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UK: “Trans” Conservative Politician Convicted on Fleeing Site of Car Crash

By
Shay Woulahan
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A Conservative Member of Parliament who was previously under fire for owning a “sugar daddies” website which exploited financially vulnerable young women has been convicted for fleeing the scene of a car accident in November 2021. The conviction comes just months after the politician came out as “transgender.”

Jamie Wallis, who has represented the riding of Bridgend since 2019, had initially pleaded not guilty to four offenses including failing to stop, failing to report a road traffic collision, driving without due care and attention and leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position. He was found guilty on three of the four offenses today.

The Tory politician has been banned from driving for six months and fined £2,500 as a result of his conviction. He was also ordered to pay additional costs of £620 and a victim surcharge of £190.

Cardiff Magistrates Court heard today how Wallis was allegedly wearing high heels and a black leather-style mini-skirt when he swerved to avoid a cat, crashing into a lamp post.

The court also heard how locals, Adrian Watson and Natalie Webb heard the crash at around 1am and allegedly witnessed Wallis at the scene. Watson said he looked inside the car and saw “a white male wearing a white long-sleeve top which was tight to the body, a black leather-PVC mini-skirt, tights, dark shoes with a high heel and a pearl necklace.” He then described Wallis walking away from the scene.

After the incident, Wallis was arrested at 7:21 am and subsequently suspended from driving. One of the arresting officers, Police Sergeant Gareth Handy describes arriving at Wallis’s “mansion” and having to force entry into the property. Another officer then found the politician asleep with “make up on his face,” and described seeing a blond wig on the nearby table.

Wallis was challenged about why he fled the scene and he avoided the questioning, stating that he had taken medication after arriving home and had fallen asleep soon after. However, the court heard that Wallis had made numerous calls and sent a number of text messages immediately after the incident, but did not call police.

During an earlier hearing, Wallis claimed to have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to having been the victim of sexual assault in 2021. Wallis also stated he had been meeting men online for sex despite being married to a woman, and the alleged sexual assault occurred during one such meeting.

In 2020, an unknown individual attempted to extort Wallis, demanding £50,000 from the politician and threatening to expose him for his sexual proclivities. Wallis reported the blackmailer to the police and he was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison.

In the run-up to the trial in March, Wallis “came out” as transgender by posting a statement to his Twitter account. The politician wrote: “I’m trans. Or to be more accurate, I want to be.” Wallis was met with mixed reaction, with some, including then-UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, congratulating him on his “bravery.”

 Jamie Wallace arrives at Court today. Photo Credit: Rowan Griffiths/Daily Mirror

Despite coming out as trans, Wallis has not taken any steps to medically or even socially transition, arriving in court today in a suit. In his earlier statement on his gender identity, he encouraged people to continue to address him by masculine pronouns.

This is not the first time the politician has been in the spotlight.

In 2020, Wallis was exposed as having co-owned a site called Sugar-Daddies.net, which solicited financially vulnerable people to advertise themselves for sexual connections with “sugar daddies.” While the site claimed it was not sex-specific and welcomed “boys [and] girls,” the market is typically understood as wealthy older men willing to “sponsor” much younger women in exchange for sexual favors. 

Wallis’ involvement with the site was exposed by a Buzzfeed investigation, which noted that he had initially denied any involvement with the venture.

“The site appears to have been owned and operated by a company named SD Billing Services Limited. For the avoidance of any doubt, I have never had a financial interest, nor been a director of SD Billing services Limited and cannot comment on its operational activities,” Wallis had told Buzzfeed reporters.

But an annual return filed by SD Billing Services in 2008 demonstrated that 100% of its shares were owned by a company called Fields Group Limited, of which Wallis was a director and shareholder. As a result, Wallis was, in fact, the legal co-owner of Sugar-Daddies.net.

After Wallis’ stake in the site was revealed, Labour politician Jess Phillips called on the Conservatives to expel him from the party.

“Let’s be clear: sugar daddy is a euphemism for something deeply ugly: exploitation of women by powerful men,” Phillips’ campaign said. “The Tories should feel ashamed sitting alongside Jamie Wallis. The only way to show they don’t condone this kind of behavior is to remove the whip.”

At the time, Labour Member of Parliament Tonia Antoniazzi also backed Phillips’ call to expel Wallis, saying she was “really concerned” about him, and adding that his track record was “dubious.”

Even before the Sugar-Daddies.net scandal, Wallis’ past business ventures had been heavily scrutinized. Several of the companies Wallis owned or had financial interest in proper to being elected to Parliament had been subjected to “hundreds” of trading standards complaints by consumers.

One of Wallis’ other companies was an outsourcing agency which fielded jobs to Thailand where staff were paid the equivalent of $3.27 USD per hour. In some of the agency’s listings, “females only” were requested.

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Pro-Pedophilia Activists Marched for ‘Equal Rights’ At 2022 Cologne Pride

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Reduxx has learned that members of a German pro-pedophilia group were present and demonstrating during one of Europe’s largest Pride celebrations in Cologne.

According to a post on the website K13online, members of the pedophile community called Krumme-13 congregated at the parade, colloquially known as Christopher Street Day (CSD), on July 2, and displayed a flag representing “minor-attracted persons” pride.

The post uses the acronym LGBTIQ+P and demands the “official inclusion of pedophiles” within the LGBT movement. Describing the symbolism of the MAP flag, Krumme-13 says that the colors “connect pedo-, hebe- and/or also partheno-/ephebophiles,” which are sexual paraphilias that distinguish the preferred age ranges for sexual abusers. The baby blue and pink stripes in the MAP flag which symbolize a sexual interest in young boys and young girls, respectively, correspond with those seen in the transgender pride flag.

A group of pedophile activists at the CSD event in Cologne, Germany. One individual wears a flag representing “MAPs”

Popular fact-check website Snopes has claimed that the MAP pride flag does not exist, despite its documented use by pro-pedophile activists. Instead, Snopes states the flag was a “troll experiment on Tumblr” created as part of a “fear-mongering campaign” intended to “link pedophilia to the LGBTQ community.”

At the Pride event in Cologne, pro-pedophile activists also carried signs opposing the “censorship” of the organization Queer.de and advocated for a “diversity of opinions” within the LGBT community.

Krumme-13, along with other German child sex abuse advocates, call for the inclusion of pedophilia as a protected “sexual identity” in accordance with Article 3 of Germany’s Basic Law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of certain characteristics, including race and sex.

On the community’s main forum, activists are already planning out a presence at the next Pride parade.

“In 2023 there will be CSD [parades] again in many cities. K13online is already calling on the German pedophile scene to actively participate in one way or another in the [demonstrations] of the LGBTIQ+(P) communities,” a post reads.

Transactivists march in Cologne during the Christopher Street Day event, calling for the category of “sexual identity” to be a protected characteristic under Article 3

A statement on the K13online website asserts that “pedophilia is an independent sexual identity and must therefore also be protected by Article 3.” The justification provided for this position, according to Krumme-13, is that “the vast majority of pedophiles do not commit any crimes,” and thus, their sexual attraction is no different than homosexuality or heterosexuality in principle. The activists have been demanding that the “pedophile [sexual] identity” be “protected from discrimination, criminalization, exclusion and persecution” under Germany’s equality laws.

The German language does not distinguish between biological sex and the concept of socially constructed gender. The word Geschlecht is used interchangeably for both, and Geschlechtsidentität is the equivalent of the term “gender identity” and “sexual identity.” Therefore, the demands of trans activists to include “gender identity” as a protected characteristic overlap with the stated political aims of the pedophile community.

Letter accompanying Kromme-13’s petition for legal protections for pedophiles to German lawmakers

Krumme-13 is spearheaded by pedophile lobbyist Dieter Gieseking, who has filed a total of three petitions with the Bundestag, or parliament, calling on members of the political parties SPD (Socialist Democrats), FDP (Free Democratic Party) and the Greens to agree to an amendment to Article 3 which would protect pedophilia as a “sexual identity.”

Gieseking frames his campaigning as an effort to defend “children’s rights” and to protect “sexual minorities” from discrimination. The two most recent petitions submitted to the government were lodged on February 14, 2021.

In a 2018 interview for the program Veto, Gieseking repeatedly refers to pedophilia as a “romantic relationship,” and insists that children can seduce adults. “On the forums and in my experience there are many times, for example, when a boy of let’s say 12, actually initiates the relationship,” he says.

Gieseking also made several references to the Netherlands, a country known for its prominent pedophile activism and which currently hosts the majority — 66 percent — of all CSAM sites in the European Union. He told the interviewer, Holger Kreymeier, that Germany should follow the Netherlands’ lead and lower the age of consent to 12 years old. Dutch pedophile activists have been campaigning for a lower age of consent for several decades and were nearly successful in 1985, but were prevented by intense public scrutiny.

