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UK: Woman Removed from Community Event After Being Deemed ‘Transphobic’

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Jennifer Sieland
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A British woman who found herself expelled from a community event after an organizer deemed her “transphobic” is planning on taking legal action for having been discriminated against on the basis of her gender critical views.

On July 26th, Fiona Ryan took to Twitter to share her shocking exchange with a Committee Member for People in the Park, an annual community event at Salisbury’s Queen Elizabeth Gardens that features local small businesses selling environmentally-friendly products.

Ryan uploaded screenshots of an exchange she had with a People in the Park committee member, who advised her that comments she had made on local social media platform NextDoor “showed strong views against the LGBT community which we don’t feel fits the community theme of our event.”

Speaking to Reduxx, Ryan explains the conversation on NextDoor occurred long before she had applied to pitch a stall at the event. She had been engaging in a debate with a man named Andy, who had become offended after she voiced her opposition to Penny Mordaunt, a contender for the UK Conservative Party’s leadership.

“I felt she was uncomfortably okay with the deconstruction of women’s rights in favor of gender ideology,” Ryan says, “This guy appears and calls me homophobic and transphobic.”

Ryan says she tried to keep the conversation cordial, but that Andy was extremely offended at her perspective on women’s sex-based rights.

“I’ve given up arguing that the sky is blue with these people… So I don’t have the argument anymore. I just say: Look, you have that mindset, and I disagree. I hope you can see how telling people they can change sex, or treating people like they can change sex is harmful. It’s not that I am trying to harm anyone, but I am entirely focused on the rights of women and girls.”

Ryan explains that she tried showing Andy examples of violent males in women’s prisons, but the man doubled-down and continued to call her bigoted.

“I then told him: I will concede that you are not saying these things from a place of harm, and I am simply asking for the same respect.”

But shortly after the conversation ended, Ryan says she found she had been suspended from NextDoor after her account had been reported. At the time, she didn’t think much of it.

After losing her job earlier this year, Ryan launched a soap-making company called Salisbury Soaps, which has an emphasis on making plastic-free, handmade soap products. Speaking to Reduxx, Ryan says she heard about People in the Park about one month ago, and felt her products were a good fit for the event’s theme of sustainability. Ryan says she had no idea the same man she had engaged in a debate with on NextDoor was affiliated with the organization for the event.

Ryan paid a £40 reservation fee, and began to collect supplies in preparation for opening her booth. She paid approximately £250 for moulds and a pre-licensed vegan recipe she thought would be a hit with the customer base.

“I am a disabled mother-of-three… this was quite a lot of money for me,” she explains, but says that she was excited to have the chance to show her plastic-free products to members of her community.

The next day, Ryan received an email from Andy, who was representing the People in the Park committee, formally disallowing her from attending the event as a merchant.

After citing a guideline on “equality,” Andy stated that Ryan’s NextDoor posts showed “strong views against the LGBT community,” and that her pitch was being withdrawn.

Confused and shocked, Ryan sent Andy a reply.

“I have been offered, accepted and paid for a stall at this event. My focus on the rights of women, girls and children is not at odds with my opinions on the environment, it is very much in line,” Ryan wrote, “… the only thing I have said on NextDoor, or any other application, is that there are two sides to any debate and that people who insist biological markers define things like sport, law (including prison placements) and society (including girls changing facilities and washrooms) are doing so from a position of care and consideration for women and girls, not out of cruelty.”

Her email went unanswered. Hurt and upset, she took to Twitter and published the exchange, not expecting a tremendous response considering the small size of her Twitter account. But once the post began circulating in the online gender critical community, it began wracking up thousands of ‘likes’ and outraged comments.

Ryan says she was heartened when she saw a flood of placing through orders on her site to show their support for her small business.

“I’d say I lost out on probably £1,000 in sales at People in the Park. But it was the community connections that were more important to me, and those have been taken away,” she says, “I am part of this community, and because I will not concede that men become women, I was excluded.”

Ryan tells Reduxx she is now planning legal action against People in the Park on the basis of violating the 2010 Equality Act and discriminating against her because of her gender critical beliefs, which are a protected characteristic in the United Kingdom. Ryan points to the recent legal victories of Allison Bailey and Maya Forstater as having “paved the way” for women to be able to better advocate for their rights in court.

“I am a disabled woman and I am gender critical. I have had to put up with so much of this stuff for years. I have been treated like a leper simply because I refuse to say that men become women when they say so,” she says, continuing: “I am going to stick my head above the precipice here because I feel like I should for all the women who can’t.”

Moving forward, Ryan jokes that she has a bright future in selling suffragette-colored dinosaur soap to the gender critical feminist community.

“I’ve bought all the moulds, pretty dinosaur moulds. It is going to be a little surprise for the women,” she says, noting that a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the suffragette soaps will go to a local women’s refuge, which she is also planning on donating care packages to.

“Freedom of speech is essential for democracy. You cannot stop people from speaking their mind, even if you don’t like it,” Ryan says, “If we stopped looking at people as whether they are deserving of the right to have an opinion and open the line of communication between people who disagree, I feel like everyone would be more lovely to each other.”

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Violento pederasta y asesino, ahora destacado “feministe y defensor de los derechos LGBTQ” 

By
Anna Slatz
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Un hombre transidentificado que violó a dos niñas de 9 años y torturó y asesinó a su compañero de celda con discapacidad mental, ha estado “ofreciendo” su “experiencia” a legisladores en relación a los derechos de los reclusos transgénero.

El 3 de junio, Patricia Elaine Trimble escribió un artículo para el Prison Journalism Project (PJP), una organización sin ánimo de lucro que tiene como objetivo empoderar a los “periodistas encarcelados” proporcionándoles una plataforma. Trimble, que es colaborador habitual de PJP, habló de preparar  una presentación para una clase en una universidad de Missouri tras haber sido contactado por un profesor de criminología.

“No es raro que me pidan que escriba un artículo o una historia sobre cosas relacionadas con mi especialidad. Después de todo, soy una mujer transgénero, feminista, activista y defensora de la comunidad LGBTQ+ encarcelada”, escribió Trimble, y agregó que uno de sus artículos sobre la discriminación contra los reclusos queer fue publicado por el LGBTQ Policy Journal de la Universidad de Harvard en 2019. Ese mismo año, Vice publicó un perfil muy favorable de Trimble en un artículo sobre estar encarcelado siendo transgénero.

