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Reddit Bans “Groomer” As “Anti-LGBTQ Slur” Under New Rules

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Reduxx Team
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On July 14, it was announced that Reddit administrators had formally begun enforcing site-wide rules which classified the word “groomer” as an “Anti-LGBTQ” slur.

The policy came to widespread attention after it was praised by Slate writer Alejandra Caraballo, who posted a screenshot of a Reddit post from a subreddit encouraging users to file reports against anyone on the site seen using the term.

The original post referenced by Caraballo was from r/AgainstHateSubreddits, a subreddit dedicated to rallying users in an attempt to have people and boards removed from Reddit for various terms of service violations.

The post had taken aim at r/PoliticalCompassMemes, a subreddit which often parodies left-wing social movements, and has been a hub for memes about the recent rise in gender ideology. In light of the rule enforcement changes, r/PoliticalCompassMemes had allegedly been educating users on how to navigate the policies, and avoid being banned from the site.

As a result, the moderator of r/AgainstHateSubreddits called for the permanent suspension of r/PoliticalCompassMemes, stating: “Reddit must not waste any more time. Reddit must permanently ban PCM, and permanently suspend its operators, and permanently suspend its participants.”

But the announcement that “groomer” would be classified as an anti-LGBTQ slur caused waves amongst those who felt it was an overstep, and even drew the condemnation of some LGBT groups.

On July 16, Gays Against Groomers — a grassroots coalition which describes itself as fighting “against the sexualization and indoctrination of children” — released a statement condemning the move by Reddit, calling it “reprehensible and offensive.”

“By banning this word from their platform in such terms, Reddit is not only inadvertently expressing their support for the grooming and abuse of children, but also paints out community … as those who support and engage in it.”

Speaking to Reduxx, Gays Against Groomers founder Jaimee Michell expressed similar concerns about the implicit suggestions present in the move.

“Conflating the LGBT community with the word groomer, even in an attempt to discourage us from being labeled as such, is an admission there is an innate connection between our community and child predators.”

While only established in June, Michell’s campaign has seen a prolific rise in following and support, emphasizing the growing concern many have about the impact of gender ideology.

“We, and our gay and lesbian elders, have worked tirelessly for decades to prove that perception society had of us was wrong.” Michell says, “What Reddit has done erases the progress we have made, and only furthers the misconception that our community as a whole supports the sexualization and indoctrination of children.”

In recent years, Reddit has become home to a number of scandals involving selective rule enforcement.

In 2019, subreddit r/GenderCritical was permanently banned from the site after Reddit overhauled its ‘hate speech’ terms of service. Subreddits such as r/BanFemaleHateSubs, a board dedicated to fighting misogyny on the platform were initially picked up in the sweep, as well as r/JoanneRowling, a J.K Rowling fan subreddit.

Other boards saw themselves either forced to undergo an overhaul or flat-out censored by the site. r/Detransition, a subreddit for individuals who have ended their gender transition, endured what some of the users described as a ‘coup,‘ with transgender Reddit moderators taking over the board and beginning to heavily regulate content.

In addition to its apparent hostility to feminist boards, Reddit has long been considered a hub for pornographic material distribution, and is frequently at the center of child safeguarding scandals.

Reddit experienced widespread site protests after bringing on Aimee Challenor as a top administrator in 2021.

Challenor, a trans-identified male, had previously come under fire for hiring his father into a safety-sensitive position within the UK Green Party. At the time, Challenor’s father was out on bail after being charged for the rape and torture of a 10-year-old girl. Challenor nevertheless hid his father’s past from the public before it was discovered in what the party would later call a “major safeguarding risk.” David Challenor was ultimately sentenced to 22 years in prison for the horrific crime.

While under scrutiny, Challenor’s romantic partner was similarly embroiled in controversy after netizens discovered he had admitted to becoming aroused while fantasizing about children being sexually abused. 

Challenor was ultimately fired from his Reddit post, but concerns about the site’s rule-enforcement team remained.

Last year, a Reddit post from 2019 began re-circulating in which a number of transgender “power-moderators” were exposed for ‘grooming’ minors into taking hormone replacement therapy. The post included screenshots of u/DrewiePoodle, who manages over 80 subreddits, bragging about supplying minors with illicit hormones. The user who compiled the information was subsequently suspended.

Most recently, the site has been sued by a victim of revenge porn after it failed to remove images of the victim posted by her ex-partner from when she was under the age of 18.

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London’s ‘Eunuch-Maker’ Was A Queer Activist in Leading ‘Gender Diversity’ Organization

By
Genevieve Gluck
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A man who came to international attention after being arrested for performing dozens of fetishistic castrations out of his home in North London can be revealed as a Norwegian activist affiliated with a powerful ‘Queer’ lobby group.

Marius Gustavson, 44, was arrested along with six other men in February. Shortly after his arrest, he told The Independent in an interview that had undergone an amateur orchiectomy himself and carried the operation out on 58 other men. He stated that he had his own genitals surgically removed because he wanted to “look like a Ken doll with nothing down there.”

Gustavson told media that he executed the procedures using a Burdizzo, an instrument for removing the testicles of livestock. He admitted that he kept the amputated appendages in his freezer and preserved them in alcohol in his basement apartment.

Neighbors in the residential area where Gustavson was performing the castrations said they had seen ambulances regularly arriving at the property ⁠— despite Gustavson, who is also an amputee, insisting he conducted surgeries in a “very professional way.”

Despite the international coverage of the disturbing case, media failed to note that Gustavson had been a prominent member of the LGBT activist community.

According to Gustavon’s LinkedIn profile, he was a volunteer and Senior Steward for London’s Pride organization between 2016 to 2019. His first Eunuch Maker site was registered in 2016, and in 2018, he started a film production company called Nullset.

Prior to his relocation to London, Gustavson was Chairman of the Board for the Buskerud chapter of transactivist lobbying group The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity, now known as FRI. Gustavson was involved in a leadership position at the organization from 2001 through 2007. During this time, FRI went by the name ‘The National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation,’ or LLH.

In 2018, The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity (FRI) successfully lobbied the World Health Organization to officially depathologize fetishism, sadomasochism, and fetishistic transvestitism by removing them from the 11th revision of the International Classifications of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11).