“That is just the current zeitgeist, in the past studies have shown the many benefits (of sex with children) for children… The problem is that victim protection and child protection organizations have sprung up and influenced mainstream media,” he added. Gieseking speaks of the multinational pro-pedophile campaigning that occurred through the 60’s – 80’s in nations such as the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands as a better time for the “zeitgeist.”

Speaking to Reduxx, Dr. Alaric Naudé calls Dieter and his aims “dangerous.”

“Dieter Gieseking … sincerely believes that pedophiles have the right to rape children as long as the child consents. We know of course that children cannot consent, but this is the basic tenant of the pedophile movement.”

Dr. Naudé is a Professor at Suwon University in South Korea, where his focus is on social sciences and linguistics. In February, Naudé’s research critical of “pro-pedophile” charity Prostasia was hastily deleted from The British Journal of Sociology and History after the group complained. Since then, Naudé has become publicly outspoken on creeping attempts to ‘normalize’ pedophilia within academic and social institutions.

Responding to Gieseking’s Veto interview, Dr. Naudé told Reduxx: “Gieseking shifts blame to child protection organizations for creating stigma following the clear pattern of projection that we see from pedophilia organizations such as NAMBLA, PIE, Prostasia and B4UACT. In their eyes, the pedophile is never to blame, it is always the society that is cruel for preventing child rape.”

The German government has its own dark history of supporting and even subsidizing child sexual abuse. Throughout the late 60’s – 80’s, German sexologists — including the originator of the term “cisgender” — began to frame adult sexual relations with children as progressive and harmless rather than abusive.

The infamous ‘Kentler Experiment’ conducted by Berlin-based sexologist Helmut Kentler saw foster children placed in the homes of pedophiles beginning in 1969 for the purpose of facilitating child sexual abuse. This experiment was authorized and subsidized by the Berlin Senate. In 1988, nearly two decades later, Kentler described the project as a “complete success” in a report he submitted to the Senate.

So pervasive was the cultural trend towards the legalization of pedophilia that even Germany’s Green Party advocated for the abolition of Paragraph 176 of the German Criminal Code, which criminalized sexual activity with children under the age of 14.

According to leading German women’s rights advocate and journalist Alice Schwarzer, feminist groups were the only ones vocally opposing the legalization of pedophilia being championed by members of the Green Party.

“As late as 1988, Volker Beck, [a former] parliamentary secretary of the Greens called for a ‘decriminalization of pedosexuality’ in a contribution to the polemic ‘The Pedosexual Complex’,” wrote Schwarzer in EMMA, a feminist publication she founded.

The legislation that would have lowered the age of consent was drafted in part by the Greens organization BAG SchwuP (Federal Working Group for Gays, Pederasts and Transsexuals). In 1984, the BAG SchwuP was delegated to the parliament’s working group for “Law and Society” and was financed by the federal government. The SchwuP coordinator, Dieter Fritz Ullmann, had been in prison as many as six times for child sexual abuse beginning in 1980. Yet Ullmann was active in the Greens at the state level and, from 1985, represented the party at the federal level.

Schwarzer has explained that feminists were slandered for “exposing the whole mess”. She also pointed out how women were accused of homophobia for calling attention to attempts to legalize child sexual abuse. “In this discourse, homosexual pedophiles have taken the lead, although straight pedophiles are in the majority. They cleverly mixed their demands with the fight against discrimination against homosexuals,” wrote Schwarzer in 2013.

Members of the modern German pedophile community who protested at the Pride event on July 2 made no reports of being physically or verbally assaulted for promoting their views. In contrast, during the same parade, a group of women were attacked by transactivists and called “TERFs” for implying that men could not identify as lesbians. One of their detractors was an organizer for the Dyke March.

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Una organización benéfica para mujeres del Reino Unido promueve al autor trans de una guía sexual “pedófila” para niños

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Un rama de una organización benéfica de mujeres del Reino Unido está siendo criticada por promover un libro de un autor trans que escribió una guía sexual explícita para niños, y que dijo que ser gay era un “premio de consolación” para hombres que no eran transgénero.

La Fawcett Society provocó indignación esta semana al promocionar un libro, The Gender Games (Los Juegos del Género), del autor transgénero Juno Dawson (nacido James Dawson). La división local de West Midlands de la Sociedad dirige un club de lectura mensual y publicó la selección de julio en las redes sociales el jueves.

El formulario de registro de Eventbrite asociado con la reunión del club de lectura resume los temas principales del libro y compara a las “feministas excluyentes”, un término despectivo para las mujeres que creen que no se puede cambiar de sexo, con los “jóvenes de extrema derecha “.

La noticia fue recibida con críticas generalizadas, y Fawcett West Midlands puso rápidamente el candado a su cuenta oficial de Twitter como respuesta. Algunas feministas señalaron que el propósito de la organización benéfica era promover las causas de las mujeres, y que habían fracasado en su intento de encontrar una mujer escritora cuyo trabajo poder promover.

Por qué? Por qué no leer un libro que sea relevante para las mujeres, escrito por una mujer? No es como si los libros escritos por hombres fueran escasos.

Otras internautas se apresuraron a señalar un comentario homofóbico que Dawson hizo en 2017 durante una entrevista a la revista Attitude, una publicación dirigida a hombres homosexuales.

“Muchos gays son gays como premio de consolación, porque no pudieron ser mujeres”, dijo Dawson, en referencia a su decisión de identificarse como transgénero. Las referencias al comentario se publicaron una y otra vez debajo del anuncio del club de lectura, y muchos exigieron que la Sociedad abordara el tema.

Genial, siempre pensé que la Fawcett Society era homofóbica, ahora hay pruebas.

Antes de identificarse como “mujer”, Dawson había trabajado como maestro de primaria y se identificaba como hombre gay. En 2014, publicó un libro titulado This Book is Gay (Este Libro es Gay), que se comercializó como una guía para niños de 13 años en adelante. El libro, escrito en un lenguaje infantil destinado a atraer a los lectores jóvenes, enseñaba gráficamente a los niños cómo realizar actos sexuales, y proporcionaba ilustraciones de esos actos.

“La acción de la muñeca es lo más importante para una buena paja. Frótale la punta de la p*lla de un lado a otro con la mano. Prueba diferentes velocidades y presiones hasta que responda positivamente”, aconseja Dawson en el libro, donde también da instrucciones sobre sexo oral y anal. “Lo mismo que con las pajas y los huevos del desayuno, a todos los hombres les gustan sus mamadas servidas de diferentes maneras”.

Como informó en 2015 The Guardian, la presencia del libro de Dawson en la sección de no ficción juvenil de una biblioteca pública en Wasilla, Alaska, llevó a los padres a presentar una reclamación. Cuando un niño de 10 años se llevó el libro a casa, su madre, Vanessa Campbell, se “sorprendió” al descubrir que contenía dibujos explícitos y descripciones de actos sexuales para adultos.

James “Juno” Dawson en 2012

Campbell fue a quejarse a la bibliotecaria de Wasilla, KJ Martin-Albright, quien decidió que el libro estaba “archivado de forma apropiada“. Como respuesta, Campbell presentó una queja formal, y se convocó a un comité de tres miembros para investigar el asunto más a fondo. Aproximadamente 50 personas, muchas de ellas padres, acudieron a la primera reunión del Concejo Municipal de Wasilla para expresar sus preocupaciones. La semana siguiente, una multitud de ciudadanos asistieron a una segunda reunión, y un asistente comparó la prestación de tales materiales sexualmente explícitos a los niños con el “comportamiento pedófilo”.

Poco después de la polémica “pedófila”, Dawson declaró una identidad transgénero y adoptó el nombre de Juno. Más tarde diría sobre la situación: “Si alguien piensa que los adolescentes no están experimentando con drogas y viendo pornografía, se están engañando a sí mismos”. Dawson anunció su transición en una entrevista en febrero de 2016 con la revista Glamour después de ser contratado como columnista, solo tres meses después de que los padres comenzaran a quejarse de su guía sexual para niños.

A principios de este año, Dawson volvió a provocar críticas por sexualizar a los niños en una novela que publicó titulada Wonderland. Safe Schools Alliance UK contó cómo un padre encontró el libro en la biblioteca de la escuela secundaria de su hijo, y dio un resumen del contenido sexualmente explícito de Wonderland, que tiene como personaje principal a un niño que se identifica como una niña llamada Alice.

