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Adult Retailer Selling “Amber Heard” Themed Toy Based on Sexual Assault Testimony

By
Shay Woulahan
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An “adult fantasy toy” retailer is under fire after posting an advertisement for an “Amber Heard” themed dildo inspired by her sexual assault testimony.

On June 9, Twisted Fantasies, a Florida-based adult retailer, posted advertisements across their social media accounts for a new sex toy called “Amber’s Mark Liquor Bottle Dildo.” The item was shared on Twitter with a description inviting customers to “Reach a new Depp-th.”

The sex toy was made in direct copy of testimony Heard had given while on trial that her former husband, actor Johnny Depp, had sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle during a trip to Australia in March 2015.

Almost immediately, the company was met with responses from outraged netizens uniformly expressing disgust at the product. At the time of this article’s publishing, the tweet has only 33 ‘likes’ but has wracked up over 250 replies and 392 primarily-negative quote tweets.

“THIS is why making a woman testify about sexual assault, live, in front of the whole world was a crime against humanity. Whether you believe Amber or not, many people have been raped with bottles. To make fun of woman’s story of being raped by a bottle is an insult to them all” one user wrote in the comment section.

“I hope this puts you out of business,” another replied to the post.

Some even stated that they had intended to purchase from the company but had cancelled their orders in response to the post.

On Instagram, the reactions were no different, as most found the item distasteful and disrespectful.

“Women get raped with bottles. Women get found murdered with bottles inside them. Wtf is wrong with you.” stated one user.

Twisted Fantasies is an independent sex toy shop registered in Florida. The company was incorporated in May 2021, and specializes in the sale of a number of bestiality-themed sex toys.

Addressing the rapid-fire backlash, Twisted Fantasies posted a statement on their Twitter account, attempting to defer responsibility to Amber Heard. The company apologized if any survivors of sexual assault found the product triggering, but stated they will still stand by it as a “tongue [in] cheek way to support Johnny Depp.”

In a follow up statement to the Daily Dot, the company stated they were in the process of changing the product’s name and removing all references to the court case.

“If the product triggers sensitivities for people that have gone through sexual violence and personally related to Amber’s claims we apologize tremendously,” they continued.

Speaking with Reduxx, Jaimi Shrive expressed that this incident is part of a wider trend of attitudes towards female victims of sexual abuse.

“We’ve seen many businesses capitalize on Amber Heard’s abuse, and I think this is the most symbolic of how society actually feel about male sexual violence against women,” Shrive says, “It is simultaneously sexualized, trivialized, and denied.” Shrive said.

Shrive is Head of Research & Development at VictimFocus, an organization which provides trauma-informed training with the aim of supporting victims of abuse, violence, and trauma across the globe.

“This kind of cognitive dissonance thrives in a patriarchal, capitalist world where sexual violence conviction rates remain at an all time low,” Shrive asserted, continuing that a 2010 study found that pornography depicted violence against women in 80% of videos. “In Amber Heard’s case, her disclosure [has been] ridiculed to the point a sex toy company released a dildo in the form of the weapon she was assaulted with.”

Shrive believes that the Depp-Heard trial “was not publicly broadcast by accident,” and has played a direct role in feeding into harmful views, myths, and attitudes about violence against women that are already widespread.

“Amber Heard has become a personification of this,” Shrive says, “One day we will look back not only on the injustice she has faced, but also on the abhorrent part society has played in furthering her abuse.”

Depp had sued Heard for $50 million over liable after Heard had written an op-ed in The Washington Post titled: “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.”

Heard was found guilty of defamation for this statement despite it not directly naming her ex-husband. During the trial, two other statements were found to have defamed Depp, neither of which named him: “Then two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out,” and, “I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.”

Heard won one counter claim against Depp, but Jurors awarded him $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Heard plans to appeal the verdict.

Depp had previously lost a similar defamation case against UK-based tabloid The Sun in 2020 after the outlet had labelled him a “wife beater.” The judge in the case had found that 12 out of the 14 incidents of domestic violence had occurred, meaning the “wife beater” claim by The Sun was not defamation.

“Taking all the evidence together, I accept that [Heard] was the victim of sustained and multiple assaults by Mr. Depp in Australia,” said the Judge at the time.

Depp had lost permission to appeal the verdict, with a judge refusing his application and stating that his appeal had “no real prospect of success.”

Heard’s former personal assistant, Kate James, has previously accused Heard of stealing her “rape survival story” in 2020 after Depp lost his libel case to The Sun. However, many have noted that the two sexual assault narratives differ greatly.

Reacting to the controversial post by Twisted Fantasies, Journalist Eve Barlow, a close friend of Heard’s, responded to the post saying “Rape is not sexy.”

Professor at the Stanford Law School, Michelle Dauber also condemned the post calling it “highly offensive.” Both Barlow and Dauber were outspoken in support of Heard during the defamation trial and received harassment as a result from Depp supporters. Barlow described herself as a victim of “online terrorism.”

Dauber posted on her twitter account that a supporter of Depp had created a fake account for the professor’s deceased daughter to terrorize her.

Dauber also said: “[I have received] dozens of harassing calls from men screaming obscenities because I criticized the conduct of the trial and the verdict against Amber Heard.”

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Women Being ‘Punished’ For Complaining About Male Transfers: Inmate in California Women’s Prison

By
Anna Slatz
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An inmate at the Central California Women’s Facility has come forward to reveal the disturbing ways in which they say female inmates are being ‘punished’ for expressing concerns about the trans-identified males flooding into the prison under SB-132.

“Under SB 132, these ‘trans-predators’ as I call them… they are just here to try and have sex with the women,” Sagal Sadiq wrote in a recent legal statement, “Even if it is true that they are at risk of violence in a men’s prison, this is just trading one victim set for another.”

Sadiq, a refugee from Somalia, is biologically female but identifies as a transgender man. But despite that, Sadiq has been vocal in opposing SB-132 — also known as the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act.

The bill went into effect in January of 2021, and allowed male inmates to seek transfer to women’s prisons on the basis of self-declared gender identity. Under the law, male inmates do not have to be on hormones, have surgery, be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, or even have legal documents stating they have a transgender status in order to request transfer. Since the policy was implemented, over 300 male inmates have applied to be moved into California’s female prisons, and only a scant handful have been denied so far.

In May, Sadiq penned a sworn declaration attesting to the ways in which conditions have changed in the prison since the arrival of an ever-growing male inmate population. The declaration was included as just one of many provided to Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) in support of their lawsuit agains the state of California on behalf of four female inmates who experienced civil rights infringements or physical violations by trans-identified male arrivals.

In the declaration, Sadiq outlined a disturbing incident in which an attempt to report a trans-identified male who had committed an act of sexual harassment against a female inmate was met with what Sadiq felt was penalization from the prison.

“I submitted a [formal complaint] to housing staff. The officer asked me why I was documenting it and I said this behavior was inappropriate and was I believed that it was going to escalate.” Sadiq described the trans-identified male involved in the incident as being over 6-feet tall, having a muscular build, and multiple facial tattoos.

“Sometime after this, this predator I reported decided to retaliate against me. We were in the kitchen and he ‘shoulder-checked’ me, which means when he walked by me he hit me with his shoulder super hard … in an effort to bully me and dissuade me from carrying on with the [grievance] I had filed,” Sadiq says.

Shortly after the incident; Sadiq, the victim of the harassment, and a third female inmate associated with the WoLF lawsuit were placed into administrative segregation — a form of solitary confinement.