Banner image which includes the BDSM flag, from the website Revise F65, a campaign created by the Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity (FRI)

This was the result of a successful lobby campaign that spanned two decades in its effort. The Norwegian LGBT organization, which frequently displays a BDSM pride flag, had been working to remove sadomasochism as a paraphilic diagnosis from the ICD since 1996.

The initiative by LLH / FRI was called “Revise F65,” in reference to the classification category designated by the WHO’s ICD guidelines. Listed under “F65” in version 10 of the manual were “disorders of sexual preference:” fetishism, transvestic fetishism, sadomasochism, voyeurism, and pedophilia.

The ICD-10 defined paraphilias as “sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors generally involving themes of suffering, humiliation, sexual activity with non-consenting partners, or an orientation toward non-human objects for sexual arousal.”

Of those listed in the ICD-10, fetishism, transvestic fetishism, and sadomasochism were removed while the remaining paraphilias were reclassified as “paraphilic disorders.” This was done to distinguish between “conditions that are relevant to public health and clinical psychopathology and those that merely reflect private behavior.”

In contrast, during a revision process overseen by academics who supported the depathologization of paraphilias, the term “gender identity disorder” was declassified as such and “reconceptualized as gender incongruence.”

During a 1998 LLH / FRI convention, it was stated that the decision to normalize paraphilias and sadomasochism was based on a Norwegian national survey conducted among their members who advocated “rejecting discrimination of leather, SM and transgender people”.

At a 2004 LLH / FRI convention, the Revise F65 mandate was explicitly expressed in the organization’s political platform. It was during this time that Gustavson served in a leadership position for the activist group. “In addition to national work,” the campaign’s website states, “Revise F65 also have an international mandate to motivate other countries to remove their national versions of the SM/fetish ICD diagnoses.”

A website owned by Gustavson, eunuchmaker.co.uk, sold graphic videos of castrations and amputations. Registered in 2016, it also offered the option of paid monthly memberships for streaming videos of penectomies. Premium subscriptions included the option of a “free castration performed by the EunuchMaker”.

A registration form on the site listed possible “gender identities” based on sadomasochistic criteria. Among them were eunuch, nullo (nullification), and cutter, a euphemism for a person who performs male genital modification surgeries.

Promotions on his primary platform direct visitors to another URL owned by Gustavson, Eunuchmaker.info. Archived versions of the page redirect to yet another online community, the-em.com, which is cited in criminal charges filed October 21, 2020, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma against two men who participated in fetishistic genital surgeries.

Bobby Lee Allen and his partner Thomas Evan Gates were charged with conspiracy to commit an unlicensed surgery, maiming, and failure to bury a dead human member, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

A registration form on the Eunuch Maker website lists sadomasochistic festishes as ‘gender identities’

The two men, self-described ‘cannibals’, removed the testicles of a 28-year-old Virginia resident as part of an illegally conducted gender reassignment surgery. Afterwards, according to court records, Allen laughed and told the victim he intended to consume his amputated members.

Allen had claimed to have had 15 years of experience and several other patients lined up for future procedures. The victim further alleged that Allen boasted of leaving a man “open” to die after an operation.

Allen and Gates had lured the man to their cabin by way of Gustavson’s Eunuch Maker’s website and forum.

Gustavon’s Twitter account is followed by BDSM and castration fetishists. Since his arrest in February, he has been publishing advertisements for his videos as recently as May, indicating that he is not currently detained while awaiting trial.

Several of the Eunuch Maker’s followers are part of the nullification community. The growing “nullo” movement is centered around removing genitalia, and some gender clinics have begun marketing the operation towards those who identify as non-binary.

Members of the nullification cult afterwards may refer to themselves as eunuchs or “smoothies”. The trend is part of a sadomasochistic body modification fetish, and videos of genital surgeries or mutilation have been uploaded online to extreme pornography sites.

Terminology such as “nullo” and “cutter” seen on Gustavson’s Eunuch Maker sites parallels language and content seen on another prominent castration fetish forum that has close ties with the U.S. association the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which recommends protocols for the medical transitioning of adults and children.

An investigation conducted by Reduxx established that WPATH leaders were incorporating advice into their medical guidelines based on surveys conducted among participants of an extreme sadomasochistic fetish forum. Members of the Eunuch Archive wrote and collected thousands of pornographic stories about castration, of which nearly half eroticized the medical castration of children.

In another striking similarity between the Eunuch Archive and the case of the Eunuch Maker, language regarding fetishistic conditions and gender identity were altered in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual for Mental Disorders fifth edition (DSM-5), issued by the American Psychiatric Association.

Members of the Eunuch Archive had a direct involvement in changing the official diagnostic term “gender identity disorder” to “gender dysphoria,” after which “gender dysphoria in children” was added to the DSM-5 — even as a term for persistent sexual interest in genital mutilation, Skoptic syndrome, was removed.

Additionally, a renowned transgender Norwegian sexologist and physician, Dr. Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad — who has asserted that the category of ‘eunuch’ should be considered a gender identity — has been investigated on multiple occasions for medical malpractice regarding the treatment of minors. One such disciplinary measure was regarding Benestad’s decision to administer puberty-blocking drugs to a young boy.

The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity (FRI), the transactivist organization that Gustavson was previously involved in while residing in Norway, has recently been associated with litigation against the leader of the Norwegian chapter of an international women’s rights group.

One outspoken member of FRI, Cristine Marie Jentoft, a man who identifies as a lesbian woman, filed hate crime charges in May against Christina Ellingsen for stating that men can neither be lesbians nor mothers. If convicted, Christina Ellingsen of Women’s Declaration International faces up to three years in prison.

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El ‘Eunuch-Maker’ londinense resultó ser miembro de una organización ligada al lobby Queer

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Un hombre noruego que atrajo la atención internacional después de ser arrestado por realizar docenas de castraciones fetichistas fuera de su casa en el norte de Londres se le fue descubierta su afiliación a un poderoso grupo de presión ‘Queer’.