“Los tópicos de fantasía sexual masculina están presentes por todas partes. El libro comienza dentro de St. Agnes, un internado para niñas donde éstas no solo son sexualmente activas, sino que sus cuerpos son descritos como plagados de ITS (Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual)”, escribió Safe Schools Alliance.

El resumen continúa explicando las formas en que los niños son sexualizados en Wonderland. Alice dice: “El hecho de que yo exista es suficiente. El hecho de que sea joven es una ventaja. Soy una muñeca hinchable”. Sumado a esto, Alice se jacta de sus “turgentes tetitas”.

“Aunque estoy encantada con mis turgentes tetitas”, dice Alice, “me decepcionó profundamente que no me desapareciera el impulso de hacerme cortes con el primer miligramo de estrógeno que pasó por mis labios”.

Es alarmante que Alice, legalmente todavía una niña, tenga “una vida sexual activa en apps … con hombres casados que viven en ciudades vecinas”, facilitada por la “cultura del folleteo”. Tanto Waterstones como Amazon UK califican este libro como apropiado para niños de 12 años en adelante.

En el último libro de Dawson, escogido por la división local de Midlands del club de lectura de la Fawcett Society, Dawson cuenta que empezó a creerse que era mujer porque disfrutaba escuchando a Madonna y a las Spice Girls. Dawson generalmente prefería los programas más enfocados en los personajes femeninos, como Sexo en Nueva York, y confiesa un “privilegio masculino persistente” ya que “nunca me dijeron que no podía ser lo que me diera la gana, y yo quería ser Carrie”.

A pesar de decir que simpatiza con la perspectiva de las mujeres, Dawson dedica un capítulo entero de The Gender Games a lo que él llama las “Guerras TERF”. A lo largo del capítulo, Dawson se refiere a destacadas activistas por los derechos de las mujeres con un desprecio que no trata de ocultar. “No me importa lo que prefieras que te llamen, si ‘TERF’, ‘tránsfoba’ o ‘intolerante’, de verdad que no me importa”, escribe Dawson. El término “TERF” se utiliza con frecuencia para acosar y amenazar a las mujeres que cuestionan la ideología de identidad de género.

Continúa comparando el reconocimiento del sexo biológico con el racismo, específicamente usando mujeres negras y musulmanas para presentar su caso. “Si [mis críticas] hubieran dicho: ‘No me siento segura con las mujeres negras’… o ‘no me gusta subirme a los aviones con mujeres con hiyab’, con razón habríamos acusado a esas personas de ser intolerantes”, escribe. “Tal vez deberíamos silenciar la intolerancia”.

Dawson también restó importancia a los temores de las mujeres a la violencia sexual masculina al sugerir que las lesbianas representan una mayor amenaza para las mujeres que los hombres.

“No veo a nadie sugiriendo que se deba excluir a las lesbianas cisgénero de los vestuarios y baños de mujeres… y sin embargo ¿no serían ellas las que echaran ojeadas lascivas?” se pregunta Dawson.

Al hablar de su propia infancia, Dawson defiende el uso de los medicamentos comúnmente conocidos como bloqueadores de la pubertad.

“Hoy podría haber conseguido esas píldoras y haber evitado que mi cuerpo pasara por la pubertad de niño”, lamenta Dawson. Y regaña al lector, diciendo: “Ningún niño está ‘cambiando de sexo’, imbéciles”, y “la práctica [de detener la pubertad] se probó por primera vez en la Clínica Tavistock ya en 1992”.

Desde la publicación de The Gender Games en 2017, docenas de especialistas en salud han abandonado el Servicio de Desarrollo de Identidad de Género en la Clínica Tavistock por preocupaciones éticas.

“Me parece una terapia de conversión para niños homosexuales”, dijo un médico a The Times. Otra informante, que admitió tener pesadillas por lo que estaba haciendo, advirtió: “Están dañando los cuerpos de los niños para tratar problemas sociales … Lo describiría como una ‘atrocidad'”. Otra médica describió un caso que la “atormentó”, que tenía que ver con un padre que ella sospechaba que era un pedófilo que exigía drogas que bloquearan la pubertad para abusar de su hijo.

“Sabiendo lo que sé ahora, y con los modelos a seguir que tenemos, de ninguna manera hubiera dicho que era gay. Hubiera ido directamente a trans”, dijo Dawson a The Herald en 2017.

Las credenciales de Dawson incluyen ser modelo a seguir escolar para Stonewall y trabajar con la organización benéfica First Story, que organiza talleres de escritura y narración de cuentos en escuelas desfavorecidas.

Dawson aparece en el sitio web de la organización benéfica británica National Trust, y los derechos de televisión de su reciente libro The Gender Games han sido comprados por SunnyMarch, una compañía productora fundada por Benedict Cumberbatch.

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UK Women’s Charity Promoting Trans Author Who Wrote “Pedophile” Sex Guide for Children

By
Genevieve Gluck
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A local chapter of a UK women’s charity is under fire after promoting a book by a trans author who wrote an explicit sex guide for children, and who called being gay a “consolation prize” for men who weren’t transgender.

The Fawcett Society prompted outrage this week after promoting a book, The Gender Games, by transgender author Juno, born James, Dawson. The West Midlands Branch of the Society runs a monthly book club and announced July’s selection in a social media post made on Thursday.

The Eventbrite registration form associated with the book club meeting summarizes the book’s main themes and compares “exclusionist feminists” — a derisive term for women who believe sex cannot be changed — to “‘alt-right’ young men.”

The announcement was met with widespread criticism, and Fawcett West Midlands quickly locked its official Twitter account in response. Some feminists pointed out that the purpose of the charity was to advance women’s causes, but that they had failed to find a female author to promote the writing of.

Other netizens were quick to point out a homophobic comment Dawson made in 2017 during an interview with Attitude magazine, a publication targeted at gay men.

“A lot of gay men are gay men as a consolation prize, because they couldn’t be women,” said Dawson, in reference to his decision to identify as transgender. References to the comment were posted repeatedly beneath the book club announcement, with many demanding the Society address it.

Prior to self-identifying as a ‘woman,’ Dawson had worked as a primary school teacher and identified as a gay man. In 2014, he published a book titled This Book is Gay, which was marketed as a guide for children aged 13 and up. The book, written in childish vernacular intended to appeal to young readers, graphically taught children how to perform sex acts, as well as provided illustrations of the acts.

“A good handie is all about the wrist action. Rub the head of his c*ck back and forth with your hand. Try different speeds and pressures until he responds positively,” suggests Dawson in the book, who also gives instructions on oral and anal sex. “As with handies and breakfast eggs, all men like their blowies served in different ways.”

As reported in 2015 by The Guardian, the presence of Dawson’s book in the juvenile non-fiction section of a public library in Wasilla, Alaska, led parents to complain. After a 10-year-old boy accessed the book, his mother, Vanessa Campbell, was “shocked” to discover it contained frank drawings and descriptions of adult sex acts.

James “Juno” Dawson in 2012.

Campbell took the matter up with the Wasilla librarian, KJ Martin-Albright, who decided that the book was “appropriately shelved.” In response, Campbell lodged a formal complaint, and a three-member committee was convened to look into the matter further. Approximately 50 people, many of them parents, turned up to the first Wasilla City Council meeting to voice concerns. The following week, citizens attended a second meeting “in droves,” with one attendant comparing the provision of such sexually explicit materials to children to “pedophile behavior.”

Shortly after the “pedophile” controversy, Dawson declared a transgender identity and adopted the name Juno. He would later say of the situation: “If anyone thinks teens aren’t experimenting with drugs and looking at porn, they’re kidding themselves.” Dawson announced his transition in a February 2016 interview with Glamour magazine after being hired as a columnist there, just three months after parents began complaining about his sex guide for children.

Earlier this year, Dawson again prompted criticism for sexualizing children in a novel he released titled Wonderland. Safe Schools Alliance UK detailed how a parent found the book stocked in their child’s secondary school library, and provided a summary of the sexually explicit content contained in Wonderland, which has as its main character a young boy who identifies as a girl named Alice.

“Male sex fantasy tropes are present throughout. The book opens inside St. Agnes, an all-girls’ boarding school where the girls presented are not only sexually active, but their bodies are described as ridden with STIs,” the Safe Schools Alliance wrote.

The review continues to explain ways that children are sexualized in Wonderland. Alice states, “The fact I exist is enough. The fact I’m young is a bonus. I’m a blow-up doll.” Added to this Alice boasts about his “perky little boobs.”

“While I’m delighted with my perky little boobs,” Alice says, “I was profoundly disappointed that my urge to cut myself didn’t vanish with the first milligram of oestrogen to pass my lips.”

