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Glamour Brazil Awards Male Influencer “Woman of the Year”

By
Isabella Cêpa
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This week, Glamour Magazine‘s Brazil franchise announced the winners of its Generation Glamour event honoring women. Out of 15 categories, 2 of the female-focused awards went to trans-identified males — including Woman of the Year.

Linn da Quebrada, a male social media influencer, took home the top award despite the fact he has stated he does not identify as a woman, and does not believe women ‘exist.’

In an interview with presenter Pedro Bial, a journalist from Globo Television Network, Quebrada stated “I’m not a woman, I’m a transvestite,” going on to say: “let’s be honest, there’s no such thing as ‘a woman.'”

As a justification for his position, Quebrada continued by listing words that do not have finite meaning in the Portuguese language, and had to be “invented” to describe concepts so subjective that they could not be defined.

Linn De Quebrada

Quebrada sometimes refers to himself as an effeminate gay man, while at other times he uses feminine pronouns. Most commonly, Quebrada labels himself a “transvestite,” a word used in Brazil to identify men who present themselves in feminine ways but do not identify as transgender.

Quebrada came to widespread notoriety in his country after appearing as the first trans-identified person to participate in Big Brother Brazil. Following his appearance, Quebrada began to appear in Brazilian tabloids as a pseudo-celebrity, often pulling stunts for media attention.

Earlier this year, Quebrada did a Mother’s Day photoshoot in which he wore a fake pregnant belly. The social media influencer claimed he wanted to be a “mother” one day, and dreamed of getting pregnant.

Beyond his appearance on Big Brother Brazil, Quebrada has never been involved in activism, and speaks very sparsely on any topics related to women’s rights.

Quebrada was not the only male who took home a commendation in the Glamour event.

Giovanna Heliodoro won Glamour‘s Woman Influencer with a Cause award. Heliodoro identifies as a “feminist black trans woman,” and is known for his advocacy for trans causes in Brazil.

In December, Heliodoro, who has over 155,000 followers on Instagram, slammed JK Rowling after the Ink Black Heart author expressed concerns over self-identification’s impact on Scottish crime statistics.

“I’m sorry, but I have learned to hate everything that comes from transphobic JK Rowling. I can’t see Harry Potter the same way as before and I can’t even romanticize Fantastic Beasts!” Heliodoro wrote on social media.

In 2020, shortly after Rowling tweeted in support of Maya Forstater and the material reality of sex, Heliodoro threatened to “beat this bitch,” referring to Rowling.

Following the award show, Brazilian women took to social media to condemn Glamour for the awards they gave to the two men — but especially Woman of the Year.

Quebrada took to Instagram to shame those with criticisms, making a collage out of “hateful” comments he had received criticizing his eligibility for the award, most of which were simply noting that he was male and had previously rejected the label of “woman.”

On Twitter, even some fans of Quebrada were confused as to what he had done that was notable enough to warrant the award.

“I think Linn is an amazing and talented person, but honestly, woman of the year? What did she do that was so spectacular to have all this merit?” one user asked beneath an announcement of Quebrada’s award.

“Did they give it because [Quebrada] deserved it or did they just want to get people’s attention? She is woman of the year by what merit? Look at all the fighting women out there, I don’t know if I agree..but…” another user replied.

Quebrada and Heliodoro’s awards recall a recent controversy in which another well-known magazine named a trans-identified male pimp as one of Brazil’s top “Inspirational Women’s Rights Advocates.”

On December 20, 2021, Marie Claire Brazil posted a year-end slideshow to its Instagram featuring “7 women making a difference for human rights in Brazil.” The list was intended to feature female human rights activists, but emphasize those who specifically made an impact on the lives of other women.

The magazine’s 6th slot was given to Indianara Siqueira, a biological male prostitute who was convicted of aggravated pimping in France in 2007, and served a 3-year prison sentence in the country as a result.

Siqueira was expelled from Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party in 2019 after a stunt in which he “took over” a culturally significant building in São Paulo, and turned it into a squalid brothel in which transgender minors were reportedly sexually exploited.

Brazil is a hotbed of sex-based violence, with femicide rates increasing despite the country’s overall murder rate going down. According to the most recent data, four girls under the age of 13 are raped every hour in Brazil, with the majority of sexual violence victims being “shockingly young.”

Women’s rights movements appear to be falling flat in the country, which is now ranked among the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. Brazil is seeing little political progress for sex-based rights, with the nation having an extremely low rate of female political representation.

In 2020, a trans-identified male politician elected to the São Paulo City Council was named the “most voted for woman” in Brazil.

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GIRL, GONE: A “Trans Teen” Was Removed From Her Parent’s Care. Then She Was Sexually Abused.

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Michele and Roger Blair first reported the disappearance of their teen daughter, Sage Lily Blair, to the Appomattox, Virginia Sheriff’s Office on August 25, 2021.

Sage, 14 years old at the time, had run away from home after experiencing intense bullying at her school stemming from a newly-adopted transgender identity. Sage, a female, had begun identifying as a boy.

Michele and Roger would soon discover that the public high school Sage had attended was secretly encouraging her “social transition,” and had been deliberately withholding information from her family. Sage had begun calling herself “Draco” while at school, and using masculine pronouns.

Sage’s parents first became aware of their daughter’s decision to identify as transgender when a teacher notified them of an incident report involving sexual harassment in the boy’s washroom and on the bus. Sage had tried to use the boy’s washroom as part of her “social transition,” and had faced a rape threat as a result.

But, according to her parents, Sage’s insistence she was transgender appeared to come from a dark place.

Michele, Sage’s mother, told Reduxx that she believes that her daughter was groomed online by adults who used the concept of a gender identity to get close to her, promising that they would be her new “family.” She says Sage had met the adults, who were posing as children, via Instagram and Snapchat.

Just over a week after running away from home, Sage was located by the FBI.

She had been sexually exploited by an adult man she had met over social media and who believed her to be 16. A Virginia man had picked her up and transported her to Washington, DC. When she arrived in DC, the two men took her to Maryland, telling her she’d be going to stay with their family. Upon arrival, Sage was sexually abused repeatedly.

On September 2, 2021, Sage was sent to a hospital for a rape exam, a process which, according to Michele, went well into the night and lasted until the early hours of the morning. The FBI instructed her parents to pick her up the following day at the Waxter Children’s Center, a girls’ detention facility in Laurel, Maryland.

But when Michele and Roger arrived at the detention center where their daughter was being held, they were told they would not be allowed to see their child.

“They [the state authorities] would not even let me talk, hug, or see her the day after she went through the rape exam,” Michele told Reduxx, and added that the experience was, “heartbreaking, to say the least.”

Instead, they were required to appear in court that same afternoon, as they were being investigated for child abuse over alleged “misgendering.”

Michele and Roger would later discover that the investigation had been requested by the public defender, who had contacted two school counselors to testify against them. The counselors would argue that Sage should not be returned to her home due to a lack of a sufficiently “gender affirming” environment.

“Upon my arrival I was told my granddaughter would not be allowed to return to Virginia,” Michele had stated in May. “Sage was now being represented by a juvenile attorney and my husband and I were going to be investigated for ‘abuse’ because my husband and I called her Sage and not Draco.”

Michele provided Reduxx with a number of documents related to the ordeal, some of which attempt to paint their lack of “gender affirmation” as child abuse.

“Sage now identified as a boy and the judge demanded we use the ‘he/him’ pronouns and call her Draco. Sage was being represented by an attorney whose actions from the beginning were unethical and unprofessional,” Michele explained.

Michele believes the juvenile defense attorney representing Sage in the abuse claim had convinced her daughter to assert that she had been mistreated by her parents. Sage would later tell her mother that the lawyer had coached her to say that her parents were abusive because they wouldn’t accept her as a transgender boy.

Pending the outcome of the investigation, Sage was initially held in juvenile detention. During a second hearing, Michele pleaded for her daughter to be placed in a more comfortable environment. Instead, the state transferred Sage to the boy’s ward of a Children’s Home in Maryland on September 6.

The only girl in a male unit, Sage was again sexually abused by boys in the Children’s Home and was relocated to a private room within the boys’ section.

It would take more than two months, and over a dozen court appointments, before Michele and Roger Blair would be cleared of the abuse allegations against them. The Blairs provided Reduxx with multiple documents substantiating that no abuse or abusive intent had been determined.

Despite granting Michele and Roger’s petition for custody, the state of Maryland did not immediately relinquish parental rights to Sage’s family.