Marius Gustavson, de 44 años, fue arrestado junto con otros seis hombres el pasado febrero. Poco después de su arresto, en una entrevista para The Independent reveló que él mismo se había sometido a una orquiectomía amateur y que operó a otros 58 hombres. Afirmó que se le fueron extirpados sus propios genitales porque quería “parecerse a un muñeco Ken sin nada entre las piernas”.

Gustavson le dijo a los medios que realizó los procedimientos utilizando un Burdizzo, un instrumento para extraer los testículos al ganado. Admitió que conservó los órganos extraídos en un congelador en el sótano de su apartamento.

Los vecinos de la zona residencial donde Gustavson estaba realizando las castraciones dijeron que regularmente veían ambulancias llegando a la propiedad, a pesar de que Gustavson, quien también es amputado, insiste en que realizaba las cirugías de una “manera muy profesional”.

A pesar de la cobertura internacional de este inquietante caso, los medios no se percataron que Gustavson había sido un miembro destacado de la comunidad de activistismo LGBT.

Según el perfil de LinkedIn de Gustavon, fue voluntario y administrador principal de la organización London’s Pride entre el 2016 y el 2019. Su primer sitio web Eunuch Maker se registró en el 2016 y, en el 2018 fundó una productora cinematográfica llamada Nullset.

Antes de mudarse a Londres, Gustavson fue presidente de la junta del grupo lobista transactivista La Organización Noruega para la Diversidad Sexual y de Género ( ahora conocida como FRI) para el sector de Buskerud. Gustavson estuvo en una posición de liderazgo dentro de la organización desde el 2001 hasta el 2007. Durante este tiempo, el  FRI pasó a llamarse “La Asociación Nacional para la Liberación de Lesbianas y Gays” o LLH.

En el 2018, la Organización Noruega para la Diversidad Sexual y de Género (FRI) presionó exitosamente a la Organización Mundial de la Salud para despatologizar de manera oficial al fetichismo, el sadomasoquismo y el travestismo fetichista eliminándolos de la 11.ª revisión de las Clasificaciones Internacionales de Enfermedades y Problemas de Salud Relacionados (ICD- 11).

Este fue el resultado de una exitosa campaña lobista que abarcó dos décadas de esfuerzo. La organización LGBT noruega, que exhibe con frecuencia una bandera de orgullo BDSM, ha estado trabajando para eliminar el sadomasoquismo como diagnóstico parafílico del ICD desde 1996.

La iniciativa de LLH/FRI se denominó “Revisar F65”, en referencia a la categoría de clasificación designada por las directrices de la CIE de la OMS. En la lista bajo el “F65” de la decima versión del manual estaban los “trastornos de la preferencia sexual“: fetichismo, fetichismo travesti, sadomasoquismo, voyerismo y pedofilia.

El ICD-10 definió las parafilias como “impulsos, fantasías o comportamientos sexuales que generalmente involucran temas de sufrimiento, humillación, actividad sexual con parejas que no dan su consentimiento o una orientación hacia objetos no humanos para la excitación sexual”.

De los enumerados en la CIE-10, se eliminó el fetichismo, el fetichismo travesti y el sadomasoquismo, mientras que las parafilias restantes se reclasificaron como “trastornos parafílicos”. Esto se hizo para distinguir entre “condiciones que son relevantes para la salud pública y la psicopatología clínica y aquellas que simplemente reflejan un comportamiento privado”.

En contraste, durante un proceso de revisión supervisado por académicos que apoyaron la despatologización de las parafilias, el término “trastorno de identidad de género” fue desclasificado como tal y “reconceptualizado como incongruencia de género”.

Durante una convención LLH / FRI de 1998, se afirmó que la decisión de normalizar las parafilias y el sadomasoquismo se basó en una encuesta nacional noruega realizada entre sus miembros que abogaban por “rechazar la discriminación de las personas de cuero, SM y transgénero”.

En una convención LLH/FRI del 2004, el mandato para Revisar el F65 se expresó explícitamente en la plataforma política de la organización. Fue durante este periodo que Gustavson ocupó una posición de liderazgo dentro del  grupo activista. “Además del trabajo nacional”, afirma el sitio web de la campaña, “Revise F65 también tiene un mandato internacional para motivar a otros países a eliminar sus versiones nacionales de los diagnósticos SM/fetish ICD”.

Un sitio web propiedad de Gustavson, eunuchmaker.co.uk, vendía videos gráficos de castraciones y amputaciones. Registrado en el 2016, también ofrecía la opción de membresías mensuales pagas para la transmisión de videos de penectomías. Las suscripciones Premium incluían la opción de una “castración gratuita realizada por EunuchMaker”.

El formulario de registro en el sitio enumeraba posibles “identidades de género” basadas en criterios sadomasoquistas. Entre ellos estaban eunuco, nullo (anulación) y cortador, un eufemismo para la persona que realiza cirugías de modificación genital masculina.

Las promociones en su plataforma principal dirigen a los visitantes a otra URL propiedad de Gustavson, Eunuchmaker.info. Las versiones archivadas de esta página nos redirigen a otra comunidad en línea, the-em.com, la cual fue citada el 21 de octubre del 2020 en los cargos penales presentados por el estado estadounidense de Oklahoma contra dos hombres que participaron en cirugías genitales fetichistas.

Bobby Lee Allen y su socio Thomas Evan Gates fueron acusados ​​de conspiración para realizar una cirugía sin licencia, mutilación y no enterrar a un miembro humano mutilado, y asalto y agresión con un arma letal.

Los dos hombres, autodenominados “caníbales”, extirparon los testículos de un residente de Virginia de 28 años como parte de una cirugía de reasignación de género realizada ilegalmente. Posteriormente, según los registros judiciales, Allen se rió y le dijo a la víctima que tenía la intención de consumir sus miembros amputados.

Allen había afirmado tener 15 años de experiencia y varios otros pacientes en fila para futuros procedimientos. La víctima alegó además que Allen se jactó de dejar a un hombre “abierto” para morir después de la operación.

Allen y Gates habían atraído al hombre a su cabaña a través del portal web y foro de discusión Eunuch Maker de Gustavson.

