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Reddit “Daddy Dom” Charged With Creating Child Sexual Exploitation Material

By
Hannah Berrelli
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A Canadian man charged with making child sexual exploitation material ran a popular Reddit fetish community dedicated to ‘age play’ roleplaying fantasies.

Richard Burdett, 55, went by the Reddit usernames of “fstopvox” and “F_Stop_Fitzgerald” and gained internet notoriety from creating role-play audio recordings based around extreme fetishes including those of rape, age-play, child sexual abuse, and more. The recordings were intended to be sexually arousing, with Burdett narrating a script which generally included him being an adult male in a position of power over a young girl.

An archived post from Burdett’s subreddit.

The subreddit Burdett moderated had over 5,000 members and was described as a repository for the recordings, most of which included Burdett roleplaying as a ‘daddy’ or ‘teacher’ chastising children. In one recording, Burdett acted as a police officer conducting a sexualized interview with a young girl who had been molested.

Burdett’s popularity was reflected in that some users even created loving fan art of him, with one Tumblr user drawing romantic scenes featuring Burdett in the Japanese animation style.

While working as a high school drama teacher in 2007, Burdett was found to have written more than 1,300 intimate, sexually charged messages to a female high school student, including a graphic description of how he had dreamt of performing oral sex on her. According to The Toronto Star, Burdett had also been “spooning” four Grade 11 and 12 pajama-clad female students in his dormitory bedroom during a school trip.

After these incidents came to light, Burdett was given a 12-month suspension in February 2011 and required to complete a “boundary violation” course. After that time, he was found to be in “good standing” and approved to teach again by the Ontario College of Teachers.

During this time, Burdett was also taking “boudoir” photography, which The Toronto Star asserts involved teenage girls.

According to a press release from the Toronto Police Service, Burdett was arrested on April 20 as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse material possession.

Burdett was charged with the crimes after the police executed a search warrant at his Toronto home. A total of 5 charges were laid, including luring a child under 18 years of age, possession of child pornography, accessing child pornography, producing child pornography, and making child pornography available to others.

Reddit has since responded to the incident by banning the subreddit and suspending Burdett’s accounts, but archives of the pages show both were popular and frequently accessed, with Burdett being an active user.

Speaking to the Toronto Star, a Reddit spokesperson stated that “child sexual abuse material has no place on the Reddit platform,” and that users found to be disseminating such material were both banned and reported to law enforcement.

While the website claims to have a policy that does not permit any sexual or suggestive content about minors, including ‘fantasies’ which include a role-play of a child, Reddit has dozens of active boards dedicated to just that.

r/AgePlayASMR has just under 2,000 members and is dedicated to audio content similar to what Burdett was publishing. r/DDlg boasts over 112,000 members and is intended for individuals interested in the ‘daddy dom – little girl’ lifestyle, with some female users posting sexualized pictures of themselves in diapers and using pacifiers.

Reddit has long been considered a hub for disturbing, pornographic material, and is frequently at the center of child sexual abuse scandals. Last year, the site was sued by a victim of revenge porn after failing to remove images of the victim from when she was under the age of 18 posted by her boyfriend.

In 2021, Reddit experienced widespread site protests after hiring Aimee Challenor, a trans-identified male whose father was sentenced to 22 years in prison for raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl. Challenor had hired his father into a safety sensitive position within the UK Green Party, and hid his horrific past from the public. Challenor’s partner was similarly embroiled in controversy for having admitted to fantasizing about children being sexually abused.

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Trans-Identified Male Indicted on Hate Crime Charges After Racist Attack

By
Reduxx Team
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The man arrested after launching a racist attack on an Asian man in a New York City subway station has now been indicted on multiple charges, officials announced Thursday, providing disturbing new details on the case.

On March 8, Christian Jeffers, 48, initiated a confrontation with an Asian man on the platform of a Chelsea, Manhattan subway station. After bumping into the man, Jeffers, who identifies as transgender, said, “You can’t see me? You don’t have eyes?”

Jeffers then stomped on the man’s foot before pulling out a hammer and striking him in the head, leaving him with a bloody wound. The victim’s wife rushed to his aid, at which point Jeffers threatened her with the hammer.

The horrific attack was caught on camera, with Jeffers in a wig and purple lipstick striking the victim with the hammer. He was arrested less than 24 hours later on Wednesday, March 9.

Jeffers in court. Photo Source: Steven Hirsch, New York Post

During his arrest, Jeffers spewed racial slurs at New York Police Department officers of Asian and Hispanic heritage, screaming: “By the time I get out of prison, first thing I’m going to do is get a gun and try to kill as many of you as possible.”

On April 28, Jeffers was formally indicted on charges of attempted assault in the first degree as a hate crime, assault in the second degree, and menacing in the second degree as a hate crime, amongst additional minor charges.