“We were thoroughly frisked and put in a cage. I felt I was being kidnapped,” Sadiq says, “They claimed that it was for our protection, but if they really wanted to protect us they would address the predatory behavior of this man, not lock up the whistleblowers.”

After being placed in segregation, Sadiq learned staff had plans to move them to a new yard upon release. The move would have caused the inmates to be distanced from the lifestyles and surroundings they had become accustomed to.

In protest, Sadiq went on a 28-day-long hunger strike, and was ultimately hospitalized after experiencing the physical impacts of starvation.

“I wanted my life back – the same yard, my same job. I wanted an actual investigation into my reports,” Sadiq says, claiming some of the documents associated with the incident and report were destroyed. “I did not know how long they were going to let me starve, but in the end I ended up back on my yard with my job back. However, the women I was taken away with are not so lucky.”

In an interview with Reduxx on the declaration, Sadiq stated that the incident was one of the institution effectively punishing women for coming forward with reports of discomfort, harassment, or other concerns about the male transfers.

“When women complain [or] when they feel threatened … they are just moved. From bed to bed, room to room, and eventually yard to yard. And if you complain a little bit too long … you are put ‘in jail’ [solitary confinement].”

Sadiq says prison officials claimed the administrative segregation was for their “own safety,” but insists that is untrue and just an excuse to mask the true purpose of the confinement serving as a “warning” to other inmates against filing their own complaints.

“We insisted long and hard that we were not in danger – we [said to officials] that we were all fine, and told them that they were ripping us away from the community that we know and the meager little prison lives that we built,” Sadiq said, continuing: “Especially because we were involved in [the complaint], I believe this was done to dissuade others from going down that same road — say nothing, stay silent or this may or may not happen to you.”

Speaking to Reduxx, Sadiq noted that many women in the prison were the victims of sexual violence, and that the presence of intact males was not conducive to an environment of rehabilitation for them.

“For me, as an African refugee and civil war survivor – this triggers all my PTSD,” Sadiq says, “You know what happens to women in wars and situations of strife… I don’t want to see that mirrored here. I came to America to be safe. To see this happening, even on a minor level, to my sisters here is very triggering to me.”

According to women’s rights advocacy campaign Keep Prisons Single Sex USA, 33.8% of trans-identified male inmates in the state of California are registered sex offenders. While speaking with Reduxx, Sadiq slammed SB-132 as providing no proper assessment of the male inmates prior to being sent into the women’s estate, and called them ‘trans-predators.’

“Nobody thought too far into the process of how these ‘trans women’ are being vetted. You can’t just self-declare when you look like a 400-pound linebacker. These people clearly are not [transgender], they’re here for other reasons,” Sadiq says, “But because SB-132 is the law, everyone has a hands-off approach.”

While SB-132 does not specify anything with respect to the biological sex of inmates, no trans-identified females have yet been transferred to men’s institutions despite there being a handful of requests. Sadiq, who was born female but identifies as a man, firmly believes that sexist dynamics are at play in the stark difference in treatment of trans-identified males and females under the policy.

“SB-132 is to protect trans rights, but trans men don’t have these rights. The patriarchy is protecting itself. You’re a biological woman? Stay in your place. You have no right to demand anything. But if you’re a biological man, you can be whatever you want. It’s encouraged. If you want to [be moved] here to prey on these females — who cares?”

While communicating with Reduxx, Sadiq also expressed that “most staff and even some in administration” have concerns about SB-132, but were “afraid” of voicing their opinion in the event they became party to the lawsuit.

“All humans have inherent rights imbued within us, and the idea that a new law was created not to protect, but to elevate a class of individuals above an entire gender, serves only to marginalize women,” Sadiq says.

Sadiq’s sworn declaration on the conditions at CCWF was included as part of Women’s Liberation Front’s response to the state of California’s motion to dismiss their civil rights suit, filed on May 31.

According to WoLF, SB-132 is “dangerous and inhumane,” and mounting evidence is being gathered to support their claims that it is leaving female inmates in a vulnerable position. As part of their suit, four incarcerated women are involved as plaintiffs — Janine Chandler, Krystal Gonzales, Tomiekia Johnson, and Nadia Romero. Romero and Chandler are both opposing the law on the premise of religious objection, one of the women being a devout Muslim.

Johnson, a survivor of domestic violence who was imprisoned after killing her abuser, says she had been placed in a cell with a “vicious, dangerous biological male inmate.” But perhaps most shockingly, plaintiff Gonzales describes that she had been sexually assaulted by a male inmate who had been transferred to her facility after SB-132 was introduced.

Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a proposal to intervene in the suit in defense of SB-132, allegedly out of concern the state of California was not going to adequately represent trans inmate’s interests in the courts and would put the self-identification law at risk. Within their filing, the ACLU made claims such as that males and females have no biological, reproductive, or hormonal differences, and that a male inmate’s criminal history should not be taken into consideration when assessing them for transfer — even if they were violent sex offenders.

On May 31, WoLF provided Reduxx a declaration from a female inmate who witnessed the aftermath of what she said was a sexual assault perpetrated by a trans-identified male against a female inmate at CCWF.

In the declaration, incarcerated woman Mimi Le stated Jonathan Robertson — a trans-identified male once championed as a victim of transphobic policy by activist organizations — screamed at the female inmates: “I’ll rape you … there’s nothing you b*tches can do about it.”

Today, the state of California filed a motion to strike all of the declarations that had been submitted as part of WoLF’s suit, including that which was written by Sadiq. Other declarations the state is looking to dismiss included one by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright on biological differences between males and females, one by Criminologist Callie Burnt on sex differences in crime, and one by ‘trailblazing’ trans activist Michelle Norsworthy.

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Reclusas son ‘castigadas’ por autoridades penitenciarias luego de denunciar a prisioneros transgénero con tendencias violentas

By
Anna Slatz
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Una reclusa del Centro de Mujeres de California Central ha presentado un testimonio revelador sobre las inquietantes medidas punitivas dirigidas en contra de las privadas de libertad por expresar su rechazo a los hombres transidentificados que están inundando la prisión bajo la ley SB-132.

“Según la SB 132, estos ‘trans-depredadores’, como los llamo… solo están aquí para intentar tener sexo con las mujeres”, escribió Sadiq en una reciente declaración legal , “incluso si fuera cierto que corren peligro de ser violentados en una prisión para hombres, esto es simplemente intercambiar una víctima por otra”.

Sadiq, es una mujer biológica y refugiada Somalí que se identifica como hombre transgénero. Pero a pesar de su condición, se ha manifestado en contra de la SB-132, también conocida como Ley de Respeto, Agencia y Dignidad Transgénero.

El proyecto de ley entró en vigencia en enero del 2021 y permitió que los reclusos masculinos solicitaran el traslado a prisiones de mujeres sobre la base de la identidad de género autodeclarada. Según la ley, los reclusos varones no tienen que recibir hormonas, someterse a cirugías, ser diagnosticados con disforia de género ni incluso poseer documentos legales que indiquen que tienen un estado transgénero para poder solicitar la transferencia. Desde que se implementó esta política, más de 300 presos varones han solicitado el traslado a prisiones femeninas de California, la gran mayoría recibiendo el visto bueno.

