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EXCLUSIVE: Trans Inmate Highlighted by Mainstream Media Was Abusing Staff, Female Inmates

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Female inmates have come forward and provided testimony that calls into question the narrative of a trans-identified male inmate who was highlighted by media as a victim of transphobia while housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCF) in New Jersey.

Raequan ‘Rae’ Rollins, a trans-identifying male inmate, was sentenced in 2019 to four years in prison for a violent robbery incident. After five months in a male facility, Rollins changed his legal gender marker to ‘female’ and was subsequently transferred to the Edna Mahan women’s estate in October of that year.

Speaking with Reduxx, Kokila Hiatt, a current inmate at EMCF who was incarcerated when Rollins was transferred, claimed that Rollins “frequently stated that ‘no one [in the prison] can beat me’ and used that as an intimidation tactic against women and officers.”

“He assaulted many officers and was given a disciplinary charge once for either threatening to sexually assault a female staff member or saying something sexually derogatory to a female staff member,” Hiatt added.

But most disturbingly, Hiatt asserts that Rollins had been responsible for one of the most extreme events of prison guard brutality against EMCF inmates in the prison’s recent history — an incident that left six women severely physically battered.

On January 11, 2021, during what ought to have been routine “cell extractions” conducted to search for contraband, the prison officers wore riot gear, carried pepper spray canisters and shields, and moved in formations of five from cell to cell. EMCF guards brutally beat inmates in what has been described as a coordinated attack.

Footage recorded by officers during the incident was released in June of 2021 by local news, and showed the disturbing scenes as they unfolded.

“The context of [that day] was that the inmates, both him and the women, had been throwing bodily fluids on officers for at least a week straight,” Hiatt told Reduxx. “This is behavior not typical of women, and what I have noticed is that these [trans-identified males] come here and introduce these kinds of tactics to the women inmates. It’s not that women are unaware of these things, but it is just not typical behavior for them.”

Gassing, also known as ‘chucking,’ is an act of rebellion by inmates against prison staff using bodily excretions as projectiles. The most common bodily excretions thrown include feces, urine, semen, or saliva. As it carries a high risk of spreading infectious diseases, it is considered a felony in most U.S. states. The vast majority of gassing incidents reported from U.S. prisons have occurred in male facilities.

After the January 11 incident, Rollins launched a lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Corrections and subsequently received widespread media attention. Rollins’ gender identity was a central focus of the stories, and the six women who had been beaten were often a small detail, if mentioned at all. In some cases, the brutality directed towards him by officers was framed as an act of ‘transphobia.’

The New York Times interviewed Rollins’ mother about his lawsuit, and stated that “New Jersey’s only women’s prison was supposed to be a haven,” for Rollins. The violence against the women inmates was treated as ancillary to his story. Pink News reported that it was a “fact” that Rollins was a woman, and referred to the six women who were beaten as “other inmates.” CNN published multiple articles about Rollins, quoting his lawyer Oliver Barry about the “unsafe environment” he endured at EMCF.

While news of Rollins’ suit enjoyed national attention, a lawsuit filed by inmate Tatianna Harrison was only reported by one local outlet. Harrison had been one of the women brutalized that day, and revealed she “had a serious pre-existing spinal injury” which resulted in temporary paralysis after which she was handcuffed and an officer “knelt on her spine.” Her lawsuit also revealed officers had “ripped Ms. Harrison’s shirt open and pulled her pants and underwear down, exposing her groin and buttocks.”

Another one of the women assaulted during the assault, Desiree Dasilva, was hospitalized with a broken orbital bone, while another still alleged she was punched in the head 28 times while pressed face-first against the wall. Inmate Ajila Nelson said a group of officers beat and punched her, stripped off her clothes, and one male officer grabbed her breast and put his “fingers into my vagina.”

Diseree Dasilva after the January 11 attack by prison guards.

In response to Rollins’ suit, the prison’s top administrator, 22 correctional officers, and nine supervisors were suspended and an investigation was opened by the New Jersey’s Attorney General’s office. Rollins was transferred out of the women’s prison and temporarily placed in the New Jersey State Prison, before being transferred again to Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Muncy, a facility for adult female offenders. The women had no choice but to stay at EMCF.

Hiatt says Rollins should ultimately be seen as responsible for what happened on January 11, and expressed some disbelief at the media lauding him as a victim while ignoring the stories of the female inmates.

“I believe Rollins’ behavior was definitely the biggest catalyst behind administration and the officers handling the situation the way they did. The women were also misbehaving, but when you also have [Rollins] putting cops out of work week after week that surely didn’t help matters,” Hiatt told Reduxx, continuing that the January 11 incident is an example of how trans-identified males have changed the dynamic within the women’s facility.

“My intention is to get the word out about how the women here are being treated and how having men live with us has affected us in relation to the ‘transgender’ individuals being placed here. It has affected us as women and has changed the way the facility treats us.”

Hiatt’s assertions are corroborated by a now-deleted press statement issued in September 2021 by Demetrius ‘Demi’ Minor, a trans-identified male inmate, who described Rollins as inciting violence while incarcerated at Edna Mahan. “It has been pure hell. Inmate Rollins has assaulted numerous staff, causing dozens of staff members to be injured and out on leave,” reads the statement.

“Some inmates have complained and reported that inmate Rollins is telling inmates that [he] is not transgender and is simply a gay man,” Minor continued. “Rollins was involved in physical altercations with other non-transgender inmates [and] has attacked staff on numerous occasions, including throwing liquids at staff and threatening female officers.”

New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has a decades-long record of violence and sexual abuse perpetrated by staff against the incarcerated women under their supervision. Since 1990, over 70 reports have been lodged of staff-on-prisoner violations. A lawsuit filed in 1999 by two women suing the then-state corrections commissioner, superintendent and a corrections officer cited 10 incidents that had occurred during the past nine years. Their case was dismissed, and the court ruled that the administration could not be held liable for failing to protect inmates from a substantial risk of harm.

In addition, a 2020 report released by the Department of Justice detailed shocking instances of violence by staff against women inmates in what was described as a “pattern” of abuse.

The DOJ report stated that the corrections department “fails to keep prisoners at Edna Mahan safe from sexual abuse by staff, and Edna Mahan suffers from a ‘culture of acceptance’ of sexual abuse, which enabled abuse to persist “despite years of notice and efforts towards change at the state level.”

According to the report, “Edna Mahan have been aware that their women prisoners face a substantial risk of serious harm from sexual abuse, and they have failed to remedy this constitutional violation.”

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METRO Profiles Work of Gay Rights Advocate Who Contributed to “Pro-Pedophile” Anthology

By
Reduxx Team
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A major UK news outlet is prompting concern on social media after featuring a profile of a popular gay rights figure who contributed to a “pro-pedophile” anthology, wrote an obituary for a pedophile activist, and once claimed “children have sexual desires at an early age.”

On June 7, Metro published an article titled “Veterans from UK’s first Pride to mark 50th anniversary of ‘revolutionary’ event.” Both in the article’s graphic and the body of the piece, a photograph of a man holding a sign declaring “No Age Limit on Love” at the 1972 Pride march is prominently displayed.

While some commenters attempted to dismiss the sign as being a harmless reference to when the age of consent was higher for relationships between two males than between a male and a female, others are interpreting the sign along with the subject of the article and finding it far more nefarious.

The article is largely centered around profiling gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, a controversial figure with a long history of disturbing remarks about pedophilia and child sexual abuse.

As recently as 2018, Tatchell was forced to clarify his position on pedophilia after a letter to the Guardian he wrote in 1997 emerged. In the letter, Tatchell stated the “positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures,” and that he had friends who had engaged in “sex with adults from the ages of 9 to 13” who had enjoyed it.

Tatchell’s letter had been written in support of a book titled Dares to Speak: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Boy-love, published by the Gay Men’s Press in 1997. The book is said to have analyzed pedophilia in a favorable light, and utilized essays from Paidika, a European pro-pedophile journal.

At the time of its publication, the book had been slammed by journalist Ros Coward, who wrote that it “refuses to take seriously sexual abuse and its consequences.” Tatchell’s letter was in defense of the work, apparently displeased with Coward’s negative review.

Tatchell argued that while he was unable to condone pedophilia, not all sex involving children was “unwanted, abusive or harmful.”

After the letter emerged in 2018, Tatchell insisted his defense was misunderstood and stated he opposed child sexual abuse, and also claimed there were parts of his letter which condemned child sexual abuse that had been cut out by editors. But this was not the first instance of his comments prompting concern.

In 2009, Tatchell penned an op-ed for the Guardian advocating for the age of consent to be lowered, claiming children were being criminalized for having sex with their peers. Tatchell had previously conducted an interview with a 14-year-old prostituted child pseudonymously known as “Lee” which he claimed was for the same purpose — advocating for youth rights to be sexually active with those of similar ages. But the interview, headlined “I’m 14, I’m gay, and I want a boyfriend,” focused on Lee claiming children could consent to sex with adults, and stating he enjoying having sex with adult men.

For the interview, Tatchell would ask Lee a number of questions, some of which were sexually charged, as Lee repeatedly insisted there was no danger to his physical or mental health from having sex with adult men, and that he enjoyed being a prostitute.

“The law is stupid,” says Lee in the interview, “If I know what I’m doing and I’m not harming anyone else, I should be allowed to have sex with who I want.” Lee goes on to claim that laws deeming adult-child sex ‘indecent assault’ are “ridiculous,” stating: “I’m only 14 but I know what I’m doing. I understand what consent involves. So does the person I’m having sex with. No one is indecently assaulting me. That’s a stupid suggestion.”

At the time, Tatchell wrote that Lee was in a relationship with a man in his mid-20s, and Tatchell presented their relationship as harmless.

In a 2018 review of Tatchell’s disturbing history, feminist journalist Julie Bindel stated that in the interview “Tatchell appears only to be interested in pursuing the line about how much Lee says he likes sex with adult men.”