Instead, the now 15-year-old girl, who had begun calling herself “Justin” instead of “Draco,” was sent to public school in Maryland and was required to wear a GPS tracking device.

On November 9, a Maryland judge finally ruled for the state to release Sage back to her family in Virginia. However, this decision was immediately appealed by the juvenile attorney representing the girl for the state who wanted Sage placed in a foster home, again on the basis of protecting her “gender identity,” bolstered by a claim of ostensibly abusive “misgendering.”

Three days later, Sage was reported missing for a second time.

“Sage had been sent by another predator from Maryland to Dallas, Texas,” Michele recounted. “This man held her there in a locked room and used her for pornography, sold her body for money, starved her, beat her, and drugged her.”

Local authorities, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and the FBI were all notified that the teen was missing. However, Michele said the authorities in Baltimore refused to approve a request from Texas police to track Sage’s phone on the basis that she wasn’t linked with any crime.

Ultimately, it was a tip from one of Sage’s Instagram friends led to her recovery. Using a photo sent to him by the teen, a Texas Marshall was able to ascertain her whereabouts.

The Blairs were finally reunited with Sage in Dallas on January 24, 2022.

Little more than two weeks later, Michele took her daughter to North Springs Behavioral Healthcare Center, a facility that specializes in the treatment of psychological distress and trauma in children and teens. Michele says that while an inpatient at the Center, counselors continued to try and “affirm” Sage’s “gender” despite the fact she said she no longer identified as a boy. Michele made 8-hour drives to visit her daughter every Saturday, though was only allowed to be with her for 2 hours per week.

On July 25, Sage was discharged from the rehabilitation clinic and at long last returned home.

Sage no longer identifies as transgender, and is to be happy and healthy with her family. Michele proudly showed Reduxx a photo of Sage having her ears pierced at her local mall for her birthday last week.

A recent photo of Sage, shared with consent from her mother.

“Sage is the apple of my eye. It has been a rollercoaster, but she is home,” Michele says. “What happened to her hasn’t really changed our love, but it has changed our relationship because we are getting to know each other on a different level because of the trauma.”

Michele says Sage had tried going to school, but the endeavor was too stressful.

“She loves running. Running is her coping mechanism. She had joined cross-country and she loved it, but, sadly, when she was running the trail she’d sometimes see men and that was too much of a trigger for her. So she quit.” Her last day of attempting to go to school, Michele says Sage couldn’t get out of the car — so she took her daughter home.

Michele explained to Reduxx that the county is processing paperwork in order to get Sage a home tutor so she can continue her studies in 10th grade.

Getting emotional, Michele describes that Sage has been struggling with her mental health.

“She has panic attacks and nightmares about this man. She struggles to breathe. In the middle of the night she will crawl into bed with me, which she hasn’t done since she was a little girl. It has been really hard. But she is strong.”

A 37-year-old man has been arrested and detained in Baltimore in relation to the case of Sage’s sexual abuse. According to Michele, Kenneth Edward Fisher is one of three predators who are awaiting a hearing on charges related to child sex trafficking. The names of the other two men have not yet been released.

As other youth were involved in the case, publicly-available information has been limited in order to protect the minor victims.

Michele and Sage are set to travel to Baltimore next week for the beginning of the trial. Lawyers with the Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City and the Rebuild, Overcome, and Rise (ROAR) Center at University of Maryland are both involved in the case.

“The lawyers said we could [appear] over Zoom, but it was Sage who actually said she wanted to go. She said ‘I feel like I have to go.’ I asked her if she was sure, and she told me ‘I don’t want it to happen to any other kids, what happened to me.'”

Michele is hoping that the trial will be a turning point in Sage’s healing. She knows the road to recovery will be a long one, but has optimism that her daughter will make it through.

“I am an adult and can barely handle this anxiety, let alone a child. But we are getting through it, by the grace of God … It’s going to be okay. She’s home. I love her. And life goes on, one day at a time.”

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EXCLUSIVA: Feminista arrestada en un bar de Cardiff por enfrentarse a un hombre en el baño de mujeres

By
Shay Woulahan
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La mujer que fue arrestada por enfrentarse a un hombre que estaba usando los baños de mujeres en un bar en Cardiff, Gales, ha hablado con Reduxx sobre la experiencia.

Kate (que no es su nombre real, pero prefiere mantener el anonimato) había asistido ese el día a FiLiA 2022, una conferencia feminista que se celebra anualmente para abordar temas relacionados con los derechos de las mujeres basados en el sexo. Esa noche después de la conferencia, Kate fue a Heidi’s Bier Bar en Mill Lane con su amiga, la Dra. EM, una conocida escritora feminista y defensora de las mujeres discapacitadas. Otras mujeres que también habían asistido a la conferencia se habían unido a ellas.

Kate le dijo a Reduxx que, después de haber tomado algo con las mujeres, se fue al baño y vio lo que describió como un hombre que parecía un “drag queen” haciendo cola para los baños de mujeres.

Kate confrontó inmediatamente al hombre trans-identificado y le pidió que saliera del baño de mujeres.

“Le dije: ‘eres un hombre, no deberías estar aquí'”, explicó Kate, y continuó describiendo que el hombre y algunas clientas comenzaron a insultarla. “Allí no había absolutamente nadie que me apoyara”.

Kate dice que llamaron al personal del bar y, cuando todavía estaba en el baño, se le acercaron y le exigieron que se fuera.

Kate puso a disposición de Reduxx las grabaciones del primer encuentro con el personal del bar. En el video, una miembro del personal con pelo amarillo y rosa acusa a Kate de haber amenazado con violencia al hombre transidentificado, una acusación que ella niega rotundamente.

“Ese hombre era mucho más grande que yo, así que cómo iba a hacer tal cosa”, dijo Kate, “solo dije ‘un hombre no debería estar en los baños de mujeres’. No lo amenacé”.

En el video, a la miembro del personal con el pelo rosa se le une un compañero que también entra al baño de mujeres donde se estaba llevando a cabo la interacción, algo a lo que Kate se opone de inmediato.

En un momento dado, la miembro del personal comienza a reprender a Kate por “misgenerizar” al hombre transidentificado ya que Kate continuaba insistiendo en que a un hombre no se le debería haber permitido usar el baño de mujeres.

Aunque Kate es reacia a divulgar las imágenes al público debido a la posibilidad de que sea identificada, Reduxx ha transcrito una parte de la conversación que tuvo con la miembro del personal del bar aquí:

Kate: Entraste y me dijiste que me fuera porque un hombre estaba en los baños de mujeres.

Personal del bar: ¿Cómo? ¿Te refieres a la mujer transgénero?

Kate: Un hombre.

Personal del bar: Una mujer transgénero.

Kate: Un hombre estaba en los baños.

Personal del bar: Era una mujer transgénero.

Kate: Un hombre. ¡Sabes que es un hombre!

Personal del bar: Es una mujer transgénero. Debes respetar sus pronombres y el hecho de que haya decidido alterar su género. Has intentado atacar a una mujer transgénero, eso es un crimen de odio. Acabas de grabarte admitiendo un crimen de odio.

La interacción continuó, con el personal del bar insistiendo primero en que Kate había amenazado con hacerle daño físico al hombre trans-identificado, para luego cambiar su acusación y afirmar que había “tratado de darle un puñetazo”. Kate inmediatamente refuta la afirmación de que había sido violenta.

“¡No le he dado un puñetazo! ¿Por qué le iba a dar un puñetazo?” Se le oye decir. La miembro del personal de pelo rosa empieza a decirle a Kate que deje de grabarla, y Kate se niega.

Kate: Me iré, pero te voy a grabar. Te digo que he vivido en Cardiff durante 40 años, y nunca me había pasado que personas como tú me acosaran en los baños de mujeres.

Personal del Bar: ¿Entonces has acosado a una mujer transgénero?

Kate: No, era un hombre.

Personal del bar: Era una mujer transgénero.

Kate: Era un hombre. Un hombre en los baños de mujeres y eso me hace sentir realmente incómoda. Soy una sobreviviente de agresión sexual y–

Personal del bar: Yo también.

Kate: No doy mi consentimiento a que los hombres estén en los baños de mujeres.

Personal del bar: Pero es que no había un hombre en el baño, era una mujer transgénero.

En declaraciones a Reduxx después de revisar las imágenes, Kate expresó su desconcierto por el comportamiento del personal.

