dónde vivían, sino que puso abiertamente la mano en el muslo de uno de los niños y usó el pie para rozar la pierna del otro niño”.
Justin explica que él y otra voluntaria estaban tan perplejos por el “descaro absoluto” del comportamiento, que al principio dudaron de sí mismos, confundidos sobre si era un voluntario o un usuario del servicio.
“Después de este taller, tanto yo como la otra voluntaria decidimos que era mejor hablar con un miembro responsable del personal sobre nuestra confusión y preocupación”, dice Justin. “Resultó ser un voluntario masculino adulto … Se le permitió quedarse el resto del fin de semana con la única garantía de que [LGBT Youth Scotland] ‘lo vigilaría'”.
Justin cuenta a Reduxx que a pesar de que él y la otra voluntaria habían sido testigos de la conducta inapropiada, el personal de LGBT Youth Scotland no habló con los jóvenes involucrados, ni consideró el comportamiento como un riesgo.
“Permitir que voluntarios sin experiencia ni formación trabajen con niños a menudo vulnerables no es ético, como no lo es el no facilitar que los voluntarios puedan plantear inquietudes de manera adecuada o eficaz”.
Justin expresa algunos remordimientos cuando reflexiona sobre su tiempo en LGBT Youth Scotland, sobre cómo manejó las situaciones poco éticas que había presenciado.
“Estoy empezando a aceptar en estos últimos años que yo también fui parte del problema. Esos niños se merecían algo mejor. Debería haber sido más fuerte y no haber confiado en la buena reputación de la organización. Debería haber presionado a suficientes personas empleadas por ellos hasta que uno de ellos, el que tuviera el poder, hiciera lo correcto”, dice.
El 23 de diciembre, Reduxx publicó una entrevista exclusiva (en español) con dos sobrevivientes que alegan haber sido víctimas de abusos sexuales y haber sufrido grooming mientras asistían a LGBT Youth Scotland cuando eran menores de edad.
Sam Cowie y Daniel Nechtan utilizaron los servicios de la organización benéfica en momentos diferentes, pero relataron experiencias inquietantemente similares.
Cowie, que accedió informalmente a los servicios en 2010, contó a Reduxx que hombres mayores de la organización benéfica le habían hecho “grooming”, le otorgaban privilegios especiales y le daban cigarrillos y alcohol.
“Me daban alcohol gratis, me animaban a acostarme con hombres mayores y me daban dinero para realizar actos sexuales”, explicó Cowie a Reduxx, que continúa para decir que el personal de la organización benéfica también lo había llevado a clubes gay para adultos en Edimburgo.
Daniel Nechtan, que se metió en la organización en 2003, recordó haber sido explotado sexualmente por el ahora encarcelado director James Rennie, a pesar de la declaración hecha por LGBT Youth Scotland después de su arresto de que no le había hecho daño a ninguno de sus miembros jóvenes.
“Aunque yo era joven, muchas de las personas involucradas en esta organización benéfica tenían entre veinte y treinta años y, por lo que sé, no había ningún tipo de protección. De hecho, parecía más una red social para conectar a hombres mayores con adolescentes [a menudo vulnerables]”, dijo Nechtan.
Menos de 24 horas después de la publicación del informe de Reduxx, LGBT Youth Scotland emitió un comunicado en el que declaraba haberse puesto en contacto con la policía como resultado de las acusaciones contra ellos.
BREAKING: LGBT Youth Scotland have issued a statement on the allegations of grooming and abuse made against them by two former youth members.
The charity says it has filed a police report on the allegations. This was done without the knowledge or consent of the survivors. pic.twitter.com/6LJbPMNXbv
Justin dice que fue después de leer el artículo de Reduxx que “se dio cuenta” de lo grave que había sido la situación en LGBT Youth Scotland, y se animó a denunciar.
“Leer sobre alguien a quien podría haber tenido, en algún momento, la oportunidad de proteger o al menos de intentarlo … Me trajo a la memoria el momento en que ese hombre tocaba y coqueteaba con esos chicos en aquel evento de LGBT Youth Scotland. Les había fallado. La organización les había fallado. Y si asquerosos como ese hacían eso abiertamente, entonces, ¿qué demonios hacían asquerosos como él en situaciones más privadas?” se pregunta Justin.
“Tenemos que dejar de proteger a estos tipos, sabemos que se siente atraídos hacia las organizaciones juveniles, tenemos que empoderar a nuestros jóvenes para que puedan hablar sin que sean acusados de alimentar la intolerancia”.
LGBT Youth Scotland se ha negado a hacer comentarios sobre las acusaciones formuladas contra la organización, pero ha seguido pidiendo apoyo público para donaciones.