In 2021, Bindel, along with Melanie Newman and Hayley Dixon, revealed in the Telegraph that Tatchell had penned a book review in which he claimed that “children have sexual desires at an early age,” and praised the “courage” of those selling what he later admitted was a “pro-pedophilia” work.

The book was a collection of essays compiled by Warren Middleton, former vice-chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Tatchell contributed a chapter for the 1986 anthology titled “Radical perspectives on “Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People.” Other chapters in the anthology covered child sexual abuse material and the normalization of pedophilia.

While he would initially claim he was bamboozled into contributing to the text, denying knowledge of what the overall work was about, Bindel, Newman, and Dixon found that he had written a favorable review of the book at a later date.

The review, titled “Radical thoughts on consent,” lamented that Middleton was unable to find a publisher, and praised the book as speaking “coolly, clearly and radically about a subject which has far too long been shrouded in emotional hysteria and adult chauvinism.”

Tatchell would go on to apologize for the review, and continue to deny any instances of knowingly associating with members of PIE.

But this was not Tatchell’s first intersection with the notorious group. In 1998, he wrote a doting obituary for Ian Dunn, the co-founder of PIE. In the obituary Tatchell calls Dunn a “pioneer for lesbian and gay human rights, remaining a central figure in the battle for homosexual equality,” but does not mention his pro-pedophilia views, which was a focal point of his activism.

Dunn had organized pedophile meetups in Glasgow throughout the 70s and 80s, proudly stating: “I am not one of those homosexuals who get cross or nervous when the subject of love between men and boys is raised.” According to journalist Julie Bindel, Dunn allegedly raped a young boy who turned up at his funeral just to “make sure he was dead.”

As with the anthology contribution, review, and Guardian letter — Tatchell would claim ignorance, and state he was unaware of any pro-pedophilia advocacy conducted by Dunn.

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Woman Evicted From Domestic Violence Shelter After Expressing Concerns About Gender Self-ID

By
Anna Slatz
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A Canadian woman has come forward to reveal that she was removed from a transitional shelter after expressing concerns to management about gender ideology following two disturbing incidents within the residence.

Speaking exclusively with Reduxx, Jane* says she’d never given much thought to the gender identity issue prior to being moved into Peggy’s Place, a shelter for women in a suburban neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia which services women struggling with mental illness who have also been the victims of domestic violence.

“Before I arrived, I had never thought or cared much about gender identity,” she says, reflecting on the lead-up to her placement at the shelter. After escaping a situation of domestic violence and experiencing difficulties in access to urgent medical care, Jane says she was initially relieved when her social worker advised her she had been found a room at the shelter in May of 2019.

“It was a door I could lock. It was a private room for myself. I had what I needed nearby.” Jane describes being asked upon intake whether she was comfortable being around trans-identified people. She explains she’d both worked and socialized with trans-identified people without issue in the past and had no problems with them, so said she was.

“I had assumed there would be a really small chance of one of them being in the house, but I figured there would be some sort of screening process in place and there wouldn’t be any violations of our boundaries.”

But shortly after Jane moved in, she found that a trans-identified male had been living in the residence, and her assumptions were rapidly proven incorrect.

At first, Jane says she’d just tried to avoid Max*, who she described as being over 6′ tall and obviously male. But just weeks after arriving, Jane says she caught him in the hall outside of her room, completely nude but for a bra he was holding to his chest as he modeled his body in the full-length mirror near Jane’s door. He was fully intact, and was not covering his genitalia in any way.

“In my mind, I shut down. There was so much fear.”

“I froze and never made direct eye contact. A part of me died. I went into my room and locked the door,” Jane says, “I kept telling myself I had a door that locked. In my mind, I shut down. There was so much fear.”

Jane states she had briefly considered returning to the house she had escaped from, but it was the fact she had a locking door and room to herself that made her feel she could make it work at the shelter.

Jane attempted to complain to staff over what had happened, but says her concerns were given a low priority and dismissed.

“They just said ‘some people don’t respect boundaries.’ Nothing was done. It didn’t matter that I had sexual trauma,” she recalls, noting that the event had taught her she needed to keep quiet.

Shortly after, Max was involved in an incident with another female shelter resident.

Jane describes Lucy* as being severely physically and intellectually disabled, and anorexic to the point of often not having the strength to walk unassisted. But Jane describes Lucy as being the victim of a violent tirade by Max, with the man screaming verbal abuse at her.

“Hearing a man scream [like that] reminded me of my dad. If someone is doing a falsetto when they speak but then drop down to their natural octave when they are enraged and screaming, it communicates to you that this is a danger in a really primal way,” Jane says, noting that she hadn’t been privy to what had set Max, but that his rampage had created unease amongst staff and other residents – especially as he had a tendency to steal knives from the kitchen, and threaten both himself and others with them.

“I felt so angry that [this male], who was physically strong and abled bodied was screaming at someone who was physically disabled and psychologically weak. [Lucy] genuinely didn’t know what was going on,” Jane says, describing that the incident had been rattling enough that afterwards, staff went around the residence and asked the women if they were alright.

Jane describes attempts to confide in a shelter staff member about how hearing Max scream at Lucy had brought back childhood trauma related to her father’s abuse. But the staff member quickly express they were more concerned about Jane having perceived Max as male.

“I can’t lie and say it was another sexless person … It wasn’t just the yelling, it was the deep, angry voice.”

“She was very distressed at hearing this. I can’t lie and say it was another sexless person. It was specifically my father. It wasn’t just the yelling, it was the deep, angry voice.”

As a result of the incident, Max was removed from the home, and Jane says that for a period of a few weeks in the summer, conditions in the shelter improved for all residents.

“I did better in the parts of the summer when no males were in the house. There was even a time in the house, the only time this happened actually, when there was a group therapy session with just us as women,” Jane says, “A woman in the house who was constantly undergoing psychosis and could not speak in clear sentences was able to open up about her past trauma.”

Close to the end of the summer, Jane says a second trans-identified male was moved into the shelter, bringing an entirely new dynamic, and a new set of concerns for Jane.

Sam* had been released into Peggy’s Place from a men’s recovery house, and was only amongst the women briefly before being shuttled away for a full vaginoplasty after which point he was returned. Jane describes feeling “horrified” as she witnessed someone who was mentally unstable be ‘affirmed’ through a major, body-altering surgery.

“This person was unable to think critically. I do not believe they were in a place where they could have meaningfully consented,” Jane says, “Part of me was hoping or assuming that someone, somewhere in the line of [medical professionals] would have said ‘stop,’ but no one had.”

Jane, who has her own trauma associated with abuses within the medical system, says witnessing the pain and unawareness Sam was experiencing made her feel like he was being subjected to “torture,” and could only recall it through fits of uncontrollable sobbing.

“One night, Sam agreed with me about having needed more questioning before getting the surgery. At one point, [he] said ‘if I had known, I might not have done it.’ To admit that involves being cognizant of a violation that in my opinion is on par with some of the most violent sexual assault because it is literally physically cutting up and hurting the sexual organs.” Jane also notes that Sam had shown her a stack of paperwork he’d been given to read and sign prior to his surgeries, but says Sam only had a Grade 5 education and was blind in one eye.

Jane notes that Sam’s post-surgery care became a central focus of the shelter, leaving many of the women fighting to access bathrooms, or being exposed to things they did not have the capacity to cope with. After her last experience, Jane felt frightened to talk to staff about the impact it was having on her own mental health.

“[Sam] was in so much pain for so many months,” Jane says, “There were specific smells of blood and rot in the bathroom. Things indicative of infection and pain. Things I don’t want to remember.”

When Sam was struggling with an infection in his genitals, he went to Jane for help researching at-home treatments and vitamins. Jane says it was a turning point in her understanding of the gender identity issue, which she had only briefly given attention to after Max had been in the house.

“I came across Trans Care BC website, which was horrifying. It read more like an advertisement than a resource for serious medical information. There was nothing about infections or vitamins. Nothing.” Jane felt the information on the website was almost a “conflict of interest,” with all of the resources telling patients to speak to their surgeons.

“The surgeon makes a living off of giving the procedures, not off of counseling people and figuring out what is best for them. It was criminal that this happened to [Sam] in my opinion.”

As Jane continued to research into issues surrounding gender identity, she quickly became overwhelmed with the realization that what she had experienced in the shelter was not isolated, but rather part of a rapidly expanding problem.

“Everything was surreal. Just surreal. It’s such a horrible and shocking problem. You’re supposed to be working on yourself and all I did was curl up into a little ball and sleep all day,” Jane says, “I was also someone who cared. Other’s found it easier to not care.”

In July of 2020, Jane was informed she was being evicted from the shelter as a result of her increasingly vocal concerns about gender ideology both inside and outside of the house. She was told she had 3 hours to pack her things and find alternative housing, something that was extremely difficult as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions had resulted in limited available services.

Jane provided Reduxx with a series of recordings she had made while attempting to engage with staff on her issues. In one, she is heard speaking with the manager of the shelter as she was being evicted.

“We are a trans-friendly house. We will be having more trans women coming in. So the decision has been made that this is not the right place for you,” the manager says, before accusing Jane of being “dishonest” about her position on trans rights during her intake.

“I am really clear about asking people before they move in — you needed to be honest and say you weren’t comfortable with transgender people, and then we wouldn’t have done all this. You wouldn’t have moved in… I felt like we were misinformed.”

The manager then tells Jane she should call Vancouver Rape Relief, which she had labeled as having the same “fears about trans people” as Jane did. Vancouver Rape Relief, Canada’s oldest rape crisis shelter, was stripped of city funding in 2019 after asserting it had a right to cater to females only. Jane told Reduxx she had previously attempted to volunteer at Rape Relief after she had become more interested in gender ideology and witnessed their struggle against the city. She said she’d found the prospect of going there as a resident to be embarrassing after she’d already applied to volunteer.

“There’s only two things going on: You’re transphobic, and this is a trans-friendly agency.”

“The fact is, you’re transphobic. We are a non-transphobic agency, and it is not appropriate for you to be living here,” the manager is heard saying, “I asked you when you moved in and you lied — you said you weren’t transphobic.”