La cuenta de Twitter de Gustavon es seguida por fetichistas del BDSM y castración. Desde su arresto en febrero, ha estado publicando anuncios de sus videos en mayo, lo que indica que actualmente no está detenido y en espera de juicio.

Varios de los seguidores de Eunuch Maker son parte de la comunidad de anulación. El creciente movimiento “nullo” se centra en la eliminación de los genitales, y algunas clínicas de género han comenzado a comercializar la operación entre quienes se identifican como no binarios.

Posteriormente, los miembros del culto de anulación pueden referirse a sí mismos como eunucos o “batidos”. La tendencia es parte de un fetiche sadomasoquista de modificación corporal, y se han subido videos de cirugías genitales o mutilaciones a sitios web de pornografía extrema.

Terminologías como “nullo” y “cutter” que se pueden leer en los sitios Eunuch Maker de Gustavson son paralelas al lenguaje y el contenido que se ven en otro destacado foro de fetiches de castración que tiene vínculos estrechos con la asociación estadounidense World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), que recomienda protocolos para la transición médica en adultos y niños.

Una investigación realizada por Reduxx estableció que los líderes de WPATH estaban incorporando consejos en sus pautas médicas extraídas de encuestas efectuadas entre los participantes de un foro de fetiches sadomasoquistas extremos. Los miembros del Eunuch Archive escribieron y recopilaron miles de historias pornográficas sobre la castración, de las cuales casi la mitad erotizaban la castración médica de los niños.

En otra sorprendente similitud entre el Eunuch Archive y el caso de Eunuch Maker, el lenguaje relacionado con las condiciones fetichistas y la identidad de género se modificó en la quinta edición del Manual de diagnóstico y estadística para los trastornos mentales (DSM-5), publicado por la Asociación Estadounidense de Psiquiatría.

Los miembros de Eunuch Archive tuvieron una participación directa en el cambio del término de diagnóstico oficial de “trastorno de identidad de género” por “disforia de género”, después de lo cual se agregó “disforia de género en niños” al DSM-5, incluso se eliminó el síndrome de Skoptic como referencia para el interés sexual persistente en la mutilación genital.

Además, un reconocido sexólogo y médico noruega transgénero, la Dra. Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, quien ha afirmado que la categoría de ‘eunuco’ debe considerarse una identidad de género, ha sido investigado en múltiples ocasiones por negligencia médica con respecto al tratamiento de menores. Una de esas medidas disciplinarias fue con respecto a la decisión de Benestad de recetar medicamentos para bloquearle la pubertad a un niño.

Recientemente La Organización Noruega para la Diversidad Sexual y de Género (FRI), grupo transactivista que tuvo a Gustavson dentro de sus filas cuando este residía en Noruega, se ha visto asociada con un litigio contra la líder de un grupo internacional de apoyo a los derechos de las mujeres en Noruega.

En el mes de mayo un hombre que se identifica como mujer lesbiana y es miembro del FRI, Cristine Marie Jentoft, presentó cargos en contra de Christina Ellingsen por supuestos delitos de odio luego de que esta afirmara que los hombres no pueden ser lesbianas ni madres. Si es declarada culpable, Christina Ellingsen de la Declaración Internacional de Mujeres se enfrentaría hasta tres años de prisión.

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Transgender Mosque Bomber Sentenced to Additional 14 Years In Prison on Domestic Terrorism-Related Charges

By
Lavy Shwan
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A trans-identified male who led a far-right militia to commit a number of sexist and racist crimes has been sentenced to 14 years on assorted domestic terrorism charges. The sentence comes in addition to the 53 years he was already serving for his role in a Mosque bombing.

Emily Claire Hari, a former Sheriff’s deputy, was responsible for establishing right-wing militia group known as the Patriot Freedom Fighters, later re-named to the White Rabbits.

Hari, along with the small group, began engaging in criminal activity in 2017 with the intention of carrying out acts of domestic terrorism. In August of that year, Hari’s group set an improvised incendiary device near the Imam’s office of the Dar-al Farooq Islamic Center. One of Hari’s associates, Micheal McWhorter, would later confirm the purpose of the attack was to “scare Muslims out of the United States.” No one was injured in the attack.

Women’s Health Practice in Champaign, IL.

In November of 2017, Hari and his ‘militia’ targeted the Women’s Health Practice in Champaign, Illinois, where they threw a pipe bomb into the building. The bomb did not detonate and was found by a receptionist of the clinic who called police to safely extract the device from the facility.

Hari and his militia would go on to engage in a series of petty crimes in an attempt to gather the funds to continue their operations, including robbing a Hispanic man and holding up two local WalMarts in Clarence, Illinois in December of 2017.

In early 2018, Hari and his ‘militia’ attempted to sabotage railroad tracks near Effingham, Illinois with a bomb. After the attack, the group sent ransom emails demanding $190,000 in cryptocurrency under threat they would damage the railway further.

Shortly after, Hari tried to frame another individual for the crimes, but the effort would only lead to Federal Investigators more easily tracking him and the members of his militia down.

Hari and his colleagues were ultimately arrested, and, in 2021, Hari was sentenced to 53 years for his role in the Dar al-Farooq bombing.

Hari in 2017. Photo Credit: Ford County Sheriff’s Office.

On July 11, Hari was sentenced to an additional 14 years on a number of other charges related to his domestic terrorist activity after pleading guilty to the charges in February. According to a release by the Department of Justice, Hari was sentenced for threats of violence, attempted arson, unlawful possession of a machine-gun, and unlawful possession of a firearm as a felon. The sentence will be served concurrently, meaning the maximum time he will serve is still 53 years.

During his trial, it was revealed that Hari identified as a transgender ‘woman.’ While leading the White Rabbit militia, he had been searching terms such as ‘sex change,’ ‘transgender surgery,’ and ‘post-op transgender’ on the internet. Hari allegedly planned on fleeing to Thailand to get ‘gender affirming’ surgeries.

Hari had previously asked the court to take his gender dysphoria into consideration, and made a request for an amended Federal prison placement based on his identity. The details of his request were placed under a seal and the presiding Judge stated he would defer to the Bureau of Prisons to make the final call.