Si bien Trimble ha aparecido en múltiples artículos de noticias recientes y ha escrito muchos artículos él mismo, casi nunca se menciona la razón por la que está en prisión.

Trimble, bautizado Patrick, fue condenado en 1978 por la brutal violación de dos niñas de 9 años en la ciudad de St. Charles, Missouri. Trimble se encontró a las dos niñas jugando cerca de un área pantanosa, y se ganó su confianza al ayudarles a recuperar una cuerda que habían estado tratando de coger de un árbol para jugar. Al principio se mostró amistoso con las niñas y les enseñó algunos “trucos” con la cuerda para luego, aprovechándose de tener el control de la misma, atarla alrededor de la muñeca de cada niña bajo el pretexto de enseñarles a hacer un nudo, y arrastrarlas al coche. Trimble llevó a las niñas a un bosque remoto y procedió a violarlas oral y vaginalmente.

Una decisión digitalizada del Tribunal de Apelaciones de 1983 proporciona un testimonio espeluznante de la investigación, en el que ambas víctimas describen sus terribles experiencias en gran detalle.

Pero mientras estaba en prisión esperando el veredicto final sobre el caso, Trimble cometería otro crimen atroz: convertir a su compañero de celda, un hombre con discapacidad mental, en su “esclavo”, para luego asesinarlo.

Jerry James Everett estaba en la cárcel a la espera de juicio por robar una camioneta. Lo pusieron en la misma celda que Trimble, que lo sometió a una rutina de “humillación física y sexual” y tortura.

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

El tribunal señaló que Everett era significativamente más pequeño que Trimble, con una estatura de 5’10 (1.55 m) y un peso de 145 libras (66 kgs), mientras que Trimble medía 6’1 (1.86 m) y pesaba 210 libras (95 kgs).

Unas semanas después de comenzar el sádico abuso, Trimble contó a otros reclusos que estaba planeando asesinar a Everett para evitar que informara a nadie fuera de la prisión de lo que había sucedido. También declaró que le preocupaba ser enviado a prisión solo por violar a las dos niñas, y que quería “cazar algo mucho más grande” cometiendo un asesinato.

El 12 de noviembre, Trimble obligó a Everett a escribir una carta de suicidio y lo estranguló con unas toallas. En un momento dado, Trimble retorció la tela con tanta fuerza que “fracturó” el cuello de Everett. Después de asesinarlo, Trimble colgó su cadáver usando las toallas para fingir que se había suicidado.

El documento de la corte afirma que Everett era “lento y puede que nunca haya comprendido completamente lo que le estaba sucediendo”.

En 1980, Trimble fue condenado a muerte por sus crímenes pero, en 1985, la pena fue conmutada por una sentencia de cadena perpetua sin la posibilidad de libertad condicional durante 50 años. Actualmente está encarcelado en una prisión de máxima seguridad para hombres en Missouri, que no tiene en estos momentos una política de alojamiento dependiendo de la autoidentificación de los reclusos.

Según el perfil de 2019 de Vice, Trimble comenzó la terapia de reemplazo hormonal en 2018 tras ser diagnosticado con disforia de género. Trimble se enteró de tal trastorno en 2015, cuando se puso en contacto con una organización LGBTQ para obtener servicios de apoyo después de haber sufrido un presunto asalto por parte de un compañero de prisión.

“Lo estoy leyendo y de verdad, o sea, ‘Dios mío… eso explica mi vida'”, dijo Trimble a Vice sobre el panfleto. En el mismo artículo, Trimble le da el crédito a otro recluso transidentificado en su cárcel por ayudarlo a conseguir acceso a artículos de “afirmación de género”.

Menos de un año después de empezar con las hormonas, Trimble comenzó a aparecer como colaborador en varias publicaciones LGBTQ y transcentradas. Trimble no menciona en ninguna de sus contribuciones a estas publicaciones por qué está en la cárcel, sino que mantiene el enfoque en su aparente lucha contra lo que formula como un sistema opresivo y transfóbico.

En 2021, Razvan Sibii, profesor de periodismo de la Universidad de Massachusetts, Amherst, elogió a Trimble por su “defensa y tutelaje de gente LGBTQ encarcelada”. Ese tutelaje, que incluye ayudar a otros hombres transidentificados a acceder a los beneficios de declarar una identidad transgénero, supuestamente le había valido a Trimble el apodo de “Madre”.

Trimble acaba de publicar un libro titulado Finding Purpose: One Transgender Woman’s Journey, que está actualmente disponible en Amazon. El perfil de Amazon de Trimble lo describe como “feministe, activista y defensore de la comunidad LGBTQ + encarcelada”. El perfil también sugiere que fue encarcelado injustamente por la violación de las dos niñas de 9 años en 1978.

Es alarmante que Trimble no sea el primer delincuente masculino peligroso que se ha convertido en un aclamado activista tras adoptar una identidad transgénero.

En febrero, Reduxx descubrió que el violador de niños pequeños Jeffrey Willsea (aquí en español) estaba operando bajo el nombre de Xena Grandichelli como activista trans de gran prestigio y ganador de varios premios.

En 1994, Grandichelli se declaró culpable de 11 cargos de abuso sexual a una niña de 3 años. Su ficha de delincuente sexual lo clasifica como de un nivel de riesgo 3, altamente violento, lo que denota el mayor riesgo de reincidencia y una amenaza para la seguridad pública. La ley del estado de Nueva York no permite que los delincuentes sexuales de nivel 3 estén a menos de 1,000 pies (300 metros) de una escuela.

Sin embargo, a pesar de su estremecedor pasado criminal, Grandichelli fue panelista en 2017 en la Universidad de Columbia. Su charla trató de “las experiencias de encarcelamiento de las mujeres“. El año anterior había hablado en la Universidad de Nueva York sobre el tema del encarcelamiento y el trauma, y dirigió un taller sobre temas trans para la Conferencia Nacional de Salud de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Personas Transgénero de Color.

Es llamativa su asociación con el Proyecto de Ley Sylvia Rivera (SRLP) y fue designado miembro del Team Movement Building.