Una solicitud de Libertad de Información publicada en 2019 señaló que la administración del partido en el poder, el Partido Nacional Escocés, había estado proporcionando fondos a LGBT Youth Scotland a través del presupuesto de igualdad desde que asumió el cargo.
Según su declaración fiscal más reciente, LGBT Youth Scotland había recibido siete subvenciones gubernamentales diferentes a través de diversas dotaciones, incluido el presupuesto de Igualdad y el presupuesto de Violencia contra Mujeres y Niñas.
[L] Florence Waller. [R] the scene in Newcastle as trans activists arrived. SOURCE: StandingforXX / TWITTER
A trans activist was arrested yesterday at an event critical of gender ideology held in Newcastle, England, after he assaulted a female attendee.
Speaking with Reduxx, Florence Waller recounted how she was attacked while leaving the public speaking event on January 15. Waller explains that as she was leaving the event with her banner rolled up under her right arm, several men wearing masks and dressed predominantly in black broke off from the group of counter-protesters to approach her.
— Standing For Women #AdultHumanFemale (@StandingforXX) January 15, 2023
“About three of them seemed to hang back a bit and then quite suddenly one pushed me and snatched my banner from my hand and ran off,” she told Reduxx shortly after the event had concluded.
She then described how she ran after the man in an attempt to retrieve her banner. Waller had just managed to corner him when a police officer arrived.
Waller then left the scene with the rest of the attendees of the event. Later that day, she pressed charges.
“I was informed that a police liaison officer had been there looking for me so I phoned 101 and reported the incident. I’ve been told the police will be in touch for a statement,” Waller told Reduxx.
Fortunately, Waller was not injured, but she was upset over the incident as she had spent a significant amount of time hand-making the banner, which read Let Women Speak and Protect Women’s Single Sex Spaces.
“I went to the event to highlight the importance of same-sex care for vulnerable elderly women as I am myself a carer, and I have no doubt that this individual has absolutely no concern about anything … I wonder if he had even seen the very simple message on my banner as it was rolled up under my arm.”
Waller said that another woman retrieved her banner and returned it to her and she proudly displayed it after the incident.
— Standing For Women #AdultHumanFemale (@StandingforXX) January 15, 2023
The event was part of a series of “Let Women Speak” events organized by women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen, also known by her moniker Posie Parker.
Keen has hosted events in major cities across the United Kingdom and even recently traveled across the United States. The events are open to the public and allow women to come forward to speak about issues that impact them. In particular, many women take to criticizing gender ideology and the consequences it has had for women’s single-sex spaces and care.
The events typically attract a crowd of angry trans activists, primarily young males, who often dress in masks and don all-black clothes. The counter-demonstrators are often affiliated with or organized by Antifa and “Transgender Action Block.”
This is not the first time a trans activist has been arrested at an event critical of gender ideology.
Back in September of 2022, Reduxx was on the scene of a Let Women Speak event in Brighton where three men were arrested.
A black-clad trans activist has been hauled into custody by police at the Let Women Speak demonstration in Brighton.@ShayWoulahan says this individual was arrested right after a smoke bomb was thrown into the crowd of women speaking against gender ideology. pic.twitter.com/gVYXDEraQS
One of the trans activists, 19, was detained on suspicion of assault and another, 20, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing a police officer.
A third man, Craig Thomas, was initially arrested on charges of sexual assault, but was later found to have been in possession of a knife as well. However, since the event there have been debates about whether he was part of the counterprotest, or if he was a random member of the public.
Remember the guy at the #LetWomenSpeak event in Brighton who got arrested for sexual assault? Who was found to have a knife on him? Guess what? It was a bag FULL of knives! A young lad (photographer) caught it. Plus proof he was on the TRA side (look who he’s next to).
Following the event in Brighton, Keen was threatened with arrest if she did not attend a “voluntary” police interview to address an investigation into her committing a “hate crime” for her speech.
“The crime is use of words or behavior to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation,” the police officer, a Police Constable told Keen during a recorded phone call. Keen posted the video of the phone call to her Youtube channel. She did not attend the interview.
In October of 2022, Keen took her public speaking tour to the United States where trans activists were even more violent and aggressive, leading to several events being cancelled due to security concerns. The final stop of the tour was in New York City, where seven counter-protesters were arrested. Keen was unable to safely speak at the event after police refused to provide her escort through the crowd to the podium.
Despite the threats she has faced for holding her pro-woman events, Keen is not deterred and already has plans to visit other domestic and international destinations throughout 2023.
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A serial rapist who targeted women in changing rooms and restrooms is now identifying as transgender and is seeking to be transferred to a women’s prison in Scotland.