While Hari does not currently appear in any inmate registry, recent amendments to the Bureau of Prison’s transgender housing policy made since Hari’s initial sentencing indicate a strong possibility that Hari is currently incarcerated in a women’s prison.

On January 13, the Bureau of Prisons re-issued its Transgender Offender Manual, which included guidelines previously scrubbed by the Trump administration with respect to gender self-identification for federal inmates.

Under Trump, housing based on biological sex alone was taken into consideration for offender housing, but the revised policies stated that a transgender inmate’s “personal safety” was a priority.

The guidelines also stated that ‘misgendering’ inmates was expressly forbidden, and that prisons must provide cosmetic surgeries, sex hormones, and brassieres for men who claim to identify as transgender.

The Bureau of Prisons houses roughly 155,554 inmates at 122 facilities around the U.S. Of these, the agency estimates that approximately 1,300 self-declare a transgender status.

Prior to his involvement with the White Rabbit group, Hari had a criminal history which included abducting his own daughters. In 2006, Hari was sentenced to 30 months probation for kidnapping his two children and taking them to a Mennonite colony in Belize. At the time, he said he would only return them to their mother if they were sent to appear on Dr. Phil.

Both the Department of Justice and media reports about Hari’s sentencing uniformly referred to him as a ‘woman.’ The Wikipedia page on the Dar al-Farooq bombing has similarly removed references to Hari being male, and instead refers to him by feminine pronouns.

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FRANCIA: Activistas trans destruyen mural dedicado a víctimas infantiles de traumatismo

By
Anna Slatz
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Las feministas alzaron sus voces en indignación luego de que activistas trans destruyeran un mural hecho en honor a los niños víctimas del síndrome de bebé sacudido.

El 14 de julio, comenzaron a circular imágenes por Twitter que mostraban a una obra de arte callejero dedicada a los infantes fallecidos por traumatismos craneales abusivos, (también conocido como “síndrome del bebé sacudido” SBS), que había sido intencionalmente vandalizada. El mural fue hecho usando el método de collage e incluía los nombres y las edades de 14 bebés que habían muerto debido a sus lesiones. La mayoría de los bebes tenían entre 1 y 13 meses.

En referencia a los nombres y las edades de los niños, el mural también incluía estas palabras: “Todos los días en Francia, los bebés son sacudidos y asesinados por quienes se suponía que tenían que cuidarlos”.

Según la Clínica Mayo, el síndrome del bebé sacudido es una forma de abuso infantil que “destruye las células cerebrales del niño y evita que su cerebro reciba el oxígeno necesario”.

El mural fue presentado el 10 de julio para un documental del canal SBS y se realizó con participación del grupo feminista francés L’Amazone.

El 14 de julio, la directora del próximo documental de SBS subió un video a YouTube en donde expresaba su “dolor e ira” por lo que le había sucedido al collage. Anne, una activista afiliada al Colectivo para la Abolición de la Pornografía y la Prostitución (CAPP), explicó que entrevistó a tres mujeres que pidieron la asistencia de L. ‘Amazone para poder crear un mural conmemorativo para sus bebés que fallecieron luego de sufrir traumas cerebrales por maltrato de sus compañeros masculinos quienes los sacudieron violentamente.  

“El collage fue destrozado. Literalmente destrozado”, dijo, señalando que su camarógrafa vivía cerca del mural y pudo captar a un hombre y una mujer destruyendo el monumento en la noche del 13 de julio. “Ella no disimuló y los encaró preguntándoles por qué estaban destruyendo un monumento hecho para recordar a los bebés fallecidos”.

Luego, la directora afirma que los vándalos le respondieron a su camarógrafa que el collage había sido creado por “feministas transfóbicas”.

“No les importó que este monumento fuera para madres en duelo. No les importa la memoria de esos bebés que murieron con un dolor insoportable… simplemente lo saquearon”.

L’Amazone es conocida por crear arte callejero en apoyo a varias causas feministas y, a menudo, organiza protestas y manifestaciones a favor de la abolición del comercio sexual y contra la violencia doméstica por todo lo largo y ancho del territorio francés.

 Si bien el collage no tenía relación alguna con la temática trans, las feministas creen que fue atacado simplemente porque L’Amazone estuvo involucrada en su creación, ya que el grupo defiende los derechos sexuales de las mujeres y, como resultado, a menudo, entra en conflicto con los activistas trans.

En el 2021, miembros de L’Amazone fueron atacadas por activistas trans y pro “trabajo sexual” mientras se manifestaban en contra del comercio sexual en la Place de la République en París. Según los informes, Antifa y varios otros grupos aparecieron en contraprotesta y comenzaron a lanzar insultos a las mujeres, llamándolas “putas” y “zorras”. Las feministas fueron violentadas y sus murales y carteles destruidos en un ataque sostenido que duró casi dos horas sin ninguna intervención policial.

Un ataque similar tuvo lugar en el 2022 durante el Día Internacional de la Mujer, cuando Marguerite Stern, una activista feminista conocida por crear conciencia sobre los feminicidios en Francia y fundadora de L’Amazone, compartió un video que mostraba a una manifestante feminista siendo agredida por un activista trans.

Un usuario de Twitter quien denunció los actos vandálicos en contra del collage de SBS, señaló en un hilo separado que esta no era la primera vez que los activistas trans atacaban a sitios no relacionados con las causas LGBT.

En el 2020, activistas trans franceses por via de Twitter se atribuyeron la autoría de la profanación de una placa localizada en un colegio que conmemoraba a los niños judíos que asistieron a dicha escuela primaria y luego fueron deportados y llevados a los campos de concentración Nazis.

Los activistas usaron aerosol para pintar encima del lema de la República Francesa, reemplazando “Fraternite” por “Adelphité”, una palabra “neutra en cuanto a género” que se entiende como “solidaridad” y que se ha vuelto muy popular entre los activistas queer franceses.

Declarando para Reduxx sobre los hechos de vandalismo, Désirée, representante de L’Amazone, dijo que estaba algo sorprendida por la destrucción del mural de SBS a las víctimas infantiles.

“Sé que los activistas trans nos odian… ¡pero esto se trataba de bebés!”  “Si hubiesen sido ellos quienes arreglaron este mural, nunca lo hubiéramos tocado. Hemos visto arte callejero que ellos han montado, y lo dejamos en paz”.