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Florida Gov. DeSantis Files Complaint Against Club That Exposed Child To Topless Drag Queen

By
Anna Slatz
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has filed a complaint against R House Wynwood, the Miami LBGTQ club after a TikTok which showed a toddler being led around by a semi-nude transgender Drag Queen during an event there went viral earlier this month.

The complaint, filed on Tuesday through the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, states that the club’s weekend Drag Show Brunch events expose minors to sexually explicit and otherwise inappropriate content. The news was first broken via an exclusive on Brietbart, a conservative media outlet.

“The nature of the performances described above, particularly when conducted in the presence of young children, corrupts the public morals and outrages the sense of public decency,” the complaint says.

R House Wynwood is a Latin bar and club in Miami catering to the LGBTQ community. On its website, the multi-purpose venue advertises hosting a ‘Drag Extravaganza‘ on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. Last year, Secret Miami ranked R House #1 on a list of “Fabulous LGBTQ Bars To Check Out In Miami.”

On June 2, popular YouTuber Lauren Chen posted a TikTok she had found to her Twitter, writing: “These people belong in jail. This is a hill I’m willing to die on.”

The disturbing footage appeared to show a girl aged 3 to 5 being led by a provocatively dressed transgender drag queen. The drag queen only had nipple pasties covering his breast implants, and money stuffed into the skimpy g-string of his outfit.

The girl was being held by the hand as the drag queen strut through a restaurant area, and se is seen continuously looking up at the man’s exposed body. The child also appeared to also be clutching a few dollar bills in her free hand, indicating she had been collecting money from the spectators.

Overlayed onto the video was the text: “Children belong at drag shows!!!! Children deserve to see fun & expression & freedom!”

The source of the video posted by Chen was TikTok by user Nonie Kalra, who uploaded the original to her account just hours before Chen called attention to it. Kalra had tagged R House Wynwood in the upload, revealing where the incident had taken place. The video has since been removed.

DeSantis filed the state complaint in direct response to the viral TikTok, and R House Wynwood has 21 days to respond or it risks losing its liquor license, a move which would likely spell the end for its business in the Miami retail hotspot.

In preparation for the complaint’s filing, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s Division of Alcohol and Tobacco sent investigators to R House Wynwood to inspect the conduct during multiple Drag Queen events on July 9, July 17 and July 23. During at least two of the visits, investigators describe that children were present and exposed to inappropriate conduct.

Investigators looked through the establishment’s social media pages, and found pictures and videos of multiple children involved in past events with the venue’s drag queens performing in sexually suggestive ways.

The complaint outlines the discovery of a recording made at one of the brunches in which a child “no more than 10” was exposed to a dancer gyrating in front of her while wearing a skin-tight outfit with suggestive cut-outs. The recording was uploaded to YouTube on September 14, 2021.

They also noted that the “Drag Brunch” included a specialty menu specifically targeted at minors under the age of 12.

“In other words, [R House Wynwood] is not merely aware that young children attend the Brunch, but specifically markets the Brunch performances to young children or to families with young children,” the complaint states.

At a Press Conference in Tampa held today, DeSantis says what occurred at the venue was “not consistent with our law and policy in the state of Florida,” adding that it was part of “a disturbing trend in our society to try to sexualize” youth.

DeSantis continued: “[This] is not the way you look out for our children, you protect children, you do not expose them to things that are inappropriate.”

Speaking to Reduxx, DeSantis Press Secretary Christina Pushaw expressed concern over the viral TikTok that had initiated the DeSantis administration’s complaint.

“If this was a woman exotic dancer, I guarantee kids would not be allowed in there.” Pushaw said, “But because it’s a male who identifies as a woman, somehow it’s cool and should be marketed to children!”

But Pushaw emphasized that that Florida “does not have that double standard,” and asserted that children should never be involved in any adult entertainment whatsoever.

Drag shows and their appropriateness for youth have become hot topics over the last few years, especially since the controversial spread of Drag Queen Story Hours across North America and Europe. In 2019, it was discovered that a registered sex offender had been performing at a Texas library for children as a Drag Queen.

On June 24, a Pennsylvania-based drag queen with a history of performing in front of children was charged with 25 counts of the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material following a 2-year long investigation by law enforcement officials.

Earlier in June, a video of ‘drag queens’ performing provocatively for an audience of children at a gay bar in Texas went viral on Twitter, prompting massive backlash and raising concerns about child safeguarding. The children were seated in front of a sign which read “It’s Not Gonna Lick Itself” as they watched drag queens perform, tipping the adults in cash.

UPDATE 7/27/22: Comments from Christina Pushaw, the Press Secretary to Governor DeSantis, as well as additional details from the complaint, were added in post.

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Allison Bailey Verdict: Employer Found Guilty of Discrimination Based on “Gender Critical Beliefs”

By
Shay Woulahan
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A British Court has found Garden Court Chambers guilty of discriminating against Barrister Allison Bailey on the basis of her “gender critical beliefs.”

In what appears to be the second major victory for British feminists this year, Bailey’s victory comes just weeks after an employment tribunal ruled that women’s rights advocate Maya Forstater was discriminated against after her contract was not renewed following tweets she made on gender ideology.

Bailey tweeted out the announcement of her victory on July 27.

“In doing so, the tribunal held that my protected gender critical belief also included the belief that ‘gender identity theory as proselytized by Stonewall is severely detrimental’ to women, and to lesbians.” Bailey wrote in her tweet thread, describing the implications of the verdict.

Bailey’s case, first launched in 2020, had also asserted that Stonewall influenced her employer – who was apart of Stonewall’s controversial Diversity Champion Scheme – to withhold work from her as penalization for her ‘gender critical’ beliefs and pro-woman activism. Bailey accused Stonewall of encouraging her Garden Court Chambers to investigate her in an attempt to cost her her livelihood. 

While the Court upheld Bailey’s complaint against her employers, it did not uphold her complaint against Stonewall as being a direct influence of her discriminatory treatment by her employers.

“Although the Tribunal accepted that Miss Bailey’s belief that ‘gender theory as proselytized by [Stonewall] is severely detrimental to women for numerous reasons’ and is a protected philosophical belief, it did not find that Stonewall had satisfied the legal test of ‘instructing, causing or influencing’ the unlawful discrimination which it found Miss Bailey suffered.” Bailey’s legal team said in a statement following the verdict.