Jane then is heard crying, and trying to insist her views had only recently changed, to which the manager responds: “There’s only two things going on: You’re transphobic, and this is a trans-friendly agency.”

Jane was removed from the house and sent to a facility with a 30 day time limit. Her experience rapidly became one of scrambling to find a new place to live without having to return to her sexually abusive ex-boyfriend.

In November of 2020, after settling into a more stable place, Jane tried writing BC Housing multiple times to file a formal complaint against Peggy’s Place, but was repeatedly bumped back to internal complaint processes within The Kettle Society, the organization which oversees the shelter.

Throughout 2021 and even into 2022, Jane tried reaching someone at BC Housing, and she showed Reduxx multiple chains of emails she’d sent detailing the lack of care from staff towards her concerns, as well as the exact incidents she’d experienced in the shelter.

By May of 2022, Jane still hadn’t received any response from BC Housing, and says she resorted to “begging” for someone to respond, and had an emotional breakdown while trying to contact Ali Ayala-Davidson, an operations manager for BC Housing’s Women’s Transition Housing & Supports Program division.

“There is no help,” Jane wrote in her last email, “Just say I am worthless. Say women are worthless. Say they are. Say they are nothing. Say they are only as good as a male whose dream they can be a prop in. Say that by saying nothing.”

Jane describes being burdened with feelings of guilt and shame related to not having spoken out about her experiences sooner, but it was witnessing the escalation of gender ideology’s impact on women that convinced her she had to take a stand.

“I was in a women’s only space. Women’s only spaces in Canada are now unisex. Most people don’t know or believe it,” Jane says, expressing some degree of disbelief at her own situation, “Women deserve better … How are women supposed to heal from sexual violence when they are forced to pretend sex isn’t real?”

Jane says she considered going to a Human Rights Tribunal, but feared she wouldn’t be able to keep her composure.

“I feel that even if I do send a human rights complaint, I’m going to be so upset they won’t take me seriously and just throw me out,” Jane says, “My time is also almost up at my current residence, and I am searching for new housing … but I struggle with agoraphobia, and find it difficult to organize myself.”

She is currently in the process of seeking a lawyer who might take on her case for reduced-to-no cost as she has limited resources, but has been unsuccessful so far.

Reduxx reached out to The Kettle Society for comment, but did not get a response prior to publication. This article may be updated in the event one is received.

* Names changed to protect the privacy of the individuals mentioned.

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Mujer es desalojada de refugio para víctimas de maltrato luego de criticar políticas pro trans

By
Anna Slatz
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Una mujer canadiense denunció que fue forzosamente expulsada de un refugio tras informarle a la gerencia de dos hechos perturbadores ocurridos dentro de la residencia ligados a la ideología de género .

Hablando exclusivamente para Reduxx, Jane* dijo que nunca había pensado mucho en la temática de identidad de género antes de mudarse a Peggy’s Place, un refugio para mujeres localizado en un vecindario suburbano de Vancouver, Columbia Británica, que atiende a mujeres que padecen de enfermedades mentales y también han sido víctimas de violencia doméstica.

“Antes de llegar, nunca había pensado ni me había preocupado mucho por la identidad de género”, agregó, reflexionando sobre el período previo a su colocación en el refugio. Después de huir de una situación de violencia doméstica y experimentar dificultades para contar con atención médica inmediata, Jane relata que inicialmente se sintió aliviada cuando su trabajador social le informó que le había conseguido una habitación en el refugio durante mayo del 2019.

“Era una puerta que podía cerrar con llave. Era una habitación privada para mí. Tenía lo que necesitaba a mi alcance.” Jane describe como le preguntaron al momento de admisión si se sentía cómoda estando rodeada de personas identificadas como trans. Ella explicó que había trabajado y socializado con personas identificadas como trans sin problemas en el pasado y que no tenía problemas con ellos, así que dijo que sí.

“Supuse que habría una posibilidad muy pequeña de que uno de ellos estuviese residenciado allí , pero pensé que habría algún tipo de proceso de selección y no existiría ninguna violación a nuestra privacidad”.

Pero poco tiempo después de mudarse, Jane descubrió que un hombre identificado como trans estaba viviendo en la residencia, y rápidamente se dio cuenta que sus suposiciones estaban erradas.

Jane dijo que al principio, solo trató de evitar a Max*, a quien describió como claramente masculino con más de 6 pies de estatura. Pero apenas unas semanas después de establecerse, Jane recuerda haberlo visto en el pasillo fuera de su habitación, completamente desnudo excepto por un sostén que sostenía contra su pecho mientras modelaba frente a un espejo de cuerpo entero cerca de la puerta del cuarto de Jane. Conservaba sus genitales masculinos y no hacia ningún intento por taparlos.

“DENTRO DE MI MENTE, ME CONGELÉ. SENTÍA MUCHO MIEDO”.

“Me congelé y nunca hice contacto visual directo. Una parte de mí murió. Entré a mi habitación y cerré la puerta con llave”, dijo Jane, “me recordaba a mí misma que tenía una puerta con seguro. Dentro mi mente, me congelé. Sentía mucho miedo”.

Jane afirma que había considerado brevemente regresar a la casa de la que había escapado, pero fue el hecho de que contaba con una puerta con cerradura y una habitación para ella sola lo que le hizo sentir que podía sobrellevar su estadía en el refugio.

Jane intentó quejarse con el personal sobre lo acontecido fuera de su cuarto, pero vio como se le dio poca importancia a su denuncia y sus inquietudes fueron desestimadas.

“Simplemente respondieron ‘algunas personas no respetan los límites’. No se hizo nada. No les importaba que tuviera un trauma sexual”, recuerda, señalando que el intercambio le enseñó que necesitaba guardar silencio.

Poco tiempo después, Max estuvo involucrado en un nuevo incidente con otra residente del refugio.

Jane describe a Lucy* como padeciendo una fuerte discapacidad física y mental además de anorexia hasta el punto de que a menudo no tenía la fuerza para caminar y necesitaba ayuda. Jane continua recordando como Lucy también fue víctima de una diatriba violenta de Max, soportando gritos e insultos por parte del hombre.

“Escuchar a un hombre gritar de esa manera me recordó a mi papá. Si alguien está haciendo un falsete cuando habla, pero luego baja a su octava natural cuando está enojado y gritando, te comunica que hay peligro de una manera realmente instintiva”, explica Jane, señalando que nunca supo lo que había provocado a Max, pero el alboroto había creado inquietud entre el personal y las otras residentes, especialmente porque tenía la costumbre de robar los cuchillos de la cocina y amenazar con atentar contra sí mismo o usarlos contra otras personas.

“Me sentí tan enojada porque este hombre, que era físicamente imponente, le gritaba a alguien que sufría de una discapacidad psicológica y en un estado de debilidad. Lucy realmente no sabía lo que estaba pasando”, dijo Jane, recordando que el incidente había sido tan estremecedor que luego de lo ocurrido, el personal recorrió toda la residencia preguntándoles a las mujeres si se sentían bien.

Jane describe como ella intentó confiarle a un miembro del personal del refugio como el maltrato de Max hacia Lucy le había despertado un trauma infantil relacionado con los abusos de su padre. Pero inmediatamente el miembro de personal contestó que estaban más preocupados de que Jane percibiera a Max como hombre.

“NO PUEDO MENTIR Y DECIR QUE FUE OTRA PERSONA SIN SEXO… NO ERA SOLO EL GRITO, ERA LA VOZ PROFUNDA Y ENOJADA”.

“Ella se veía muy angustiada mientras recibía los gritos. No puedo mentir y decir que era otra persona sin sexo. Fue ver a mi padre. No fueron solo los gritos, fue la voz profunda y enojada”.

Como resultado del incidente, expulsaron a Max de la casa y Jane agrega que durante algunas semanas en el verano, las condiciones en el refugio mejoraron para todas las residentes.

“Me fue mejor durante el verano cuando no habían hombres en el refugio. Incluso hubo un día en la casa, la única vez en realidad, durante una sesión de terapia grupal en la que solo estábamos nosotras”, recordó Jane, “Una residente que sufría constantemente de ataques psicóticos y no podía comunicarse con claridad fue capaz de abrirse y hablar de su trauma pasado”.

Cerca del final del verano, Jane cuenta que un segundo hombre identificado como trans fue trasladado al refugio, lo que trajo una nueva dinámica y un nuevo conjunto de preocupaciones para Jane.

Sam* había sido dado de alta para Peggy’s Place desde una casa de descanso para hombres, y solo estuvo con las mujeres por un corto periodo antes de ser trasladado para una vaginoplastia completa, después de la cual fue devuelto. Jane recuerda como se sintió “horrorizada” al presenciar que una persona mentalmente inestable se ‘afirmaba’ a través de cirugías de modificación corporal.

“Esta persona no podía pensar críticamente. No creo que estuviera en capacidad de dar su consentimiento ”, dijo Jane, “Una parte de mí esperaba o asumía que alguien, en algún punto de la línea de profesionales médicos hubiese dicho ‘basta, suficiente’, pero nadie lo hizo.”

Jane, que tiene su propio trauma asociado con los abusos dentro del sistema médico, dijo que presenciar el dolor y la inconsciencia que sufría Sam la hizo sentir como si estuviera siendo sometida a una “tortura”, y solo podía recordarlo en medio de sollozos incontrolables.

“Una noche, Sam manifestó estar de acuerdo conmigo en que necesitaba hacer más preguntas antes de someterse a la cirugía. Dijo ‘si lo hubiera sabido, quizás no lo hubiese hecho’. Admitir eso implica estar consciente de que hubo una violación que, en mi opinión, está a la par con las agresiones sexuales más violentas porque se trata literalmente de cortar y lastimar los órganos sexuales”. Jane también señala que Sam le había mostrado una pila de documentos que le habían dado para leer y firmar antes de sus cirugías, pero afirma que Sam solo tenía una educación de 5to grado y era ciego de un ojo.

