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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://twitter.com/MacyGraysLife/status/1544060627580239880
Today, Willoughby took to his Twitter to slam both Midler and Gray in a bizarre statement where he accused them of “internalizing fascist propaganda,” comparing the stars to “Goebbels, Stalin, Roy Cohn, and Jiang Qing.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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UK: Trans-Identified Pedophile Jailed After Breaching Sexual Harm Prevention Order for Second Time

By
Jennifer Sieland
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Joshua Harvey now identifies as a woman named 'Leah.'

A trans-identified pedophile is back behind bars after breaching a sexual harm prevention order for the second time.

Joshua Harvey, of Caerphilly, Wales, was initially imprisoned in 2018 on five counts of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity. Harvey had sent lewd media of himself to a social media account he believed to belong to a 13 year old girl, but was in fact a decoy established by anti-predator vigilante group Guardians of the North.

According to the group, Harvey had asked the ‘girl’ for sex, and sent indecent photos and videos of himself. Shortly after, Guardians of the North alerted local police and turned over the evidence of Harvey’s acts. He was ultimately sentenced to 3 years and 8 months, but was released on condition in October of 2019.

Within two weeks of his release, Harvey had breached his conditions of not engaging with minors on two separate occasions. In the first incidents, Harvey made two teen girls working at a restaurant “uncomfortable.” He would begin by pestering one of the young workers, throwing food at her when she tried to ignore him. The girl would report Harvey telling her he had a “surprise” for her, and attempting to enter the employees-only area around the counter.

Three days later, Harvey had returned and found another minor girl working. He asked her if she was old enough to have sex, and invited her out on a date. He found out the girl’s name and phone number, and called her no less than 15 times.

On a separate occasion, Harvey had approached two young boys at a Remembrance Day event. A police officer witnessed the interaction and thought Harvey looked “over-familiar” with the youth. The officer was then approached by a member of the public, who stated Harvey had been loudly “bragging about being a pedophile.”

Harvey was sentenced to two years in prison for the 2019 breaches. While it is unclear when Harvey was released, by June of 2022 he was out of prison and once again violating the order stemming from his 2018 charges.

According to the South Wales Argus, Harvey, 27, has now been sentenced to 24 weeks in prison after police found unregistered electronic devices at him home. He pleaded guilty at Newport Magistrates’ Court today.

News reports related to the 2018 incident referred to Harvey as a man, but, by his next set of charges stemming from the 2019 breaches, he began being referred to by media as a “woman.”

A Wales Online article about Harvey’s case after approaching the minors in 2019 was headlined “Woman who ‘bragged about being a pedophile’ approached boys at Remembrance event,” and utilized feminine pronouns for Harvey.

At the time of the Wales Online report, Harvey had been confirmed as being housed in a men’s prison, but his placement for the latest breach will largely be dependent on whether or not he has obtained a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

Individuals can apply for a GRC for little as £5 and will be issued once a person has met certain requirements, one of which is having lived as a ‘preferred gender‘ for two years, something Harvey appears to have done.

Speaking to Reduxx on another case of a recently-transitioned pedophile, Dr. Kate Coleman, Director of Keep Prisons Single Sex, said GRCs will usually determine placement.

“Whilst under 1% non-GRC holders are in the female [prison] estate, 90% of those with a GRC are in women’s prisons. These include those convicted of the most serious violent and sexual offences and those with intact male genitalia,” Dr. Coleman noted, continuing: “A GRC isn’t a cast iron guarantee of getting into a women’s prison, but it increases your chances by an order of magnitude.”

Keep Prisons Single Sex is a campaign group focused on advocating for the single-sex rights of vulnerable female inmates. It currently has branches in the United Kingdom and United States.

“[GRCs] have successfully been obtained by prisoners serving sentences for the most serious violent and sexual offenses against women and children,” Dr. Coleman said, “We know that offending history and risk are not taken into consideration by the Gender Recognition Panel when making the decision to grant a gender recognition certificate.”

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Problemático activista trans que expulsó a lesbiana de Pride Org. abandona su transición y vuelve a ser hombre

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Un hombre que se auto identificaba como lesbiana y que en el 2018 fue el artífice de la remoción de la única representante lesbiana de la Comisión LGBTQ de Baltimore mientras impulsaba sentimientos lesbofóbicos, inesperadamente optó por la detransición.