Durante el mes mayo, Sadiq redactó una declaración jurada en donde detalló las formas en que  las condiciones en la prisión han desmejorado a partir de la llegada de la población masculina que va en aumento. Su declaración se incluyó junto a muchas otras que fueron proporcionadas al Frente de Liberación de la Mujer (WoLF) en apoyo a su demanda en contra del estado de California en nombre de cuatro reclusas que fueron víctimas de abuso de poder en detrimento de sus derechos civiles y agresiones sexuales por parte de hombres identificados como trans.

En la declaración, Sadiq describió un incidente inquietante en donde su intento de denuncia contra un acto de acoso sexual hacia una compañera de cárcel por parte de un hombre identificado como trans terminó con una penalización en su contra.

“Presenté una queja formal al personal de vivienda. El oficial me preguntó por qué la estaba introduciendo y le dije que este comportamiento era inapropiado y que creía que  iba a empeorar”. Sadiq describió al hombre trans identificado involucrado en el incidente como de estatura superior a los 6 pies de alto, de constitución musculosa y múltiples tatuajes faciales.

“Algún tiempo después de esto, ese depredador al que denuncié decidió tomar represalias en mi contra. Estábamos en la cocina y me ‘revisó el hombro’, lo que significa que cuando pasó al lado mío me golpeó con fuerza usando el hombro… en un esfuerzo por intimidarme y disuadirme de continuar con la queja que había presentado,” dijo Sadiq.

Poco tiempo después del incidente; Sadiq, la víctima de acoso, y una tercera reclusa asociada con la demanda de WoLF fueron puestas en segregación administrativa, una forma de confinamiento solitario.

“Nos revisaron minuciosamente y nos pusieron en una jaula. Sentí que me estaban secuestrando”, dijo Sadiq. “Nos aseguraban que era para nuestra protección, pero si realmente querían protegernos, tomarían medidas frente a este hombre y su comportamiento depredador envés de encerrar a las denunciantes”.

Después de ser colocada en segregación, Sadiq se enteró de que el personal tenía planes de trasladarlas a un nuevo patio al momento de ser liberadas. La medida provocaría que las reclusas se distanciaran del estilo de vida y el entorno al cual se habían acostumbrado.

En protesta, Sadiq inició una huelga de hambre de 28 días y finalmente fue hospitalizada después de soportar los efectos dañinos del hambre.

“Quería recuperar mi vida: el mismo jardín, el mismo trabajo. Quería que se hiciera una verdadera investigación sobre mis informes”, dijo Sadiq, alegando que algunos de los documentos asociados con el incidente y el informe fueron destruidos. “No sabía por cuánto tiempo me dejarían morir de hambre, pero al final terminé de regreso en mi patio y con mi trabajo. Sin embargo, las mujeres que estaban conmigo no gozaron de tanta suerte”.

En una entrevista para Reduxx , Sadiq declaró que el incidente fue una muestra efectiva de como la institución castiga a las mujeres por presentar informes de incomodidad, acoso u otras quejas relacionadas con los hombres transferidos.

“Cuando las mujeres se quejan o se sienten amenazadas… simplemente las reubican. De cama en cama, de habitación en habitación y, finalmente, de patio a patio. Y si te quejas demasiado… te llevan ‘a la cárcel’ [confinamiento solitario]”.

Sadiq agrega que los funcionarios de la prisión afirman que la segregación administrativa era para su “propia seguridad”, pero ella insiste que se trata de una falsedad y solo es una excusa para enmascarar el verdadero propósito del confinamiento como una “advertencia” para otras reclusas que quisieran presentar sus propias denuncias.

“Por largo tiempo Insistimos en que no nos encontrábamos en ningún peligro;  le aclaramos a los funcionarios que todas estábamos bien y que nos estaban arrancando de la única comunidad que conocíamos y de la pequeña y escasa vida de prisioneras que habíamos construido. dijo Sadiq, y agregó: “Especialmente porque estuvimos involucradas en la denuncia, creo que esto se hizo para disuadir a otras de seguir nuestro ejemplo: no digas nada, quédate en silencio o esto te podría suceder a ti, depende de lo que hagas”.

Compartiendo con Reduxx, Sadiq señaló que muchas mujeres en la prisión fueron víctimas de violencia sexual y que la presencia de hombres con sus partes intactas imposibilitaba que este fuera un entorno de rehabilitación para ellas.

“Para mí, como refugiada africana y sobreviviente de una guerra civil, esto desencadena todo mi trastorno de estrés postraumático”, afirmó Sadiq, “Ya sabes lo que les sucede a las mujeres en las guerras y situaciones de conflicto… No quiero que esto se repita aquí. Vine a Estados Unidos para estar a salvo. Ver que esto le esta sucediendo a mis hermanas , sin importar que sea a escala menor,  es muy angustiante para mí”.

Según la campaña de defensa de los derechos de la mujer Keep Prisons Single Sex USA, el 33,8 % de los reclusos varones identificados como transgénero en el estado de California son delincuentes sexuales registrados. Durante la conversación con Reduxx, Sadiq criticó la SB-132 por no proporcionar una evaluación adecuada de los reclusos masculinos antes de ser enviados a la sede femenina, y los llamó “trans-depredadores”.

“Nadie invirtió mucho tiempo pensando en el proceso de exanimación para estas ‘mujeres trans’. No puedes simplemente autodeclararte de un género cuando luces como una mole de 400 libras. Estas personas claramente no son transgénero, están aquí por otras razones”, afirmó Sadiq, “pero debido a que la SB-132 es ley, todos tienen un enfoque de no intervención”.

Si bien la SB-132 no especifica nada con respecto al sexo biológico de los reclusos, aún no se ha transferido a ninguna mujer identificada como trans a instituciones para hombres a pesar de que hubo algunas solicitudes. Sadiq, que nació mujer pero se identifica como hombre, cree firmemente que la dinámica sexista está presente en la marcada diferencia de trato entre hombres y mujeres identificados como trans a la hora de cumplir con los lineamientos de esta ley.

“La SB-132 esta para proteger los derechos trans, pero los hombres trans no tienen estos derechos. El patriarcado se está protegiendo. ¿Eres una mujer biológica? Quédate en tu lugar. No tienes derecho a exigir nada. Pero si eres un hombre biológico, puedes ser lo que quieras. Se te alienta. Si quieres se enviado aquí para aprovecharte de estas hembras, ¿A quién le importa?

Durante su entrevista con Reduxx, Sadiq también expresó que “la mayoría del personal e incluso algunos en la administración” tienen dudas sobre la SB-132, pero tenían “miedo” a expresar su opinión en caso de que se les incluyera en la demanda.

“Todos los humanos tenemos derechos inviolables y esenciales, y la idea de crear una nueva ley no para proteger, sino para elevar a una clase de individuos por encima de todo un género, solo sirve para marginar a las mujeres”, explicó Sadiq.

La declaración jurada de Sadiq que describe las condiciones en el CCWF se incluyó como parte de la respuesta del Frente de Liberación de la Mujer a la moción del estado de California para desestimar su demanda por derechos civiles, presentada el pasado 31 de mayo.

Según WoLF, la SB-132 es “peligrosa e inhumana”, y se está recopilando cada vez más evidencia para respaldar sus afirmaciones de que está dejando a las reclusas en una posición de vulnerabilidad. Como parte de su demanda, cuatro mujeres encarceladas están involucradas como demandantes: Janine Chandler, Krystal Gonzales, Tomiekia Johnson y Nadia Romero. Romero y Chandler se oponen a la ley bajo la premisa de la objeción religiosa, ya que una de las mujeres es musulmana practicante.