Disturbingly, Alice, legally still a child, is said to have “an active, app-based sex life… with married men from outlying commuter towns,” facilitated by “hook-up culture.” Both Waterstones and Amazon UK rate this book as appropriate for children over 12.

In Dawson’s latest book, chosen by the Midlands chapter of the Fawcett Society’s book club, Dawson describes how he first began to believe he was female because he enjoyed listening to Madonna and The Spice Girls. Dawson generally preferred media that centered female characters, including Sex and the City, and confesses to a “lingering male privilege” as he was “never told I couldn’t be exactly what I wanted to be, and I wanted to be Carrie”.

Despite professing to sympathize with a women’s perspective, Dawson devotes an entire chapter of The Gender Games to what he refers to as the “TERF Wars”. Throughout, Dawson refers to prominent women’s rights campaigners with unconcealed derision. “Whether you prefer ‘TERF’ or ‘transphobe’ or ‘bigot’, I don’t really care,” writes Dawson. The term “TERF” is frequently used to harass and threaten women who question gender identity ideology.

He goes on to compare the acknowledgement of biological sex to racism, specifically using black and Muslim women to make his case. “If [my critics] had said, ‘I don’t feel safe around black women,’… or ‘I don’t like getting on planes with women in hijabs,’ we would quite rightly have accused those people of being bigoted,” he writes. “Perhaps bigotry does need to be silenced.”

Dawson also shrugged off women’s fears of male sexual violence by suggesting that lesbians pose a greater threat to women than men.

“I don’t see anyone suggesting cisgender lesbians should be banned from women’s changing rooms and bathrooms… but if anyone was going to have a good old perv — wouldn’t it be them?” Dawson says.

When discussing his own childhood, Dawson defends the use of the drugs commonly referred to as puberty blockers.

“Now I’d have been able to get my hands on those pills and prevent my body from going through boy-puberty,” Dawson laments. He scolds the reader, saying, “No children are having ‘sex changes’, you morons,” and “the practice [of halting puberty] was first trialled at the Tavistock Clinic as far back as 1992.”

Since the publication of The Gender Games in 2017, dozens of health specialists have quit the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic out of ethical concerns.

“It feels like conversion therapy for gay children,” one male clinician told The Times. Another whistleblower, who disclosed that she was having nightmares about what she was doing, warned, “Children’s bodies are being damaged in order to treat societal issues… I would talk about it as an ‘atrocity’.” Still another clinician described a case that “haunted” her, which involved a father she suspected of being a pedophile demanding puberty-blocking drugs in order to abuse his child.

“Knowing what I know now, and with the role models we have, there’s no way I would have said I was gay. I would have gone straight to trans,” Dawson told The Herald in 2017.

Dawson’s credentials include serving as a School Role Model for Stonewall and working with the charity First Story, which runs writing and storytelling workshops in underprivileged schools.

Dawson is featured on the website of the UK charity the National Trust, and television rights to his recent book The Gender Games have been purchased by SunnyMarch, a production company founded by Benedict Cumberbatch.

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Mexico: Trans Politician Interrupted Anti-Trafficking Conference, Screamed “Sex Work Is Work”

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Anna Slatz
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A conference on tackling human trafficking and migrant smuggling was interrupted when a transgender politician became enraged at a speaker suggesting that the sex trade should be abolished, calling it “hate speech.”

The second day of the 7th Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño sobre Trata de Personas y Tráfico de Migrantes (Latinamerican and Carribean Congress on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling) was held in Mexico City on Wednesday, The annual Congress features speakers and politicians from Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies gathering to discuss ways in which to eradicate human trafficking. Wednesday’s panel featured a lecture by Spanish Sociologist Dr. Rosa María Cobo, a professor at the University of La Coruña.

Dr. Cobo gave a radical feminist perspective on human trafficking, and called for the abolition of the sex trade which she noted relied upon the exploitation of women and girls with few economic and social resources.

“Prostitution is not right, from an ethical and political point of view,” Dr. Cobo said, “It is not acceptable for a woman to become an [object] and it is not acceptable for a man to objectify and [commit] violence against women who have very few resources and who are vulnerable.”

At the end of her talk, Dr. Cobo was presented with a gift from Cecilia Márquez Alkadef, a member of Mexcio’s Chamber of Deputies, which is one of the key organizers of the annual Congress.

Just as Dr. Cobo was posing for photographs, a male voice could be heard furiously screaming through the auditorium.

On the event’s official livestream, the camera panned out to show an individual getting increasingly aggressive, yelling towards the stage before standing to yell out into the audience. The event’s host attempts to calm the individual down and request they respect the perspective that was presented by Dr. Cobo, but the man only became more enraged.

“This is hate speech! This is criminalizing my comrades! This is hate speech paid for with Government funds!”

The man was quickly identified as Maria Clemente, a trans-identified politician who was elected last year and became the first transgender person to enter Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies.

A member of the audience began to speak out against Clemente, yelling back in a sarcastic fashion, “Women were born to be whores?” To which Clemente responds, “Well I am a woman, and I am a whore!  It’s my job and and how my family eats! I love it!”

In another angle of the same altercation, Clemente can be heard chanting: “Sex work is work! Sex work is work!” Clemente also lashes out against one of the Congress officials attempting to calm him down when he is called ‘Sir,’ and begins to aggressively approach the podium yelling: “Maria! Maria! My name is Maria!”

Following Clemente’s outbursts, the Congress went to a recess. According to La Razon de Mexico, Clemente left and several other attendees withdrew. The Congress is holding its final meeting today.

A few clips of Clemente’s outburst taken by an audience member began circulating on social media on Thursday, with many Mexican feminists expressing outrage at his furious defense of prostitution, and derailing of a conference on human trafficking.

“I am not a psychologist but these people urgently need mental help. They’re not [okay], really. We see the same scenes. Hate, rage, violence, aggressiveness and a huge pathological ego. They kick like small children in adult bodies. It is not normal.” One commenter wrote in Spanish beneath one of the videos of the incident posted by Women’s Declaration International’s Mexico branch.

“How strange that [a trans-identified male] always has to be the center of attention in feminist spaces and even more so in a room full of female victims. And they have the nerve to say that they are disrespecting him, what was he doing in a congress on trafficking in the first place?” Another asked.

Many offered praise for Sonia Sanchez, the abolitionist who had engaged Clemente from the audience and defended women’s right to be free from sexual exploitation.

Sex-based violence against women in Mexico is considered to be among the highest in the world, with the country’s femicide rate continuing to rise even as the general homicide rate falls. 85% of human trafficking victims in the country are female, with women and girls overrepresented in every form of the crime, including organ trafficking, forced prostitution, and labor exploitation.

The lack of justice for female victims of sex-based violence have led to widespread unrest in Mexico, especially amongst the organized feminist activist community who have staged regular protests this year. In March, thousands of women marched the streets of Mexico City demanding greater protection from law enforcement and the Government.

UPDATE July 8/22: A spokeswoman associated with WDI Mexico responded to Reduxx‘s request for comment, and, in a Spanish-language statement, called Clemente’s behavior “an embarrassment.”

“Although this behavior leaves much to be desired, for [feminists] it is an opportunity to show the world the truth about transgenderism,” representative Laura Lecuona says, “These are not simply a few men on the margins of society fighting for their right to housing and work.”

Lecuona says this is not the first time Clemente has been recorded as having an explosive emotional outburst. In December of 2021, Clemente allegedly attacked Congressional cafeteria staff after they used the wrong pronouns for him.

“[Clemente] was the reason Deputy Gabriel Quadri was reprimanded by the National Electoral Institute for alleged expressions of ‘discrimination and transphobia,'” Lecuona explained, noting that the precedent of Quadri’s penalization had feminists worried as it acted as a warning against expressing any critical sentiment.

“Not all gender identity activists make such a fuss. Others are more subtle in their ways, but most of those who are influencers and have a certain platform, whether in traditional media or on social networks, are hostile to radical feminists and to anyone who does not agree with them.”

Women’s Declaration International is a statement which affirms the rights of women and girls based on sex, and denounces the impact gender ideology has had on women’s rights. It currently has over 32,000 signatories from 159 countries.

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México: Político trans interrumpe conferencia contra la trata de personas  gritando consignas a favor de la prostitución.

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Anna Slatz
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Una conferencia sobre la lucha contra la trata de personas y el tráfico de migrantes fue interrumpida por un político transgénero que se enfureció y calificó de “discurso de odio” a la posición abolicionista de una ponente que hablaba en contra del comercio sexual.