Kodah Pipitone, *nombre de nacimiento John Francis, anteriormente conocido como ‘Ava’, fue pieza fundamental para que la defensora de las lesbianas Julia Beck terminara expulsada de la comisión y rechazada como “TERF”, además de patrocinar un evento que prometía que las lesbianas “exclusivas” serian “colgadas por sus cuellos”.

En el 2018, todavía bajo el nombre de ‘Ava’, Pipitone era presidente de la Alianza Transgénero de Baltimore y defensor del lobby global de proxenetas, el Proyecto de Alcance de Trabajadores Sexuales. Para hacer que la Comisión LGBTQ fuera lo más “inclusiva” posible, el alcalde Pugh invitó a Pipitone a sus reuniones.

Durante un desfile de Orgullo Gay en junio del 2018, Beck marchó con carteles que decían: “A las lesbianas no les gusta la polla”, “Lesbianas NO homosexuales” y “La violencia contra las lesbianas es una epidemia”, entre otros lemas. En un artículo para AfterEllenon Beck habló de su experiencia, “Los transeúntes vitorearon, aplaudieron y se tomaron fotos con nosotras. Algunas susurraron gracias, mientras que otros gritaron: “¡Váyanse a casa, TERF!”. Twitter explotó tratando de ubicar a las notorias lesbianas que estrellaron el Orgullo Gay de Baltimore. Me doxearon a mí y a varias amigas para amenazarnos, incluyendo a una mujer que no formaba parte de la protesta”.

Las declaraciones de Beck en Pride provocaron críticas por parte de sus colegas masculinos miembros de la Comisión. Durante una reunión que tuvo lugar ese mismo mes, Pipitone le pidió a Beck a bocajarro que lo identificara por su sexo. Ella respondió: “Eres hombre”, a lo que Pipitone reaccionó acusándola de agresión. En el transcurso de los siguientes meses, Pipitone mantuvo una campaña activa para la destitución Beck.

En octubre de ese mismo año, Jabari Lyles, el enlace del alcalde, programó una reunión con Beck para preguntarle si creía que las mujeres trans podían ser lesbianas y, en diciembre, Beck fue eliminada por unanimidad de la Comisión LGBTQ.

Pipitone, mientras tanto, aparecía en los medios locales y hasta fue nombrado una de las “Caras del orgullo” por la revista Baltimore, en contraste Beck era calumniada por el Gay Star News con el titular: ” Lesbiana TERF Expulsada del Liderazgo de la Comisión LGBTQ de Baltimore aparece en Fox News.”

En el 2018, un fideicomiso de Johns Hopkins otorgó a Pipitone la cantidad de $15,000 para crear “viviendas asequibles para la comunidad LBGTQ”. El proyecto, conocido como HostHome, en última instancia recaudaría casi $90,000 en fondos, pero luego surgirían preocupaciones sobre lo que Pipitone realmente había hecho con el dinero.

En el 2019, Pipitone fue invitado a hablar en la Marcha de Mujeres en Baltimore y posteriormente activistas lesbianas protestaron debido a su violenta retórica dirigida a la comunidad lesbiana.

Pero las publicaciones de Instagram de Pipitone muestran que ya no se identifica como una mujer lesbiana, habiendo abandonado la transición silenciosamente. En cambio, ahora se declara a sí mismo como un tecno-futurista, etiqueta sus selfies como “biohacker” y anuncia su deseo de “hacer ingeniería inversa”.

Julia Beck criticó a Pipitone en una publicación reciente de Facebook después de haber descubierto que dejó caer su artimaña, alegando que había “cambiado una secta por otra”.

Habiendo sido víctima de la aventura de Pipitone con su identidad temporal, Beck dijo: “Está bien encontrarse a uno mismo en esta vida. Ojalá el proceso para hombres como él no implicara traumatizar a las mujeres o pretender ser una”.

*EDITADO el 22.02.14 para reflejar el nombre de pila original de John Francis Pipitone.

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Reino Unido: Pedófilo transidentificado es encarcelado por segunda vez tras violar medida cautelar

By
Jennifer Sieland
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Joshua Harvey now identifies as a woman named 'Leah.'