Stonewall had taken issue with Bailey’s involvement with LGB Alliance, which was initially founded in opposition to Stonewall’s policies relating to “gender identity,” as well as tweets made from Bailey’s private twitter account which they described as “transphobic.”

The tweets in question primarily included Bailey defending women’s rights to single sex spaces, and her criticizing Stonewall’s endorsement of males who self-identify as lesbians.

In 2019, Stonewall’s Head of Trans Inclusion had sent a formal complaint to Bailey’s employer Garden Court Chambers saying her employment put Stonewall in a “difficult position.”

“Garden Court barristers have always been allies to trans people and to Stonewall, which is something we are very proud of and grateful for. However, for Garden Court Chambers to continue associating with a barrister who is actively campaigning for a reduction in trans rights and equality, while also specifically targeting members of our staff with transphobic abuse on a public platform, puts us in a difficult position with yourselves: the safety of our staff and community will always be Stonewalls first priority.”

The Stonewall employee referenced in the complaint was Morgan Page. Page is a trans-identified man who organised a controversial workshop in association with Planned Parenthood Toronto in 2012.

The workshop, titled Overcoming the Cotton Ceiling: Breaking Down Sexual Barriers for Queer Trans Women, was centered around supporting males who identified as lesbians. The “cotton ceiling” is a term inspired by the concept of the “glass ceiling,” which is used to describe discrimination women face in the workplace that prevents them for reaching upper management levels. The “cotton” refers to the material of a women’s underwear, and frames a lesbian’s refusal to have sexual relations with males as a form of discrimination.

Page has also been accessed online of inappropriate behaviour while hosting a trans youth group in Toronto. Many of the teenagers who attending the youth group were there “without their parents’ knowledge” and Morgan did not enforce the age limit of the group, allowing trans-identified men aged 30-40 year old to join and mingle with the youth.

The testimony was provided by an individual who goes by the name “Benji.”

“It was very common for the group to discuss the logistics of sex before and after SRS, kinky sex, and erotic fanfiction. I remember Morgan asking the three teens in the room, including me, if we were comfortable talking about this, but obviously we weren’t going to say no now that the conversation had already been started by these older people,” she described.

Continuing Benji wrote, “I believe that Morgan treated us like adults when we were only teens. [He] expressed unwavering support for anyone to transition regardless of their history, age, family situation, trauma, etc. The group viewed most therapists as “gatekeepers,” so [He] advised teens to find doctors who practiced Informed Consent. This means that many of the teens in that group started HRT without seeing anyone for their mental health first, after signing what amounted to a non-liability waiver. Strangely enough, we almost never talked about post-op complications nor the long-term negative effects of HRT, a lack of concern for which is sadly the norm in the trans community. [He] spoke about sex, drugs, porn, and kink as if it were a normal part of our lives because we were trans.”

Benji identified as transgender at the time of attending Page’s workshop but has since detransitioned.

When Page began his employment with Stonewall, Bailey had taken to her Twitter account to criticize him and his disturbing past.

“Stonewall recently hired Morgan Page, a male bodied person who ran workshops with the sole aim of coaching heterosexual men who identify as lesbians on how they can coerce young lesbians into having sex with them. Page called “overcoming the cotton ceiling” and it is popular.” Bailey tweeted in September 2019.

Shortly after, Bailey announced the launch of LGB Alliance, a charity which she helped set up to defend the rights of people who are same-sex attracted.

In October 2019, Stonewall’s Head of Trans inclusion, Kirrin Medcalf, sent the complaint to Bailey’s employer. Medcalf was asked to testify during the hearing and was ridiculed online for needing an emotional support person, their mother, and a support dog during the testimony. The hearing took place via Zoom.

During the hearing, Medcalf also made claims that biological sex wasn’t real, stating: “Bodies are not inherently male or female. They are just their bodies.”

In May, a legal expert representing Garden Court Chambers argued that Bailey’s claims that the “cotton ceiling” workshop was coercive was not substantiated, and said that the workshop was “similar to South Africa attempting to racially integrate society.”

The court case gained attention due to Harry Potter author JK Rowling showing support for Bailey on Twitter. Bailey raised over £550,000 for legal fees.

Harry Potter Author JK Rowling is seen with Allison Bailey, QC, in a picture dated April 11. Source: Twitter/BlueSkyeAllison

Following the verdict, Rowling tweeted in support of Bailey once again, calling her a “heroine” and congratulating her for the verdict.

#Stonewallout and #Defundstonewall were trending on Twitter this week following a tweet made by the organization in which they claimed toddlers as young as 2 years old can recognize whether or not they are transgender.

On July 22, the trans activist charity shared an article by Metro which featured testimony from a trans-identified female who coached her 4-year-old daughter into identifying as a boy.

After widespread outrage, Stonewall released a statement in which they referenced research that called for the medical transition of children with “gender dysphoria.”

The FDA recently added brain swelling and vision lose to its list of side effects associated with “puberty blockers” given to physically healthy but dysphoric children. Nancy Kelley, the Chief Executive of Stonewall, described “puberty blockers” as “a reversible intervention.”

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Breastfeeding Medicine Experts Suggest “Father’s Milk” As A Gender Inclusive Term

By
Jennifer Sieland
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A guidance from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is making the rounds on social media after evolutionary biologist Colin Wright noticed it was recommending the term “father’s milk” as a gender affirming alternative to “breast milk.”

The US-based Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) is a top organization of medical doctors providing support and guidance to healthcare practitioners around the world. But on July 26, evolutionary biologist and journalist Colin Wright called attention to a position statement form the organization in which it issued a guideline on ‘gender inclusive language.’

The guidance, titled Infant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender, was published in the 16th volume of the Academy’s official Journal, which was issued in August of 2021.

“We affirm that language has power. This is demonstrated in linguistic relativity and determinism, both theories explaining how the structure of a language impacts thought and behavior,” the introduction to the guidance reads, continuing that it supports the United Nation’s mission to end discrimination against LGBTI people, and “To this end, the ABM is committed to working with communities to identify additional inclusive language and behaviors to attain these goals.”

Later in the guidance, the ABM states that it “recognizes that not all people who give birth and lactate identify as female, and that some of these individuals identify as neither female nor male.”