Prior to this incident, Jeffers had 47 previous convictions dating back to 2007.

“Hate-driven violence and slurs have no place in New York,” said Manhattan District Attorney Bragg in a statement released yesterday.

“Disturbingly, this alleged hate crime was just one in a wave of recent anti-Asian attacks. I want our AAPI neighbors to know that the Manhattan D.A.’s Office is here for you, and we are committed to your safety.”

Jeffers is currently being housed in the Anna M. Kross Correctional Center on Riker’s Island, a male facility. He has entered a plea of not guilty.

In media coverage of the attack, Jeffers was referred to by feminine pronouns.

In January of 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a policy that would allow trans-identified male inmates in the state to be transferred into women’s prisons on the basis of a self-declared “gender identity.” 

New York City adopted a policy on transgender inmates in 2018, with inmates being housed based on their self-declared gender identity unless the outcome of a federally required safety assessment or the preferences of the inmate require alternative housing.

It is currently unknown if Jeffers specifically requested housing in a male correctional facility, or if he was deemed too dangerous to be transferred at this time.

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German Government Institute Refers to Women’s Anatomy as ‘Front Hole, P*ssy’

By
Genevieve Gluck
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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), a German federal government agency and biomedical research institute, has called women “people with short urethras” whose primary sex organs are the “front hole” or “pussy.”

In March, RKI released a questionnaire for “trans and non-binary people” in which one of the questions asked participants if they were female without using the words “female” or “woman.”

The text of the question read, “People with short urethras are sometimes at higher risk for certain infections, for instance inflammation of the urinary bladder. People with short urethras include, for example, people with a front hole, vagina, pussy, etc. Here we are referring to people who haven’t (yet) had gender reassignment surgery as well as people who have had gender reassignment surgery. Are you someone who has a short urethra?”

Netizens responded using the hashtag #Harnröhre, or urethra, and expressed outrage at what they described as “pseudo-scientific” and a waste of taxpayers’ money. Notably, though the question was written in German, the English language was used when listing the terms “front hole” and “pussy”.

The term “front hole” is frequently found in pornography that involves women who have taken testosterone to resemble men, euphemistically referred to as “trans men.” The expression linguistically situates female genitalia in reference to the anus, or “back hole.” Additionally, “pussy” is also used to refer to female anatomy in the pornography industry.

American trans-identifying academic Andrea Long Chu compared female anatomy to the anus in his 2019 book Females. In one chapter, Chu details “forced feminization” pornography, which he describes as involving “former men who have been feminized (sissified) by being forced to wear makeup, wear lingerie, and perform acts of sexual submission.” He continued to state that, in his view, the anus is “a universal vagina through which femaleness can always be accessed.”

The US-based organization the Human Rights Commission (HRC) may have been the first to recommend the use of “front hole” as a replacement for more anatomically correct labels, such as vagina or vulva. In 2016, the HRC published to their site a document titled “Safer Sex for Trans Bodies,” which was described as “a comprehensive sexual health guide for transgender and gender expansive people and their partners.”

According to the HRC guidance, women who identify as transgender or queer ought to refer to their genitalia as a “front hole” while men who identify as women should refer to their penile inversion as a “vagina.” The pornography-related terms “dick” and “strapless” are suggested, as well.

In 2018, Healthline Media, an American website and provider of health information headquartered in San Francisco, California, similarly published a LGBTQIA+ safe sex guide which used the term “front hole” when describing female anatomy.

“For the purposes of this guide, we’ve chosen to include alternative words for readers to use for their genitals,” Healthline stated. “Whenever we use the medical term ‘vagina,’ we’ll also include ‘front hole,’ as clinically recommended by researchers in the BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Trusted Source journal.”

Mimicking the rhetoric of the HRC, Healthline stated that many who are born female and identify as male may prefer call their vaginas “front holes” or “inside genitals” whereas those born male who claim a female identity may prefer to use the terms “girl dick” when referencing their penises.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that health chiefs in England had told midwives to use the terms “human milk” instead of “breast milk” and to say “front hole” instead of “vagina.” In a care guide from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, midwives and obstetricians were told: “Some individuals may have preferred terminology for their anatomy. These should be used wherever possible. For example, some people may talk about ‘front hole’ or ‘genital opening’ rather than ‘vagina.'”

A midwife employed at the trust disclosed that a number of maternity staff were unhappy with the language requirements but feared speaking out due to the political climate. 

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“Gender Neutral” Sex Offender Appeals Sentence After Assault of Woman 

By
Jennifer Sieland
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Convicted Sex Offender Laura Miller

A 29-year-old Scottish man who repeatedly sexually assaulted a woman is appealing the 23-month jail sentence he was handed in February after pleading guilty to the crime.