Un pedófilo transidentificado vuelve a quedar tras las rejas después de violar por segunda vez una orden de prevención de daños sexuales.

Joshua Harvey, de Caerphilly, Gales, fue encarcelado inicialmente en el 2018 por cinco cargos de incitación a menores a participar en actividades sexuales. Harvey había enviado material sexual de sí mismo a lo que creía se trataba una cuenta de red social de a una niña de 13 años, pero en realidad se trataba de un señuelo utilizado por el grupo de vigilantes contra depredadores denominado Guardianes del Norte.

Según el grupo, Harvey le había solicitado sexo a la ‘niña’ y le había enviado fotos y videos indecentes  de su persona. Poco después, Guardianes del Norte alertó a la policía local y le entregó la evidencia . Finalmente Harvey fue sentenciado a 3 años y 8 meses, pero luego fue liberado bajo condición en octubre del 2019.

Dos semanas después de su liberación, Harvey  incumplió las condiciones que le prohibían relacionarse con menores en dos situaciones distintas. En los primeros incidentes, Harvey provocó e incomodó a dos adolescentes empleadas de un restaurante. Estuvo molestando a una de las jóvenes trabajadoras, tirándole comida mientras ella trataba de ignorarlo. La muchacha reportaría a Harvey alegando que él le prometió una “sorpresa” mientras intentaba ingresar al área exclusiva de empleados alrededor del mostrador.

Tres días después, Harvey  regresa y encuentra a otra menor trabajando. Le pregunta si es de edad suficiente para tener relaciones sexuales y la invita a una cita. Averiguó su nombre y número de teléfono y la llama no menos de 15 veces.

En otra ocasión, Harvey se había acercado a dos niños pequeños durante un evento del Día del Recuerdo. Un oficial de policía fue testigo de la interacción y pensó que Harvey  se veía “demasiado familiarizado” con el joven. Luego, un miembro del público se acercó al oficial y dijo que Harvey había estado “alardeando de ser un pedófilo en voz alta”.

Harvey fue sentenciado a dos años de prisión por las infracciones del 2019. Si bien no está claro cuándo fue liberado Harvey, durante el mes junio del 2022 estaba otra vez fuera de prisión y de nuevo violó la orden derivada de sus cargos de 2018.

Según South Wales Argus, Harvey, de 27 años, ha sido condenado a una pena de 24 semanas de prisión después de que la policía encontrara varios dispositivos electrónicos no registrados en su casa. Se declaró culpable frente al Tribunal de Magistrados de Newport.

Los informes de noticias relacionados con el incidente del 2018 se refirieren a Harvey como un hombre, pero, para el conjunto de cargos derivados de sus infracciones cometidas en el 2019, los medios comenzaron a identificarlo como “mujer“.

Un artículo de Wales Online reseñando el caso de acoso de Harvey en el 2019 se tituló “Mujer que ‘se jactaba de ser una pedófila’ se acercó a los niños durante el evento Remembrance” e hizo uso de pronombres femeninos para referirse a Harvey.

Durante la fecha del informe de Wales Online, se había confirmado que Harvey estaba alojado en una prisión para hombres, pero su reubicación por la última infracción depende en gran medida de si cuenta o no con un Certificado de Reconocimiento de Género (GRC).

Las personas pueden solicitar el GRC por tan solo £ 5 y se emite una vez la persona haya cumplido con ciertos requisitos, uno de los cuales es haber vivido como su “género preferido” por un mínimo dos años, algo que Harvey parece haber hecho.

Compartiendo con Reduxx sobre otro caso de pedófilos de transición reciente, la Dra. Kate Coleman, directora de Keep Prisons Single Sex, dijo que los GRC generalmente determinarán la ubicación.

“Mientras que menos del 1% de las personas que no cuentan con GRC están en cárceles de mujeres, el 90% de las que si lo poseen cumplen su condena en instalaciones femeninas. Esto incluye a los presos culpables de los crímenes sexuales más violentos y que cuentan con sus órganos masculinos intactos”, señaló la Doctora Coleman, y continuó: “Un GRC no es una garantía inquebrantable para ingresar a una prisión de mujeres, pero aumenta tremendamente las posibilidades”.