Johnson, una sobreviviente de violencia doméstica que fue encarcelada luego de matar a su abusador, dijo que la colocaron en una celda junto con un “recluso vicioso y peligroso”. Pero quizás lo más sorprendente es la demandante Gonzales que describe como terminó siendo agredida sexualmente por un recluso que fue trasladado a su instalación luego de que se comenzara a aplicar la SB-132.

El mes pasado, la Unión Estadounidense de Libertades Civiles (ACLU, por sus siglas en inglés) presentó una propuesta para intervenir en la demanda en defensa de la SB-132, supuestamente debido a su preocupación de que el estado de California no representaría adecuadamente los intereses de los reclusos trans en los tribunales y pondría a la Ley de autoidentificación en riesgo. Dentro de su presentación, la ACLU fijó posiciones como la de negar que los hombres y las mujeres tenían diferencias biológicas, reproductivas u hormonales entre sí, y que los antecedentes penales de un recluso masculino no debían ser tomados en cuenta a la hora de evaluarlos para una posible transferencia, incluso si se tratase de delincuentes sexuales violentos. .

El 31 de mayo, WoLF proporcionó a Reduxx una declaración de una reclusa que asegura haber sido testigo de las consecuencias de lo que describe como una agresión sexual a una prisionera del CCWF por parte un hombre identificado como trans.

En la declaración, Mimi una mujer bajo condena afirma que Jonathan Robertson, un hombre identificado como trans, otroramente catalogado como víctima de políticas transfóbicas por parte organizaciones activistas— le gritó a las reclusas: “Las violaré… no hay nada que ustedes puedan hacer al respecto, perras”.

Hoy, el estado de California presentó una moción para anular todas las declaraciones que se habían presentado como parte de la demanda de WoLF, incluida la que fue hecha por Sadiq. Otras declaraciones que el estado busca descartar incluyen una del biólogo evolutivo Colin Wright sobre las diferencias biológicas entre hombres y mujeres, una de la criminóloga Callie Burnt sobre las diferencias sexuales en el crimen y otra de el activista trans ‘pionero’ Michelle Norsworthy.

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Académico “queer” busca que la pedofilia se enseñe en los salones de clase como manifestación natural de la sexualidad humana

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Un profesor de Ética de la Universidad Metropolitana de Oslo Noruega ha llamado a legalizar la pornografía infantil generada por IA, afirmando que la pedofilia debe verse como una sexualidad innata y deber ser desestigmatizada.

Ole Martin Moen, un hombre gay de identidad “queer”, que  actualmente se desempeña como miembro del consejo asesor de la Organización de Pacientes para la Incongruencia de Género (PKI) de Noruega, un grupo político de presión social en pro de los derechos trans. Según su sitio web oficial, la misión del PKI es brindar el “tratamiento de afirmación de género” a toda persona “independientemente de factores como la identidad no binaria, la práctica sexual o tener otro diagnóstico”. Moen también se ha desempeñado como consejero académico en Civita, el grupo de expertos liberales más grande de Noruega, desde el 2015.

Recientemente, Moen condenó Christina Ellingsen, una feminista noruega que se enfrenta a una investigación policial y una posible sentencia de tres años de prisión por tuits en los que afirmó que los hombres no pueden ser lesbianas.

Moen le ha dado seguimiento a la cuenta de Twitter de Women’s Declaration International Norway, dejando afirmaciones falsas sobre la naturaleza de la investigación contra Ellingsen.

Pero aunque Moen cree que la posición que mantiene Ellingsen en cuanto la ideología transgénero la hace merecedora de un enjuiciamiento penal, su propio historial académico probablemente se consideraría mucho más perturbador para la persona promedio.

“La pedofilia es mala. Pero, ¿qué tan mala es? ¿Y de qué manera y por qué razones es mala? Moen escribió en un artículo del 2015 titulado “La ética de la pedofilia“, que luego se volvió a publicaren The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy en el 2018, un libro de texto de amplia circulación universidades a nivel mundial.

“En este documento se argumenta que la pedofilia es mala solo porque, y solo en la medida en que causa daño a los niños, y que la pedofilia en sí misma, así como las expresiones y prácticas pedófilas que no causan daño a los niños, son moralmente buenas. ”, dice el resumen.

Moen detalla los argumentos a favor y en contra de las “relaciones sexuales adulto-niño” antes de llegar a la conclusión de que “el sexo adulto-niño no se puede clasificar como categóricamente  dañino”, pero puede resultar en “riesgos” de que los niños salgan lastimados. Ofrece una rápida desaprobación de las relaciones sexuales con penetración anal entre adultos y niños, pero continúa haciendo declaraciones en defensa de la pedofilia como orientación sexual natural, comparando el deseo de abusar sexualmente de los niños con el ser homosexual.

“Debemos apreciar que la atracción sexual hacia los niños es a menudo una parte profunda y fundamental de la personalidad de los pedófilos”, afirmó, al tiempo que sugiere que los pedófilos no deberían ser considerados responsables de sus actos, ya que “muchos pedófilos ignoran la realidad de que el sexo entre adultos y niños expone a los menores de edad a daño tanto físico como mental”.

Moen también argumenta que los pedófilos que no abusan sexualmente de niños deben ser “elogiados” por su “admirable fuerza de voluntad ”, y agrega que condenar a los pedófilos por su atracción debe considerarse “injusto”.

El académico afirma que “muchos de nosotros en algún momento fuimos pedófilos ” y presenta un extraño argumento de que la mayoría de las personas experimentaron atracción sexual hacia los niños cuando ellos mismos eran niños.

“Cuando tenías 11 años,  es probable que sintieras atracción sexual por los niños prepúberes… El estado mental de encontrar a los niños sexualmente atractivos es muy común”, afirma, y agrega: “La juventud, esa propiedad que los niños tienen en exceso, es una propiedad que, cuando se encuentra en menor medida , se considera sexualmente atractivo. Como tal, lo que diferencia a los pedófilos de las demás personas es que los prefieren más jóvenes que las personas promedio”.

Pero quizás lo más inquietante es que Moen ha pedido que se enseñe la pedofilia como tema en las escuelas, sugiriendo que “un cierto porcentaje” de estudiantes de secundaria tienen una identidad sexual pedófila natural.

“Para evitar futuros daños a niños, también sería bueno que comenzáramos a enseñar a los estudiantes de secundaria no solo qué hacer en caso de que fueran víctimas de abuso sexual, sino también qué hacer en caso de que ellos mismos sean pedófilos. Cierto porcentaje de estudiantes de secundaria son o se convertirán en pedófilos, y actualmente no reciben ningún consejo sobre cómo manejar su sexualidad”.

Moen también ha declarado que el material pornográfico infantil generado por computadora y otros “puntos de acceso para esta fantasía” pueden ser útiles para aquellos con tendencia sexual pedófila, insistiendo en que disfrutar de dicho material no resultaría en una mayor inclinación para abusar de un niño real. Pero la afirmación de Moen choca contra las evidencias recolectadas por expertos en protección infantil que han sonado la alarma frente a este tipo de argumentos.

En el 2018,Line Hegna, directora de comunicaciones de la sucursal noruega de Save the Children, explicó para el Sunday Guardian Live que la posesión de material relacionado con el abuso sexual infantil “contribuye a mantener un mercado que presupone el abuso de niños”.

Hegna estaba opinando sobre un escándalo nacional que terminó con un destacado experto en protección infantil sentenciado a prisión por posesión de una enorme cantidad de contenido que mostraba violaciones de niños. “La posesión de material abusivo puede funcionar para normalizar el abuso sexual de menores”, dijo Hegna.