Jane señala que la atención postoperatoria de Sam se convirtió en el foco central para del refugio, lo que dejó a muchas de las mujeres luchando por acceder a los baños o expuestas a situaciones que no eran capaces de afrontar. Después de su última experiencia, Jane sintió miedo de hablar con el personal sobre el impacto negativo que esto generaba sobre su propia salud mental.

“Sam sufrió de dolor intenso durante muchos meses”, dijo Jane, “Había olor a sangre y podredumbre en el baño. Cosas indicativas de infección y dolor. Cosas que no quiero recordar.

Cuando Sam estaba luchando contra una infección en sus genitales, acudió a Jane en busca de ayuda para investigar tratamientos caseros y vitaminas. Jane afirma que fue un punto de inflexión en su comprensión del problema de la identidad de género, al que solo había prestado atención por un breve instante después de que Max estuvo hospedado en la casa.

“Encontré el sitio web de Trans Care BC, fue horrible. Se veía más como un anuncio comercial que como un recurso de información médica seria. No había nada sobre infecciones o vitaminas. Nada en absoluto.” Jane sintió que la información del sitio web era casi un “conflicto de intereses”, ya que todos los recursos le sugerían a los pacientes que hablaran con sus cirujanos.

“El cirujano se gana la vida llevando a cabo los procedimientos, no asesorando a las personas y averiguando qué es lo mejor para ellos. En mi opinión fue un acto criminal que esto le sucediera a Sam”.

Mientras Jane continuaba investigando sobre cuestiones relacionadas con la identidad de género, rápidamente se sintió abrumada al darse cuenta de que lo que había experimentado en el refugio no era un caso aislado, sino parte de un problema que se expandía rápidamente.

“Todo fue tan surreal. Simplemente surreal. Es un problema tan impactante y horrible. Se supone que debes estar trabajando en ti misma y todo lo que hice fue acurrucarme en forma de una pequeña pelota para dormir todo el día”, recordaba  Jane, “también era una persona a quien le daba mucha importancia a esto. A las otras les resultó mucho más fácil descartarlo”.

En julio del 2020, le informaron a Jane que iban a desalojarla del refugio como consecuencia de su enfoque y rechazo cada vez más expreso hacia la ideología de género tanto dentro como fuera del albergue. Le dijeron que tenía 3 horas para empacar todas sus cosas y encontrar otra vivienda , algo que era extremadamente difícil ya que las restricciones por la pandemia de COVID-19 limitaban drásticamente sus opciones.

Jane le  proporcionó a Reduxx una serie de grabaciones que había hecho mientras intentaba hablar con el personal sobre sus dificultades. En uno, se la escucha hablar con el administrador del albergue mientras la desalojaban.

“Somos una casa trans-friendly. Tendremos más mujeres trans. Así que se ha tomado la decisión de que no es el lugar adecuado para ti”, dijo el gerente, antes de acusar a Jane de ser “deshonesta”sobre su posición sobre los derechos de las personas trans durante su proceso de admisión.

“Soy muy claro con las preguntas para la gente que quiere mudarse: tenías que ser honesta y decir que no te sentías cómoda con personas transgénero, y así no estaríamos haciendo todo esto. No te habrías mudado… Siento que fuimos mal informados”.

Luego, el gerente le dijo a Jane que debería llamar al Vancouver Rape Relief, que ella misma había etiquetado como manteniendo los mismos “temores sobre las personas trans” que manifestaba Jane. Vancouver Rape Relief, el refugio de crisis por violación más antiguo de Canadá, fue despojado del apoyo monetario de la ciudad en el 2019 después de mantener su posición de que tenía el derecho a solo atender a mujeres. Jane le reveló a Reduxx que anteriormente había intentado ser voluntaria en Rape Relief después de que se interesara aun más en la ideología de género y fue testigo de como lucho contra la ciudad. Ella dijo sentirse avergonzada con la idea de ir allá como residente después de haberse ofrecido como voluntaria.

“SOLO HAY DOS COSAS AQUÍ: ERES TRANSFÓBICA Y ESTA ES UNA AGENCIA AMIGA DE LAS PERSONAS TRANS”.

 “El hecho es que eres transfóbica. Somos una agencia no transfóbica y no es apropiado que vivas aquí”, se le escucha decir al gerente: “Te pregunté cuándo te mudaste y mentiste: dijiste que no eras transfóbica”.

Luego se le oye a Jane llorando e insistiendo que sus puntos de vista solo habían cambiado recientemente, a lo que el gerente responde: “Solo pasan dos cosas aquí: eres transfóbica y esta es una agencia amiga de las personas trans”.

Jane fue expulsada del refugio y enviada a una instalación con un tiempo límite de 30 días. Su experiencia rápidamente se convirtió en una lucha por encontrar un nuevo lugar en donde vivir sin tener que volver con su ex novio y agresor sexual.

En noviembre del 2020, después de llegar a un lugar más estable, Jane escribió varias veces a BC Housing para presentar una queja formal contra Peggy’s Place, pero repetidamente se vio relegada a procesos de quejas internas dentro de The Kettle Society, la organización que supervisa el refugio.

A lo largo del 2021 e incluso en el 2022, Jane intentó comunicarse con alguien en BC Housing y le proporcionó a Reduxx varias cadenas de correos electrónicos que había enviado detallando la falta de atención por parte del personal frente a sus preocupaciones, así como los detalles exactos de los incidentes que había vivido en el refugio.

Para mayo del 2022, Jane todavía no había recibido ninguna respuesta de BC Housing y dijo que tuvo que recurrir a “rogar” a que alguien le respondiera y sufrió un colapso emocional luego de intentar contactar a Ali Ayala-Davidson, gerente de operaciones de BC Housing División del Programa de Apoyo y Vivienda de Transición para Mujeres.

“No hay ayuda”, escribió Jane en su último correo electrónico, “Solo di que no valgo nada. Di que las mujeres no valemos nada. Di lo que son. Di que no son nada. Di que solo son tan buenas como para servir de apoyo para los sueños de los hombres. Dilo sin decir nada.

Jane describe sentirse agobiada por sentimientos de culpa y vergüenza relacionados con el no haber contado sus experiencias antes de esta entrevista , pero presenciar el creciente impacto de la ideología de género en las mujeres fue lo que la convenció de que tenía que tomar posición.

“Estaba en un espacio solo para mujeres. Los espacios exclusivos para mujeres en Canadá ahora son unisex. La mayoría de la gente no lo sabe ni lo cree”, explica Jane, expresando cierto grado de incredulidad ante su propia situación. “Las mujeres se merecen algo mejor… ¿Cómo se supone que las mujeres van a curarse de la violencia sexual cuando se ven obligadas a fingir que el sexo no es real? ”

Jane dice que consideró ir a un Tribunal de Derechos Humanos, pero temía no poder mantener la compostura.

“Siento que incluso si envío una queja sobre derechos humanos, me enfadaré tanto que no me tomarán en serio y simplemente me echarán”, dijo Jane, “También el tiempo se agota en mi residencia actual. , y estoy buscando una nueva vivienda… pero lucho contra la agorafobia y me resulta difícil organizarme”.

Actualmente está en el proceso de búsqueda de un abogado que pueda hacerse cargo de su caso por un costo reducido o gratuito, ya que tiene recursos limitados, pero hasta ahora no ha contado con éxito.

Reduxx contactó a The Kettle Society para recibir sus declaraciones, pero no obtuvo respuesta antes de la publicación de este articulo. Se actualizará en caso de recibir un nuevo comunicado.

* Se cambiaron los nombre para proteger la privacidad de las personas involucradas.

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Pro-Pedophile Activist Arrested in Ecuador After Allegedly Sexually Abusing “Dozens” of Children

By
Anna Slatz
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A man who advocated for the destigmatization of pedophilia has been arrested in Ecuador on suspicion of sexually abusing children in the country.

Marthijn Uittenbogaard, 50, was arrested after a manhunt was launched to bring him to justice. The Dutch national was arrested around the town of Canoa after the Transnational Crime Investigation Unit of the National Police of Ecuador became aware he had allegedly sexually abused “dozens” of children while staying there.

According to Free a Girl, a Netherlands-based organization dedicated to ending child sexual exploitation, several minors regularly stayed at Uittenbogaard’s residence. They were allegedly lured into the home under the premise of playing video games. In exchange for sweets and money, Uittenbogaard coerced them into sexual acts. He also reportedly organized parties for children at his pool, where the youth were then groped and sexually assaulted.

Uittenbogaard’s devices were also seized, and found to contain child sexual abuse material featuring children between the ages of 7 and 12.

The pedophile’s capture is said to have been a direct result of the arrest of one of his colleagues in Mexico earlier this month.

Nelson Maatman, a friend of Uittenbogaard and fellow pro-pedophile advocate, was arrested in Mexico City on June 5, after an anonymous tip was handed to the Mexican prosecutor’s office indicating that he intended to purchase an adolescent and sell child sexual exploitation material.

Upon arrest, police found Maatman in possession of 4 terabytes (4000GB) of child sexual abuse material across a number of external storage devices. Maatman also had photos of children in his clothing pocket, a weapon, and drugs.

Uittenbogaard had been one of multiple pro-pedophile advocates to flee the Netherlands this year. He was arrested along with his husband, Lesley, who previously had been imprisoned in their home country for creating child sexual abuse material. Lesley, 34, is a pro-bestiality activist.

Lesley [L] and Uittenbogaard [R]. Source: Transnational Crime Investigation Unit of the National Police of Ecuador

Both Uittenbogaard and his partner likely left the country in March after the former was convicted of continuing to operate a pedophile organization that had been declared illegal in 2014.

Vereniging MARTIJN, a pro-pedophile activist group found by a convicted sex offender in 1982, was banned and dissolved by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands because its members promoted the sexual abuse of children.

MARTIJN is also allegedly responsible for the creation of a 1,000-page ‘pedophile handbook‘ which provides tips and tricks on how to lure, groom, and sexually abuse children without their parents or authorities becoming aware. In 2010, four years before it was banned, MARTIJN was sued by the family of a little girl who had been sexually abused by one of its members.