Wright posted a screenshot from the third page of the article, highlighting where the Academy suggests “father’s milk” as a “gender-inclusive” alternative to breast milk. “Parent’s milk” and “human milk” were also listed, to be used where patients desired “affirmation.”

While the article initially states that “male” and “female” are biological terms which refer to sex, it repeatedly states that “nonfemale” people could be included in birth- and feeding-related language.

Reacting to the post, Wright’s followers immediately took issue with the suggested terminology, with multiple users even noting that the Spanish translation for “father’s milk” referred to male ejaculate.

According to the WayBack Machine, the Academy only recently changed the About page on its website to include a reference to “human milk feeding.”

As of July 2021, the Mission Statement read that it was dedicated to the “promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding.” But the most recent iteration of the page states that the organization exists to “support and manage breastfeeding, lactation, and human milk feeding.”

Researchers have found that women view these terms as dehumanising. A collaborative research paper led by Australian academic Karlene Gribble and included the work of 10 prominent women’s health researchers concluded that so called “inclusive language” had “serious implications for women and children.”

“Desexing the language of female reproduction has been done with a view to being sensitive to individual needs and as beneficial, kind, and inclusive,” they wrote in the paper. “Yet, this kindness has delivered unintended consequences that have serious implications for women and children.”

Gribble and her team assert that neutralizing the language around motherhood, including “disembodying and undermining breastfeeding,” would result in “reducing protection of the mother-infant [bond]” and dehumanize women.

While “father’s milk” is likely in reference to females who identify as transgender men, reports of trans-identified males seeking support from lactation consultants have also increased. On social media, many new and breast feeding mothers have also stated they’ve noticed an uptick in males attending breast-feeding groups.

In 2018, an endocrinologist from Boston Medical Center claimed that breast feeding was an important method of validating a trans-identified male’s gender identity.  

In an interview with The New Scientist, Dr. Joshua Safer said: “Many transgender women are looking to have as many of the experiences of non-transgender women as they can, so I can see this will be extremely popular.”

Earlier this year, photos uploaded to Reddit of a trans-identified male breastfeeding a newborn baby went viral after sparking widespread outrage. Speaking to Reduxx at the time, retired physician Dr. Maja Bowen said she had “several concerns” about the practice of males breastfeeding children.

“What comes out of a man’s nipple is not mother’s milk, but a watery substance devoid of antibodies and nutrients that are found in mother’s milk, the composition of which changes as the baby grows up.”

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Police Officer Avoids Prison After Filming Woman in ‘Gender-Neutral’ Changing Room

By
Genevieve Gluck
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A London Metropolitan police officer who secretly filmed a woman in a unisex Primark fitting room will not serve a prison sentence — despite also possessing hundreds of “disgusting and extremely distressing” pornographic images and videos of children and animals.

Former officer Swaleh Chaudhry, 36, pleaded guilty to to one count of voyeurism, one count of possession of extreme pornography, and three counts of making an indecent image of a child. He was handed a 10-month prison sentence at Kingston Crown Court on Friday, suspended for 18 months.

In the United Kingdom, a suspended sentence indicates that the offender avoids jail completely and is instead released into the community and expected not to commit another offense within the timeframe of their conditions.

On March 30, Chaudhry was spotted recording video of a woman while she was changing at the Primark store in Wandsworth, South West London. Prosecutor Stephen Apted said that Chaudhry, who was off-duty at the time, had entered the gender-neutral changing rooms 15 minutes before the woman arrived. The woman, who was in her mid-twenties, noticed Chaudhry pointing his phone up at her from the next cubicle after she heard a “rustling” sound, the Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court heard in April.

The victim then shouted “Are you recording me?” and heard Chaudhry respond “No,” an interaction which was overheard by her boyfriend. Following a confrontation, Chaudhry was escorted to a separate room while the victim called the police.

Initially, Chaudhry had “continued to protest his innocence.” Yet Prosecutor Suleman Hussain said officers found “various videos of the defendant upskirting… and the videos actually show the defendant’s face.”

Following his arrest, an investigation of his Wandsworth home uncovered a collection of “horrific” pornography. More than 1,000 Category B and C indecent images and videos of children were uncovered on numerous devices, as well as at least 52 files of the most serious kind, the court heard.

Joni Bendall was among the trans-identifying men who complained that Primark’s single-sex changing rooms for women were discriminatory

Primark, an Irish multinational fast fashion retailer, implemented gender-neutral changing rooms in 2019 in response to complaints lodged by men who claimed to be women.

In 2015, a trans-identified male named Joni Bendall shopping at a Primark in Suffolk was directed towards the men’s changing area by a sales associate “who was about sixteen years old.”

Bendall said: “I paused to take a breath and said: ‘I’m not a man.’ And the assistant turned around and kept folding clothes… It made me feel dysphoric.” Writing about the incident, Bendall described himself as “6 foot 1 and built like a refrigerator,” and compared himself to butch lesbians.

Additionally, in 2018, Primark was ordered to pay £47,000 to a trans-identifying male retail assistant who filed a lawsuit for harassment. The court found that Primark had conducted “very severe” injury to Alexandra de Souza E Souza’s feelings.

Labour MP Rosie Duffield responded to news of Chaudhry’s sentencing by highlighting the necessity of preserving safeguarding measures for women and girls. “Women need safe, single-sex spaces,” Duffield tweeted.

Yet the issue of mixed-sex spaces has been controversial in recent years, with supporters framing opposition as intolerant or transphobic.

Discussing the policy in March 2019, novelist and broadcaster Lucy Beresford told Good Morning Britain hosts, “My worry is that there’s too much segregation in society… We should break away from this idea of segregation because that sets up this idea that there is something very hostile about somebody who is different to you.”

Beresford went on to say that she believed gender-neutral facilities ought to have cubicles. At the time of Chaudhry’s voyeurism offense, Primark’s changing area had single-stall cubicles in place.

Journalist Eleanor Mills hit back by saying “This is the transgender lobby [pushing] really hard against companies to try and get them to change these policies. The vast majority of the public do not want this.”

Numerous studies have found that unisex changing areas are more dangerous for women and girls than single-sex spaces. Research conducted by The Sunday Times in 2018 found that nearly 90% of sexual assaults, harassment and voyeurism reported in locker rooms and changing rooms occurred in unisex facilities.