Keep Prisons Single Sex es una organización que centra su campaña en defender los derechos del sexo femenino a favor de las reclusas vulneradas. Actualmente cuenta con sucursales en Reino Unido y Estados Unidos.

“Los reclusos sentenciados por los crímenes sexuales más violentos contra menores de edad y mujeres han logrado obtener el GRC ”, dijo la Dra. Coleman, “sabemos que los historiales delictivos y el riesgo que esto implica no son tomados en consideración por parte del Panel de Reconocimiento de Género cuando deciden otorgar un certificado de reconocimiento de género”.

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Lesbians Assaulted By Trans Activists at Dyke March in Cologne

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Women stating their opposition to males self-identifying as lesbian were attacked at a ‘lesbian’ pride march in Cologne, Germany, with one of the demonstrators being brutally choked by a male trans activist.

On July 2, a group of women gathered outside of Museum Ludwig and unfurled banners which defined lesbians as “female homosexual persons” and declared opposition to the ‘queer’ trend.

The women, comprised of members from Women’s Declaration International (WDI) Germany and LGB Alliance, also held up a flag bearing the Labrys symbol, a double-sided axe adopted as a pride symbol by the lesbian community in the 1970s.

The women were located on a balcony which was just above where the rest of the Dyke March participants were walking the street, and quickly caught the attention of the activists amongst the crowd.

According to a representative of WDI Germany who spoke with Reduxx on the condition of anonymity, trans activists within the march started playing a song which repeated the words “F*ck you,” and began hurling insults at the women as they stood with their signs.

Dyke March event organizer Annette Rösener can be seen in video footage shared on Twitter using her elbow to shove a young woman holding the lesbian pride flag. During the struggle, the Labrys flag, along with several other banners and signs, were stolen by trans activists.

Rösener then assisted others in replacing the pro-lesbian flag with a banner which read ‘Dykes Against Transphobia.’

An activist also lashed out against lesbians who who “exclude” males from their sexuality, grabbing a sign which read “lesbians don’t have penises” from a woman and attempting to destroy it.

But Rösener wasn’t the only one lashing out against the women peacefully demonstrating. A masked man rushed the young woman who had been holding the lesbian pride flag and put her in a headlock, wrapping his arms tightly around her neck.

Susanne, a member of the LGB Alliance, struggled against the assault, and was eventually released.

Speaking to Reduxx, Susanne said she wasn’t surprised about the attack on her group, but was taken aback by the violence from the trans activist towards her.

“I guess I was anticipating it, but not how sudden and violently it happened,” she explained, “I was scared I could die when the guy put me in a headlock.”

Susanne pointed out that when the organizers of the Dyke March tried to intervene, it was only to defend the man choking her as she struggled to free herself.

Photograph of the police report filed by the members of WDI and LGBA

A police report has been filed, but no arrests have yet been made. Charges listed in the report include robbery, theft, intentional simple bodily injury, insult and damage to property on streets, roads or squares.

But Susanne is not optimistic that action will be taken by the authorities.

“I’m not sure the police will be effective,” she said. “They seemed very confused as to why we were attacked at all. One of them suggested we were victims of a homophobic hate crime. Another one asked us if we were protesting against people changing ‘Geschlechtsidentität’ or ‘sex identity,’ the German word for gender identity.”

Violence against lesbian and women’s rights activists have been on the rise in recent years. Trans activists have assaulted women in various countries for protesting sex trafficking and resisting male colonization of lesbian identity and spaces.

In July 2021, Get The L Out UK posted video recordings showing lesbian demonstrators being physically assaulted by trans activists during Paris Pride. The women were voicing their opposition to males identifying into lesbianism.

In Paris a few months prior, a group of women with the Collective Against Pornography and Prostitution (CAPP) were attacked by transactivists while protesting against sex trafficking and male violence. The counter protesters pelted the women with eggs while spraying red paint in their eyes. Many of the women assaulted were survivors of the sex industry.

In March of this year, sex industry abolitionist feminists in Barcelona were confronted and threatened by “people in favor of prostitution.” The women had gathered for a protest planned by Catalunya Abolicionista Plataforma Feminista (CATAB) in Plaza St. Jaume, where they were surrounded by counter-protestors who attempted to assault them, but were prevented by police.