Vereniging MARTIJN’s now-deleted website. Source: ANP

Uittenbogaard had been the treasurer and chairman of MARTIJN, and was sentenced to four months in prison earlier this year for continuing to operate the organization along with Norbert de Jonge, who was sentenced to six months for the same crime.

In 2011, Uittenbogaard was interviewed by NPO Funx, a Dutch public radio station that plays popular music and has a target audience of young people between 15 and 34 years of age. In the interview, he stated his ‘age of attraction’ was girls aged 6 to 12.

“[sic] Children actually like it when they have someone who communicates with them at their level. That also has to do with sexuality, feelings and eroticism. Children can really enjoy cuddling and being physical. a certain place, then the whole mess breaks out, but that’s the western way of looking at sexuality,” Uittenbogaard said, asserting during the interview that, despite his attraction, he had never sexually abused a child.

In 2013, Uittenbogaard appeared as a featured speaker at Schuimt! – a cultural event held in Tilburg, Netherlands featuring prominent artists. Uittenbogaard was invited by Anton Dautzenberg, who at the time was the foreman of the Tilburg Writer’s Guild.

Uittenbogaard and Dautzenberg. Photo Credit: Gemma van der Heyden

Uittenbogaard maintained a blog he regularly updated until April of this year. Within the English-language publications, he compares the treatment of pedophiles to that of the Jews during the holocaust. He also recently wrote a post in praise Gert Hekma, a widely-cited academic and former professor at the University of Amsterdam who had written extensively in support of pedophilia prior to his passing in April. Hekma had come to the defense of Vereniging MARTIJN in 2014 when its legality was being challenged, and created a petition in an effort to keep pro-pedophilia advocacy legal.

In 2004, Hekma had been interviewed by Uittenbogaard for a pro-pedophile magazine during which he extensively detailed his own childhood sexual fantasies.

The academic stated that anyone who didn’t sexually fantasize about children below the age of 16 was “crazy,” going on to assert: “Most people know very well what a beautiful boy or a beautiful girl is, that they are sexy, that they have nice little blow mouths. If you do not see this, then you are blind.” In the same interview, Hekma agreed with the Uittenbogaard that sometimes children needed to be “forced” or “pressured” into sex.

On a blog post from 2020, Uittenbogaard quotes Canadian sexologist James Cantor in asserting that “voluntary pedosexual contacts” are not harmful to children. Cantor, a professor at the University of Toronto, once served on the board of Prostasia. Both Cantor and Prostasia have been influential in promoting the theory that “destigmatizing” pedophilia will reduce child sexual abuse.

Uittenbogaard was also active on Twitter until June 23, with his last post being a retweet of Chelsea Manning promoting a memoire. His profile photo on the account, which he had started in 2011, is of two young boys lying in a field.

Uittenbogaard is the second “pedophile rights” activist to be nabbed in 2022, the first being his colleague Nelson Maatman. However, in February, a pro-pedophile advocate was sentenced in the United States after being arrested in 2021.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Ian Andrew Zearley was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being found in possession of child sexual abuse material. 

The serial pedophile was arrested after law enforcement officials monitoring his internet access discovered Zearley had searched terms consistent with attempting to access child sexual abuse materials in breach of his release conditions.

According to the Department of Justice, Zearley had been searching for terms such as “real hardcore child porn” and “boys severely whipped and bleeding.” Zearley also authored two stories that described, in graphic detail, the rape and abuse of young boys.

Zearley was the President of the Pedophile Associates of America — which had been granted full IRS tax-exempt status in 2018, and was registered as an advocacy and educational entity. The organization’s status with the IRS wasn’t revoked until May of 2021, and it was likely due to Zearley already being in police custody and not having filed the proper forms to maintain the exemption on time.

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Trans-Identified Adult Male Takes First Place Against 13-Year-Old Girl in Women’s Skateboarding Event

By
Jennifer Sieland
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Ricci Tres [L] and Shiloh Catori [R]

Netizens are expressing outrage after an adult man beat out a 13-year-old girl for first place in a women’s skateboarding competition held today in New York.

Ricci Tres, also known as Ricci And Tres, took top spot in the women’s division of The Boardr Open today held in New York City, taking home a $500 prize for a first place win.

Tres, a 29-year-old trans-identified male, came in first place against 13-year-old Shiloh Catori. Of the 6 competitors, 4 were under the age of 17, with the youngest being 10-year-old Juri Iikura.

In 2021, Tres became the first trans-identified male to attempt to quality for Olympic Women’s skateboarding, submitting a virtual run for the USA National Skateboarding Championships. Tres was unable to meet the short deadline to submit a hormone levels test, but was later told his testosterone was “much higher” than the required levels to compete in the female category.

Around this time, Tres was interviewed by Robert Brink of USA Skateboarding and revealed he was over 190 units off of the required testosterone reduction needed to be able to qualify in the female category by International Olympic Committee Standards. During the interview, Tres expressed ambivalence towards reducing his testosterone levels, and even stated he was comfortable “where [he] was at” in his transition.

Tres’ win was put on blast by Taylor Silverman, a female skateboarder who previously came into the spotlight after she spoke out about her experiences competing against trans-identified males.

This comes just weeks after Silverman, a professional skateboarder, posted a statement to her Instagram in which she called out the Redbull Cornerstone skate event she took part in for allowing a biological male athlete to compete against women, and take the top spot.

In her statement, Silverman wrote that she placed second in two previous competitions in which biological males were allowed to compete against female skateboarders, and noted that at the last Redbull-sponsored skate event, the female athletes lost out on financial awards because a transgender competitor took first place.

Silverman’s Instagram post had initially been inundated with hateful comments from trans activists, but she has since become even more vocal about her disagreement with males participating in female sport. On Twitter, Silverman has found a significant following of feminists and individuals critical of gender ideology who appreciate her pro-woman advocacy.

After Silverman announced the outcome of The Boardr event, netizens immediately expressed outrage at the results.

Many immediately took to congratulating Shiloh Catori on her victory, honoring her with the symbolic first-place recognition as they declared Tres’ win invalid.

While some questioned what advantages males have in skateboarding compared to females, earlier comments by commentator Tim Pool began to circulate.

Pool, a former pro-skateboarder, had come to Taylor Silverman’s defense after she came out against males competing against female athletes. Pool had offered to compensate Silverman the total earnings she had lost to trans-identified males competing in the women’s devision against her, and also pointed out that male skateboarders have distinct differences compared to their female counterparts.

“Males in skateboarding have higher centers of gravity granting advantages that cannot be removed with [hormone replacement therapy],” Pool wrote while engaged in a spat with YouTuber The Amazing Athiest, who was defending trans-identified male participation in women’s categories.

In a separate tweet, Pool continued to assert male skateboards have advantages that cannot be addressed by reducing their testosterone levels.

“Males carry their center of gravity higher than females creating advantages in skateboarding that cannot be changed due to HRT. Plus with the Q angle women are more prone to injury creating a major disadvantage regardless of HRT,” He said, replying to evolutionary biologist Colin Wright.

Ricci Tres isn’t the only trans-identified male to prompt outrage after taking the top spot in a women’s sporting competition this month.

On June 3, two trans-identified males took first and second place in a women’s cycling competition in the United Kingdom.

Emily Bridges and Lilly Chant, both trans-identified males, took the first and second place spots, respectively, during the ThunderCrit race at the Herne Hill Velodrome in London. Jo Smith was the only female to take the winner’s podium, coming in third place. ThunderCrit is the UK’s largest fixed gear cycling race.

A recent Gallup Poll revealed that 62% of Americans believe athletes should only be able to participate on sporting teams that correspond with their sex, not their chosen gender identity. Studies have also consistently affirmed that trans-identified male athletes retain competitive advantages even years after starting hormone replacement therapy.

In 2020, a report released in the British Journal of Sport Medicine noted that trans-identified males were able to complete 31% more push-ups and 15% more sit-ups in one minute on average than a female Air Force service member. They also ran 1.5 miles 21% faster.

But even after two years on testosterone suppression treatment, the males were still 12% faster on average than biological females.

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Child Sex Abuse Doll Creator Offers Pedophile “Packages” in Africa

By
Genevieve Gluck
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A Dutch national responsible for manufacturing toddler- and baby-like sex dolls he claims are “therapeutic” for pedophiles has called for self-identified “minor-attracted people” to join him in an unnamed location in Africa for the purposes of having their sick desires “protected.”

Bram Joosten, a native of Bennekom, Netherlands, recently advertised “protection services” in a video titled “How to be safe and happy as a pedophile.”

In the promotional video, posted June 14 to a website owned by Joosten called Doll Orphanage, Joosten encourages pedophiles to relocate to Africa in order to “start a new life where you as a MAP can be safe, content and happy.”

Joosten was previously located in Ukraine, but explains in the video he moved to a nation in Africa after experiencing backlash for his pedophilic activities.

Still from the “African Paradise” video uploaded to Joosten’s Doll Orphanage site. Website URL redacted.

“This service is for people… who permanently want to move to a place where they are safe, protected and where they can get everything they ever dreamed of. It’s a paradise,” writes Joosten. While he goes on to say that “this service does not include prostitution or helping you hook up with minors,” Joosten does state that he will seek out young women who “resemble minors” for interested clients. In the video promotion, “beautiful girls” are mentioned as a benefit of living in Africa.

“Finding girls is not hard since white privilege is still a thing here,” Joosten states. “People see and treat you as a God… I understand it if you prefer petite girls and it doesn’t matter if you want to date a girl that looks like a minor, as long as she is not an actual minor.”

Joosten advises site visitors that should they relocate to the unspecified nation in Africa, “importing things such as [child-like] sex dolls” can be done without risk of punishment “since it’s very easy to bribe people.”

He also claims to be able to personally assist potential clients with convincing customs officials to allow the importation of child abuse materials.

Still from the “African Paradise” video uploaded to Joosten’s Doll Orphanage site.