Si bien la interacción ocurrió después de que Kate hubiera consumido alcohol, no hubo ningún caso en las imágenes que Reduxx revisó en el cual Kate fuera abusiva, violenta o agresiva de ninguna manera. Ella simplemente continuó insistiendo en que a un hombre no se le debería haber permitido entrar al baño de mujeres.

Kate se grabó a sí misma siguiendo al personal del bar afuera. Al salir del edificio, tanto el personal masculino como femenino del bar comenzaron a informar a los clientes sentados en el patio que Kate había sido “homofóbica” y “transfóbica”.

La policía apareció poco después, aproximadamente a las 2 a.m. Al llegar, entrevistaron al hombre transidentificado y a sus amigos, quienes insistieron en que Kate los había amenazado y que se metía cocaína.

“Soy una mujer de 54 años con dos hijos adultos. Es domingo por la noche. No estaba tomando cocaína. Esto es tan ridículo”, dijo Kate. “Podrían haberme hecho una prueba de drogas, pero no la hicieron. Me registraron y se llevaron todas mis pertenencias, no tenía drogas. Solo tenía una barra de jabón en el bolsillo porque me la habían regalado”.

Kate dice que la policía comenzó a entrevistar al personal del bar, así como al hombre transidentificado y sus amigos, momento en el que decidieron arrestarla. La esposaron, y dijo que las esposas eran tan grandes que casi se le caían.

La policía iba a meter a Kate en el furgón policial con reja, pero ella insistía en que era claustrofóbica y que no quería estar encerrada en un espacio tan pequeño. Lo aceptaron y la pusieron en el asiento de atrás del furgón. La Dra. Em, amiga de Kate, fue con ella acompañándola.

“Se aloja en mi casa. Les dije una y otra vez: ‘Se aloja en mi casa, tiene una lesión cerebral. Esto va a resultar muy traumático para ella. Hagan lo que hagan, asegúrense de que esté bien'”, dijo Kate, señalando que todavía no sabía por qué, exactamente, había sido arrestada.

Puede alguien venir a buscarnos, por favor. #FiLiA22

Después de varias horas, le preguntan a Kate si quería disculparse con el hombre trans-identificado, lo que le permitiría irse sin más problemas, según la policía.

“Dijeron: ‘si te disculpas, podemos parar todo esto aquí y te puedes ir a casa’. Les dije que no me iba a disculpar porque no había hecho nada malo”.

Según los informes, la policía consultó con el hombre transidentificado que había estado en el baño de mujeres, y éste se negó a seguir adelante con la investigación sobre el asunto, así que le dijeron a Kate que había sido “desarrestada” y la llevaron a casa.

Kate no recibió ninguna documentación relacionada con su detención temporal, ni se le proporcionó un número de referencia, cargos o cualquier otra cosa relacionada con la situación.

El día 24 de octubre, Kate dice que fue a la comisaría en busca de respuestas. Exigió el nombre de la persona que la había denunciado a la policía, ya que quería denunciarlo por falsificar información sobre ella para que la arrestaran. Más tarde, la policía dijo que la razón de su arresto fue la sospecha de un delito de orden público, pero que luego fue “desarrestada” debido a la información facilitada por la presunta víctima.

Le dijeron que recibiría una llamada del turno de noche con detalles adicionales, pero no volvió a saber nada más de la policía de Gales del Sur.

Hoy, el oficial que la arrestó hizo unas declaraciones a los medios locales llamando a Kate y sus amigas “transfóbicos” por un artículo indeterminado que fue escrito sin la participación de Kate.

El inspector Grady, de Gales del Sur, declaró: “Alrededor de las 2 a.m. del lunes por la mañana, la policía de Gales del Sur recibió una denuncia de un bar en Mill Lane en el centro de la ciudad de Cardiff porque varias mujeres se negaban a abandonar el local tras haber hecho comentarios transfóbicos y proferido amenazas a alguien de la clientela. El personal de la puerta expulsó al grupo y la policía arrestó a una mujer de 54 años por un delito contra el orden público. Fue puesta en libertad, ya que la víctima no quería presentar cargos, y se le dieron unos cuantos consejos al respecto”.

Reduxx trató de ponerse en contacto con la policía de Gales del Sur para obtener comentarios, pero no ha recibido una respuesta.

Como consecuencia, Kate dice que ha quedado “traumatizada” por la situación, pero no quiere que su experiencia disuada a otras mujeres de hablar.

“Creo firmemente que depende de todas nosotras. Nosotras, las mujeres, necesitamos decir “no” a los hombres que entran en nuestros espacios. Tenemos que decir “no” a que los niños reciban hormonas. Tenemos que decir ‘no’ a todo eso”, dice Kate.

“Si no lo dices tú, quién; si no lo dices ahora, cuándo… Los hombres ahora piensan que no hay ningún problema en usar los baños de mujeres, y nosotras tenemos que quejarnos. Tenemos que hacerlo incómodo para ellos”.

Kate no es la primera mujer en el Reino Unido que se enfrenta a consecuencias legales por hablar en defensa de los espacios de las mujeres o defender los derechos de las mujeres.

En enero de este año, la policía registró la casa de una mujer discapacitada en Gales del Sur y la arrestó porque alguien la había denunciado por cometer un “crimen de odio transfóbico” por poner pegatinas para visibilizar la violencia doméstica.

A principios de este mes, la policía entró por la fuerza en casa de Caroline Farrow, una madre de cinco hijos que vive en Surrey y que es abiertamente contraria a la ideología de género, porque su actividad en las redes sociales fuera denunciada como criminal. Farrow había sido investigada previamente por la policía en 2019 por “misgenerizar” a un hombre que se identifica como trans en Twitter en 2019.

Entrevista y revisión de video realizada por la editora Anna Slatz.

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EXCLUSIVE: Feminist Arrested At Bar After Confronting Male In Women’s Washroom

By
Shay Woulahan
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A woman who was arrested after confronting a man using the women’s restrooms in a bar in Cardiff, Wales has come forward to speak with Reduxx about her experience.

Kate, whose name has been changed at her request to protect her anonymity, had been at attendance during the day at FiLiA 2022, an annual feminist conference held to address issues related to women’s sex-based rights. In the evening after the conference, Kate visited Heidi’s Bier Bar on Mill Lane with her friend, Dr EM, a well-known feminist writer and advocate for disabled women. A few other women from the conference had also joined them.

Kate told Reduxx that, after an evening of drinking with the women, she went to the washroom and noticed what she described as a man who looked like a “drag queen” standing in queue for the women’s toilets.

Immediately, Kate confronted the trans-identified male and asked him to leave the women’s restroom.

“I said, ‘you’re a man, you shouldn’t be in here,'” Kate explained, going on to describe that the man and some female patrons began shouting abuse at her. “When I was down there, there was absolutely no one supporting me.”

Kate says bar staff were then alerted, and, while she was still in the restroom, approached her and demanded she leave.

Kate provided phone camera footage for Reduxx to review of the initial interaction she had with bar staff. In the video, a female staff member with yellow-and-pink hair accuses Kate of having threatened violence against the trans-identified male, an allegation she adamantly denies.

“The man was a lot larger than me, so I don’t know why I would do that,” Kate said, “I just said ‘a man shouldn’t be in the women’s toilets.’ I wouldn’t threaten him.”

In the video, the pink-haired staff member is joined by a male staff member who also enters the women’s restroom where the interaction is taking place, something Kate immediately objects to.

At one point, the female staff member begins berating Kate about “misgendering” the trans-identified male after Kate continues to insist a man should not have been permitted to use the women’s restroom.

While Kate is reluctant to release the footage to the public due to the possibility of her being identified, Reduxx has transcribed a portion of the conversation she had with the female bar staff member here:

Kate: You came in and asked me to leave the venue because a man was in the women’s toilets.

Bar Staff: Oh? You mean the transgender woman?

Kate: A man.

Bar Staff: A transgender woman.

Kate: A man was in the toilets.

Bar Staff: It was a transgender woman.

Kate: A man. You know it’s a man!

Bar Staff: They are a transgender woman. You need to respect their pronouns and the fact that they have decided to alter their gender. You have tried to attack a transgender woman, that is a hate crime. You have just recorded yourself admitting to a hate crime.

The interaction continued, with bar staff first insisting Kate had threatened to physically harm the trans-identified male, before changing their claim and asserting she had already “tried to throw a punch.” Kate immediately objects to the suggestion she had been violent.

“I haven’t thrown a punch! Why would I throw a punch!” She is heard saying. The pink-haired staff member begins telling Kate to stop recording her, a request Kate refuses.