Politicians from both Germany’s Green Party and the Socialist Democrats are lobbying for a sex self-identification bill which previously would have allowed children as young as 14 years old to legally transition, regardless of parental consent.

Women’s Declaration International (WDI) staged protests against the proposed legislation. A petition written by members of WDI Germany asserted that the “Self-Determination Act” interferes with the rights of parents and endangers the well-being of children.

“Children from the age of 14 may therefore be exposed to unnecessary and irreversible genital-altering surgical interventions, which include the amputation of breasts, uteri, ovaries, and penises,” the petition reads. “Amputating healthy parts of the body or taking puberty blockers and hormones that damage the body cannot change a person’s sex. The law should not suggest that this is possible.”

Following the backlash, the legislation was amended to allow for parental consent for childhood medical transition; however, should parents express opposition, children can then file a petition with the court system and receive approval from judicial authorities.

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Usuario de Twitter que amenazó a JK Rowling resultó ser “feminista” irlandés

By
Reduxx Team
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La famosa autora J.K. Rowling denunció a la red social Twitter por incumplimiento de sus políticas de seguridad luego de que una cuenta publicara su dirección personal junto a un mensaje amenazador que se mantuvo visible durante días pese a varios informes de censura que se habían emitido. Reduxx pudo identificar a el usuario detrás de la cuenta infractora. Se trata de una activista y organizador irlandés que se autodenomina “feminista”.  

Rowling desató una ola de preocupación entre los internautas el 1ero de julio luego de compartir una captura de pantalla de un tweet perturbador dirigido a su persona y fechado el 14 de junio.

Publicado originalmente por el usuario @fuckfinegael, el retweet de la cita presentaba dos imágenes: La primera era de Rowling con su dirección superpuesta sobre su rostro y una bomba casera en la esquina, mientras que la otra era la de un manual de municiones improvisadas. La guía, publicada originalmente por el Ejército de los EE. UU. en 1969, se creó con el propósito de enseñarle a los soldados cómo crear armas y explosivos utilizando recursos limitados.

En su tweet con la captura de pantalla, Rowling aclaró que había ocultado la dirección de su familia para evitar que esta tuviera mayor circulación.

El mensaje amenazante había sido en respuesta directa a una publicación de Rowling en apoyo a un hombre en proceso de detransición.

En su escrito, Rowling afirmó que la cuenta aún estaba activa a pesar de haber hecho pública la dirección de su casa con obvia mala intención. Después de que el tweet de Rowling se publicara, la cuenta, @fuckfinegael, fue desactivada y luego eliminada por el usuario, lo que sugiere que Twitter no tomó ninguna medida punitiva. Desde entonces, el nombre de usuario ha sido tomado por un internauta sin relación alguna con los hechos.

Antes de la desactivación, la única otra información sobre la identidad de @fuckfinegael era un nombre: Shane.

Pero a pesar de estar desactivado, una búsqueda rápida a través de WayBackMachine de Internet Archive, de acceso público, rápidamente reveló que la cuenta le perteneció a Shane Murray, un activista por temas de justicia social de origen irlandés.

Una captura de pantalla de la cuenta de Murray tomada en el 2021 por el sistema automatizado de WayBackMachine, muestra que se describía a sí mismo como un organizador de múltiples grupos de justicia social, incluidos End Image-Based Sexual Abuse (End ISBA) Ireland, Youth Against Racism and Inequality y ROSA Movimiento Social Feminista de Irlanda.

En dos ocasiones Murray apareció como coordinador de redes sociales para la campaña End ISBA durante el 2020, tanto en el University Times como en el College Tribune. El grupo de defensa fue un esfuerzo lanzado por los representantes de la Unión de Estudiantes de la University College Dublin, de los cuales Murray formaba parte, y se centró en atacar los cibercriminales, específicamente los de naturaleza sexual como los propagadores de “pornografía de venganza”

El año pasado, la cuenta oficial de Twitter de End ISBA reveló que Murray era miembro de su equipo y contaba con una certificación por parte Ohana Zero Suicide en el área de concientización de situaciones de crisis. Justo antes de desactivar su cuenta en Twitter, Murray maltrató a mujeres que hacían públicas sus críticas a la ideología de género y sugirió , en al menos un caso archivado, a una feminista que se suicidara.