Désirée dice que presentar un informe policial sobre la destrucción del monumento no es una opción debido al hecho de que el mural en sí estaba técnicamente usando espacio público.

Ella señala que las madres que originalmente las contactaron para crear el mural ya expresaron su deseo de que sea reparado.

“Las madres estaban molestas, ¡Pero descubrimos que eran ellas las que nos estaban consolando! Nos dijeron ‘una vez que entierras a tu hijo, ya no le tienes miedo a nada’. Son increíbles. Tienen una resiliencia increíble”, elogiaba, afirmando que los esfuerzos de reparación ya están en proceso.

“Sabíamos que los activistas trans odiaban a las mujeres, pero ahora sabemos que también odian a los niños”, dijo Désirée, “No esperamos una disculpa, pero desearíamos que tuvieran la decencia de disculparse con las madres. Arrancar los nombres de sus hijos del mural fue como volver a quitárselos ”.

Désirée expresó su frustración con los principales medios de comunicación franceses y señala que muy pocos de los actos violentos o destructivos cometidos por el activísimo trans en los últimos meses han sido reseñados en los noticieros nacionales .

“Sería bueno que captaran el alcance de lo que estaba sucediendo y comenzaran a denunciarlo. Ninguna mujer merece ser acosada por creer en la realidad material. ¡Pero seguiremos luchando por los derechos de las mujeres y las niñas! Esta lucha es demasiado importante para que nos dejemos asustar por personas cuyo único drama en la vida es ser identificado erróneamente de género”.

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FRANCE: Trans Activists Destroy Feminist Mural to Infant Victims of Abusive Brain Trauma

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Anna Slatz
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Este articulo traducido ha sido publicado en nuestra sección en español.

Feminists are expressing outrage after a mural created in remembrance of the infant victims of shaken baby syndrome was destroyed by trans activists.

On July 14, pictures began circulating on Twitter showing street art dedicated to babies lost to abusive head trauma — also known as “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS) — that had been intentionally defaced. The mural was paper-based art plastered near a sidewalk creating a collage with the names and ages of 14 babies who had died as a result of the injury. Most of the infants were aged 1 to 13 months.

Above the children’s names and ages, the mural also read: “Every day in France, babies are shaken and killed by those who were supposed to take care of them.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, shaken baby syndrome is a form of child abuse that “destroys a child’s brain cells and prevents his or her brain from getting enough oxygen.”

The mural had been created on July 10 for a documentary on SBS and was made in affiliation with French feminist group L’Amazone.

On July 14, the director of the upcoming SBS documentary released a short YouTube video expressing “grief and anger” at what had happened to the collage. Anne, an activist affiliated with the Collective to Abolish Pornography and Prostitution (CAPP) explains that she had interviewed three women whose babies had passed away after experiencing brain trauma due to being shaken by male partners, and that the women had sought the assistance of L’Amazone to create the memorial mural.

“The collage was trashed. Literally trashed,” she says, noting that her camerawoman lived close to the mural, and had caught a male and female destroying the memorial on the night of July 13. “She didn’t [shy away], she went to go and ask them why they were destroying a memorial to the [deceased] babies.”

The director then states that her camerawoman was told by the vandals that the collage was created by “transphobic feminists.”

“They didn’t care that this memorial was for the grieving mothers. They don’t care about the memory of those babies who died in excruciating pain … they just ransacked it.”

L’Amazone is known for creating street art in support of various feminist causes and often organizes protests and demonstrations across France on issues related to sex trade abolition domestic violence.

While the collage had nothing to do with trans-related issues, feminists believe it was targeted simply due to the fact L’Amazone was involved in its creation, with the group advocating for women’s sex based rights and often coming into conflict with trans activists as a result.

In 2021, members of L’Amazone were attacked by pro-“sex work” and trans activists while demonstrating against the sex trade at the Place de la République in Paris. Antifa and various other groups reportedly turned up in counter-protest, and began screaming slurs at the women, calling them “whores” and “sluts.” The feminists were egged and had their murals and posters destroyed in a sustained attack that lasted almost two hours without police intervention.

A similar attack took place in 2022 on International Women’s Day, when  Marguerite Stern, a feminist activist known for raising awareness of femicides in France and founder of L’Amazone, shared a video depicting a feminist demonstrator being assaulted by a trans activist.

One Twitter user who called attention to the vandalization of the SBS collage noted in a separate thread that this was not the first time trans activists had targeted sites which had no relation to LGBT causes.

In 2020, French trans activists on Twitter claimed responsibility for the desecration of a plaque at an elementary school intended to commemorate the deportation of Jewish children who had once attended the school to Nazi concentration camps.

The activists had spray-painted over the motto of the French Republic, replacing “Fraternite” with “Adelphité” — a ‘gender neutral’ word for ‘solidarity’ that has become popular amongst French Queer activists.

Speaking to Reduxx on the vandalism, Désirée, a representative of L’Amazone, said she was somewhat shocked by the destruction of the mural to the infant victims of SBS.

“I know [trans activists] hate us… but this was about babies!” She says, “If they had been the ones who had put up this mural, we would have never touched it. We have seen [street-art] they have created, and we leave it alone.”

Désirée says filing a police report about the destruction of the memorial is not an option due to the fact the mural itself was technically using public space.

She notes that the mothers who had originally contacted them to create mural have already expressed they want to see it repaired.

“[The mothers] were upset, but we found they were the ones comforting us! They told us ‘once you have buried your child, you are no longer afraid of anything.’ They are amazing. They have incredible resilience,” she lauded, stating that re-creation efforts are already in the works.

“We knew trans activists hated women, but now we know they also hate children,” Désirée says, “We don’t expect an apology, but we wish they had the decency to apologize to the mothers. Ripping their children’s names from the wall was like taking them away all over again.”

Désirée expresses frustration with the French mainstream media, noting that few of the violent or destructive acts committed by trans activists in recent months have made it to national news.

“It would be good if they grasped the scope of what was happening and began to denounce it. No women deserves to be harassed because she believes in material reality. But we will continue to fight for the rights of women and girls! This fight is too important for us to let ourselves be frightened by people whose only drama in life is being misgendered.”