Kate: I will leave the venue, but I will record you. I am telling you right now that I have lived in Cardiff for 40 years, and I have never experienced people like you harassing me in women’s toilets.

Bar Staff: So you have harassed a transgender woman?

Kate: No, it was a man.

Bar Staff: It was a transgender woman.

Kate: It was a man. A man in the women’s toilets and that makes me really uncomfortable. I am a sexual assault survivor and–

Bar Staff: So am I.

Kate: -I do not consent to men being in the women’s toilets.

Bar Staff: So, there wasn’t a male in the toilet, it was a transgender woman.

Speaking to Reduxx after reviewing the footage, Kate expressed bewilderment at the staff’s behavior.

While the interaction had occurred after Kate had consumed alcohol, there was no instance in the footage Reduxx reviewed during which Kate was abusive, violent, or otherwise aggressive in any way. She simply continued to insist a male should not have been allowed in the women’s restroom.

Kate recorded herself following bar staff out of the venue. When exiting the building, both the male and female bar staff began informing patrons sitting on the patio that Kate had been “homophobic” and “transphobic.”

Police arrived shortly after, at approximately 2 a.m. Upon arriving, they interviewed the trans-identified male and his friends, who insisted Kate had threatened them and that she was on cocaine.

“I am a 54 year old woman with two adult children. It’s Sunday night. I was not on cocaine. It’s so ludicrous,” Kate said. “They could have tested me, or given me a drug test — they didn’t. They searched me and took all of my belongings, I had no drugs. I only had a bar on soap in my pocket because I had been gifted soap.”

Kate says police began to interview bar staff, as well as the trans-identified male and his friends, at which point they decided to arrest her. She was placed in handcuffs, which she said were so large for her wrists that they were almost falling off of her.

Police were set to place Kate in a caged van, but she repeatedly insisted she was claustrophobic and did not want to be locked in such a small space. Conceding, she was placed in the back of the van. Dr. Em, Kate’s friend, came with her as an accompaniment.

“She was staying with me. I kept saying to them, ‘she’s staying with me, she’s got a brain injury. This is going to be really traumatic for her. Whatever you do you need to make sure she’s okay,'” Kate said, noting that she was still unaware of why, exactly she had been arrested.

After multiple hours, Kate was asked if she wanted to apologize to the trans-identified male, something police insisted would allow her to leave without incident.

“They said, ‘if you just apologize, then we can just leave all of this here and you can go home.’ I told them I was not going to apologize because I had not done anything wrong.”

Police reportedly consulted the trans-identified male who had been in the women’s restroom, and he declined to pursue any further investigation into the matter. Kate was told she was then “de-arrested” and was taken home.

Kate was not given any documentation related to her temporary detention, nor was she provided a reference number, charges, or anything else related to the situation.

The day of October 24, Kate says she visited the police station in search of answers. She demanded the name of the individual who had reported her to police, as she wanted to legally pursue him falsifying information about her in order to have her arrested. The police later said the reason for her arrest was on suspicion of a public order offense but that she was later de-arrested following the input of the alleged victim.

She was told she would get a call-back from the night shift with additional details, but did not hear anything further from South Wales Police.

Today, the arresting officer gave a statement to local media calling Kate and her friends “transphobic” for a vague article that was written without Kate’s input.

South Wales Inspector Grady stated: “At around 2 a.m. on Monday morning, South Wales Police received a report from a bar on Mill Lane in Cardiff city centre that a number of females were refusing to leave the premises after making transphobic comments and threats to a member of the public inside. The group were removed from the premises by door staff and a 54-year-old woman was arrested for a public order offence. She was de-arrested, as the victim did not want any further police action, and given suitable words of advice.”

Reduxx reached out to South Wales Police for comment, but has not received a response.

In the aftermath, Kate says she has been left “traumatized” by the situation, but does not want her experience to deter other women from speaking up.

“I feel really strongly that it is on all of us. We, women, need to say ‘no’ to men coming into our spaces. We need to say ‘no’ to children being given hormones. We need to say ‘no’ to all of it,” Kate says.

“If not you – who, if not now – when… men now think it’s okay to go in to women’s toilets, we have to speak up. We have got to make it uncomfortable for them.”

Kate is not the first woman in the United Kingdom to face legal consequences for speaking up in defense of women’s spaces or standing up for women’s rights.

In January of this year, a disabled woman in South Wales had her home searched and was subjected to police detention after being reported for committing a “transphobic hate crime” for putting up stickers raising awareness about domestic violence.

Earlier this month, Caroline Farrow, a mother of five who has been outspoken against gender ideology, had her house forced into by Surrey Police after her social media activity was reported as criminal. Farrow had previously been investigated by police in 2019 for misgendering a trans-identified male on Twitter in 2019.

Interview and video review conducted by Editor Anna Slatz.

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“Pene Femenino”: Un artista trans se desnuda en directo mientras canta una canción misógina en la televisión.

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Yuliah Alma
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Un cómico trans está recibiendo elogios de los principales medios de comunicación, pero críticas de las mujeres, tras una actuación musical en el programa de comedia del Reino Unido Friday Night Live.

Durante el programa en directo, el cómico trans-identificado Jordan Gray se arrancó la ropa para exhibir su cuerpo desnudo, y se puso a tocar el teclado con el pene. Esto fue durante la interpretación de Gray de su canción “Better Than You” (“Mejor Que Tú”), una canción misógina cuyo propósito era burlarse de las mujeres.

“Soy una mujer perfecta, mis tetas nunca van a encoger. Tengo garantizado el squirt, y hago anal por defecto … Soy el rey lagarto, y puedo hacer todo lo que las otras mujeres no pueden … Solía ser un hombre, ahora soy mejor que tú”, cantó Gray a una audiencia de espectadores encantados.

“Hace cinco años que no me como una chocolatina”. – Jordan Gray (@Talldarkfriend) sobre la dificultades de ser transgénero. Qué momento.#FridayNightLive #TruthAndDare

La actuación explícita tuvo lugar durante un evento especial de revival de Friday Night Live que marcaba el 40 aniversario de Channel 4. El programa contó con los ex miembros del elenco de Friday Night Live Ben Elton, Enfield, Brand y Julian Clary, así como una serie de nuevos cómicos, incluido Gray.
La cobertura de los principales medios de comunicación sobre la actuación de Gray ha sido abrumadoramente positiva. PinkNews, con sede en el Reino Unido, se refirió a la canción de Gray como “emocionante”, describió la actuación de “icónica”, y calificó la oposición a la exhibición de los genitales del artista en la televisión como “anti-trans”. Algunos activistas LGBT en Twitter compartían esa opinión.
“La gente que se queja de la actuación de Jordan Gray en la tele no se oponen al desnudo. Muy pocos se quejaron de Naked Attraction ni de Eurotrash (hace 30 años) & y algunos incluso defendieron a Jerry Sadowitz cuando se sacó el pene. Lo que pasa es que no les gustan la gente trans.”

Irish Mirror eligió enfatizar los comentarios entusiastas que calificaban a Gray de “increíble” y declaró que “ver a una mujer trans desnudarse en televisión es exactamente lo que necesitábamos”.

Al informar sobre la maniobra exhibicionista de Gray, The Daily Mail, en particular, provocó críticas por el uso del término “pene femenino” para referirse al incidente.

“Momento en el que un cantante transgénero se desnuda en directo en Channel 4 y toca el teclado con su pene femenino”.

Algunos famosos británicos muy queridos corrieron incluso a las redes sociales a elogiar a Gray. El actor de Harry Potter, Jason Isaacs, elogió las “magníficas tetas y el miembro igualmente magnífico” de Gray y le pidió que se presentara a primer ministro.

Pero aunque ningún medio británico mayoritario se ha cuestionado el problema de seguridad relacionado con el programa, muchos en las redes sociales han expresado su shock e indignación por lo que consideran exhibicionismo, que es un delito sexual, y que ven normalizado, aplaudido y altamente publicitado.

La periodista y defensora de los derechos de las mujeres con sede en el Reino Unido, Jo Bartosch, hablando con Reduxx criticó a los medios de comunicación que eligieron hacer referencia a los genitales de Gray usando pronombres femeninos, y destacó la importancia del lenguaje basado en hechos.