En noviembre del 2020, Murray fue enaltecido por el Sindicato de Estudiantes del University College Dublin como una activista “feminista interseccional”.

Según los registros de WayBackMachine, Murray desactivó su cuenta de Twitter en abril del 2021, solo para regresar en mayo del 2022 con el claro propósito de encontrar entradas para un concierto que quería ver. No fue hasta junio que comenzó a usar la cuenta regularmente, además revelando que ahora se identifica como transgénero.

Desde entonces, Murray ha desactivado todas sus redes sociales, incluyendo su cuenta de Facebook.

El 2 de julio, la Policía de Escocia anunció que había abierto una investigación oficial sobre las amenazas dirigidas a Rowling.

Desde el primer momento en el 2019 cuando Rowling reveló que sentía preocupación por el impacto de la ideología de género tras apoyar a la feminista británica Maya Forstater, se convirtió blanco de amplios abusos por parte de activistas trans, medios de comunicación y otras celebridades.

A principios de este año, la muerte fantasiosa de Rowling se celebró dentro las páginas de una novela gore éxito en ventas por medio de Amazon titulada Manhunt. Descrita como un “horror LGBTQ”, la trama del libro se centra en hombres transidentificados que asesinan brutalmente a feministas, conocidas como “TERF”.

En un tweet promueve al libro publicado por la autora, Gretchen Felker-Martin, se alude a la muerte de JK Rowling como un punto de entretenimiento.

El libro contiene dos referencias a la muerte de la autora de Harry Potter: una en la que es quemada viva y una segunda alegoría de su muerte en forma de la destrucción de un arma llamada Galbraith.

Las ‘TERF’ en la novela también se conocen como “los Caballeros de JK Rowling”, y dichas guerreras participan en la brutalización y el abuso sexual de hombres identificados como trans.

Los detalles de este artículo han sido enviados a la Policía de Escocia.

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Viral Video Showing Child at Drag Strip Show Sparks Outrage, Concern Over Safeguarding

By
Jennifer Sieland
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A TikTok showing a very young girl being led through a bar by a half-nude drag queen with breast implants is making the rounds on Twitter and sparking outrage from netizens concerned about the girl’s safety.

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

The disturbing footage shows a very young girl being led by a provocatively dressed drag queen. The drag queen only had nipple pasties covering what appeared to be breast implants, and money stuffed into the skimpy underwear of his outfit. The girl is being held by the hand as the drag queen struts through a restaurant area, and continuously looks up at the man’s exposed body. The child also appears to also be clutching a few dollar bills in her free hand.

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

The source of the video posted by Chen was TikTok by user Nonie Kalra, who uploaded the original to her account earlier today. In her bio, she advertises a fundraiser for the Marsha P. Johnson foundation.

Kalra tagged the establishment the video was taken in — a Latin restaurant which caters to the LGBT community in Miami called R House Wynwood. On its website, the multi-purpose venue advertises hosting a ‘Drag Extravaganza‘ on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. Last year, Secret Miami ranked R House #1 on a list of “Fabulous LGBTQ Bars To Check Out In Miami.”

While it is unclear if the child in the video is Kalra’s or if she was just filming an occurrence at the restaurant while there, Kalra was supportive of it, writing in the comments “baby was in awe” in reference to the little girl apparently enjoying the show.

On a post from its Instagram made exactly two weeks ago, R House Wynwood posted a photo of a topless drag queen who looks similar to the one in the video uploaded by Chen. The caption reads: “We live for Escalando nights. What to expect? Salsa, drinks and a hell of a show.”

Since Chen’s post went live, the original TikTok has become inundated with negative comments, with many concerned users expressing outrage that a small child had been allowed in such a dramatically inappropriate setting.

On Twitter, users are similarly expressing disgust. Even a politician has since gotten involved, with Texas State Representative James White asking Chen where the event had occurred.

Many are wondering if punitive action is going to take place, and questioning the legality of having a child in a bar late at night.