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EVENT: Feminists vs. The Law

By
Reduxx Team
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Reduxx is proud to announce our first-ever live Twitter Space intended to amplify the stories and struggles of two incredible feminist activists facing legal consequences for making factual statements.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Isabela Cêpa is a Brazilian feminist influencer well-known in Brazil for her advocacy on the issues of sexual and domestic violence. In June, Cêpa learned through news articles that she is being threatened with up to 25 years in prison after being charged with 5 counts of a hate-based crime for calling a trans-identified male politician a “man.” She still has no formal copy of the charges being levied against her. READ MORE

Christina Ellingsen is a Norwegian feminist and the head of Women’s Declaration International’s Norway branch. In May, Ellingsen learned she was being criminally investigated for tweets and comments she had made directed at a representative of trans activist group Foreningen FRI. Ellingsen’s charges are largely centered around her questioning why FRI promoted the incorrect belief that men could be lesbians. While police are still investigating, Ellingsen could face a prison sentence of up to 3 years if she is charged and found guilty. READ MORE

ABOUT THE EVENT

What: A live interview-style discussion ins which Isabela and Christina will provide insight into their legal cases and feminist activism.

When: Friday, July 22, at 3 p.m Central Standard Time [9 p.m London, 4 p.m Eastern, 1 p.m Pacific]

Where: The space will be available to listen in live on Twitter for users on both mobile and desktop. Simply navigate to our Twitter page at the time of the event for the link.

Q&A: Reduxx will be making an attempt to allow for a fixed-number of questions to be asked by the audience at the end of the live interview, but we ask you to keep in mind that both Isabela and Christina are in precarious legal positions, and may not be able to answer every question posed to them.

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Child Sex Abuse Dolls Are Being Made In The Likeness Of Real Children

By
Caitlin Roper
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Collective Shout campaigner Lyn Swanson Kennedy has uncovered troves of child sex abuse dolls on leading e-commerce platform Made-in-China. The dolls were modeled on the bodies of little girls, including toddlers, and the smallest was just under 3 feet tall.

At least one child sex abuse doll manufacturer on Made-in-China offered to customize dolls based on a customer-supplied photo of a child. In addition to customizable skin color, eye color, hair, foot function and genitalia options – all of which is not uncommon – the seller assured potential buyers that their “professional doll mould team” could accommodate their request for a doll made in the likeness of a specific girl. 

Lyn exposed Made-in-China on Twitter, and as a result of the backlash, the child sex abuse doll listings have since been removed. But the question still remains of how many of these dolls were modeled on actual girls?

While researching the trade in sex dolls, I have documented a number of doll manufacturers who not only customize dolls, but encourage potential buyers to send in a photo of the woman or child they want their doll to resemble. I’ve read the accounts of women who have discovered sex dolls made in their likeness (sometimes even given their name, too). I’ve witnessed conversations on pedophile forums where men discuss their use of dolls modeled on girls in their care. 

The customization of child sex abuse dolls in the likeness of specific girls poses a serious threat. 

In 2020, Child Rescue Coalition published the account of an American mother named Terri whose eight-year-old daughter Kat, a child model and pageant contestant, had her likeness stolen and turned into a child sex abuse doll. Terri had received images of the doll sold on Amazon from a friend via a message on Facebook, and when she opened them she was shocked to discover they looked like her daughter. One picture appeared to recreate a photo she had shared to a Facebook group.

A photograph of Terri’s 8-year-old daughter Kat was used to produce a child sex abuse doll in her likeness.

Terri told Child Rescue Coalition that the doll in the image had the same facial features and pose as her daughter, that it was dressed in the same sweatshirt and socks, and was photographed alongside a stuffed animal as seen in the original image. 

“I read the message from my friend and saw the image, and I instantly started to cry uncontrollably. I was completely overwhelmed with a mix of emotions that I’ve never felt before… I couldn’t imagine that some sicko would use my daughter’s photo to create something so ugly and evil to be used for abuse by pedophiles.”

An investigation spearheaded by Melinda Liszewski of Collective Shout exposed Etsy sellers producing child sex abuse dolls modelled on actual children. When Liszewski posed as a potential buyer, one seller told her a certain doll was modelled on a 14-year-old Instagram model.

Liszewski then sent the seller computer-generated images of non-existing girls and asked the seller if they could produce dolls made in their likeness, to which the seller agreed.

Pedophiles are celebrating the prospect of sex dolls and robots modelled on specific children. One participant on a 4Chan board where users were exchanging images of little girls even expressed his desire for a sex robot made in the likeness of a specific child model on Instagram.

In a thread on a separate pedophile forum, child sex abuse doll manufacturer and creator of The Doll Orphanage, Bram Joosten, quoted a potential buyer $6,000 to produce a sex doll modeled on photos of a specific little girl. “Babies [and] toddlers are just so chubby I can’t help but melt,” the customer gushed.

Joosten was also found to be selling explicitly realistic dolls of babies which came complete with penetrable genitals.

Despite what doll advocates, pedophiles and their sympathizers claim, creating replica children for male sexual pleasure is not a victimless industry.

Child sex abuse dolls facilitate a new form of technologically-mediated child sexual abuse, one where men can enact their fantasies of rape, abuse and torture of specific children using customized dolls.

Customizable child sex abuse dolls allow men to enact their fantasies of raping and abusing children despite physical distance – to violate children without ever having access to them, without even knowing them or having ever come into contact with them. Pedophiles can download photos of girls shared on social media, or take a photo of a child in a public place with their smartphone, and commission a sex doll in their likeness.

While a few countries and states have implemented laws against child sex abuse dolls, there is still a long way to go.

Uniform, global laws criminalizing the manufacturing and import of child sex abuse dolls do not currently exist, and some pedophile-sympathetic groups like Prostasia have made headway campaigning on the concept that child sex dolls are “harmless” and could even provide a “therapeutic” outlet for pedophiles.

Disturbingly, an academic who agreed with Prostasia’s ideas on providing pedophiles “fantasy outlets” for their abusive desires was just hired at the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, demonstrating just how widespread the push for normalization has become.