“Ya sea llamando a un hombre ‘señorita’ o usando la frase oxímorónica ‘pene femenino’, estas capitulaciones lingüísticas a las parafilias de los hombres son peligrosas. Es una señal pública del poder que tienen hombres como Gray. Y es aterrador, pero sombríamente cómico, que respetados periodistas y locutores mientan de esa manera, porque hacer lo contrario es arriesgarse a violar las pautas de los medios que han sido adoctrinados por grupos de presión trans”, dijo Bartosch.

“La frase ‘pene femenino’ es un insulto a la profesión, al público y a la verdad”, agregó.

“Por qué no han arrestado y acusado a este hombre de exhibicionismo?”

Bartosch explicó que ve la pornografía como una fuerza influyente en el concepto de “pene femenino” y dice que, aunque pueda parecer extraño para “los no iniciados”, existe dentro de la “esfera masculina de la pornografía una lógica en la idea de ‘pene femenino'”.

Citó como ejemplos géneros como la feminización forzada y la sisificación, que muestran a hombres que se convierten en mujeres a través de procesos que conllevan maquillaje, lencería, sumisión sexual y humillación.

“Ya sea el cambio de nombre de entretenimiento sexual a ‘educación infantil’ o el uso del lenguaje para reflejar las fantasías de los hombres, el comportamiento agresivo masculino que se agrava en la pornografía en línea se ha filtrado al mundo real”, dijo Bartosch.

“La excitación que sienten los hombres es porque saben que las barreras sociales que mantienen sus impulsos básicos bajo control se están tensando y acabarán rompiendo, y que está sucediendo a la vista de todos. Los valores pornográficos se han vuelto tan normales que cuando los hombres muestran descaradamente sus fetiches, son aplaudidos por su valentía. Una se pregunta qué tabúes serán los próximos en romperse”.

“Voy a las escuela a hablar del género como parte de una campaña llamada Educa y Homenajea. Los niños pequeños lo entienden enseguida. Fui hace poco a una escuela donde había una niña transgénero de 7 años. Y su compañero de clase de 4 años, un niño, dijo: “Jessie es una niña y quiere ser una niña. Y yo soy un niño y quiero ser un niño”. Y ya está! Las mentes jóvenes son muy tolerantes. A los adolescentes es más difícil convencerlos. Ir a un instituto tiene que ser aterrador. Es bueno educar a los niños cuando son pequeños”.

En los días posteriores al programa de Channel 4, los detectives de Internet han descubierto que Gray se jactaba de ser representante de una organización benéfica que promueve la ideología de identidad de género en las escuelas. La organización benéfica Educate and Celebrate describe así sus programas: “proporcionamos el conocimiento, las habilidades y la confianza para integrar el género, la identidad de género y la orientación sexual en el tejido de tu organización”.

En cuanto la noticia de su participación en la organización benéfica empezó a difundirse en las redes sociales, Educate and Celebrate retiró silenciosamente una página de su sitio web que incluía a Gray como patrocinador. “Voy a las escuelas para hablar sobre género como parte de una campaña llamada Educar y Homenajear”, dijo Gray a GuysLikeU (TíosComoTú).

“Los niños pequeños lo entienden enseguida. Fui hace poco a una escuela donde había una niña transgénero de 7 años. Y su compañero de clase de cuatro años, un niño, dijo: “Jessie es una niña y quiere ser una niña. Y yo soy un niño y quiero ser un niño'”.

“Las mentes jóvenes son muy tolerantes”, agregó Gray. “A los adolescentes es más difícil de convencer. Es bueno educar a los niños cuando son pequeños”.

Un patrocinador de Educate and Celebrate que figura junto a Gray, Peter Tatchell, ha hecho declaraciones previas en apoyo a la pedofilia y cuestionando las leyes de edad de consentimiento. Tatchell, ex líder del Frente de Liberación Gay, escribió un obituario en The Independent para Ian Dunn, fundador de la ex organización activista pedófila Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

Tatchell también publicó un ensayo en una antología publicada por el ex vicepresidente de PIE, Warren Middleton, en el que argumentaba que “los niños tienen deseos sexuales a una edad temprana” y deben ser “educados” para que puedan decidir cuándo quieren tener relaciones sexuales.

“Aunque puede resultar imposible justificar la pedofilia, es hora de que la sociedad reconozca la verdad de que no todas las relaciones sexuales en las que participan niños son no deseadas, abusivas y dañinas”, escribió Tatchell en una carta a The Guardian en 1997.

La noticia de que Jordan Gray había trabajado junto a Peter Tatchell para una organización benéfica que promueve la noción de una identidad de género para niños pequeños, reproduce un escándalo reciente y ampliamente publicitado que muestra los vínculos de un activista pro-pedofilia con una organización benéfica para niños que promueve la “transición” médica de menores.

A principios de este mes, Jacob Breslow, profesor asociado de la London School of Economics, renunció a su cargo como administrador de la organización transactivista Mermaids, con sede en el Reino Unido, tras saltar la noticia de que tenía vínculos con grupos de presión pro-pedofilia.

Breslow había hecho, en varias ocasiones, declaraciones y publicado trabajos académicos que describían favorablemente la pedofilia, y era el autor de un blog que conectaba directamente con materiales de abuso sexual infantil.

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Violent Transgender Killer Completes Sentence for Torture, Murder of 13-Year-Old Child

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Anna Slatz
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Content Warning: This article contains graphic details of a crime committed against a child. Reader discretion is appreciated.

A trans-identified male who brutally raped and tortured a little girl to death has completed his sentence and been fully released from New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision custody.

Synthia China Blast, born Luis Morales, was sentenced in 1996 for the horrific rape and murder of 13-year-old Ebony Nicole Williams. Blast, along with his boyfriend Carlos Franco, were sentenced to 25 years for the crime, one that had both sexist and racist motivation.

Blast and Franco, members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation gang, targeted the young girl less than 24 hours after she had run away from home in 1993. Williams was known to sometimes run away from her home in Harlem, and her mother hadn’t initially suspected foul play when she didn’t show back up, assuming she was staying with extended family as she had done in the past.

The same day as Williams had run away, she was kidnapped by Blast and Franco, and taken to an apartment in Hunts Point where she was held captive. The men had likely recognized her from previous visits to the neighborhood she had made while looking for a place to stay with her older sister, and some accounts state that she had been targeted based on her race.

Synthia China Blast, with a scorpion face tattoo.

Blast repeatedly raped Williams, and he and Franco tortured the young girl further before stabbing her in an attempt to kill her. Realizing she was still alive after having been slashed by Blast, Franco then stomped on the child’s neck until it was broken.

Following her death, Blast and Franco packed the girl’s small body into a box and dumped it near the Sheridan Expressway. Finally, they doused the box in gasoline, and set it ablaze. A passenger on a nearby train saw the flames and called 911.

After extinguishing the fire, attending detective Sergeant Michael Garvey noted that there had been no means of identifying Williams as she was completely naked, and had been badly mutilated. “All I saw was that her hair had been worn in corn rows,” he said at the time of the investigation.

During the trial, Bronx Prosecutor William Hrabsky said of the crime: “The suffering that this poor child went through is beyond belief and puts this crime in the category of monstrous and barbarous.”

Ebony Nicole Williams and her brother in an undated photo. Credit: NEW YORK TIMES

Despite pleading innocence in court and to media in later interview, Blast had reportedly “bragged” about committing the crime to friends, some of whom would later testify against him on this basis. Blast and Franco both received 25-to-life for the murder of Williams, but the rape charge was not pursued.

Blast reportedly suggested he avoided the rape conviction because of his gender identity and homosexual orientation.

“They had to switch their story in the trial because how do you tell the jury that he had on a dress and then he was raping a girl?” He is quoted as saying, claiming he had never had sexual intercourse with a female. But the determining factor was likely that DNA was unable to be recovered from Williams due to the state of her remains, which were so destroyed that she was only able to be identified through dental records.

During the trial, Blast and Franco were reportedly blasé about the crime they’d committed, and had even been laughing at times during the hearings. A statement given by Yvonne Hill, Williams’ mother, at the time of their sentencing condemned the two for their behavior throughout the process.

“Ever since the trial was going on, all I see is Luis Morales grinning and Carlos Franco, too,” Hill said, referring to Blast by the name he had used at the time. “You ain’t smiling today. I hope you both rot in hell.”

Following his detention, Blast became a noted advocate for incarcerated trans people’s rights, successfully demanding the state of New York provide him with feminizing hormones in 1999, and suing the state in 2003 after having been refused sex reassignment surgery.