Joosten also claims to offer security services, referring to himself as “a guide and protector” of pedophiles. The entire package deal described on Joosten’s site is priced at $5,000, which includes “importing of loli sex dolls … finding perfect partner,” and the opportunity to join “a community of like-minded people.”

“Loli” is a term which refers to female child-like characters popularized by Japanese animation, but has become synonymous with pedophilic depictions of sexualized young girls.

On the site affiliated with the African “paradise” packages, Joosten also hosts videos of men having sex with dolls in the likeness of small children.

Joosten operates several sites, including Doll Orphanage, which he once advertised ownership of on his public Facebook profile. Many of the sites had Joosten’s personal email address linked to them, one associated with a defunct fitness company he once ran, making him easy to identify despite the fact his name often doesn’t appear directly on the sites.

The majority of the sites are marketplaces which feature his disturbing toddler and infant sex abuse dolls. Joosten takes responsibility for being the first manufacturer to create penetrable masturbation devices intended to look like human babies.

A product sold as “TPE Baby” is described as “The first detailed, high quality baby sex doll on the loli doll market.” The doll’s vaginal depth is measured, before reading “Please note that she does not have oral or anal function. She is too small for those functions.”

The sick doll, which Joosten proudly proclaimed was the first of its kind, sells for $800 USD, with an even more life-like silicone counterpart being offered for $1,500. The extra cost gets perverted buyers hyper-realistic eyes, hair, skin coloring, and genitalia.

Most of Joosten’s sites provide the same merchandise under different brand names, and most are hosted on the Shopify platform, which recently banned a women’s rights activist for selling her crafts under an accusation she was promoting “transphobia.”

On one of Joosten’s blog posts for his Loli Dolls store, he argues that baby and child-like sex dolls are “therapeutic” for pedophiles. In the post, he writes “Loli dolls have a child-like shape which makes them attractive for people who feel sexually attracted to minors (pedophiles),” continuing: “… relationships with humans can be quite shallow and not satisfying at all. It’s not easy at all to find true love or a person that genuinely cares about you. If you are a pedophile then it’s even harder.”    

In addition to selling child-like sex dolls and operating blogs which discuss them, Joosten also administrates multiple forums associated with his websites where pedophiles are free to gather and discuss details about both the dolls and “loli” culture.

Joosten was previously a member of All the Fallen ⁠— a pedophile website dedicated to hosting chatrooms and fictional stories eroticizing child molestation ⁠— but apparently left the website after receiving criticism that his infant sex dolls were not realistic enough.

The recent video by Joosten encouraging pedophiles to relocate to Africa directs viewers to one such site he created that hosts a forum with over 2,400 members.

On the forum, members upload 3D and illustrated child sexual abuse materials, recommend child sexual abuse patches for video games, and share their pedophilic fantasies. In a thread titled “Age Range Preference,” users discuss which ages of minors they sexualize.

“All are fine, but babies to toddlers are just so cute and chubby I can’t help but melt. So 0-5 would be my favorites,” wrote one site member.

In one of Joosten’s forum threads on “Toddler Dolls,” a user describes having a young daughter who stumbled upon one of his child sex dolls, and how he convinced her to “keep it a secret.”

Later on in the thread, another user posts photos of a real toddler girl, and asks Joosten to price out a custom replica of a sex doll of the child, writing “I like the short, chubby, post-baby fat legs and young face.”

Joosten responds that a bespoke doll of the girl could cost up to $6,000.

Reduxx can confirm the child is a model for children’s clothing, and appears to be in no immediate danger.

Joosten’s arguments that child-like sex dolls can be “therapeutic” for pedophiles are hardly isolated, with many academics, organizations, and professionals working to normalize the concept of “fantasy outlets” for pedophiles.

James Cantor, a Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist, has claimed that prohibiting the use of child sex dolls amounts to “blocking harmless ways of masturbating,” and may cause sex offenders to become desperate and therefore more likely to offend. His theory has been pushed by US-based organization Prostasia, which uses it to campaign against laws criminalizing child sex dolls.

In addition, Reduxx recently reported on a Norwegian professor of ethics who suggested that pedophilia be taught in schools as a sexuality and advocated for legalizing “fictional” child sexual abuse materials.

Yet despite the growing popularity of the idea amongst those who sympathize with pedophiles, there is no conclusive research to suggest that such a strategy would prevent offending.

In 2019, Australian criminologists reported that child-like sex dolls have a number of negative outcomes, noting the potential for an escalation in child sex offenses. Researchers Rick Brown and Jane Shelling wrote that child-like sex dolls “potentially results in the risk of children being objectified as sexual beings and of child sex becoming a commodity,” and that desensitization may occur as the dolls are not capable of giving negative feedback.

Caitlin Roper, the Campaign Manager for Collective Shout, has also researched extensively into the impact of sex dolls and has come to similar conclusions. Her book “Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating” will be released in August. In 2020, ABC News published her counter-arguments to the assertion that the dolls prevent sexual offending.

“I cannot help but conclude that the academic arguments in support of child sex dolls are baseless, unconvincing and are open to being hijacked by vested interests,” Roper wrote. “They prioritize men’s sexual preferences over the rights of girls. Academic advocates fail to consider the gendered dynamics involved in the production of female-bodied child dolls for adult men’s sexual use, or to situate their development within a cultural context of gender inequality,” she argued.

“If child sex dolls function as advocates claim, they will maintain pedophiles’ sexual urges for children. Rather than encouraging restraint or investing energy into pursuing healthier relationships or sexual practices, child sex dolls enable the realistic fantasy experience of sexually abusing a child.”

Her sentiment has been echoed by many child protection agencies and advocates. Jon Brown, head of development at the UK-based charity The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), has said that “there is a risk that those using these child sex dolls or realistic props could become desensitized and their behavior becomes normalized to them.”

Joosten was reported to European Union authorities in 2021 by writers now associated with Reduxx, but it is unclear if any investigation has been launched into his activities.

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Patinador adulto transidentificado le arrebata primer lugar a niña de 13 años en competencia de skate femenino

By
Jennifer Sieland
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Ricci Tres [L] and Shiloh Catori [R]

Una ola de indignación se apoderó de la red luego de que los internautas conocieran el resultado de una competencia femenina de skate en Nueva York donde un hombre adulto le quitó el primer lugar a una niña de 13 años.

Ricci Tres, también conocido como Ricci And Tres, se adjudicó el primer lugar y un premio de $500 en la división femenina del The Boardr Open que tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Nueva York.

Tres, un hombre transidentificado de 29 años, superó a Shiloh Catori, de apenas 13 años. De los 6 competidores, 4 eran menores de 17 años, siendo Juri Iikura la más joven con 10 años.

En 2021, Tres se convirtió en el primer hombre transidentificado en intentar calificar para el skateboarding olímpico en su categoría femenina. Tres presentó una carrera virtual para el Campeonato Nacional de Skateboarding de EE. UU. pero no pudo cumplir con las pruebas hormonales a tiempo, pero luego fue informado que su nivel de testosterona era “mucho más alto” que los niveles permitidos para competir en la categoría de mujeres.

Durante este tiempo, Tres fue entrevistado por Robert Brink de USA Skateboarding donde reveló que tenía más de 190 unidades por encima del nivel testosterona requerido para poder calificar en la categoría femenina según los Estándares del Comité Olímpico Internacional. Durante la entrevista, Tres también expresó su ambivalencia hacia la reducción de sus niveles de testosterona, e incluso afirmó que se sentía cómodo “como estaba” en su proceso transición.

La victoria de Tres fue condenada por Taylor Silverman, una patinadora que anteriormente se convirtió en el centro de atención después de hablar sobre sus experiencias compitiendo contra hombres identificados como trans.

Esto ocurre pocas semanas después de que Silverman, una skater profesional, publicara una declaración en su Instagram en la que denunció al evento skate Redbull Cornerstone por permitir la participación de un atleta masculino que le quitó el primer lugar a las mujeres en su propia competencia.

En su declaración, Silverman describió como ella quedó de segunda en dos eventos en donde se les permitió a hombres biológicos competir contra patinadoras, y señaló que en la última competencia de patinaje patrocinado por Redbull, las atletas perdieron premios económicos porque un deportista transgénero se llevó el primer lugar.

La publicación de Instagram de Silverman se vio inundada inicialmente con comentarios llenos de odio por parte de activistas trans, pero  ella se ha vuelto aún más incisiva en su rechazo hacia los hombres que participan en el deporte femenino. En Twitter, la posición en pro de la mujer de Silverman  le ha conseguido un número significativo de seguidores entre las feministas y personas críticas de la ideología de género.

Después de que Silverman anunciara el resultado del evento The Boardr, los internautas no tardaron en expresar su indignación.

Muchos optaron por felicitar a Shiloh Catori por su victoria, honrándola con el reconocimiento simbólico de primer lugar al declarar el podio de Tres como invalido.

Si bien algunos cuestionaron las ventajas que podrían tener los varones frente a las mujeres en el deporte de skateboarding, se comenzaron a virilizar algunas opiniones que el comentarista Tim Pool había compartido en torno a la controversia.

Pool, un ex patinador profesional, salió en defensa de Taylor Silverman después de que esta se enfrentara a patinadores que competían contra mujeres. Pool ofreció compensar a Silverman por todos los premios perdidos frente a hombres transidentificados que participaban en las categorías femeninas, y también señaló que existen diferencias claras entre patinadores masculinos y sus contrapartes femeninas.

“Los hombres que andan en patineta tienen centros de gravedad más altos que otorgan ventajas que no se pueden eliminar con terapia de reemplazo hormonal”, escribió Pool mientras discutía con el YouTuber The Amazing Athiest, quien defendía la participación masculina transidentificada en las categorías femeninas.

En otro tuit, Pool continuó afirmando que las patinetas masculinas tienen ventajas que no pueden solventarse reduciendo los niveles de testosterona.

“Los hombres llevan el centro de gravedad más alto que las mujeres, lo que crea ventajas en el skateboarding que no se pueden cambiar con la HRT. Además, con el ángulo Q, las mujeres son más propensas a las lesiones, lo que crea una gran desventaja independientemente de la TRH”, escribió en respuesta al biólogo evolutivo Colin Wright.