Jonathon Mallon, 40, was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 on a slew of rape charges. He has now begun referring to himself as “Charlene” and has allegedly been “bragging” that he will be in a women’s prison by the spring, according to a report by The Scottish Sun. The serial rapist is currently housed in a men’s prison in Edinburgh.
Mallon has a lengthy criminal history related to violence agains women. Over the course of a 14-year period, Mallon racked up 21 charges in the communities of Glasgow, Ayr, Renfrewshire, and Greenock. Between December 1999 and March 2013, Mallon raped five women and sexually abused a sixth. All of Mallon’s victims were aged 31 or younger. Two of his victims were women he met at a church.
In 2014, prosecutor Kath Harper told the court that Mallon also had previous convictions for domestic abuse, violence, carrying a knife and fire raising — also referred to as arson.
During sentencing, one survivor told the court how Mallon raped her in a cubicle at Scotstoun Swimming Baths while families with young children were nearby. She added that after the incident he told her, “‘Do you know what I’ve just done to you? I’ve raped you.’ It kind of looked like he was gloating.”
Another victim was raped in the bathroom at the Odeon cinema in Glasgow.
The High Court judge in Glasgow told Mallon that his conduct could “only be described as monstrous,” noting that in total, his offenses were carried out against six women, “…each of whom was vulnerable in one way or another. It’s clear that you saw women who were vulnerable and ruthlessly exploited them for your own sexual gratification.”
After being convicted, Mallon was reportedly “weeping on the dock” to which the judge stated: “I hope that your tears are for the women whose lives you have ruined.”
Ten years later, Mallon is eager to be around women once again, inside sources told The Sun. One fellow inmate reportedly said Mallon has “…been saying to people he has changed his name by deed poll and is going to the women’s hall in three months. But I don’t think he is. I don’t know how they can put a sex offender who rapes women into a women’s hall. I’m sure prison bosses will see through it.”
Tory Member of Scottish Parliament (MSP) Russell Findlay, who proposed the amendment, said it would “prevent those male criminals who already lie and deceive to commit serious wrongdoing and whose victims are almost always women and girls.”
In December, the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) bill was passed by MSPs in a vote of 86 to 39, removing the need for a medical diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” in order to obtain a “gender recognition certificate” (GRC).
Shona Robison, Social Justice Secretary, said the GRR Bill “simplifies and improves the process for a trans person to obtain a gender recognition certificate – which many currently find intrusive, medicalized and bureaucratic …The passing of this bill is a significant step forward in creating a more equal Scotland, where trans people feel valued, included and empowered.”
A bid to stop anyone using self-ID while awaiting trial for a sex attack was also voted down.
Robison said: “There is no evidence that predatory and abusive men have ever had to apply for legal gender recognition to carry out their behavior.”
The Parliament ultimately did pass an amendment which removed the right of anyone with a sexual harm or sexual offense prevention order to be allowed a legal gender change document. As a result, Mallon’s request to transfer prisons may be blocked.
Findlay said Mallon’s request “… is the latest case of a predatory male sex offender seeking access to a women’s prison. Nicola Sturgeon’s new gender self-ID law will lead to an inevitable increase in such cases, putting some of Scotland’s most vulnerable women at increased risk.”
As previously revealed by Reduxx, serial child sexual abuser Katie Dolatowski was recently sent to a women’s institution to serve a 4-month sentence despite his long history of sex attacks against young girls in public facilities. Dolatowski, 22, was allowed to identify into a women’s prison despite the court being aware that he had violently assaulted an inmate in 2021 while incarcerated at a men’s facility.
Cornton Vale, the prison where Dolatowski is currently serving his sentence, is a Scottish national facility for both remanded and convicted female prisoners. It is designed to hold a maximum of 119 women, and has a separate Mother and Baby Unit with 7 spaces.
If Mallon’s transfer request is approved, he could similarly end up in either Cornton Vale or in the Ratho House wing of the capital jail.
The policy allowing the transfer of male inmates to female correctional facilities was backed by a senior official at the Scottish Prison Service who was convicted in 2016 on charges related to the possession of child sexual abuse materials. Gordon Pike, responsible for the Prison Service’s “gender identity and gender reassignment policy,” pleaded guilty at Paisley sheriff court to hoarding 22,000 indecent pictures of children.
Last April, it was revealed that a trans-identified male inmate convicted of murder had begun identifying as an infant and demanding diapers to wear from prison officials. Shortly after being detained, correctional officers gave Sophie Eastwood the nickname “Hannibal Lecter Jr.” due to the “chilling mind games” the inmate would play with the staff, one of which caused a female guard to quit her post after just one shift with him.
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