El segundo día del 7º Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño sobre Trata de Personas y Tráfico de Migrantes se llevó a cabo el día miércoles en la Ciudad de México. El Congreso anual reunía a investigadores y políticos en la Cámara de Diputados de México para discutir formas para la erradicación de la trata de personas. El panel del miércoles contó con una conferencia de la socióloga española Dra. Rosa María Cobo, profesora de la Universidad de La Coruña.

La Dra. Cobo ofreció una perspectiva feminista radical sobre la trata de personas y exigió la abolición del comercio sexual que, según señaló, se basaba en la explotación de mujeres y niñas con pocos recursos económicos y sociales.

“La prostitución no está bien, desde un punto de vista ético y político”, dijo la Dra. Cobo, “no es aceptable que una mujer se convierta en un objeto y no es aceptable que un hombre cosifique y agreda a mujeres de escasos recursos y que son vulnerables”.

Al final de su charla, la Dra. Cobo recibió un obsequio de Cecilia Márquez Alkadef, miembro de la Cámara de Diputados de México, y una de las principales organizadoras del Congreso anual.

Justo en el momento que la Dra. Cobo posaba para las fotografías, se escuchó una voz masculina gritando furiosamente a través del auditorio.

En la transmisión oficial en vivo del evento, la cámara mostró a un individuo cada vez más agresivo, gritando hacia el escenario antes de ponerse de pie para gritarle a la audiencia. El anfitrión del evento intentaba calmar al individuo y le pedía respeto para la perspectiva que presentó la Dra. Cobo, pero la cólera del hombre solo aumentó.

“¡Esto es un discurso de odio! ¡Esto es criminalizar a mis camaradas! ¡Este es un discurso de odio pagado con fondos del gobierno!”

El hombre fue identificado rápidamente como María Clemente, un política identificado como trans que fue elegido el año pasado y se convirtió en la primera persona transgénero en ingresar a la Cámara de Diputados de México.

Un miembro de la audiencia comenzó a discutir con Clemente, gritando de manera sarcástica: “¿Las mujeres nacieron para ser putas?”. A lo que Clemente respondió: “¡Pues yo soy mujer, y soy puta! ¡Es mi trabajo y cómo come mi familia! ¡Me encanta!”

En otro ángulo dentro del mismo altercado, se puede escuchar a Clemente cantando: “¡El trabajo sexual es trabajo! ¡El trabajo sexual es trabajo!”. Clemente también arremetió contra uno de los funcionarios del Congreso que intentaba calmarlo llamándolo ‘Señor’, lo que provocó que se acercara agresivamente al podio gritando: “¡María! ¡María! ¡Mi nombre es Maria!”

Tras los exabruptos de Clemente, el Congreso entró en receso. De acuerdo con La Razón de México, Clemente dejo el lugar junto a otros asistentes. Ese día el Congreso celebraba su reunión final.

Algunos videos de la rabieta de Clemente tomados por un miembro de la audiencia comenzaron a circular en las redes sociales ya para el jueves, y muchas feministas mexicanas expresaron su indignación por su furiosa defensa de la prostitución y el descarrilamiento de una conferencia sobre la trata de personas.

“Yo no soy psicóloga pero esta gente necesitan ayuda mental urgente. No están bien, de verdad. Vemos las mismas escenas. Odio, rabia, violencia, agresividad y un ego patológico descomunal. Patalean como niños pequeños en cuerpos de adultos. No es normal. Un comentarista escribió debajo de uno de los videos del incidente publicados por la sucursal Mexicana de Women’s Declaration International.

Muchos elogiaron a Sonia Sánchez, la abolicionista que encaro a Clemente en la audiencia y defendió el derecho de las mujeres a estar libres de explotación sexual.

La violencia sexual contra las mujeres en México se considera una de las más altas del mundo, y la tasa de femicidios del país continúa aumentando incluso cuando la tasa general de homicidios ha bajado. El 85% de las víctimas de trata de personas en el país son mujeres, y las mujeres y las niñas están sobrerrepresentadas como víctimas en todas las formas de delito, incluyendo el tráfico de órganos, la prostitución forzada y la explotación laboral.

La falta de justicia para las mujeres víctimas de violencia sexual ha provocado disturbios generalizados en México, especialmente entre la comunidad de activistas feministas organizadas que ha llevado a cabo protestas durante todo el año. En marzo, miles de mujeres marcharon por las calles de la Ciudad de México exigiendo mayor protección por parte de la policía y el Gobierno.

ACTUALIZACIÓN 8/22 de Julio: Una vocera asociada con WDI México respondió a la solicitud de Reduxx y calificó el comportamiento de Clemente como “una vergüenza”.

“Aunque este comportamiento deja mucho que desear, para las feministas es una oportunidad para mostrarle al mundo la verdad sobre el transgenerismo”, dijo la representante Laura Lecuona, “Estos no son simplemente unos pocos hombres al margen de la sociedad que luchan por sus derechos de vivienda y trabajo”.

Lecuona dice que esta no es la primera vez que se registra un arrebato emocional explosivo por parte Clemente. En diciembre del 2021, Clemente supuestamente atacó al personal de la cafetería del Congreso luego de que usaran pronombres incorrectos para referirse a él.

“Clemente fue la razón por la cual el diputado Gabriel Quadri fue amonestado por el Instituto Nacional Electoral por supuestas expresiones  ‘discriminatorias y transfobicas’”, explicó Lecuona, y señaló que el precedente de la sanción de Quadri tenía preocupadas a las feministas, ya que actuaba como una advertencia contra la expresión de cualquier sentimiento crítico.

“No todos los activistas de la identidad de género hacen tanto alboroto. Otros son más sutiles en sus formas, pero la mayoría de los que son influencers y tienen cierta plataforma, ya sea en los medios tradicionales o en las redes sociales, son hostiles a las feministas radicales y a cualquiera que no esté de acuerdo con ellos”.

La Declaración Internacional de la Mujer es una declaración que afirma los derechos de las mujeres y las niñas en función del sexo y denuncia el impacto que la ideología de género ha tenido sobre los derechos de las mujeres. Actualmente cuenta con más de 32.000 signatarios de 159 países.

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Universidad alemana cancela conferencia de bióloga tras quejas de activistas trans

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Genevieve Gluck
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Una universidad alemana cedió ante las demandas del activismo trans y canceló una conferencia presidida por una bióloga sobre la evolución, por considerarse “transfóbica” al afirmar que solo existían dos sexos. El evento, llamado La Larga Noche de la Ciencia, estaba programado para el sábado 2 de julio.

La bióloga y feminista Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, candidata a doctorado en la Universidad Humboldt, tenía previsto dar una presentación sobre la evolución del sexo biológico en La larga noche de las ciencias, un evento anual multidisciplinario que se lleva a cabo instituciones científicas a lo largo del territorio Alemán. El evento busca utilizar a la ciencia como “ respuesta a las noticias falsas, teorías de conspiración y errores fatales”.

La conferencia de Vollbrecht, titulada “Género no es lo mismo que sexo. Sexo, género y por qué solo hay dos sexos en la biología” tenía como objetivo plasmar su investigación dentro de su principal área de interés académico, que incluye la neurobiología y la fisiología animal.

Pero Vollbrecht cuenta que fue víctima de una campaña abusiva lanzada por activistas que exigieron la cancelación su charla en base a que su investigación científica promovía la intolerancia.

“Dos días antes de que comenzara el evento, los activistas trans intentaron intimidarme”, dijo Vollbrecht para Reduxx, “Me denunciaron en masa, enviaron capturas de pantalla de mi supuesta ‘transfobia’ a mi supervisor de doctorado. Tuve que borrar unos 1000 tuits porque no quería que mi jefe y todos los de la universidad leyeran mi cuenta privada de Twitter. Lo tomaron como una prueba de que estoy tratando de ocultar mi transfobia, pero solo estaba discutiendo sobre temas cientificos”.

El Comité General de Estudiantes (Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss, o AStA) envió un correo electrónico a los organizadores del evento La Larga Noche de la Ciencia en el que afirmaban que las opiniones de Vollbrecht eran “anticientíficas” y “hostiles” hacia las personas transgénero.

“En la Larga Noche de las Ciencias 2022 este sábado 2 de julio, Marie-Luise Vollbrecht dará una conferencia en el destacado Salón del Senado directamente en el edificio principal de la Universidad Humboldt, en la que afirma que solo existen dos sexos biológicos, ” Dice el correo.

“¡Esta tesis no solo es acientífica, sino inhumana y hostil a las personas queer y trans*! Además, semanas antes, Vollbrecht, junto a otros autores, publicaron un artículo incendiario en Die Welt, en el que afirmaban que las emisoras públicas difunden ‘ideología transgénero’”.