De 2017 a 2021, Moen fue el investigador principal en el proyecto “¿Qué no se debe comprar y vender?“, financiado por el esquema SAMKUL del Consejo de Investigación de Noruega con una subvención gubernamental de unos 8,9 millones de NOK, o aproximadamente $1 millón de dólares estadounidenses. Una descripción del proyecto indica que fue diseñado para explorar las cuestiones filosóficas que rodean “la compra y venta de amistades, bebés y órganos humanos”.

La defensa de la pedofilia como una orientación sexual por parte de Moen es el último ejemplo de lo que parece ser un aumento progresivo de las voces abiertamente empáticas hacia los pedófilos a nivel académico, con múltiples incidentes reportados durante el último año.

El 5 de febrero, el profesor de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York, Stephen Kershnar, fue asignado a tareas fuera del campus después de que resurgieran fragmentos de un podcast que grabó donde se mostraba defendiendo activamente el contacto sexual de adultos con menores de edad, incluidos niños de hasta 12 meses.

Incluso más recientemente, una investigación de un académico que criticaba las simpatías a favor de la pedofilia en las universidades fue eliminada del The British Journal of Sociology and History apenas 24 horas después de haberse publicado debido a la presión ejercida por un grupo activista “pro-pedófilo”.

En una entrevista para Reduxx, el Dr. Alaric Naudé de la Universidad de Suwon en Corea del Sur señaló que los esfuerzos por “desestigmatizar” la pedofilia para supuestamente “prevenir delitos” ponen en peligro a los niños y no estaban respaldados por estudios serios.

También señaló que afirmaciones como las que mantiene Moen que definen a la “atracción a menores” como una sexualidad natural, “en realidad les dificulta aun más a los pedófilos el poder desviar sus deseos por los niños”.

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“Queer” Academic Suggests Pedophilia Be Taught in Schools as an Innate Sexuality

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Genevieve Gluck
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A professor of Ethics at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway has called to legalize AI-generated child pornography, claiming that pedophilia should be seen as an innate sexuality that requires destigmatization.

Ole Martin Moen, a gay man who identifies as “queer,” currently serves as a member of the advisory board on Norway’s Patient Organization for Gender-Incongruence (PKI), a social and political lobby group for trans rights. According to their official website, PKI’s purpose is to provide access to “gender-affirming treatment” to the public “regardless of factors like non-binary identity, sexual practice or having other diagnosis.” Moen has also served as academic council at Civita, Norway’s largest liberal think tank, since 2015.

Recently, Moen targeted Christina Ellingsen, a Norwegian feminist who is facing a police investigation and a potential sentence of three years in prison for tweets in which she stated that men cannot be lesbians.

Moen has repeatedly harassed the Twitter account of Women’s Declaration International Norway, making false claims about the nature of the investigation against Ellingsen.

But while Moen believes Ellingsen’s ideas on transgenderism are worth criminal prosecution, his own academic history would likely be considered far more disturbing to the average person.

“Pedophilia is bad. But how bad is it? And in what ways, and for what reasons, is it bad?” Moen wrote in a 2015 paper titled “The Ethics of Pedophilia,” which was then republished in 2018 in The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, a textbook widely available at Universities across the globe.

“In this paper it is argued that pedophilia is bad only because, and only to the extent that, it causes harm to children, and that pedophilia itself, as well as pedophilic expressions and practices that do not cause harm to children, are morally alright [sic],” reads the abstract.

Moen details arguments for and against “adult-child sex” before ultimately coming to the conclusion that “adult-child sex is not categorically very harmful” but may result in “risks” of children being harmed. He offers a quick disapproval of penetrative adult-child sexual relations, but goes on to make statements that defend pedophilia as an innate sexual orientation, comparing the desire to sexually abuse children to homosexuality.

“We must appreciate that sexual attraction towards children is often a deep and integral part of pedophiles’ personalities,” he writes, while suggesting that pedophiles should not be held responsible for their actions as “many pedophiles are ignorant of the truth that adult-child sex exposes children to [harm].”

Moen also argues that pedophiles who do not sexually abuse children should be “praised” for their “admirable willpower,” and says that condemning pedophiles for their attraction should be considered “unjust.”

The academic claims that “many of us have been pedophiles at one point,” and presents a bizarre argument that most people experienced sexual attraction to children when they themselves were children.

“When you were 11, it is not unlikely that you were sexually attracted to prepubertal children… the mental state of finding children sexually attractive is very common,” he says, continuing: “Youngness, the property children have in excess, is a property that, when present to a lesser extent, is widely considered sexually attractive. As such, what makes pedophiles diverge from others is that they prefer more youngness than does the average person.”

But perhaps most disturbingly, Moen has called for information on pedophilia to be taught in schools, suggesting “a certain percentage” of high school students have an innate pedophilic sexual identity.

“To prevent harm to future children, we would also be well-advised to start teaching high school students not just what to do in case they are victims of sexual abuse, but also what to do in case they themselves are pedophiles. A certain percentage of high school students either are or will become pedophiles, and currently they are not given any advice on how to handle their sexuality.”

Moen has also stated that computer-generated child sexual exploitation material and other “fantasy outlets” may be useful for those with pedophilic sexual attraction, insisting viewing such material would not result in an increased propensity for abusing a real child. But Moen’s assertion flies in the face of evidence from child safeguarding experts who have been sounding the alarm on such lines of reasoning.

Line Hegna, the director of communications for the Norwegian branch of Save the Children, told the Sunday Guardian Live in 2018 that the possession of child sexual abuse materials “contributes to maintaining a market which presupposes abuse of children.”

Hegna was responding to a national scandal that saw a top child protection expert sentenced to prison for possession of an enormous quantity of content depicting the rape of children. “Possession of abusive material can work to normalize abuse of children,” Hegna said.

From 2017 to 2021, Moen was the Principal Investigator for the project “What should not be bought and sold?“, funded by the SAMKUL scheme of the Research Council of Norway with a government grant of NOK 8.9 million, or approximately $1 million. A description of the project indicates it was designed to explore the philosophical questions surrounding “the buying and selling of friendships, babies, [and] human organs.”

Moen’s defense of pedophilia as a sexual orientation is the latest in what appears to be a marked increase in openly sympathetic views towards pedophiles at the academic level, with multiple incidents being reported over the past year alone.

On February 5, State University of New York Professor Stephen Kershnar was placed on off-campus duties after clips from a podcast he’d done resurfaced showing him actively defending adult sexual contact with children, including those as young as 12 months old.

Even more recently, an academic critical of pro-pedophilia sympathies within Universities had his research scrubbed from The British Journal of Sociology and History just 24 hours after it was first published due to a complaint from a “pro-pedophile” activist group.

In an interview with Reduxx, Dr. Alaric Naudé of Suwon University in South Korea noted that pushes for “destigmatization” with the alleged intention of “preventing offending” were dangerous to children and unsupported by research.

He also noted that claims about “minor attraction” being an innate sexuality, like those advanced by Moen, “actually [make] it more difficult for pedophiles to direct their desires away from children.”

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Senador detrás de ley que reduce las penas por abuso sexual infantil ahora aboga por la inclusión de travestis en currículo escolar

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Shay Woulahan
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Un político de California ha elevado una petición para que se impartan clases introductorias de travestismo como parte del currículo escolar de las escuelas K-12 de su estado.