Blast repeatedly became a media sensation for his sexual exploits while in custody, beginning a romantic relationship with Heriberto “Eddie” Seda, a convicted serial killer who had sought to murder one person of each zodiac sign as an homage to San Francisco’s infamous Zodiac Killer. Blast and Seda’s relationship was dotingly covered by New York Magazine in 2004, who even commissioned a portrait photograph of the couple.

“I met my friend, lover and infamous husband… the NYC Zodiac Serial Killer,” Blast told the New York Daily News. “My sweet serial killer is a lady’s man now. Only if I was a real woman I could bring about little future serial killers to terrorize NYC like my husband did. How [New Yorkers] would of loathed the Zodiac Children.”

A member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project at an End Solitary Confinement protest. Credit: SRLP

Blast and Seda were ultimately separated from each other by the Department of Corrections.

In 2015, Jezebel published an article condemning Blast’s treatment while in prison, noting that he had been in involuntary protective custody (IPO), or solitary confinement, for almost two decades. The article followed a petition launched by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SLRP), a trans activist legal organization, which sought to pressure New York State into releasing Blast from IPO. The SLRP had, at one point, used Orange is the New Black actor Laverne Cox to speak on Blast’s behalf.

The Jezebel article slammed “trans-exclusionary” feminist Cathy Brennan for calling Blast a “man who now identifies as a woman,” and glossed over the details of Blast’s crime in favor of giving him a platform to claim innocence.

Blast was similarly profiled in a 2017 VICE article in which he called for trans-identified males to be housed with women.

According to the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), Blast was paroled in 2018.

One year after being paroled, Blast appeared as a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s prisoner advisory committee, and was interviewed in a video with three other trans-identified males. The video was posted to the SRLP’s Facebook.

“I came from being in a jail cell to learning about SRLP and its mission, who Sylvia Rivera, as a person, actually was, and … about Marsha P. Johnson, and I was definitely hooked into this movement,” Blast said.

“We all have a voice. And we live in a time, today, where that voice is finally being heard. We haven’t reached that milestone yet. We are all screaming together, and now they are finally listening,” Blast says, then beginning to promote the SRLP as a center which can help transgender people change their names and legal identity, “Whenever I find a transgender person, I ask them: Do you know about the Sylvia Rivera Law Project?”

The most recent update on Blast’s file with DOCCS shows that he was discharged from parole supervision on July 30, 2022, quietly marking the completion of his sentence for the murder of Ebony Nicole Williams.

UPDATE 11/30/22: A previous version of this article incorrectly suggested Williams was murdered in 1996. Williams was murdered in 1993, and Blast was convicted in 1996. The wording in this article has been adjusted to clarify.

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Violento asesino transgénero sale de la cárcel tras cumplir sentencia por torturar y asesinar a niña de 13 años en 1996

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Anna Slatz
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Advertencia de contenido: Este artículo contiene detalles gráficos de un delito cometido contra una niña. Se agradece la discreción del lector.

El Departamento de Prisiones y Supervisión Comunitaria de Nueva York ha otorgado la libertad definitiva por cumplimiento de condena a un hombre transidentificado que violó y torturó brutalmente a una niña hasta la muerte.

Synthia China Blast, nacido Luis Morales, fue sentenciado en 1996 por la horrible violación y asesinato de Ebony Nicole Williams, de 13 años. Blast, junto con su novio Carlos Franco, fueron condenados a 25 años por el crimen, un crimen que tenía motivaciones sexistas y racistas.

Blast y Franco, miembros de la banda Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, atacaron a la joven menos de 24 horas después de que se hubiera escapado de casa. Williams solía escaparse de su casa en Harlem, y su madre al principio no había sospechado nada malo cuando no volvió, asumiendo que estaba con unos parientes, como ya había hecho en el pasado.

Blast y Franco secuestraron a Williams el mismo día de su fuga, y la llevaron a un apartamento en Hunts Point donde la mantuvieron prisionera. Los hombres probablemente la habían reconocido de visitas anteriores al vecindario cuando iba a quedarse con su hermana mayor, y algunos relatos afirman que había sido atacada por su raza.

Synthia China Blast, con un escorpión tatuado en la cara.

Blast violó repetidamente a Williams, y él y Franco torturaron a la joven para luego apuñalarla repetidamente. Al darse cuenta de que todavía estaba viva después de haber sido apuñalada por Blast, Franco le pisoteó el cuello hasta que se rompió.

Después de su muerte, Blast y Franco metieron el pequeño cuerpo de la niña en una caja, lo arrojaron cerca de la autopista Sheridan, rociaron la caja con gasolina y le prendieron fuego. Un pasajero en un tren cercano vio las llamas y llamó al 911.

Después de extinguir el fuego, el detective Michael Garvey declaró que no había forma de identificar a Williams ya que estaba completamente desnuda y había sido gravemente mutilada. “Todo lo que vi fue que su pelo estaba peinado con rastas”, dijo durante la investigación.

Durante el juicio, el fiscal del Bronx, William Hrabsky, dijo sobre el crimen: “El sufrimiento por el que pasó esta pobre niña es increíble y pone este crimen en la categoría de monstruoso y bárbaro”.

Ebony Nicole Williams y su hermano en una foto sin fecha. Crédito: NEW YORK TIMES

A pesar de declararse inocente ante el tribunal y ante los medios de comunicación en una entrevista posterior, Blast se había “jactado” de haber cometido el crimen ante amigos, algunos de los cuales más tarde testificarían en su contra por ello. Blast y Franco recibieron una condena de 25 años a cadena perpetua por el asesinato de Williams, pero no fueron juzgados por el delito de violación.

Parece que Blast indicó que había evitado una condena por violación debido a su identidad de género y orientación homosexual.

“Tuvieron que cambiar la historia en el juicio porque ¿cómo le explicas al jurado que llevaba puesto un vestido pero que estaba violando a una niña?”, se le cita diciendo, y afirma que nunca había tenido relaciones sexuales con una mujer. Pero el factor determinante fue probablemente la imposibilidad de recuperar ADN de Williams debido al estado de sus restos, que estaban tan destruidos que tuvo ser identificada por sus registros dentales.

Durante el juicio, Blast y Franco se mostraron indiferentes ante el crimen que habían cometido, e incluso se habían reído a veces durante las audiencias. Yvonne Hill, la madre de Williams, arremetió contra los dos hombres en el momento de la sentencia por su comportamiento durante todo el proceso.

“Durante todo el juicio, lo único que veo es a Luis Morales sonriendo y Carlos Franco también”, dijo Hill, refiriéndose a Blast por el nombre que usaba en ese momento. “No estáis sonriendo ahora. Espero que os pudráis en el infierno”.

Después de su detención, Blast se convirtió en un destacado defensor de los derechos de las personas trans encarceladas, exigiendo con éxito que el estado de Nueva York le proporcionara hormonas feminizantes en 1999, y demandando al estado en 2003 por negarle cirugía de reasignación de sexo.

Blast se convirtió en una sensación mediática una y otra vez por sus hazañas sexuales mientras estaba bajo custodia, comenzando una relación romántica con Heriberto “Eddie” Seda, un asesino en serie convicto que había tratado de asesinar a una persona de cada signo zodiacal como homenaje al infame Asesino del Zodíaco de San Francisco. La relación de Blast y Seda fue descrita cariñosamente por el New Yorker en 2004, que incluso encargó un retrato de la pareja.

“Conocí a mi amigo, amante y tristemente célebre esposo … el asesino en serie del zodiaco de Nueva York”, dijo Blast al New York Daily News. “Mi dulce asesino en serie es ahora un mujeriego. Si yo fuera una mujer de verdad, podría tener pequeños futuros asesinos en serie para aterrorizar a Nueva York como lo hizo mi esposo. Los neoyorquinos iban a odiar a los niños del zodiaco”.

Un miembro del Sylvia Rivera Law Project en una protesta para poner fin al régimen de aislamiento. Crédito: SRLP

El Departamento de Prisiones separó finalmente a Blast y a Seda.

En 2015, Jezabel publicó un artículo condenando el tratamiento de Blast mientras estaba en prisión, señalando que había estado en custodia protectora involuntaria (IPO), o régimen de aislamiento, durante casi dos décadas. El artículo salió después de una petición lanzada por Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SLRP), una organización legal transactivista, que intentaba presionar al estado de Nueva York para que liberara a Blast de la OPI. El SLRP, en un momento dado, había utilizado al actor de Orange is the New Black, Laverne Cox, para hablar en nombre de Blast.