Laura Miller, a male who identifies as “gender neutral,” was sentenced at Inverness Sheriff Court in Scotland on February 11, 2022, after pleading guilty to the charge of sexual assault on the day his trial was set to begin.

As first reported in The Press and Journal, which uniformly referred to Miller by ‘they/them’ pronouns, the assaults took place in 2017 at a property on the Isle of Skye in northwest Scotland. The Court heard that “on several occasions” Miller sexually assaulted a woman while she was in a state incapable of giving consent.

In at least one instance, Miller filmed himself while he was assaulting the woman. In the video, he is described as being seen “removing [his] victim’s clothing, exposing her private parts and touching [her] breasts.” He is also heard making vulgar sexual remarks of an offensive nature towards her. Details on Miller’s relationship to the woman as well as how he had access to her are not clear.

While Miller was sentenced to 23 months in jail, after which he would be required to register as a sex offender for a period of 10 years, his lawyers are appealing the prison term today at the High Court of Judiciary and requesting more lenient punishment. This is despite the fact that the Court noted Miller had a previous criminal record with two past convictions resulting in imprisonment, and his crime was “a matter of grave concern.”

During the initial sentencing, Miller’s lawyers had attempted to convince the court to issue a non-custodial sentence, which had been rejected at the time.

As previously noted by Reduxx, Miller’s legal gender status and any past aliases he held are unknown and have not been made public, nor have the details of the past crimes he committed which the Court referenced at sentencing.

As per Police Scotland policies, Miller’s crime may have been recorded as having been committed by a woman depending on how he self-identified at the time of his arrest.

According to a 2019 statement from then-Cabinet Secretary of Justice Humza Yousaf, Police Scotland “require[d] no evidence or certification as proof of gender identity other than a person’s self declaration.”

Similarly, under current Scottish Prison Service guidelines, Miller would also have been entitled to request housing at a women’s correctional institution, even if he had no legal documents demonstrating he has changed gender.

Miller’s current placement is unknown, and the appeal is ongoing.

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Estudiantes de matronería aprenden cómo cuidar a hombres que dan a luz

By
Bryndís Blackadder
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A los estudiantes de matronería de una prominente universidad en el Reino Unido se les enseñaba que los hombres biológicos pueden quedar embarazados y dar a luz por el pene antes de que los profesores se dieran cuenta y editaran apresuradamente un libro de trabajo que se les había dado.

Reduxx ha obtenido una exclusiva de esos recursos didácticos de estudiantes de matronería preocupados en una importante universidad de Escocia. Los estudiantes, que deseaban permanecer en el anonimato por temor por sus carreras, inicialmente recibieron instrucciones biológicamente imposibles sobre cómo cuidar a los hombres embarazados o que están pariendo. El nombre de la Universidad es conocido por Reduxx, pero no se publica a petición de los estudiantes denunciantes. Se puede proporcionar en el futuro si Reduxx es capaz de conseguir el consentimiento de todos los estudiantes involucrados.

En un módulo sobre el cuidado de las mujeres durante el parto, a los estudiantes se les proporcionó inicialmente un “Libro de trabajo de competencias” sobre cateterismo que contenía una orientación significativa sobre el manejo de los genitales masculinos y el cuidado de las “personas que dan a luz” biológicamente masculinas.

De acuerdo con el libro de trabajo, se explicó a los estudiantes que: “Es importante tener en cuenta que, si bien la mayoría de las veces la persona que da a luz tendrá genitales femeninos, es posible que estén cuidando de una persona embarazada o en parto que está en transición de hombre a mujer y aún puede tener genitales masculinos externos”.

Aunque la introducción del manual podría pensarse que es un error, una errata o cosa de un individuo no iniciado que intenta utilizar un lenguaje “inclusivo”, el libro de trabajo hecho por la Universidad claramente pasa a proporcionar a los estudiantes instrucción sobre cómo acomodar a un hombre biológico embarazado.

El libro informa a los estudiantes que es posible que deban familiarizarse con los procedimientos de cateterismo para “anatomía femenina y masculina”, señalando que, como resultado del hecho de que tanto hombres como mujeres pueden estar dando a luz, solo utilizará el término “persona que da a luz” en el libro.

El libro de ejercicios recuerda a los alumnos que la “persona que da a luz” puede ser un varón biológico en dos secciones separadas.

En la sección 4.4 del manual, se proporcionan los procesos de cateterismo para los hombres biológicos, con imágenes de un instructor que demuestra el procedimiento en el pene y el escroto de una figura masculina.

También se administraron dosis de gel anestésico en función de la biología masculina y femenina, y se recomienda que la mujeres reciban 6 ml de gel analgésico, y los hombres 11 ml.