El 7 de junio, Scott Wiener, miembro del Senado del Estado de California, causó un revuelo en las redes sociales luego de tuitear que “Drag Queen 101” (Introducción al Travestismo) debería ser parte del plan de estudios K-12 y que asistir al Drag Queen Story “cumpliría con todos los requisitos.”

El tweet de Weiner ha recibido un rechazo generalizado, acumulando más de 4500 comentarios principalmente negativos de internautas indignados. Casi de inmediato, los usuarios reflotaron el historial político de Weiner para persuadirlo a evitar nuevas controversias.

“¿No es usted el tipo que patrocinó un proyecto de ley que relajaba el registro compulsivo de delincuentes sexuales por sodomía y otros actos contra menores para terminar con la “discriminación de jóvenes LGBTQ en el registro de delincuentes sexuales? ” Deberías ir con cuidado con bromas como esta, señor. ” escribió el ex candidato al Congreso de Georgia, Barrington Marin II.

Otro usuario señaló que Weiner había sido responsable de un proyecto de ley que reducía las penas por contagio intencional de VIH/SIDA. Weiner es conocido por su uso abierto de la PrEP para evitar contraer el virus VIH/SIDA.

Wiener, que desde el 2016 ha ejercido funciones en la oficina del Senado de California, es conocido por usar su poder político para promover causas LGBT. Durante su carrera política, presentó un proyecto de ley que prohibía a San Francisco hacer negocios con empresas con sede en estados que no contaran con legislación antidiscriminación para personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transgénero.

Wiener es responsable del polémico Proyecto de Ley 145 del Senado, que puso fin al registro obligatorio de delincuentes sexuales condenados por practicar sexo oral o anal con niños de 14 a 18 años.

Para ese entonces, Wiener argumentaba que al no contar con un registro automático para los delincuentes sexuales condenados por actos pedófilos de penetración de falo a vagina, la ley apuntaba injustamente a las personas LGBT. En lugar de buscar penas similares para todas las formas de abuso sexual infantil, el proyecto de ley eliminó por completo el registro obligatorio y, en cambio, permitió que la decisión final quedara en manos de los jueces. El proyecto de ley fue aprobado en septiembre del 2020.

Wiener recibió una reacción extremadamente negativa contra dicho proyecto de ley, y muchos afirmaron que estaba reduciendo las penas por abuso sexual infantil. Al abordar la reacción violenta, Weiner tuiteó: “Siempre lucharé por la juventud LGBTQ, incluso si eso significa recibir amenazas de muerte y calumnias. Esto no es nada nuevo. A través de la historia las personas LGBTQ han sido calumniadas como “pervertidas” y “pedófilas”. Y nuestras vidas siempre han estado amenazadas. No nos rendiremos.”

Wiener también autorizó el infame Proyecto de Ley del Senado 132 que permite que personas transgénero, no binarias e intersexuales encarceladas se registren y reciban alojamiento de acuerdo a su “identidad de género” autodeclarada . Esta legislación ha permitido que cientos de reclusos con biotipo masculino busquen ser transferidos a instituciones para mujeres, y decenas de ellos ya están siendo trasladados. Los reclusos varones no necesitan proporcionar ninguna evidencia de que son transgénero ni que tienen la intención de llevar a cabo la transición para recibir la habilitación y, hasta ahora, solo se han negado un puñado de casos.

El pasado mes, Reduxx informó que presuntamente una reclusa fue agredida sexualmente por un hombre transidentificado.

En noviembre del 2021, el Frente de Liberación de la Mujer inició una demanda en contra del estado de California, en representación de cuatro reclusas que afirmaron haber sido víctimas de hombres identificados como trans que fueron transferidos a sus instalaciones . Las demandantes nombradas en el caso son Janine Chandler, Krystal Gonzales, Tomiekia Johnson y Nadia Romero. Romero y Chandler se oponen a la ley bajo la premisa de la objeción religiosa, ya que una de las mujeres es musulmana practicante.

Johnson, una sobreviviente de violencia doméstica que fue encarcelada luego de asesinar a su maltratador, dijo que la colocaron en una celda con un “recluso masculino vicioso y peligroso”. Pero quizás lo más sorprendente es la demandante Gonzales que describe como había sido agredida sexualmente por un recluso que fue trasladado a su instalación luego de que la SB-132 entrara en vigor.

Para agregar a su creciente lista de decisiones políticas perturbadoras, Weiner también votó en contra de convertir la trata de personas en un delito violento en California. El proyecto de ley, SB-1042, habría ayudado a fortalecer la asistencia a millones de víctimas de tráfico sexual.

“Respeto totalmente el querer tener una penalización más severa, lo respeto totalmente, pero no creo que sea correcto presentar a las penas actuales como suaves”, dijo el Senador Wiener con respecto a por qué votó en contra del proyecto de ley.

La creciente popularidad de “Drag Queen Story Time” ha sido muy criticada, ya que muchos argumentan que las presentaciones de travestis son de naturaleza irrevocablemente sexual y no apropiados para una audiencia joven.

El 5 de junio en Dallas, Texas, un grupo de padres preocupados protestó en contra de un evento de travestis que se estaba desarrollando en un bar gay, han surgido videos donde se captan a niños pequeños entregando ‘propinas’ en efectivo a artistas travesti con poca ropa, mientras los observaban en primera fila frente a un letrero que decía “No se va a lamer solo”.

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‘Trans Supremacist’ Pedophile Behind Bars For Second Time on Child Sexual Abuse Material Possession

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Anna Slatz
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A pedophile is back behind bars after being found with child sexual abuse material for the second time in one year.

Canaan Jacob Kelley, also known as Kimiko Kimi Valentine, was arrested on May 31 in Tarrant County, Texas. According to staff at the Tarrant County Correctional Center, Kelley was picked up on a parole violation and had been found with child sexual abuse material. He is currently being held on a $20,000 bond.

At the time of his arrest, Kelley had been on probation for a separate charge of child sexual abuse material possession dating back to October of 2021. He was sentenced to community supervision in January.

Last year, Kelley was the subject of an in-depth investigation now hosted at Reduxx after a user on pro-pedophile forum BoyChat sought to bring attention to a fundraiser that had been launched to raise a $10,000 bail for him.

BoyChat, founded in 1995, is the oldest pro-pederast website on the surface web, and operates as a message board that sees 200-300 posts per day. Users are required to keep posts within a strict channel of legality, which enables the site to operate in plain sight.

Source: BoyChat/archive.ph

In the BoyChat post, Kelley was identified by the name “Lyric” and “June,” both feminine names he utilized on social media. The user appealing for bail funds on BoyChat was another pedophile responsible for curating a ‘YouthLove Reading List.’ Halos, who goes by the same pseudonym on Twitter, calls himself a ‘child liberationist’ and advocates for the elimination of laws penalizing adults for sexually abusing children.

The GoFundMe, however, was established by Clover Kvalheim, also known as Casey Deschenes. Deschenes and Kelley lived at the same address in Blue Mound, Texas at the time of his October arrest, and Deschenes, who is also transgender, called for donations to be made to the GoFundMe on his Twitter, which went by the handle @nekocapitalism and used a profile photo of an animated little girl.

Kelley also had a Twitter where, prior to his arrest, he regularly posted animated child sexual abuse media. He went by the handle @FEMBOYHOMICIDE and called himself a “trans supremacist.”

In addition to the pornography and trans activism, Kelley regularly re-tweeted posts from Prostasia, a notorious registered charity that has been described by some as being ‘pro-pedophile.’