According to Nicola Williams, spokeswoman for women’s rights organization Fair Play for Women, “spaces where women are undressed should be single-sex as a matter of course. This is obvious, elementary safeguarding.”

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UK Women’s Rights Campaigner Visited by Police for Being “Untoward About Pedophiles”

By
Reduxx Team
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A British women’s rights activist has revealed that she was visited by law enforcement, and had a hate crime report filed against her, for being “untoward about pedophiles.” Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known by the moniker Posie Parker, posted a YouTube video on July 24 describing her exchange with Wiltshire Police officers.

In the video, Keen-Minshull stated that two young officers visited her home address, and one of the officers informed her that a formal complaint had been filed in response to comments she had made in one of the videos uploaded to her YouTube channel. She then inquired whether the officer had seen the video himself, to which he responded that he had not.

They advised Keen that the statements she made on YouTube were “untoward about pedophiles” and were being recorded as a “hate crime.” Keen-Minshull asked the officers if they meant a hate incident but they refused to clarify. Under UK law, hate incidents are recorded complaints that are not deemed criminal while hate crimes are punishable under the law.

“How can it be a hate crime to talk untoward about pedophiles?” Keen-Minshull said in a YouTube livestream, “There are people in this small town of mine who have had absolutely no police response to being burgled … there are people who go into local businesses and refuse to pay, yet the police don’t come. The police don’t care. But they’ll knock on my door?”

Keen-Minshull suspected that the officers, who were from Wiltshire Police Department, were inexperienced. Wiltshire Police was recently found to be ‘inadequate’ in three areas and ‘requires improvement’ in the other five areas.

During her livestream, Keen-Minshull also reasserted her opposition to men claiming a female identity, as she suspected the person who reported her may have taken issue with this aspect of her activism.

“To the person who reported me… if you are a man who gets your rocks off wearing women’s clothing and you don’t care about the safety, dignity, or privacy of women and girls and you use women’s spaces, I’m going to say that you’re a predatory male. And if you want to be in those women’s spaces, where women are in a state of undress, I’m going to say that that particular fetish of yours is going to make you much more likely to be a pedophile,” Keen-Minshull said.

Keen-Minshull is well-known in the United Kingdom for her campaign Standing for Women, which focuses on an effort to ensure the language surrounding female issues is clearly articulated so that women’s sex-based rights are not eroded by gender ideology.

“You tell the man that reported me that I don’t care how he identifies, he is not welcome in women’s spaces… We won’t call them women, and they’re not going to take our language.”

Keen-Minshull reported that the officers also tried to obtain the identity of her teenager daughter during the visit. The visit to her home lasted approximately three minutes.

This is not the first time Keen-Minshull has experienced police reports related to her activism.

In 2018, she was brought in for questioning by the West Yorkshire police for tweets targeted at Susie Green, the CEO of the trans charity Mermaids. Keen-Minshull tweeted that Green had taken her 16 year old son to Thailand for sex reassignment surgery due to it having been illegal in the United Kingdom for minors, which she called “castration.”

Another tweet by Keen-Minshull that was reported to the police stated that Green had chemically castrated her son. Green had also taken her son to America for “puberty blockers” before they were legal in the UK. Green admitted that the use of puberty blockers made his later surgery more difficult and complex.

Keen-Minshull recounted on her Youtube channel that Green reported her to the police, who then approached Twitter to obtained her private information. The police informed her during the interview that Green felt her tweets were “threatening.” The police criticized her use of the phrase “castration” and claimed “sex reassignment surgery” does not include castration.

The police decided not to charge her following the interview. The police passed the case over to the Crown Prosecution Service who rejected it.

Trans activists have targeted Keen-Minshull and those who support her advocacy. Her organization Standing For Women travels around the UK hosting free speech events for women, allowing women to come to voice their views on issues affecting them. These events have been targeted by men arriving dressed in all black to intimidate women. As previously reported by Reduxx, one women was assaulted at a Speaker’s Corner event in May of this year.

Keen-Minshull herself has faced threats of violence. Most recently, a trans-identified male called into her YouTube show to tell her that he would celebrate her death. Some have speculated whether the individual who called in may be the same one who reported her to police.

Several women in the UK have been publicly persecuted for criticizing gender ideology in recent years.

In 2019, a mother was arrested in front of her children and held in police detention for 7 hours after being reported for ‘dead-naming’ a trans-identified male online. In addition to her arrest, Kate Scottow had her electronic devices seized and held by police for months after being released from custody.

In June, a woman was convicted on charges of sending an “offensive and obscene message” after a trans-identified male complained to police about her views.

Chinzia Ogilvie, 43, was sentenced at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on June 10 to community service and rehabilitation on hate-motivated charges related to a Twitter disagreement. Ogilvie was called in for questioning by police in January after engaging in an online debate with trans-identified male “Ivy” Burrows in October of 2021.

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Violent Child Rapist, Murderer Now a Featured ‘Feminist, LGBTQ Advocate’

By
Anna Slatz
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Content Warning: This article contains graphic details of crimes committed against children, and a person with a disability. Reader discretion is appreciated.

A trans-identified male who raped two 9-year-old girls before torturing and murdering his developmentally disabled cellmate has been “offering” his “expertise” to policymakers on the issue of transgender inmate rights.

On June 3, Patricia Elaine Trimble, penned an article for the Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit organization that claims its aim is to empower “incarcerated journalists” by providing them a platform. Trimble, a regular contributor for PJP, wrote about preparing a presentation for a class at a Missouri University after having been contacted by a Professor of Criminology there.

Patricia/Patrick Trimble. Photo Source: Prison Journalism Project.

“It is not unusual for me to be asked to write an article or story about things in my wheelhouse. I am, after all, a transgender woman, feminist, activist and advocate for the incarcerated LGBTQ+ community,” wrote Trimble, adding that one of his papers on discrimination against Queer inmates was published by the LGBTQ Policy Journal at Harvard University in 2019. That same year, Trimble was sympathetically profiled by Vice in an article on being incarcerated while transgender.

While Trimble has been featured in multiple recent news articles, and has written plenty of his own work, there is often no mention of why he is in prison to begin with.