 “¡Proporcionar a una persona así la sala más destacada de la Universidad Humboldt como parte de un evento científico, nos parece absolutamente incorrecto! Los estudiantes nos oponemos a esto y llamamos a una manifestación del AKJ (Grupo de Trabajo de Abogados Críticos) a partir de las 4:30 pm frente al edificio principal. Vengan en gran número, sean diversos y demuestren a la Universidad Humboldt y al público en general que no toleraremos esto”.

La noche anterior a la fecha programada para el evento, AKJ utilizó el servidor de correo electrónico de la universidad para enviar un mensaje al cuerpo estudiantil denunciando a Vollbrecht y llamando a los manifestantes a manifestarse fuera del Salón del Senado.

En respuesta a la creciente presión, los administradores de la universidad decidieron cancelar la conferencia de Vollbrecht bajo la premisa de que no podían proporcionar el personal de seguridad necesario para resguardarla a ella y evitar actos vandálicos.

“Me llamaron el sábado por la mañana pocas horas antes de que me tocara dar mi presentación y me dijeron que tenían que posponerla por razones de seguridad”, dijo Vollbrecht.

A pesar de la cancelación de su conferencia, aproximadamente 100 estudiantes protestaron en las afueras del edificio donde se iba a llevar a cabo La Larga Noche de la Ciencia. Una gran pancarta adherida a la puerta del Salón del Senado, colocada encima del cartel del evento, decía: “No hay plataforma para el antifeminismo, la transfobia, la ideología de derecha y ni las opiniones no científicas, vete a la mierda”.

El lunes 4 de julio, una portavoz de AKJ, Stefanie Richter, publicó una declaración en el sitio web del grupo en la que criticaba a la dirección de la universidad por no condenar a Vollbrecht y exigía que la universidad “identificara claramente a la transfobia como tal”.

Richter pasó a llamar a Vollbrecht una “TERF” y declaró que su conferencia sobre el sexo biológico era simplemente “una presentación de (supuestos) hechos”. El 6 de julio, el Comité General de Estudiantes envió la declaración de la AKJ a todo el alumnado, nuevamente utilizando el servidor de correo electrónico de la universidad.

Antes de los eventos del 2 de julio, Vollbrecht  junto a otros académicos había sido coautora de una carta abierta, publicada el 1 de junio, pidiendo el cese de los “informes falsos” sobre el tema de la ideología de identidad de género y las drogas eufemísticamente denominadas “bloqueadores de la pubertad”. Hasta el momento, la carta ha obtenido más de 1.600 firmas.

“El tema ‘trans’ se les presenta a los niños y jóvenes a través de la radiodifusión pública, resultando en que el número de niños y jóvenes atendidos por disforia de género sea  veinticinco veces mayor en menos de una década”, detalla el comunicado.

Publicado junto con la carta abierta, Vollbrecht y otros investigadores en el campo de la ciencia publicaron un dossier titulado “Ideología en lugar de biología en la ÖRR”. La ÖRR es el servicio de radiodifusión nacional de Alemania, y los académicos trabajaron en conjunto para analizar horas de contenido multimedia producido y promovido por la ÖRR. Durante el curso de su investigación, descubrieron que “contenido de tipo sexual explícito dirigido a niños y adultos jóvenes” es promovido por medios subsidiados por el gobierno alemán.

En particular, Vollbrecht y los otros académicos participantes resaltaron a un programa para niños pequeños que tenia a un hombre que se identificaba como mujer. Durante un episodio, emitido el 27 de marzo para destacar el Día de la Visibilidad Transgénero, el hombre que se hace llamar “Katja” mostró su colección de tacones altos y habló  de cómo envidiaba a las chicas cuando era más joven. El programa, dirigido a niños de hasta cuatro años, introdujo el concepto de identidad de género y promovió políticas de autoidentificación sexual.

Según el dossier, otro programa que la ÖRR recomienda para jóvenes de 14 años en adelante sirve como material introductorio para BDSM y la pornografía. Un presentador llamado Leeroy explora temas sexuales para adultos en sus videos, incluyendo la transexualidad, la pornografía, la prostitución, la violación y la pedofilia. Vollbrecht y los otros investigadores recopilaron sus hallazgos en un artículo para Die Welt, también publicado el 1 de junio. Fue la culminación de su investigación y crítica de la emisora ​​nacional ÖRR que luego desencadenó una campaña de acoso en línea por parte de transactivistas.

Luego del intenso cuestionamiento por parte de los medios sobre Vollbrecht y la cancelación de su conferencia científica, se le dio la oportunidad de explicar el contenido de su presentación en un artículo publicado el 6 de julio por Zeit Online:

“Mi conferencia habría sido sobre tres cosas: explicar por qué solo hay dos sexos desde el punto de vista biológico; dejar claro que los debates sobre roles sociales de género son otro tema; y para aclarar por qué creo no se deben mezclar a los dos”.

Continúa explicando que, a diferencia del inglés, el idioma alemán no distingue entre “género” y “sexo”, diciendo: “En inglés, la separación lingüística se hace con las palabras sexo para el género biológico y género para los roles de género determinados culturalmente. En contraste con el concepto de género en biología, sexo, la definición con respecto a las identidades de género, género, sigue sin estar claras”.

A pesar de ello, “el sexo biológico de los humanos es binario”, afirma Vollbrecht. “Hay hombres y mujeres. Nacemos hombre o mujer y conservamos nuestro sexo hasta el final de la vida”.

Mientras compartía con Reduxx, Vollbrecht insistió en que no responsabiliza a la Universidad Humboldt, pero siente que los activistas trans que se aprovecharon del sistema del servidor de correo para calumniarla deberían rendir cuentas. Los administradores de la universidad propusieron una fecha futura para un debate, abierto a sus detractores, en el que Vollbrecht dijo que participaría. Los representantes de Humboldt no han respondido a una solicitud de comentarios por Reduxx en este momento.

En respuesta a la cancelación de la conferencia de Vollbrecht, la YouTuber austriaca Donna Krasniqi transmitió una discusión en vivo con Vollbrecht en la que presentó la investigación destinada para la conferencia. Desde entonces, el video se ha visto casi 100.000 veces, y los comentaristas afirman con frecuencia que no se dijo nada controvertido.

“Quería mostrar de que iba a hablar y que no había nada de odio involucrado. Siento que la mayoría de las personas están decepcionadas porque esperaban algo más dramático, pero muchas personas comentaron que esto es solo biología escolar. La charla que quería dar estaba hecha para niños”, dijo Vollbrecht.

“Esto es lo peor que me ha pasado. Nunca quise estar expuesta de esta manera… o ser el centro de atención. Pero me alegro poder demostrar que realmente tenemos un problema con los activistas radicales en las universidades”, agregó.

“Durante meses, traté de decirle a la gente que un gran porcentaje de personas realmente creen que existen más de dos sexos, y los encargados en los departamentos de ciencias están realmente ciegos ante esto. De verdad espero que esto obligue a que tengamos la conversación que necesitamos entablar”.

Las reacciones ante el ataque a la conferencia científica de Vollbrecht han sido tremendas, con hashtags como #HumboldtUni y #Geschlecht se volvieron en tendencia en Twitter. Incluso funcionarios del gobierno alemán han ofrecido sus perspectivas sobre la situación.

La ministra de Educación e Investigación, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, expresó su preocupación por las acciones de la universidad y declaró para a Bild Zeitung: “La ciencia se nutre de la libertad y el debate… La decisión sobre qué posiciones pueden ser escuchadas y cuáles no nunca deben estar en manos de activistas”.

De manera similar, el vicepresidente del Bundestag, Wolfgang Kubicki, advirtió: “Si cedemos en este punto y dejamos el campo de juego a los opositores a la libertad de expresión, tendrá consecuencias dolorosas para la libertad de todas las personas en este país”.

Este no es el primer caso en que grupos  estudiantiles de activismo trans se oponen a la discusión sobre el sexo biológico en entornos académicos. El noviembre pasado, la profesora de la Universidad de Sussex, la Dra. Kathleen Stock, renunció después de soportar años de acoso por parte de transactivistas que pedían su despido.

Según la Dra. Stock, su “punto de inflexión” fue cuando su universidad se puso del lado de quienes habían emprendido una campaña de “intimidación” en su contra, pero desde entonces recibió el apoyo de la comunidad feminista y figuras destacadas como Richard Dawkins y JK Rowling. La Dra. Stock está lista para dar una conferencia sobre “variedades de feminismo” en una universidad recién establecida en Austin, Texas, lo que indica que los intentos de los activistas trans por silenciar las opiniones críticas están teniendo un efecto contrario al deseado.