Staff at the Tarrant County Correctional Center told Reduxx they are awaiting additional information from the Division of Parole Supervision in Amarillo, Texas to determine whether Kelley will be sent there or continue to be detained in Tarrant County.

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Senator Responsible for Bill Lowering Penalties for Child Sexual Abuse Calls for Drag Queens to be Included in K-12 Curriculum

By
Shay Woulahan
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A politician in California has called for an introduction to Drag Queens to be taught to K-12 school students in his state as part of their basic education.

On June 7, Scott Wiener, a member of the California State Senate, sent social media into a firestorm after tweeting that “Drag Queen 101” should be part of the K-12 curriculum and that an attendance to Drag Queen Story time would “meet the requirements.”

Weiner’s tweet has been met with overwhelmingly negative sentiment, wracking up over 4,500 primarily negative comments from outraged netizens. Almost immediately, users took to Weiner’s political history to caution him against making yet another controversial move.

“Aren’t you the guy that sponsored a bill that relaxes sex offender registry requirements for sodomy and other acts with minors to end “discrimination against LGBTQ young people on the sex offender registry?” You should tread lightly with jokes like this, sir.” Former Georgia Congressional Candidate Barrington Marin II wrote in the replies.

Another user pointed out that Weiner had been responsible for a bill lowering the penalties for intentionally infecting someone with HIV/AIDS. Weiner is known to be open about his usage of PrEP to prevent HIV/AIDS infections.

Wiener, who has been in the California Senate office since 2016, is known for using his political power to advance LGBT activist causes. During his political career he introduced a bill barring San Francisco from doing business with companies based in states that have laws that bar policies banning discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

Controversially, Wiener is responsible for Senate Bill 145, which ended the automatic sex offender registration of adults convicted of having oral or anal sex with children aged 14-18.

At the time, Wiener argued that by not having an automatic registration for sex offenders convicted of penis-in-vagina pedophilic acts, the law unfairly targeted LGBT people. Rather than seeking similar penalties for all forms of child sexual abuse, the bill scrapped the automatic registration altogether and instead allowed for registration to be up to the judges discretion. The bill was signed into law in September of 2020.

Wiener received an extremely negative response to the bill, with many stating it was lowering the penalties for child sexual abuse. Addressing the backlash, Weiner tweeted: “I’ll always fight for LGBTQ youth, even if it means death threats & slander. This is nothing new. LGBTQ people have been slandered as “perverts” & “pedophiles” for all of history. And for all of history, our lives have been threatened. We won’t give up.”

Wiener also authored the infamous Senate Bill 132 which allows incarcerated transgender, non-binary and intersex people to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their self declared “gender identity.” The policy has resulted in hundreds of male-bodied inmates seeking transfer to women’s institutions, with dozens already being moved. Male inmates do not need to provide any evidence they are transgender or intend on transitioning in order to be approved, and so far, only a scant handful have been denied.

Last month, Reduxx reported that a female inmate had allegedly been sexually assaulted by a trans-identified male transfer.

In November of 2021, Women’s Liberation Front launched a lawsuit against the state of California in 2021, representing four female inmates who all stated they had been victimized by trans-identified male transfers. The named plaintiffs in the case are Janine Chandler, Krystal Gonzales, Tomiekia Johnson, and Nadia Romero. Romero and Chandler are both opposing the law on the premise of religious objection, one of the women being a devout Muslim.

Johnson, a survivor of domestic violence who was imprisoned after murdering her abuser, says she had been placed in a cell with a “vicious, dangerous biological male inmate.” But perhaps most shockingly, plaintiff Gonzales describes that she had been sexually assaulted by a male inmate who had been transferred to her facility after SB-132 was introduced.

To add to his growing list of disturbing political moves, Weiner also voted against making human trafficking a violent crime in California. The bill, SB-1042, would have helped strengthen protections for millions of sex trafficking victims.

“I totally respect wanting to have a higher penalty, I totally respect that, but I don’t think it’s accurate to portray the current penalties as somehow light,” Senator Wiener, said regarding why he voted no to the bill.

The growing popularity of “Drag Queen Story Time” has been highly criticized as many argue drag shows are inherently sexual and not appropriate for a young audience.

On June 5, a drag queen event held in a gay bar in Dallas, Texas was protested by concerned parents, and video has since emerged of the young children handing cash ‘tips’ to the scantily-clad drag performers, while being seated in front of a sign that said “It’s Not Gonna Lick Itself.”

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Birth of a Baby, Death of a Mother: A ‘Second Hand Victim’ of Surrogacy Speaks Out

By
Kallie Fell
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Like most women who agree to become surrogates, Jaida’s mother was described as “giving” and “loving.”

Jaida recalls that her mother was sympathetic to those struggling with infertility, always empathizing with family friends who couldn’t have children of their own. Having had easy pregnancies with her two biological children, she wanted to give a child to someone else. She’d thought that becoming a surrogate mother would allow her to help another family have a child, while also giving her the money she needed to become a stay-at-home mom to her two small children.

She was 7 years old when her mother was matched with a family in New York, far from where they lived in Kansas. Even though she was young, Jaida remembers the process well. 

“I was excited for her to be pregnant again,” Jaida says, describing how she enjoyed having her mother home during the pregnancy. She remembers fondly helping her mother take photos of her growing belly to send to the eager couple in New York. But even in these memories, Jaida admits that it felt strange that the twin girls growing inside her mother’s womb wouldn’t be coming home once born. 

While they were delivered healthy, their birth would mark the steady decline of her mother’s health, and three weeks later, her mother was gone. 

“I just remember I lost her,” Jaida recalls, “I was sitting in a waiting area and then I went into her room and my family was in there crying. I refused to look at her, though.”

Dreams of having a stay-at-home mom shattered, and confusion, trauma and grief left in its place. 

“My perfectly healthy mother was gone. I knew that it was from complications of the surrogacy.” 

Since her childhood, Jaida has gone through a great deal of healing. 

She doesn’t blame the parents in New York or the twins – whom she endearingly calls her ‘womb sisters’ – but Jaida admits that losing her mother left a void-like space in her family.  

Jaida says she had been angry at the physicians, noting that her mother wasn’t properly informed about the potential complications that would come with surrogacy.

“The medical system failed her. She wasn’t properly warned of what could happen. The [surrogacy] agency she went through really made it sound like it was gonna be sunshine and rainbows,” Jaida says. 

Since her mother’s passing, Jaida admits that she herself thought about becoming a surrogate mother because she was proud of what she perceived as her mother’s selflessness. But pushback from family warned her off of the industry, and prompted her to begin researching the ethics of surrogacy and egg donation.

“Most of my life I saw what my mother did as heroic because she grew two beautiful babies, but later realized that this tragedy could have been avoided,” Jaida says, “I have healed from the past trauma of losing my mother unexpectedly through years of therapy and my faith. It is also rare that I am very close with the family my mother was a surrogate for, which was a huge part of my healing process.”

While multiple celebrity couples have come out with announcements of welcoming a child via a surrogate, the complications associated with practice are rarely discussed.

Studies have shown that women pregnant with donor eggs have a more than three-fold risk of developing pregnancy induced hypertension and pre-eclampsia, and Lupron, used to prepare a gestational surrogate to receive transferred embryos, has been documented to put a woman at risk for increased intracranial pressure.