Born Patrick, Trimble was convicted in 1978 of the brutal rape of two 9-year-old girls in the city of St. Charles, Missouri. Trimble came upon the two girls playing near a marshy area, and earned their trust by helping them retrieve a rope they had been trying to grab out of a tree to play with. Initially acting friendly towards the girls, he then showed them some “tricks” with the rope, ultimately using his control of the cord to tie it around each girl’s wrist under the pretense of showing them a knot, and using the leverage to drag them to his car. The girls were then taken to a remote, wooded area where Trimble proceeded to orally and vaginally rape them.

A 1983 digitized Court of Appeals decision provides disturbing testimony from the investigation, in which both victims describe their ordeals in graphic detail.

But while in prison awaiting the final verdict on his case, Trimble would commit another heinous crime, making what the court would later describe as a “slave” out of his developmentally disabled cellmate before murdering him.

Jerry James Everett was in jail awaiting trial for stealing a van. After being placed with Trimble, Everett was subjected to routine “physical and sexual humiliation” and torture.

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

The court noted that Everett was significantly smaller than Trimble, standing 5’10 and weighing 145lbs, while Trimble was 6’1 and weighed 210lbs.

A few weeks after beginning the sadistic abuse, Trimble advised other inmates he was planning on murdering Everett to prevent him from ever informing anyone outside of the prison of what had happened. He also stated that he was worried about being sent to prison if convicted solely of raping the two young girls, and wanted to “catch something much bigger” by committing a murder.

On November 12, Trimble forced Everett to pen a suicide note, and strangled him to death using towels. At one point, Trimble twisted the fabric so hard that he “fractured” Everett’s neck. After murdering him, Trimble hung his corpse using the towels so as to stage that he had killed himself.

The court document states that Everett was “slow, and may never have fully comprehended what was happening to him.”

In 1980, Trimble was sentenced to death for his crimes — but, in 1985, the decision was commuted to a life sentence without the possibility of parole for 50 years. He is currently incarcerated in a men’s maximum security prison in Missouri, which does not currently have prison self-identification housing policies.

According to the 2019 profile by Vice, Trimble began hormone replacement therapy in 2018 after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Trimble learned about the condition in 2015 after reaching out to an LGBTQ organization for support services following an alleged assault he experienced by a fellow inmate.

“I’m reading that, and I’m like ‘my God… that explains my life,'” Trimble told Vice of the pamphlet. In the same article, Trimble credits another trans-identified male inmate at his institution with helping him get access to ‘gender affirming’ items.

Less than one year after beginning hormones, Trimble began appearing as a contributor to various LGBTQ and trans-centered publications. In none of his contributions to various publications does Trimble mention what he is in prison for, but rather maintains the focus on his apparent struggle against what he frames as an oppressive, transphobic system.

In 2021, Razvan Sibii, a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, praised Trimble for his “advocacy for, and mentoring of, LGBTQ people in prison.” That mentoring, which includes helping other trans-identified males gain access to benefits after declaring a transgender identity, had allegedly earned Trimble the nickname “Mother.”

Trimble recently published a book titled Finding Purpose: One Transgender Woman’s Journey, which is currently available on Amazon. Trimble’s Amazon profile states he is a “feminist, activist, and advocate for the incarcerated LGBTQ+ community.” The profile also suggests he was wrongly incarcerated for the rape of the two 9-year-old girls in 1978.

Disturbingly, Trimble is hardly the first dangerous male offender who became a lauded activist after adopting a transgender identity.

In February, Reduxx revealed toddler rapist Jeffrey Willsea was operating a highly-regarded, award-winning trans activist under the name Xena Grandichelli.

In 1994, Grandichelli pleaded guilty to 11 counts of sexual abuse involving a 3 year-old girl and was designated a sexually violent offender. His sex offender registration categorizes him as a risk level 3, which denotes the highest recidivist risk and a threat to public safety. New York State law restricts level 3 sex offenders from being within 1,000 feet of a school.

Yet despite his disturbing criminal past, in 2017, Grandichelli was a panelist representing “women’s experiences of incarceration” at Columbia University. The year prior, he had spoken at New York University on the topic of incarceration and trauma, and led a workshop on trans issues for the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People of Color Health Conference.

Notably, he has also partnered with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) and was designated as a Movement Building Team member. 

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Stonewall Says Toddlers Can Recognize They Are Transgender

By
Shay Woulahan
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UK-based charity Stonewall is under fire for tweeting that toddlers as young as two can “recognize their trans identity,” and suggesting that nurseries should implement policies to be more trans inclusive.

On July 22, the trans activist charity shared an article by Metro which featured testimony from a trans-identified female who coached her 4-year-old daughter into identifying as a boy.

According to the article, the girl’s parents had continuously asked the very young child if she felt like a boy, girl, or neither until the girl said she “identified as a boy today.”

The parents did not question her “male identity” but when the young girl desisted shortly after starting school, going back to acknowledging that she is a girl, they were not as accepting. They soon blamed her school for not being tolerant of her transgender identity enough, suspecting that the had shamed her back into identifying as a girl.

“I still call her my daughter, and so I worry I’m only making things worse. The main reason I’m still gendering her this way is because she’s comfortable being called a girl, but expresses discomfort with being anything else, presumably because of what her teacher has said.” The mother, who identifies as transgender, told Metro.

The article goes on to suggest that the young child was not a girl because she rejected femininity.

“She’s parroting things she knows girls are supposed to like” the parent told Metro. Ignoring the possibility that 4 year old was simply gender non-conforming, the parent suspected her love for books with male characters indicated she identified as a boy.

Stonewall shared the article and stating research shows that children as young as 2 years old can know that they are “trans.” While the charity did not site a source on this information, many netizens noted that the sentiment mirrored the research of disgraced sexologist Dr. John Money. Money coined the term “gender identity,” and is often described as the father of modern day gender identity theory.

In his 1976 book Sexual Signatures, Money claimed that the development of a child’s gender identity coincided with the “critical period for learning language,” starting from birth to 18 months of age.

In the 1960s, Money was responsible for enacting a sadistic sexual experiment on two young twin boys as he attempted to prove his theories about ‘gender.’

Money convinced the parents of Bruce Reimer to raise him as a girl after the child suffered from a botched circumcision. Using Bruce’s twin brother as a control, Money attempted to demonstrate gender was ‘fluid’ and socially constructed. When Bruce failed to fully embrace his ‘gender’ identity, Money forced the twin brothers to watch pornography and simulate sex acts on each other in order for Bruce to learn how to adopt a feminine disposition.