“Where are the parents and why are they ok with this?” Asked one user in response to the video, with another replying: “Seriously. [I don’t know] how I could be just a random dude in that place and not stand up and at least say something. This is absolutely insane.”

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

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

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

The event had been subject to protests by right-wing advocacy group Protect Kids Texas, which stated on Twitter that they had 80 people outside of the venue voicing their concerns. The group also posted a video showing police showing up to the bar and escorting children from the venue.

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Twitter User Who Threatened JK Rowling Is Irish “Feminist” Organizer

By
Reduxx Team
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Famed author J.K. Rowling called out Twitter’s lack of policy enforcement after an account which released her address with a threatening message was allowed to remain active for days despite reports. Reduxx has now learned that the user behind the account is an Irish social justice activist and “feminist” organizer.

Rowling set off a firestorm of concern from netizens on July 1 after uploading a screenshot of a disturbing tweet that had been directed at her from June 14.

Originally posted by user @fuckfinegael, the quote retweet featured two images — one of Rowling with her address overlayed on her face and a pipe bomb in the corner, and the other of an Improvised Munitions Handbook. The guide, originally published by the US Army in 1969, was created for the purposes of teaching soldiers how to create explosives and weapons using limited resources.

In her tweet of the screenshot, Rowling clarified she had covered her family’s address to prevent further circulation.

The threatening message had been in direct response to a post Rowling had made in support of a male detransitioner.

In her post, Rowling stated that the account was still active despite having released her home address with an obviously abusive connotation. After Rowling’s tweet went live, the account, @fuckfinegael, was deactivated and then deleted by the user, suggesting no action by Twitter had been taken. The handle has since been claimed by a user unrelated to the situation.

Prior to deactivating, @fuckfinegael‘s only other identifying information was a first name: Shane.

But despite being deactivated, a quick search through the publicly-accessible Internet Archive’s WayBackMachine will quickly reveal that the account belongs to Shane Murray, an Irish social justice activist.

A screen capture of Murray’s account from 2021, taken by the WayBackMachine’s automated system, shows he described himself as an organizer with multiple social justice groups, including End Image-Based Sexual Abuse (End ISBA) Ireland, Youth Against Racism and Inequality, and ROSA Social Feminist Movement Ireland.

Murray was featured as a social media coordinator for the End ISBA campaign on two occasions in 2020, in both the University Times and the College Tribune. The advocacy group was an effort launched by University College Dublin Student Union representatives of which Murray was one, and was focused on targeting internet-based abuses, specifically that of a sexual nature such as ‘revenge pornography.’

Last year, the End ISBA official Twitter revealed Murray was one of its team members certified by Ohana Zero Suicide in crisis awareness training. Just prior to deactivating his Twitter account, Murray abused women critical of gender ideology and, in at least one archived instance, suggested a feminist commit suicide.

In November of 2020, Murray was highlighted by the University College Dublin Students’ Union as an “intersectional feminist” activist.

According to WayBackMachine logs, Murray deactivated his Twitter account in April of 2021, only to return in May of 2022 with the stated purpose of finding spare tickets to a concert he wanted to see. It wasn’t until June that he began to use the account regularly again, this time also revealing he identified as transgender.

Murray has since deactivated all social media, including his Facebook.

On July 2, Police Scotland announced an official investigation had been launched into the threats aimed at Rowling.

Since first revealing she had concerns about the impact of gender ideology in 2019 by throwing her support behind British feminist Maya Forstater, Rowling has been the subject of ample abuse from trans activists, media, and other celebrities.

Earlier this year, Rowling’s fantasized death was celebrated in an Amazon-bestselling gore novel titled Manhunt. Described as an ‘LGBTQ horror,’ the plot of the book is centered around trans-identified males graphically murdering feminists, referred to as ‘TERFs.’

In a Tweet advertising the book published by the author, Gretchen Felker-Martin, the death of JK Rowling is alluded to and treated as a point of entertainment.

The book contains two references to the death of the Harry Potter author: one in which she is burned alive, and a second allegory of her demise in the form of a weapon called the Galbraith being destroyed.

The ‘TERFs’ in the novel are also referred to as “the Knights of JK Rowling,” with the women holding her namesake participating in the brutalization and sexual abuse of trans-identified males.

The details in this article have been passed on to Police Scotland.

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