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German University Cancelled Biologist’s Lecture After Complaints from Trans Activists

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Genevieve Gluck
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A German university cancelled a biologist’s lecture on evolution after caving in to the demands of trans activists on the campus who called it “transphobic” for asserting there were only two sexes. The event, called The Long Night of Science, was scheduled to take place on Saturday, July 2.

Biologist and feminist Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, a PhD candidate at Humboldt University, was scheduled to give a presentation on the evolution of biological sex at The Long Night of the Sciences, a multidisciplinary annual event held at scientific institutions across Germany. The event is intended to use science as “an answer to fake news, conspiracy theories and fatal errors.”

Vollbrecht’s lecture, titled “Gender is not the same as sex. Sex, gender and why there are only two sexes in biology” was intended to demonstrate her research in her main area of academic interest, which includes neurobiology and animal physiology.

But Vollbrecht explains she was the victim of an abusive campaign launched by activists which demanded her talk be cancelled on the basis that her scientific research was bigoted.

“Two days before the event started, [trans activists] tried to intimidate me,” Vollbrecht told Reduxx, “They mass-reported me, they sent screenshots of my supposed ‘transphobia’ to my PhD supervisor. I had to delete about 1,000 tweets because I didn’t want my boss and everyone in the university to read my private Twitter account. They saw it as proof that I’m trying to hide [my] transphobia, but I was just arguing about science.”

Announcement for Vollbrecht’s lecture posted to the organizer’s site

The General Students’ Committee (Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss, or AStA) sent an e-mail to the organizers of The Night of Long Science event wherein they claimed Vollbrecht’s views were “unscientific” and “hostile” to transgender people.

“At the Long Night of the Sciences 2022 this Saturday, July 2, Marie-Luise Vollbrecht is to give a lecture in the prominent Senate Hall directly in the main building of Humboldt University, in which she claims that there are only two biological sexes,” read the email.

“Not only is this thesis unscientific, but inhuman and hostile to queer and trans*! In addition, a few weeks ago, Vollbrecht, together with some other authors, published an inflammatory article Die Welt, in which she claims that public broadcasters spread ‘transgender ideology.'”

The email continued: “To provide such a person with the most prominent room of Humboldt University as part of a science event, we find absolutely wrong! We students oppose this and call for a rally of the AKJ (Working Group of Critical Lawyers) from 4:30 pm in front of the main building. Come in large numbers, be diverse and show Humboldt University and the public that we will not put up with this.”

The night before the event was scheduled to take place, AKJ utilized the university’s e-mail server to message the student body in order to denounce Vollbrecht and call for protesters to demonstrate outside of the Senate Hall.

In response to escalating pressure, university administrators decided to cancel Vollbrecht’s lecture on the premise that they could not provide security personnel to protect her or staff from the possibility of violence.

“They called me on Saturday morning some hours before I was supposed to give my presentation and told me that they had to postpone it for security reasons,” Vollbrecht said.

Despite her lecture’s cancellation, approximately 100 students protested outside of the building where The Long Night of Science was set to take place. A large banner attached to the gate of the Senate Hall, placed on top of the event poster, read, “No platform for anti-feminism, transphobia, right-wing ideology, and unscientific [views], f*ck off.”

On Monday, July 4, a spokesperson for AKJ, Stefanie Richter, published a statement to the group’s website which criticized university management’s refusal to condemn Vollbrecht, and demanded that the university “clearly name transphobia as such.”

Richter went on to call Vollbrecht a “TERF,” and declared that her lecture on biological sex was simply “a presentation of (alleged) facts.” On July 6, the General Students’ Committee sent the AKJ statement out to the entire student body, again using the university’s e-mail server.

Student transactivist protesters demonstrating against biologist Marie-Luise Vollbrecht’s lecture on the evolution of biological sex

Leading up to the events on July 2, Vollbrecht had co-authored an open letter with several other academics, published on June 1, calling for an end to “false reporting” on the issue of gender identity ideology and the drugs euphemistically referred to as “puberty blockers.” The letter has thus far been signed by over 1,600 individuals.

“The subject of ‘trans’ is brought to children and young people through public broadcasting, with the result that the number of children and young people treated for gender dysphoria has increased twenty-five-fold in less than ten years,” reads the statement.

Published in conjunction with the open letter, Vollbrecht and others in the field of science released a dossier titled “Ideology instead of biology in the ÖRR.” The ÖRR is the national broadcasting service of Germany, and academics had worked together to examine hours of media content produced and promoted by ÖRR. During the course of their research, they discovered “explicit sexual media directed at children and young adults” being promoted by government subsidized media channels.

In particular, Vollbrecht and the other academics involved highlighted a program aimed at young children which featured a man who identified as a woman. During the episode, which aired on March 27 to highlight the Transgender Day of Visibility, a man who goes by “Katja” showed off a collection of high heels and spoke of having been jealous of girls when he was younger. The program, targeted at children as young as four years old, introduced the concept of gender identity and promoted sex self-identification policies.

According to the dossier, another program that the ÖRR recommends for young people aged 14 and over introduces children to BDSM and pornography. A host named Leeroy explores adult sexual themes in his videos, including transsexuality, pornography, prostitution, rape, and pedophilia. Vollbrecht and the other researchers summarized their findings in an article for Die Welt, also published on June 1. It was the culmination of her research and criticism of national broadcaster ÖRR that resulted in a campaign of online harassment by transactivists.

Following intense media scrutiny of both Vollbrecht and the cancellation of her scientific lecture, she was afforded an opportunity to explain the contents of her presentation in an article published July 6 by Zeit Online:

“My lecture would have been about three things: to explain why there are only two sexes from a biological point of view; to make it clear that debates about social gender roles are something else; and to justify why I think it’s wrong to mix the two.”

She goes on to explain that unlike English, the German language does not distinguish between “gender” and “sex,” saying: “In English, the linguistic separation is made by the words sex for biological gender and gender for culturally determined gender roles. In contrast to the concept of gender in biology – sex – the definition with regard to gender identities – gender – remains unclear.”

Despite this, “the biological sex of humans is binary,” asserts Vollbrecht. “There are male and there are female people. We are born male or female and retain our sex until the end of life.”

While speaking with Reduxx, Vollbrecht insisted that she did not hold Humboldt University responsible, but felt that the trans activists who abused the mail server system to libel her should be held accountable. University administrators have proposed a future date for a debate, open to her detractors, which Vollbrecht has said she would participate in. Humboldt representatives have not responded to a request from Reduxx for comment at this time.

In response to the cancellation of Vollbrecht’s lecture, Austrian YouTuber Donna Krasniqi streamed a live discussion with Vollbrecht in which she presented the research she had been set to lecture on. The video has since been viewed nearly 100,000 times, with commenters frequently remarking that nothing controversial was said.

“I wanted to show what I was going to talk about, and that there’s nothing hateful in it. I feel most people are disappointed because they expected something more dramatic, but many people commented that this is just school biology. The talk I wanted to give was [made for] children,” Vollbrecht said.

“This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I never wanted to be exposed like that… or in the spotlight. But I am glad that I could demonstrate that we really have a problem with radical activists at universities,” she added.

“For months, I tried to tell people that a huge percentage of people now really believe that there are more than two sexes, and people in the science departments are really blind to it. I really hope that this now starts the conversation that we need to have.”

The response to the attack on Vollbrecht’s scientific lecture has been tremendous, with hashtags such as #HumboldtUni and #Geschlecht trending on Twitter. Even government officials have offered their perspectives on the situation.

The Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, expressed concern over the university’s actions, and told Bild Zeitung, “Science thrives on freedom and debate… It must not be in the hands of activists which positions may be heard and which may not.”

Similarly, Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki warned: “If we give in at this point and leave the playing field to the opponents of freedom of expression, it will have painful consequences for the freedom of all people in the country.”

This is not the first instance trans activist student groups opposing discussion of biological sex within academic settings. Last November, University of Sussex professor Dr. Kathleen Stock resigned after enduring years of harassment from transactivists calling for the termination of her employment.

According to Dr. Stock, her “tipping point” came when her University sided with those who had waged a campaign of “intimidation” against her, but she had since received support from the feminist community and prominent figures like Richard Dawkins and JK Rowling. Dr. Stock is set to give a lecture on “varieties of feminism” at a newly-established University in Austin, Texas, indicating that trans activists’ attempts to silence critical views are having the opposite of their intended effect.

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UK: Tribunal Rules Maya Forstater Was Discriminated Against Due To ‘Gender Critical’ Beliefs

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Jennifer Sieland
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An employment tribunal has ruled that a women’s rights advocate was discriminated against after her contract was not renewed following tweets she made on gender ideology.