Eventually, both Bruce and his brother begged their parents to stop taking them to Money, at which point Bruce ceased to identify as a girl. Both twins would later commit suicide, but Money maintained that his experiment was a success.

Despite Money’s research into ‘gender’ being disproven, and the unethical nature of his experiments with the Reimer twins exposed, his work laid the foundation for modern gender ideology.

On Twitter, many users were quick to invoke the Money experiments in response to Stonewall’s post which suggested children as young as two could be consciously transgender, noting that Money’s research was likely the source behind the claim. Others simply expressed outrage at the organization’s overt support of sex stereotypes.

Expressing disgust at the charity, Author Simon Edge tweeted, “I will vote for whichever party pledges to root your improper influence out of every government department and state-funded body. Politicians and senior civil servants have allowed dangerous maniacs to wield extraordinary invisible power. It must stop. It will stop.”

Child safeguarding organization Safe Schools Alliance urged people to act on this tweet, writing: “If you support this you are an unsuitable person to work with children. If you work with children in any capacity either loudly oppose this now, or resign. Your #safeguarding training has prepared you for this moment. It’s time to act.”

Many advocates who oppose the transition of children point to the highly experimental nature of trans procedures, especially the cessation of puberty by chemical means.

Last year, the gender identity clinic at the Karolinska Hospital in Sweden revealed it had been aware of over one dozen reports of undesirable secondary effects in youth patients who had been given “puberty blockers.”

In one of the cases, an 11-year-old girl who had been prescribed puberty blockers because she identified as a boy developed severe osteoarthritis in her spine after 5 years on the medication. The girl’s height was also stunted, and X-Rays demonstrated a number of abnormalities in her skeleton. The girl continued to receive puberty blockers even after doctors noted the impact it was having on her physical health.

Karolinska ended the prescription of hormones and puberty blockers to children under the age of 16 in May of 2021, citing a lack of scientific support and research into their potential health implications. The decision went on to inspire multiple other national health authorities to take similar measures.

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Man Who Brutally Murdered Aunt Transferred to New Jersey Women’s Prison

By
Reduxx Team
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A man serving a 25-year sentence for the brutal murder of a 60-year-old woman was transferred to a female correctional facility after beginning to identify as transgender.

Dejshontaye Goddeszholliwould, who is also known as Dejshontaye Would and Daryl Graves, was convicted in March 2019 of the aggravated manslaughter of his aunt, Patricia Graves.

At the time of his conviction, local press reported that Would was high on PCP and cocaine when he fatally stabbed his aunt 47 times and beat her over the head with a frying pan in July 2018.

Would, who was 23 at the time, initially tried to claim he acted in self-defense when the older woman “attacked” him, but investigators painted a far more calculating picture of would — nothing that the man had placed a plastic bag over his aunt’s head to “prevent blood from spilling onto the floor.”

Public defender Joseph Moran told the court that his client had a history of mental illness and suicide attempts. This combination of mental health issues and drug addiction, claimed Moran, was what “led to this destructive act.”

During court proceedings, a statement from the victim’s family was read wherein they pleaded with Would for an explanation for his violence, indicating there was no clear motive for his actions.

“The question we want answered is why. Why, Daryl, did you murder our sister? Our sister took you in, raised, loved and cared for you as if she had herself given birth to you and you repaid her by murdering her in cold blood,” the family’s impact statement read.

Though Would’s attorney Moran also read a statement from his client containing an apology to the family and admitting his guilt, local news noted that he “showed no emotion throughout the proceedings.”

While Would had no known history of issues related to his gender or sexuality, sometime after his incarceration in 2019 he began identifying as a woman.

As of July 2022, Would now appears listed as a ‘female’ inmate currently housed at the controversy-plagued Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCF) in New Jersey.

Speaking to Reduxx, two women currently incarcerated at EMCF revealed that Would was one of five trans-identified male inmates placed in a form of segregation after widespread backlash towards EMCF following the announcement of two pregnancies within the institution.

In an interview with Reduxx, incarcerated woman Kokila Hiatt reported that the administrative decision to separate the five males from the female inmates was motivated by the intention of protecting the women. She states the men had either been sexually harassing female inmates, or actively seeking our sexual relationships which could result in more pregnancies.

The men were placed in what was named the Vulnerable Persons Unit (VPU) on June 23.

“It appears that, to protect us from the male inmates who seek sexual relationships with us, it [was] decided that [these men] will be called vulnerable and placed together in one unit,” Hiatt explained.

Another inmate at EMCF, Michelle Tierney, corroborated Hiatt’s understanding of why some of the male inmates were relocated, speculating the move was a result of mounting public backlash after the announcement of the pregnancies.

The trans-identified male inmate responsible for the pregnancies, Demi Minor, was also among of the five inmates moved. Minor has since been transferred out of EMCF and to the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adults ages 18 to 30, according to New Jersey Department of Corrections spokesman Dan Sperrazza.

This is just the latest in a long list of controversies to emerge out of trouble-plagued EMCF.

In May, an inmate at the facility told Reduxx that female inmates had been subjected to a “nightmare” since the mass arrival of trans-identified male inmates.

Miseka Diggs explained that the female inmates in EMCF were “scared to death” of the men, and stated that a majority of women incarcerated at the prison had past experiences with sexual trauma, and the presence of men at the facility was causing them severe distress.

Shortly after Diggs spoke out, two more female inmates approached Reduxx to reveal similar concerns, one of whom had been sexually harassed by a violent male inmate who had been transferred to the facility.

The mass transfer of trans-identified male inmates was the result of a settlement reached between the ACLU and the New Jersey Department of Corrections last year.

The settlement agreement stipulated that transgender inmates must be housed on the basis of their self-declared gender identity. At the time, the ACLU had been fighting on behalf of a trans-identified male inmate who had been housed in a men’s institution and allegedly faced abuse and discrimination.

After the settlement was won, the New Jersey ACLU praised the decision, with staff attorney Tess Bordan saying: “The settlement of this lawsuit puts in place systemic, far-reaching policy changes to recognize and respect the gender identity of people in prison – with housing based on gender identity, use of appropriate pronouns, access to gender-affirming property, and much more.”

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