In addition to being carrying unique risks for the mother, children born to surrogates are much more likely to suffer from low and very low birth weights. According to a 2014 study from the Journal of Perinatology, there is a 4-5 fold increase in stillbirths from pregnancies through assisted reproductive technologies compared to those naturally conceived.

A 2013 entry in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry also affirmed that “surrogacy children showed higher levels of adjustment difficulties at age 7.”

In May, a TikToker went viral after exposing her experience being abandoned with the twins she had been retained to carry as a surrogate after the intended parents cut off contact.

The mother, who goes by Amanda, had previously been a surrogate and decided to repeat the process. She registered with a surrogacy company that connected her with a couple who lived overseas. She gave birth to twins Hannah and James in February 2021, but stated the intended parents never arrived to pick them up because they refused to go through the process of the U.S. quarantine.

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“A Wave of Fear”: Incarcerated Sexual Abuse Survivor Condemns Male Transfers to Women’s Prison

By
Anna Slatz
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Dawn Jackson. Photo Credit: Sadaiya Kelley

A second female inmate at the Edna Mahan Correctional Center for Women has come forward to slam policies placing biological males in her facility, and reveal the hardships survivors of sexual trauma like herself have had to endure since their arrival.

“In my 23 years of incarceration here at Edna Mahan… I’ve never seen anything like the traumatic damage that’s been going on. The state needs to find a place specifically for transgender [people].”

Dawn Jackson, 51, spoke exclusively to Reduxx about how life has changed since trans-identified males have begun flooding into Edna Mahan in wake of the ACLU lawsuit last year.

“Personally speaking, I have succumbed to a point where I mentally and emotionally cower when in the presence of some of the trans-identified males housed here in prison with me,” Jackson says, “I’ve had to mentally rearrange myself since having no choice… being subjected to live amongst the opposite sex.”

Jackson described how the dynamics have changed dramatically within the institution since the arrival of the male inmates, with many women jumping to appease them out of what Jackson says is fear of being victimized. She recounts one example of a female inmate who began serving a trans-identified male transfer after he ‘caught’ her expressing concerns about him.

“[She] was on the phone explaining to her family how she was upset about the new trans-identified male being placed in the unit that day. The [man] who was 6’7 tall overhead the young lady expressing her concerns and waited for her to get off the phone,” Jackson describes, continuing: “The trans-identified male waited for her to get off the phone, just to tower over and approach her. As a result of that, the young lady buckled, feeling she had to explain herself. She started cooking for [him], sharing her JP6 tablet… The young lady was intimidated was what she was. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. I understood her fear of somehow needing to survive the possible unknown repercussions.”

Jackson says it was her past sexual traumas that made her particularly sensitive to the arrival of the male inmates.

“The moment I found out that [trans-identified males] were coming to Edna Mahan, along with discovering that they were still equipped with their manhoods, that truly did something to me psychologically.”

Jackson recounts an incident earlier this year in which she was confronted by a trans-identified male who was angry at her for not talking to him enough.

“Immediately, I cowered because of the intimidation I felt from this person. Had it been just one of my female peers to approach and confront me, I wouldn’t have felt that wave of fear on the inside of me. There was no equality between us; only man against woman,” She says, “I remember stuttering, trying to give my answer. I felt obligated to answer. All I saw standing in front of me was a man. And the sad part about it, along with being approached, I was doing everything possible to not show the fear I always felt as a battered woman who’d no choice but to submit.”

Jackson, a mother to 11 and grandmother of 20, is currently 23 years in to her 30-year mandatory minimum sentence, one handed down after she murdered her step-grandfather, Robert McBride, by stabbing in 1999.

Jackson tells Reduxx she had been the victim of repeat incestual abuse by the men in her family from the age of 5, some of which was so severe it resulted in her having damaged vaginal and rectal tissue, and required her to re-learn how to go to the bathroom as a child. Jackson graphically detailed many of the abuses she suffered, including at the hands of her own father.

McBride had been amongst those relatives who had frequently abused her, and Jackson explains that he had groomed her to perform oral sex on him at the age of 8.

“[He was] drunk most of the time. [He] would wake me and force me to sit up on the side of the let-out couch; position my face to his ‘front,’ forcing my mouth to his penis,” Jackson recounts, “As a result of the constant abuse, I became pregnant at age 13 … I started running away from home on a regular basis.”

On the day of the murder, Jackson says McBride had attempted to rape her.

“I was defending myself … from once again being that timid little girl who was forced into incest – having sex and performing degrading sexual acts beginning at the age of five.”

But despite her lengthy history of being victimized, Jackson’s public defender refused to mention her past ordeals as a potentially mitigating factor during her trial.

“The public defender in my case was never ‘for me.’ She spoke against me as though she were prosecuting me,” Jackson says, noting that the attorney even went so far as to state that her experiences being victimized by McBride and others would serve “no purpose” in court.

“Five male family members and one family friend had hands in abusing me for years. No way in hell should I have been sentenced to 30 years in prison,” Jackson says.

According to a 2016 report from the Vera Institute of Justice, 86% of incarcerated women have a history of abuse and 77% have a history of experiencing intimate partner violence. Women’s rights advocates have described this situation as a “sexual abuse-to-prison pipeline.”

“I should not have to endure transgender [males] complaints of feeling ‘discriminated’ against just so they can have their way,” Jackson says, “The ignorance of activists who [compare] my traumatic experiences to the validation of transgender people’s identity is completely unfair. I never chose to be raped, sodomized and abused by men.”

While sharing her thoughts, Jackson expressed disbelief at the trans activists who attacked Miseka Diggs, another incarcerated woman at her facility who spoke to Reduxx in May.

“The pain I endured, it affected and mattered very much to me,” She says, “There’s no way in hell those activists can compare the psychological traumas of being sexually, physically, mentally, emotionally and verbally abused to men who choose to ‘identify’ [as women].”

In 2020, Jackson’s ordeal was featured on Kim Kardashian’s Oxygen special ‘The Justice Project,’ where the mega-celebrity sought to help incarcerated people she felt needed to be released from prison due to the circumstances of their crime. Kardashian was also attempting to draw attention to the problem of mass incarceration in the United States, an issue that disproportionately impacts Black Americans.

Jackson (M) with her daughter Sadaiya (L), grandchildren Desa’Rhaye and Keh’Mani, and son Deaven (R). Source: Sadaiya Kelley.

“When I read [Jackson’s] letter for the first time, I cried … She detailed her abuse,” Kardashian said during an interview at the time of filming her documentary, “But then to come find out that she couldn’t be that open during her trial, and she couldn’t reveal any of that. That was the reason why she did what she did — in defense, in snapping, in being abused … You can understand her journey and feel her pain, but how the system failed her and made her out to look was just not fair in my eyes.” 

Since her incarceration 23 years ago, Jackson tells Reduxx she has worked hard on bettering herself and preparing for life beyond bars.’

“I have successfully completed approximately 67 institutional programs, and obtained both my High School Diploma and an Associates Degree,” Jackson reports proudly, noting that she’s also been facilitating multiple Narcotics Anonymous programs for her fellow inmates.

In February of 2018, Jackson applied for clemency with the office of New Jersey Governor Phillip Murphy, requesting for the remaining 6 years of her sentence be commuted. Her youngest daughter, Jhordin, set up a petition in an attempt to help her mother get a response from the Governor’s office. As of June 6, it has over 13,400 signatures.

Reduxx reached out to the Governor’s office for comment on Jackson’s clemency application, but did not hear back in time for publication. This article may be updated in the event the office responds.

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