El artículo de Jezabel criticó a la feminista “transexcluyente” Cathy Brennan por llamar a Blast un “hombre que ahora se identifica como mujer”, y pasó por alto los detalles del crimen de Blast a favor de darle una plataforma para que se declarase inocente.

Blast fue perfilado de manera similar en un artículo de VICE de 2017 en el que pidió que los hombres transidentificados fueran alojados con mujeres.

Según el Departamento de Prisiones y Supervisión Comunitaria de Nueva York (DOCCS), Blast fue puesto en libertad condicional en 2018.

Un año después de ser puesto en libertad condicional, Blast apareció como miembro del comité asesor de prisioneros del Sylvia Rivera Law Project, y fue entrevistado en un video con otros tres hombres transidentificados. El video fue publicado en el Facebook del SRLP.

“Vine de estar encarcelado en una celda a aprender sobre SRLP y su misión, quién era Sylvia Rivera, como persona, quién realmente era, y … sobre Marsha P. Johnson, y definitivamente me enganché a este movimiento”, dijo Blast.

“Todos tenemos una voz. Y vivimos en una época, hoy, donde esa voz finalmente se está escuchando. Todavía no hemos alcanzado ese punto. Todos estamos gritando juntos, y ahora finalmente nos están escuchando”, dice Blast, y luego comienza a promover el SRLP como un centro que puede ayudar a las personas transgénero a cambiar de nombre e identidad legal, “Cada vez que encuentro a una persona transgénero, le pregunto: ¿Conoces el Proyecto de Ley Sylvia Rivera?”

La actualización más reciente sobre el caso de Blast con DOCCS muestra que fue dado de baja de la supervisión de libertad condicional el 30 de julio de 2022, marcando así discretamente el final de su sentencia por el asesinato de Ebony Nicole Williams en 1996.

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“Her Penis”: Trans Performer Strips Naked While Performing Misogynistic Song on Live Television

By
Yuliah Alma
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A trans comedian is receiving praise from mainstream media, but backlash from women, after a musical performance on UK comedy show Friday Night Live.

During the live program, trans-identified male comedian Jordan Gray ripped off his clothing to expose his entire naked body, and began to play his keyboard with his penis. This was during Gray’s rendition of his song “Better Than You,” which featured misogynistic lyrics intended to mock females.

“I’m a perfect woman, my tits will never shrink. I’m guaranteed to squirt, and I do anal by default … I am the lizard king, and I can do anything that any other woman can’t … I used to be a man, now I’m better than you,” Gray sang to an audience of delighted onlookers.

The explicit performance took place during a special Friday Night Live revival event marking Channel 4’s 40th anniversary. The revival featured former Friday Night Live cast members Ben Elton, Enfield, Brand and Julian Clary as well as a number of new comedians, including Gray.

Mainstream media coverage of Gray’s performance has been overwhelmingly positive. PinkNews, a UK-based outlet, referred to Gray’s song as “rousing” and called the performance “iconic,” and characterized any opposition to the performer’s exposure of his genitals on television as “anti-trans.” The sentiment was shared by some LGBT activists on Twitter.

Irish Mirror chose to emphasize glowing comments which praised Gray as “amazing” and stated that “seeing a trans woman get naked on TV is exactly what we needed.”

Reporting on Gray’s exhibitionist stunt, The Daily Mail in particular prompted criticism for the use of the term “her penis” to refer to the incident.

Even some beloved British figures took to social media to heap praise upon Gray. Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs complimented Gray’s “magnificent boobs and equally magnificent member” and called for Gray to run for Prime Minister.

But while no mainstream British outlet has called into question any safeguarding concerns related to the program, many on social media have stated their shock and outrage at what they consider to be indecent exposure, a sexual offense, being normalized, celebrated, and highly publicized.

Speaking with Reduxx, UK-based journalist and women’s rights campaigner Jo Bartosch criticized the media outlets who chose to reference Gray’s genitals using feminine pronouns, and highlighted the significance of factually-based language.

“Whether it’s calling a man ‘Miss’ or using the oxymoronic phrase ‘her penis,’ these linguistic capitulations to men’s paraphilias are dangerous. It is a public sign of the power men like Gray enjoy. And it is terrifying, yet darkly comic, that respected journalists and broadcasters will now lie in this way, because to do otherwise is to risk breaching media guidelines which have been informed by trans lobby groups,” Bartosch said.

“The phrase ‘her penis’ is an insult to the profession, to audiences and to the truth,” she added.

Bartosch explained that she views pornography as an influential force in the concept of a “female penis,” noting that while it may seem bizarre to “the uninitiated,” there exists within the “male domain of pornography a logic to the idea of a ‘female penis.'”

She then cited as examples genres such as forced feminization, and sissification, which portray men as being transformed into women through processes that involve makeup, lingerie, sexual submissiveness, and humiliation.

“Whether it’s the rebranding of sexual entertainment as ‘children’s education’ or the use of language to reflect men’s fantasies; aggressively male behaviour which festers in online pornography has seeped over into the real world,” Bartosch stated.

“The excitement men feel is because they know that the social bounds that keep their base impulses in check are straining and being broken, and that it is happening in plain sight. Pornographic values have become so mainstream when men brazenly flash their fetishes they are celebrated for their bravery. One wonders which taboos will be the next to be broken?”

In the days following Channel 4’s broadcast, internet sleuths have brought to light how Gray boasted about being a representative for a charity that promotes gender identity ideology in schools. The charity, Educate and Celebrate, describes its programs as offering “the knowledge, skills and confidence to embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric of your organization”. 

Since news of his involvement with the charity has been spread on social media, Educate and Celebrate quietly pulled a page from their site that listed Gray as a patron. “I go into schools to talk about gender as part of a campaign called Educate and Celebrate,” Gray told GuysLikeU.

“Toddlers kind of get it straightaway. I went into one school recently where there was a 7 year-old transgender girl. And her four year-old classmate, who was a boy, said: ‘Jessie’s a girl and she wants to be a girl. And I am a boy who wants to be a boy.'”

“Young minds are very accepting,” Gray added. “It’s teenagers who are harder to get through to. It’s good to educate these kids when they are young.”

A patron of Educate and Celebrate listed alongside Gray, Peter Tatchell, has previously made statements in support of pedophilia and questioning age of consent laws. Tatchell, a former leader of the Gay Liberation Front, authored an obituary in The Independent for Ian Dunn, founder of the former pedophile activist organization the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

Tatchell also published an essay in an anthology released by former vice-chairman of PIE, Warren Middleton, wherein he argued that argued that “children have sexual desires at an early age” and should be “educated” so that they can decide when they want to have sex.

“While it may be impossible to condone pedophilia, it is time society acknowledged the truth that not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive, and harmful,” Tatchell wrote in a letter to The Guardian in 1997.

The revelation that Jordan Gray worked alongside Peter Tatchell for a charity promoting the notion of a gender identity to young children mirrors a recent, widely-publicized scandal involving a pro-pedophilia campaigner’s ties to a children’s charity that promotes the medical “transition” of minors.

Earlier this month, Jacob Breslow, an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, stepped down from his position as a trustee for UK-based trans activist organization Mermaids following revelations that he had ties to pro-pedophilia lobbyists.

Breslow had, on several occasions, made statements and published academic work that favorably portrayed pedophilia, and had once authored a blog that linked directly to child sexual abuse materials.

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Prisionero condenado a muerte se identifica como mujer antes de su ejecución

By
Anna Slatz
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McLaughlin in 2017 [L] and in 2021 [R]. Photo Credit: Missouri Department of Corrections

Un hombre encarcelado en Missouri por la brutal violación y asesinato de su ex novia parece haber “transicionado” en el corredor de la muerte, donde estaba por el horrible crimen.

Scott McLaughlin, de 49 años, fue declarado culpable del asesinato de Beverly Guenther en 2003. La víctima era la ex novia de McLaughlin, una mujer con la que había estado saliendo de forma intermitente durante aproximadamente un año. Según los registros judiciales, Guenther y McLaughlin se conocieron en 2002 y comenzaron a vivir juntos poco después de empezar la relación.

Pero la cohabitación estaba marcada por rupturas que a menudo eran tan graves que Guenther a veces tenía que pedir órdenes de alejamiento para mantener a McLaughlin lejos de ella.

En la primavera de 2003, Guenther y McLaughlin terminaron formalmente su relación, pero McLaughlin continuó acosando a la mujer, visitándola con frecuencia en su trabajo y llamándola por teléfono.