Maya Forstater was directly discriminated against and victimized when the Centre for Global Development (CGD), where she was a visiting fellow, did not renew her contract or fellowship and scrubbed her profile from their website. The groundbreaking decision comes as a hard-won battle by Forstater to secure gender-critical views as a protected philosophical belief under the United Kingdom’s 2010 Equality Act.

Forstater had initially brought her case against CGD to a London employment tribunal in 2019 after her contract was not renewed in March of that year, with her former employers claiming views she had expressed on social media were “offensive and exclusionary.” Forstater, a gender critical feminist, believes men cannot become women and had stated such.

Amongst her tweets brought for review included an analogy between trans-identified males and Rachel Dolezal, a white American woman who self-identified as Black, and another in which she wrote: “A man’s internal feeling that he is a woman has no basis in material reality.”

In December of 2019, a Judge at the tribunal had ruled against Forstater, claiming her views on women’s sex-based rights were “not worthy of respect in democratic society,” and calling her views “absolutist.”

But Forstater went on to appeal the decision at the employment appeal tribunal (EAT), and an appeals panel determined the previous Judge had “erred in law” in making his decision. The panel would go on to write in their ruling that Forstater’s views “may well be profoundly offensive and even distressing to many others, but they are beliefs that are and must be tolerated in a pluralist society.” Following the successful appeal, Forstater’s case was returned to the employment tribunal to determine if she had faced discrimination.

Today, the tribunal determined Forstater had been subjected to discrimination when her contract at CGD was not renewed on the basis of her views, upholding two complaints of direct discrimination and one of victimization.

In its judgement, the tribunal stated: “Absent an explanation from the respondents, the facts are such that the tribunal could properly conclude that the tweets were a substantial part of the reason why Ms Forstater was not offered employment; and the respondent’s evidence, far from proving the contrary, supports the finding that they were …” It continued, “We reminded ourselves that it would be an error to treat a mere statement of Ms. Forstater’s protected belief as inherently unreasonable or inappropriate.”

Any settlement or remedies owed to Forstater are to be determined at a later date.

In today’s decision, the panel determined the tweets by Forstater they had reviewed constituted her protected gender critical views.

Forstater wrote several tweets on the ruling, explaining in one that “the judgment is 81 pages. It is highly fact based. I did not harass anyone and there was never a claim that I did. This is not a license to harass people. Rather it is a recognition that in a democratic country people with different beliefs can express them and get along.”

In another, she said: “Employers take note: if people who think gender critical beliefs are not worthy of respect tell you to discriminate against us and you do, you could be liable.”

In an official statement, Forstater wrote that her case “matters for everyone who believes in the importance of truth and free speech. We are all free to believe whatever we wish. What we are not free to do is compel others to believe the same thing, to silence those who disagree with us or to force others to deny reality.”

She continued: “The tribunal has found that I was a victim of discrimination because I stated that biological sex is real and important, a view shared by the vast majority of people in this country. I hope employers will take note of the judgment.”

Feminists in the United Kingdom were particularly overjoyed with Forstater’s victory, and inundated her with praise and thanks for her hard-fought battle.

Onjali Rauf, founder of anti-sexual exploitation group Making Herstory and O’s Refugee Aid Team, tweeted out that she had to pull over as word of Forstater’s victory caused her to burst into tears while driving. “Just letting this moment sink in,” she wrote, posting a selfie, “And I wanted you to see one of the many millions of smiles you’ll have sparked today.”

Even prolific author JK Rowling took to Twitter to express gratitude to Forstater, calling her a “warrior.”

Rowling had first charged into the debate surrounding gender ideology in 2019 after expressing she “stood with Maya” following the announcement of Forstater’s case in a tweet which has over 262,000 ‘likes.’

But Rowling didn’t shy away from the firestorm of activist fury she had generated and instead doubled-down, continuously affirming herself as a vocal advocate for women’s sex-based rights and other parallel issues within the gender debate.

Forstater is the Executive Director at Sex Matters — a registered non-profit which campaigns to promote clarity about sex in public policy, law and culture. Part of the group’s stated values include that “[i]ndividuals should be free to hold and express diverse beliefs, and to express themselves about sex and gender identity, without sanctions or being labelled hateful.”

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Icons Bette Midler and Macy Gray Come Out Against The Erasure of Women

By
Shay Woulahan
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Iconic stars Bette Midler and Macy Gray are facing backlash from trans activists but celebration from feminists after coming out against the erasure of women on the same day.

On July 4, Midler lashed out against terms such as “birthing people” and “menstruators,” calling on women to fight back against being reduced to body parts and functions.

Midler referenced the recent rollback of reproductive rights in the United States, which has seen an uptick in “progressive” politicians, activists, and institutions scrambling to use non-gendered language when discussing issues such as abortion and pregnancy in order to avoid accusations of excluding transgender people.

Midler’s passionate tweet has wracked up over 86,000 likes at the time of publication, with many feminists overjoyed to see Midler join the ranks of the other mega-celebrities who have put their careers and reputations on the line to speak out against the increasingly-powerful transgender lobby.

But while pro-woman advocates rejoiced, not all of the responses were supportive.

Some replies to Midler’s statement patronizingly suggested that she needed “education” on trans rights and inclusivity, arguing that women aren’t the only ones who give birth, get periods, or become pregnant.

Trans activist and actor, Nicole Maines responded to Midler saying: “That language is reflective of the reality that simply not just cisgender women menstruate or have need of reproductive healthcare. It takes away nothing from anyone to update and use accurate terminology as our understanding evolves.”

Maines’ claim that accomodating trans-identified males “takes away nothing from anyone” comes in ironic contradiction to the fact he had sued his school district to demand they give him access to the female restroom, attacking a law in Maine that had required school bathroom to be sex-segregated for the safety of girls. The ruling in Maines’ 2013 case resulted in the state being required to revise its laws to allow males to self-identify into female restrooms in schools.

Other respondents to Midler’s tweet, including Chicago Magazine editor Kris Vire, threatened to boycott Midler’s upcoming movie if she did not retract her pro-women statement.

But Midler wasn’t the only icon to come out on July 4 as being tired of the erasure of the female sex.

Legendary R&B singer Macy Gray also attracted controversy over similar statements she made while being interviewed by Piers Morgan.

Just 30 minutes prior to Midler’s statement, Morgan had tweeted out a clip from the interview with Gray for an episode of his upcoming show. During the interview, Gray said:

“I will say this and everyone’s gonna hate me but as a woman, just because you go change your [body] parts, doesn’t make you a woman, sorry.” During the interview, she went on to say: “But if you want me to call you a ‘her,’ I will, because that’s what you want. But that doesn’t make you a woman, just because I call you a ‘her’ and just because you got surgery.”

The moment the clip began to circulate, social media users leaped to called Gray a “TERF,” and even demeaned her as “transphobic garbage.”

When ITV broadcaster Jonathan “India” Willoughby stated Gray was “killing” what was “left of [her career],” the I Try singer responded simply: “Truth Hurts.”

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Today, Willoughby took to his Twitter to slam both Midler and Gray in a bizarre statement where he accused them of “internalizing fascist propaganda,” comparing the stars to “Goebbels, Stalin, Roy Cohn, and Jiang Qing.”

Social media users were quick to Willoughby, a trans-identified male, out for racism and anti-Semitism, especially as he appeared to compare Midler, a Jewish woman, to Adolf Hitler’s top propagandist.

This is not the first time Willoughby has faced criticism for using extreme imagery when attempting to push his narrative.

Willoughby has a reputation on Twitter for comparing individuals who disagree with him, including JK Rowling, to Hitler. Even other trans activists have called out his anti-Semitic behavior.

Shortly after the start of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Wolloughby captioned a 2016 photo of children in a war zone “Trans kids saluting the adults who stand up against the might of the British Government, Press, and Gender Critical Cult.”

Recent research has shown “gender neutral” language to be detrimental to women’s physical and mental health.

Earlier this year, a collaboration of 10 women’s health researchers from Australia, the US, Europe and Asia argued that replacing words like “breastfeeding” with a gender-neutral counterpart such as “lactating parent” risks “reducing protection of the mother-infant [bond]” and “disembodying and undermining breastfeeding.”

Published in academic journal Frontiers in Global Women’s Health, the paper, titled “Effective Communication About Pregnancy, Birth, Lactation, Breastfeeding and Newborn Care: The Importance of Sexed Language,” argued that “imprecise or inappropriate terminology can have particular implications in policy which may affect many women and infants.”

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