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Trans-Identified Male Killed Dog Before Murdering Female Patient At Psych Ward

By
Genevieve Gluck
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New details have emerged in the disturbing case of a trans-identified male who brutally murdered a woman in a psychiatric ward in Haar, Germany.

The 32-year old male suspect had slaughtered his pet dog the day he was admitted to the psychiatric ward at Isar-Amper-Klinikum in Haar, Germany, where he would go on to murder a female patient less than 24 hours later.

The man has not been identified by name, but local media has revealed he is from Brazil. The homicide took place on the night of May 30 at a psychiatric ward where he had just been provided a room without any appropriate restrictions, despite warnings from authorities that he posed a serious threat to others.

Police spokesman Marc Aigner told the press that officers had detained the suspect in Munich’s old town that evening after he was discovered in an “exceptional mental situation,” and subsequently declared him a danger to himself and others. He was then sent to the psychiatric facility where he would commit the murder the next day.

Stephan Beer, head of the homicide division for the police force, described the suspect by saying, “She is male in terms of sex, [and] female in [gender] appearance.”

While the investigation is still underway, police reports indicate that the night of the murder, the killer beat the victim, a 40-year-old woman from Hungary, over the head with an iron bar more than 20 times. He then placed mattresses and clothes on the woman’s body and set it ablaze.

The trans-identified male was found near the fire, with an iron rod in one hand and a lighter in the other. According to the Munich police, the fire department was notified of a fire at the hospital at approximately 10 a.m. The body of the victim was discovered as the flames were being extinguished, on the morning of May 31.

An article published by local media outlet the Munich Merkur revealed that the suspect was known to the police, having been investigated for assault four times prior to the homicide.

Yet the psychiatric clinic ignored a warning from law enforcement and the health department and decided that there was “no indication of a current risk,” and did not implement any procedures to prevent the male contact with any other patients in the hospital.

According to the authorities in the Upper Bavaria district, which is responsible for the hospital, patients at the facility are not usually restricted to their own accommodations and can about move freely on the ward.

It is currently not known where the suspect is being held, and no details on potential charges have been released by police as the investigation is still ongoing.

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World Health Organization: “Sex is Not Limited to Male or Female”

By
Genevieve Gluck
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it will be updating a “widely-used gender mainstreaming manual” to include the notion that “gender identity exists on a continuum” and that even biological sex “is not limited to male or female.”

According to a notice posted to the Organization’s official website on July 6, revisions to the Gender mainstreaming for health managers: a practical approach will include “expanding on the concept of intersectionality” to reflect “new scientific evidence and conceptual progress on gender.”

Updates to guidelines will be “going beyond binary approaches to gender,” which the UN’s leading health body states will be integrated into their “approaches” and work internationally.

While it is unclear how, precisely, the guidelines will be implemented, women’s rights advocates have expressed concern that it will impact sex-based healthcare services under The WHO’s guidance. The Organization is responsible for collecting and tracking global health statistics and trends, and has close partnerships in many developing countries where women and girls experience the largest burdens to safe, appropriate healthcare.

Speaking with Reduxx on the upcoming changes, evolutionary biologist Colin Wright condemned the WHO’s notice as setting a confusing and dangerous precedent. Wright is the Founding Editor of Reality’s Last Stand, a Substack-based publication where news and information on the science of sex differences is discussed.

“I think it is really dangerous that gender ideology and sex spectrum pseudoscience has infected a global health body. The consequences of distorting reality in medicine can have extremely disastrous consequences,” Wright says.

“The sex binary reflects a fundamental truth of not only humans, but mammals generally. Countless scientific reviews support the need to include sex as a binary variable in medicine, and outline the consequences of not doing so.”

In an article published earlier this year, researchers found that even so-called “gender neutral” language in maternal healthcare had “consequences” that would result in “serious implications for women and children.”

Wright explains that he is currently unclear as to what evidence or “conceptual progress” on biological sex that WHO is referring to, but guesses it may have something to do with persons born with disorders of sexual development (DSDs) — also known as “intersex” people. While trans activists have recently begun pushing DSDs as evidence that sex is not binary, Wright cautions against that argument.

“The term ‘intersex’ does not refer to a third sex, but is rather an umbrella term for a range of developmental conditions that result in sexually ambiguous genitalia. For there to be more than two sexes, there would need to be another type of sex cell beyond sperm or ova that one’s primary reproductive anatomy can be organized around, through development, to produce.”

Wright continues: “Medical experts at the WHO should be intimately aware of this. And if they aren’t aware, that seriously calls into question the expertise of the WHO’s leadership. But if they are aware, that’s perhaps even more troubling because it means they stayed silent or stepped aside out of fear and have allowed activists to run the show. Both scenarios are incredibly troubling to consider.”

This is not the first time the WHO has shown signs of adhering to an ideological standpoint, rather than fact-based science.

In 2018, the WHO updated the 11th revision of the International Classifications of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) after heeding the demands of the Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity (FRI). The FRI’s push was intended to have the WHO officially depathologize fetishism, sadomasochism, and fetishistic transvestitism by removing them from the ICD.

This most recent update to WHO’s ICD guidelines was also lobbied for with the assistance of Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis, a Professor of Gender Development and Psychopathology at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Amsterdam University.

Cohen-Kettenis was partially responsible for the development of the “Dutch Protocol,” a euphemism that refers to the administration of drugs to halt a child’s puberty.

The WHO has also drawn criticism in the past for crafting policies which appeared to undermine the equality of the sexes. In 2016, journalist Victoria Smith called out a statement by WHO which declared that every individual — including single men — had “the right” to reproduce.

“All feminists — and indeed anyone serious about tackling patriarchy at the root — should be deeply concerned about the World Health Organization’s new definition of infertility,” Smith wrote in an article for The New Statesman at the time.

The standard suggested by WHO indicated that the inability to either find a suitable sexual partner, or the lack of sexual relationships which could achieve conception, could be considered a disability equal to infertility.

Declaring it a ‘right’ also implied that measures must always be available to provide equity for those who could not reproduce, such as maintaining the legality of surrogacy — an industry many feminists challenge the legitimacy of on the basis that it dehumanizes women.

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