Ricci Tres no es el único hombre identificado como trans que provocó indignación después de obtener el primer lugar en una competencia deportiva femenina de este mes.

El 3 de junio, dos hombres identificados como trans obtuvieron el primer y segundo lugar en una competencia ciclista femenina en el Reino Unido.

Emily Bridges y Lilly Chant, ambos hombres identificados como trans, ocuparon el primer y segundo lugar, respectivamente, durante la carrera ThunderCrit at the Herne Hill Velodrome en Londres. Jo Smith fue la única mujer en subir al podio de ganadores, quedando de tercera. ThunderCrit es la carrera ciclista de piñón fijo más grande del Reino Unido.

Una encuesta reciente de Gallup reveló que el 62% de los estadounidenses cree que los atletas solo se les debería permitir participar en equipos deportivos que correspondan con su sexo biológico, y no a su identidad de género preferida. También los estudios han sido contundentes al afirmar que los atletas masculinos identificados como trans conservan ventajas competitivas incluso años después de comenzar la terapia de reemplazo hormonal.

En el 2020, un informe publicado en el British Journal of Sport Medicine señaló que en promedio  los hombres identificados como trans podían completar un 31 % más de flexiones y un 15 % más de abdominales en un minuto que una mujer miembro del servicio de la Fuerza Aérea. También corrieron 1.5 millas un 21% más rápido.

Pero incluso después de dos años de tratamiento de supresión de testosterona, los varones seguían siendo en promedio un 12 % más rápidos que las hembras biológicas.

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EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian Feminist Facing Up To 25 Years In Prison After Calling Trans Politician a “Man”

By
Anna Slatz
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Feminist activist Isabela Cêpa

A Brazilian feminist is reportedly facing up to 25 years in prison after being charged for calling a trans-identified male politician a “man” in a case she says she hopes will wake the world up about the impact of gender ideology on women’s rights.

Isabela Cêpa, also known by her social media handle FEMINISA, is a feminist influencer well-known in Brazil for her advocacy on the issues of sexual and domestic violence. She spoke exclusively to Reduxx on what she describes as “unconstitutional” criminal charges that have been formally lodged against her by the State on behalf of a trans-identified male politician – Erika Hilton of the Socialism and Liberty Party.

Erika Hilton

Hilton was elected to São Paolo’s municipal government in November of 2020, winning his seat by a landslide that gave him the title of the most voted-for ‘woman’ in Brazil.

At the time of his victory, Hilton was celebrated in international media as being a “symbolic triumph” for transgender people. Hilton was amongst the top 10 most-voted for candidates in all of Brazil, and was touted as the “only woman” to make the list.

It was the widespread announcement of his victory that first put him on Cêpa’s radar.

“At the time I didn’t even know who this person was. I just saw a headline on an Instagram page celebrating that ‘the most voted woman in São Paulo is a transwoman,'” she says, recounting how her ordeal began, “Then, I shared a video with my followers saying I was disappointed to hear that the most voted-for woman in São Paulo – later found out that it was in the entire country – was a man.”

Cêpa says she left her home to go shopping, and when she had returned, a veritable firestorm of outrage had broken out, one which quickly spiraled out of control.

“When I arrived back home, I was already being attacked by thousands of people,” she describes, stating Suyanne Ynaya, an editor at ELLE magazine’s Brazil franchise and friend of Erika Hilton’s, had posted her Instagram video to Twitter, calling her out for describing Hilton a “man.”

But Ynaya’s attack didn’t just end there. The ELLE editor also accused Cêpa of filing a false sexual assault report against a Black man in an attempt to also paint her as a racist.

“This is something that just never happened. I’ve never reported a Black man for anything at all. So people started spreading the rumor that not only am I transphobic, but also a racist and a liar who takes advantage of the feminist movement to file false reports against innocent men of color.”

Cêpa told Reduxx she had been the victim of a sexual assault, but that her rapist was Caucasian. Despite that, Ynaya continued to spread the rumor that she had reported an Afro-Brazillian man, and even engaged beneath Cêpa’s tweets calling her “privileged and disgusting.”

Translation [sic]: “You have so many complaints against you, every person who talks to you says how many evil things you do out there looking for fame. You are a liar, privileged, and disgusting. Your feminism doesn’t knock at my door or educate my children. Know!”

On Instagram, Ynaya threatened to physically harm Cêpa multiple times, threats she brought to the Police but nothing was done.

“I have no idea why she did it … She deleted tweets when she realized it would result in criminal charges against her,” Cêpa says, noting that some survivors of sexual assault had begun to take issue with Ynaya’s campaign to delegitimize Cêpa’s sexual assault testimony, but the ELLE editor told them Cêpa did not deserve an apology because she was transphobic.

In an audio recording Cêpa provided to Reduxx for review, Ynaya is heard calling Cêpa a “racist” with mental health issues, and repeating the rumor that she had falsely accused a Black man of rape.

“I couldn’t count how many threats I received, between my social media profiles and e-mail,” Cêpa told Reduxx, saying that in the 24 hours after Ynaya launched her campaign, she lost over 11,000 followers on Instagram, “I was also uninvited to participate in a podcast where I was supposed to talk about sexual violence, as a survivor. My friends were threatened.”

But the social media attacks had more than a cursory impact on Cêpa’s life, they would also go on to impact a situation of domestic violence she was attempting to navigate shortly after.

“When I broke up with my [ex-boyfriend] after he raped me, he found a really comfortable space to say I was a false accuser. Things got to a point I coudn’t go out anymore without being taped, watched or photographed by his supporters – all women. His ex-girlfriend – a very fanatic trans ally – sent private information about the investigation to media, and then many people started saying online that I was a false accuser.”

Cêpa’s ex-partner was convicted of violating her restraining order against him last week, with an additional 6 alleged crimes still being investigated. Cêpa says that he told her in a recorded conversation that it was “way too easy” to convince others he hadn’t committed any wrongdoing against her because of the trans activist campaign that had been launched to discredit her.

While all of this was happening, Hilton was using Cêpa’s fall from popularity as a talking point. In early 2021, he mentioned he was planning on taking 50 people to police, of which Cêpa and her friend, whom he called a “mythomaniac,” were two of them.

Hilton didn’t report Cêpa to police until November of 2021, and in January, police would turn up to Cêpa’s mother’s workplace to ask for her whereabouts.

“They just gave her a document and she called me, worried. At the time I was traveling in another town and had to call the police station to understand what it was about,” Cêpa says, describing having to go to a local police station and speak with the officer there.

“When the officer told me it was about the politician I laughed. There was no other possible reaction … I said: Yes, I do defend women’s rights on a biological basis. There is no crime in stating the facts.”

After she spoke with police, Cêpa would be in the dark about developments in her case until June of 2022 when a reporter from a major Brazilian newspaper contacted her to ask for comment for a story she was writing on the charges.

Isabela Cêpa at a Women’s Rights protest in 2018.

“I heard about my charges for the first time on June 18th when a reporter from Folha sent me a direct message on Instagram asking for a statement, minutes before posting the article,” Cêpa says, “This was the first I had heard I was being formally criminally charged with anything.”

Cêpa learned from the Folha article that she was being charged with 5 counts of racism after the Public Prosecutor combed her social media feed to find other “transphobic” statements.

In 2019, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court ruled that discrimination against ‘LGBTQ Community’ constituted a penal offense, but fell under existing race-based protections as a form of “social racism.” This came a few years after State Police in São Paolo began to include trans-identified males in “femicide” statistics.

In addition to learning about the charges, the outlet announced Cêpa was facing up to 25 years in prison, a figure she says was manufactured to discourage other feminists from speaking out on similar issues.

“That [25 years] would be more time than a murderer convicted in the first degree would get here,” she says, calling the threat of the sentence “psychological terrorism.”

Speaking with Reduxx on Cêpa’s case, Brazilian journalist Andreia Nobre points out political dynamics are likely playing a role in her ordeal.

“[Cêpa] is being punished by a man who says he’s trans, because Brazilian media outlets wrote that he was the most-voted female councillor of all time and she challenged it,” Nobre says, “All she stated was fact. How can anyone believe that a government composed of 50% males saying they are ‘cis’ and 50% males saying they are ‘trans’ would represent progress?”

Nobre, who is the author of the newly-released Grumpy Guide to Motherhood and critically-acclaimed Grumpy Guide to Radical Feminism, notes that females comprise less than 20% of political seats worldwide, and are massively underrepresented in politics in Brazil.

“It shows Brazilian women they are not humans deserving of rights,” Nobre says, “It is definitely a setback. We barely have our rights respected in Brazil.”

Despite still having no formal copy of the charges that have been filed against her by the State, Cêpa has put together a team of 12 female lawyers to fight on her behalf.

“It would be unconstitutional to convict me for any of these charges … I’ve been facing these kinds of attacks from trans activists for years, so when I heard about it, I just put my legal team together right away.”

Last year, Hilton announced he would be suing 50 people for “transphobic” remarks, but as of right now Cêpa says she is the only one who has been formally targeted. In reports made across Brazilian media last year, Hilton appeared to be using the threat of suing feminists as a re-election strategy, rallying his supporters around the idea he will sue them after having them criminally convicted, and give the settlement money to other trans-identified people.

Cêpa says she hopes her ordeal will show how women are losing basic constitutional rights to validate the feelings of males.

“This case is not about a hate crime, but about a difference in political views. No one can impose upon a woman a belief that her sex is irrelevant.”

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Feminista Brasileña enfrenta hasta 25 años de cárcel por describir a político trans como “hombre”

By
Anna Slatz
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Feminist activist Isabela Cêpa

Una activista feminista brasileña enfrenta hasta 25 años de cárcel luego de haber sido acusada de catalogar a un político transgénero como “hombre”. La demandada aspira que este caso logre mostrar al mundo el verdadero impacto de la ideología de género sobre los derechos de las mujeres.