Guenther fue arrestado el 27 de octubre de 2003 por desvalijar la casa de McLaughlin. Dijo a los policías que lo arrestaron que había ido a buscar sus cosas. Fue procesado en noviembre. Guenther pidió una orden de protección en ese momento, pero solo dos días después McLaughlin la asesinó.

En la noche del 20 de noviembre, cuando la orden de alejamiento ya estaba en vigor, McLaughlin condujo hasta el lugar de trabajo de Guenther y la esperó en el aparcamiento del edificio de oficinas. Le tendió una emboscada y, cuando caminaba hacia su camioneta, la agarró, la tiró al suelo y la agredió sexualmente.

Después de violar a la mujer, McLaughlin la apuñaló hasta matarla y metió su cadáver en su coche. Llevó el cuerpo de Guenther a un río cercano y lo tiró entre la maleza. McLaughlin fue arrestado al día siguiente en el hospital cuando intentaba conseguir medicación para su enfermedad mental.

McLaughlin fue finalmente declarado culpable de asesinato en primer grado y violación. Un jurado de primera instancia no pudo decidir entre imponer una sentencia de muerte o cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional, y un juez tomó la decisión final de condenarlo a pena de muerte.

McLaughlin apeló sin éxito su sentencia varias veces a lo largo de los años. En 2008, llevó su caso ante la Corte Suprema de Missouri, argumentando un error técnico en la condena por violación. El Tribunal rechazó su apelación y rechazó además una nueva audiencia.

McLaughlin luego llevó su caso al tribunal superior en busca de amparo post-condena, que también le fue denegado. Finalmente, McLaughlin presentó una petición federal de hábeas corpus, creyendo que su encarcelamiento era inconstitucional.

En 2016, a McLaughlin se le concedió una suspensión de la ejecución, pero fue restablecida por un Tribunal Federal de Apelaciones en 2021.

El 29 de septiembre, después de años de retrasos, el estado de Missouri anunció que se había fijado la fecha del 3 de enero de 2023 para la ejecución de McLaughlin.

SCOTT McLAUGHLIN. Crédito de la foto: Departamento Penitenciario de Missouri.

McLaughlin está actualmente encarcelado en el Centro Penitenciario de Potosí, una prisión masculina en Mineral Point, Missouri, para presos de máxima seguridad y alto riesgo. Los informes del Departamento Penitenciario de Missouri muestran que McLaughlin aparentemente ha comenzado a identificarse como “mujer”, y en su foto policial más reciente se lo ve con pelo largo, maquillaje y esmalte de uñas.

La foto, actualizada en diciembre de 2021, es sorprendentemente diferente de la de la ficha de unos años antes, cuando McLaughlin tenía una apariencia decididamente más “masculina”.

A pesar del cambio dramático, McLaughlin todavía está fichado en el sistema del Departamento Penitenciario de Missouri como “hombre” y con su nombre de nacimiento. El Estado no tiene una política explícita de autoidentificación de género.

McLaughlin es uno de los dos presos varones que se dicen trans encarcelados por delitos extremadamente violentos en el estado de Missouri. Patricia Elaine Trimble se encuentra en el Southeast Correctional Center, a solo dos horas de distancia, en Charleston.

Nacido Patrick, Trimble fue condenado en 1978 por la brutal violación de dos niñas de 9 años en la ciudad de St. Charles, Missouri. Mientras estaba en prisión esperando el veredicto final sobre su caso, Trimble cometió otro crimen atroz, lo que el tribunal describió como “convertir en esclavo” a su compañero de celda con discapacidad de desarrollo, para luego asesinarlo.

Según un documento judicial, Trimble “… obligaba a la víctima a tener sexo oral y anal con él, lo obligaba a usar un “sujetador” en la cárcel para el entretenimiento de los otros reclusos, y le hacía mostrar a los otros reclusos un trapo que tenía metido en el ano”. Trimble prostituyó a Everett a otros reclusos, e incluso intentó vendérselo a un miembro del personal de la prisión por un cartón de cigarrillos. Trimble también torturó a Everett, provocándole profundas heridas en el cuerpo usando botellas de champú quemadas.

Trimble fue condenado inicialmente a muerte por sus crímenes, pero la decisión más tarde sería conmutada a cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional durante 50 años.

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Inmate on Death Row Now Identifying as a Woman Ahead of Execution

By
Anna Slatz
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McLaughlin in 2017 [L] and in 2021 [R]. Photo Credit: Missouri Department of Corrections

An inmate incarcerated in Missouri for the brutal rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend appears to have transitioned while on death row for the horrific crime.

Scott McLaughlin, 49, was found guilty in the murder of Beverly Guenther in 2003. The victim was McLaughlin’s ex-girlfriend, a woman he had been on-again-off-again dating for approximately one year. According to court records, Guenther and McLaughlin met in 2002, and began living with each other shortly into the relationship.

But the cohabitation was marred by break-ups that were often so serious that Geunther sometimes had to obtain restraining orders to keep McLaughlin away from her.

In spring of 2003, Geunther and McLaughlin formally ended their relationship, but McLaughlin would continue to pursue the woman — frequently visiting her place of work and calling her.

On October 27, 2003, Guenther would be arrested after burglarizing McLaughlin’s home. He told arresting officers he was trying to reclaim possessions from when he lived with her, and was arraigned in November. Guenther sought a protective order at this time, but just two days later McLaughlin would murder her.

On the night of November 20, while the protective order was in effect, McLaughlin drove to Geunther’s workplace and waited for her in the parking lot of the office building. He ambushed her as she walked towards her truck, pulled her to the ground, and sexually assaulted her.

After violating the woman, McLaughlin stabbed her to death before shoving her corpse in his hatchback. He drove Guenther’s body to a nearby river, and disposed of it in the underbrush. McLaughlin was arrested the next day at the hospital while attempting to get some medication for his mental illness.

McLaughlin was ultimately found guilty of first-degree murder and forcible rape. A trial jury was unable to decide whether to impose a sentence of death or life in prison without the possibility of parole, and a judge made the final decision to issue the death penalty.

McLaughlin unsuccessfully appealed his sentence multiple times over the years. In 2008, he brought it before the Supreme Court of Missouri, arguing a technical error in the rape conviction. The Court denied his appeal, and further rejected any re-hearings.

McLaughlin then took his case to a Circuit Court seeking post-conviction relief, which he was also denied. Finally, McLaughlin filed a federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus, believing his incarceration was unconstitutional.

In 2016, McLaughlin was granted a stay of execution, but it was re-instated by a Federal Appeals Court in 2021.

On September 29, after years of delays, the state of Missouri announced a date of January 3, 2023, had been set for McLaughlin’s execution.

SCOTT McLAUGHLIN. Photo Credit: Missouri Department of Corrections.

McLaughlin is currently incarcerated in the Potosi Correctional Center, a male prison in Mineral Point, Missouri for maximum-security and high-risk inmates. Records from the Missouri Department of Corrections show McLaughlin has apparently begun identifying as a “woman,” with his most recent mugshot capturing him donning long hair, makeup, and nail polish.

The photo, updated in December of 2021, is strikingly different from a previous record from just a few years prior when McLaughlin was seen with a decidedly more “masculine” appearance.

Despite the dramatic change, McLaughlin is still recorded in the Missouri Department of Corrections system as a “male” and under his birth name. The state does not have an explicit gender self-identification policy.

McLaughlin is one of two known trans-identified male inmates incarcerated for extremely violent crimes in the state of Missouri. Just two hours away in Charleston, Patricia Elaine Trimble is housed at the Southeast Correctional Center.

Born Patrick, Trimble was convicted in 1978 of the brutal rape of two 9-year-old girls in the city of St. Charles, Missouri. While in prison awaiting the final verdict on his case, Trimble would commit another heinous crime, making what the court would describe as a “slave” out of his developmentally disabled cellmate before murdering him.

According to a court document, Trimble “… forced the victim to have both oral and anal intercourse with him, compelled him to wear a ‘bra’ around the jail for the entertainment of the other inmates, and forced him at one point to display to the other inmates a rag that had been stuffed into his anus.” Trimble prostituted Everett to other inmates, and even offered to sell him to a member of the prison staff for a carton of cigarettes. Trimble also tortured Everett, making deep gashes in his flesh using burnt shampoo bottles.

Trimble was initially sentenced to death for his crimes, but the decision would later be commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 50 years.

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