Isabela Cêpa, también conocida por su nombre de usuaria en las redes sociales FEMINISA, es una influencer feminista conocida en Brasil por su concientización del público acerca de los temas de violencia sexual y doméstica. Ella habló exclusivamente para Reduxx sobre lo que  describe como cargos penales “inconstitucionales” que el Estado presentó en su contra en nombre de un político masculino identificado como trans: Erika Hilton del Partido Socialismo y Libertad.

Erika [Filipe] Hilton

Hilton resultó elegido para el gobierno municipal de São Paolo en noviembre del 2020, ganando su escaño de forma aplastante, lo que le dio el título de la “mujer” más votada de Brasil.

En el momento de su victoria electoral, Hilton fue aplaudido por los medios internacionales como un “triunfo simbólico” para las personas transgénero. Hilton estuvo entre los 10 candidatos más votados en todo Brasil y fue presentado como la “única mujer” en la lista.

La abrumadora cobertura de su victoria fue lo que lo visibilizó en el radar de Cêpa.

“En ese momento ni siquiera sabía quién era esta persona. Acababa de ver un titular en una página de Instagram que celebraba que ‘la mujer más votada en São Paulo es una mujer trans’”, dijo al contar cómo comenzó su calvario. “Luego, compartí un video con mis seguidores diciendo que me decepcionó escuchar que la mujer más votada en São Paulo –después supe que lo fue en todo el país– era un hombre”.

Cêpa dice que salió de su casa para ir de compras, y cuando regresó, se desató una verdadera tormenta de indignación, que rápidamente se salió de control.

“Cuando llegué a casa, ya estaba siendo atacada por miles de personas”, explicó, afirmando que Suyanne Ynaya, editora de la franquicia brasileña de la revista ELLE y amiga personal de Erika Hilton, había publicado su video de Instagram en Twitter, reprendiéndola por describir a Hilton como un “hombre”.

Pero el ataque de Ynaya no terminó ahí. La editora de ELLE también acusó a Cêpa de presentar un informe falso de agresión sexual contra un hombre afrodescendiente en un intento de pintarla como racista.

“Esto es algo que simplemente nunca sucedió. Nunca he denunciado a un hombre negro por nada en absoluto. Así que la gente comenzó a difundir el rumor de que no solo soy transfóbica, sino también racista y una mentirosa que se aprovecha del movimiento feminista para presentar informes falsos contra hombres inocentes de color”.

Cêpa le confesó a Reduxx que había sido víctima de una agresión sexual, pero que su violador era caucásico. A pesar de eso, Ynaya siguió difundiendo el rumor de que ella había denunciado a un hombre afrobrasileño, e incluso dejó descalificaciones debajo de los tuits de Cêpa llamándola “repugnante y privilegiada ”.

Traducción [sic]: “Tienes tantas quejas en tu contra, toda persona que habla contigo relata cuantas cosas malas haces por ahí en busca de fama. Eres mentirosa, privilegiada y repugnante. Tu feminismo no llama a mi puerta ni educa a mis hijos. ¡Para que lo sepas!”

En Instagram, Ynaya amenazó varias veces a Cêpa con agresión física, amenazas que ella denunció con la policía, pero que no generaron respuesta alguna de las autoridades.

“No tengo idea de por qué lo hizo… Borró los tuits cuando se dio cuenta de que generarían cargos penales en su contra”, explicó Cêpa, y señaló que algunos sobrevivientes de agresiones sexuales habían comenzado a tener serios problemas con la campaña de Ynaya de deslegitimización del testimonio de agresión sexual de Cêpa. , pero la editora de ELLE respondió que Cêpa no merecía una disculpa porque era transfóbica.

En una grabación de audio proporcionaba por Cêpa a Reduxx para su revisión, se escucha a Ynaya describir a Cêpa como una “racista” con problemas de salud mental y repetir el rumor de que había acusado falsamente a un hombre negro de violación.

“Perdí la cuenta de cuántas amenazas recibí, entre mis perfiles de redes sociales y el correo electrónico”, dijo Cêpa a Reduxx, y agregó que 24 horas después de la campaña de odio iniciada por Ynaya, perdió más de 11,000 seguidores en Instagram, “También cancelaron mi invitación a participar en un podcast donde estaba pautada para hablar sobre la violencia sexual, como sobreviviente. Amenazaron a mis amigos”.

Pero los ataques en las redes sociales tuvieron más que un impacto superficial sobre la vida de Cêpa, también agravaron una situación de violencia doméstica que estaba tratando de sobrellevar.

“Cuando rompí con mi ex-novio después de que el abusó de mi, ellos le proporcionaron un espacio bien cómodo para decir que yo era una falsa acusadora. Las cosas llegaron a tal punto de que no podía salir sin ser grabada, observada o fotografiada por sus seguidores, todas mujeres. Su exnovia, una aliada trans obsesiva, envió información privada sobre la investigación a los medios de comunicación, y después mucha gente en línea comenzó a decir yo era una falsa acusadora”.

La semana pasada La expareja de Cêpa fue condenada por incumplir una orden de alejamiento en su contra, y aún se investigan otros 6 presuntos delitos. Cêpa dijo en una conversación grabada se le escuchó decir que era “demasiado fácil” convencer a los demás de que no había cometido ningún delito contra ella debido a la campaña de activismo trans que se había lanzado para desacreditarla.

Mientras todo esto sucedía, Hilton estaba usando la caída en popularidad de Cêpa como tema de conversación. A principios del 2021, mencionó que planeaba denunciar a 50 personas a la policía, de las cuales Cêpa y su amiga, a quien llamó “mitómana”, eran parte de su lista.

Hilton no denunció a Cêpa a la policía hasta noviembre del 2021 y, en enero, las autoridades se presentaron en el lugar de trabajo de la madre de Cêpa para preguntar por su paradero.

“Apenas recibió el documento me llamó preocupada. En ese momento estaba viajando a otra ciudad y tuve que llamar a la comisaría para que me explicaran de qué se trataba”, recordó Cêpa, describiendo como tuvo que ir a una comisaría local y hablar con un oficial de turno.

“Cuando el oficial me dijo que se trataba del político me reí. No había otra reacción posible… Dije: Sí, yo sí defiendo los derechos de las mujeres en términos biológicos. No hay delito en exponer los hechos”.

Después de hablar con la policía, Cêpa no tendría información sobre la evolución de su caso hasta llegar a junio del 2022, cuando un reportero de un importante periódico brasileño la contactó para pedirle declaraciones sobre un artículo que estaba escribiendo sobre los cargos.

Isabela Cêpa at a Women’s Rights protesT in 2018.

“Me enteré de mis cargos por primera vez el 18 de junio cuando un reportero de Folha me envió un mensaje directo en Instagram pidiendo una declaración, minutos antes de publicar su artículo”, dijo Cêpa, “Esta fue la primera vez que escuche que estaba siendo formalmente acusada de algo”.

Cêpa supo por el artículo de Folha que estaba siendo acusada de 5 cargos de racismo después de que el Ministerio Público revisara sus redes sociales para encontrar otras declaraciones “transfóbicas”.

En el 2019, el Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil dictaminó que la discriminación contra la ‘Comunidad LGBTQ’ constituía un delito penal, pero caía dentro de las protecciones existentes basadas en la raza como una tipo de “racismo social”. Esto se desarrolló unos años después de que la Policía Estatal de São Paolo comenzara a incluir a hombres transidentificados en las estadísticas de “femicidios”.

Además de enterarse de los cargos, el medio anunció que Cêpa enfrentaba hasta 25 años de prisión, una cifra que, según ella, fue fabricada para disuadir a otras feministas de hablar sobre temas similares.

“Esos 25 años sería más tiempo de lo que recibiría un asesino condenado en primer grado”, dijo, catalogando a la amenaza de sentencia como “terrorismo psicológico”.

Discutiendo el caso de Cêpa con Reduxx , la periodista brasileña Andreia Nobre señala que es probable que la dinámica política esté jugando un papel en su terrible experiencia.

“Cêpa está siendo castigada por un hombre que dice ser trans, porque los medios de comunicación brasileños declararon que él era la concejala más votada de todos los tiempos y ella lo cuestionó”, explicó Nobre, “Todo lo que ella dijo es un hecho. ¿Cómo puede alguien creer que un gobierno compuesto por un 50 % de hombres que aseguran ser ser cis y un 50 % de hombres que dicen ser trans representaría un progreso?”.

Nobre, autora de la recién publicada Guía gruñona para la maternidad y de aclamada Guía gruñona para el feminismo radical, señala que las mujeres representan menos del 20% de los escaños políticos en todo el mundo y están enormemente subrepresentadas en la política de Brasil.

“Muestran a las mujeres brasileñas como si no fueran seres humanos que merecen derechos”, dijo Nobre, “Definitivamente es un revés. Apenas se respetan nuestros derechos en Brasil”.

A pesar de que aún no tiene una copia formal de los cargos que el Estado ha presentado en su contra, Cêpa ha formado un equipo de 12 abogadas para luchar en su nombre.

“Sería inconstitucional condenarme por cualquiera de estos cargos… Durante años me he enfrentado a este tipo de ataques por parte de activistas trans, así que cuando pude enterarme, inmediatamente reuní a mi equipo legal”.

El año pasado, Hilton anunció que demandaría a 50 personas por comentarios “transfóbicos”, pero hasta estos momentos Cêpa figura la única que ha sido formalmente atacada . En informes del año anterior publicados por los medios brasileños, Hilton parecería estar usando la amenaza de demanda a las feministas como una estrategia de reelección, reuniendo a sus partidarios en torno a la idea de que las demandará después de haberlas condenado penalmente y les dará el dinero del acuerdo a otras personas transidentificadas.

Cêpa dice que espera que su terrible experiencia muestre cómo las mujeres están perdiendo derechos constitucionales básicos para validar los sentimientos de los hombres.

“Este no es un caso de crimen de odio, sino de una diferencia de puntos de vista políticos. Nadie puede imponerle a una mujer la creencia de que su sexo es irrelevante”.

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