En otra sección, se proporcionan instrucciones especiales para la extracción de catéteres con consideración para las glándulas prostáticas, y se instruye a los estudiantes a advertir a las “personas masculinas” de “incomodidad a medida que el balón desinflado pasa a través de la glándula prostática”.

Si bien los profesores se dieron cuenta más tarde de los errores cometidos, la edición apresurada de la guía solo corrigió la redacción inicial en la introducción, cambiando “hombre a mujer” por “mujer a hombre”. Todas las referencias al manejo de un pene, la glándula prostática y la biología masculina se conservaron, pero también agregaron la sugerencia de que una persona transgénero de mujer a hombre podría dar a luz a través de un “pene” construido quirúrgicamente.

A pesar de la edición aparentemente chapucera, estudiantes y expertos siguen preocupados por la falta de cuidado dado al manual y la formación.

A finales de marzo, se reveló que los errores en Shrewsbury y Telford NHS Trust en Inglaterra resultaron en la muerte innecesaria de más de 200 bebés y 9 madres a lo largo de dos décadas. Según las investigaciones internas, “las repetidas fallas en la calidad de la atención y la gestión” fueron las culpables, con 1.486 familias a mayores y 1.592 incidentes registrados como resultado de una supervisión inadecuada de la atención de maternidad.

En declaraciones a Reduxx sobre el contenido del libro de trabajo, Elaine Miller dijo que estaba “profundamente preocupada”.

Miller, miembro de la Chartered Society for Physiotherapy, es la creadora de Gusset Grippers, un galardonado programa educativo centrado en la salud pélvica de la mujer. Cuando se le mostraron los materiales del curso, Miller expresó incredulidad ante la cantidad de información objetivamente incorrecta que se proporcionaba a los estudiantes.

“No es posible que una persona masculina quede embarazada”, dijo Miller, y continuó diciendo que incluso las ediciones apresuradas que hicieron los instructores estaban plagadas de imposibilidades.

“Una [mujer] con una diferencia de género puede quedar embarazada pero no tendrá genitales masculinos”, señala, expresando su preocupación de que incluso si se diera formación sobre cómo atender a pacientes transgénero de mujer a hombre, la información seguía siendo incompleta y poco realista.

“La mayoría [de las mujeres] que usan testosterona, en las dosis utilizadas para la ‘transición’, desarrollarán atrofia vaginal. El frágil tejido de una vagina atrofiada es incapaz de estirarse para acomodar la cabeza de un bebé”, dice Miller, señalando también que las personas transgénero de mujer a hombre que desean dar a luz naturalmente corren el riesgo de sufrir “nuevos tipos de lesiones de nacimiento” que aún no se han estudiado o investigado.

“Examinar este riesgo potencial es probablemente más importante que aprender a extraer un catéter de una glándula prostática inexistente”.

Las preocupaciones de Miller son compartidas por Susan Bewley, profesora emérita de Obstetricia y Salud de la Mujer en el King’s College de Londres. Al comentar los materiales proporcionados para su revisión por Reduxx, Bewley los calificó de “desconcertantes” y dijo que inicialmente se cuestionó si podrían haber sido una broma.

“No hay circunstancias en las que se pueda pedir, o esperar, a las matronas cualificadas que catetericen un pene como parte de su trabajo profesional”, dice, “Los escritores parecen haber acabado la escuela completamente ignorantes de la biología básica, sexo y anatomía”.

Bewley ha escrito extensamente sobre embarazos de personas transgénero de mujer a hombre, pero discrepa incluso con las ediciones realizadas en el libro de trabajo después de leer que una mujer podría dar a luz después de tener un pene construido quirúrgicamente a través de una faloplastia.

“Unas pocas [de mujer a hombre] se someten a cirugía genital pero, en general, aquellas con un neopene creado quirúrgicamente simplemente no se pueden quedar embarazadas porque se someten a una histerectomía al empezar el proceso”, dice. “Estos materiales son lo opuesto a la formación de alta calidad que los pacientes necesitan de parteras y médicos. El proyecto puede haber surgido de la compasión y el entusiasmo, pero es preocupante que los escritores no parezcan conocer, importarles o verificar los hechos”.

Traducción cortesía de Salagre.

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EXCLUSIVE: Midwifery Students Taught How to Care for Males Giving Birth

By
Bryndís Blackadder
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UPDATE 4/28/22: Reduxx previously withheld the name of the University at the request of the whistleblowing students. It is now being made available with their consent.

Students studying midwifery at a prominent University in the United Kingdom were taught that biological males can get pregnant and give birth through their penis before instructors hastily edited a workbook they were given.

Reduxx has exclusively obtained teaching resources from concerned students studying midwifery at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. The students, who wished to remain anonymous out of concern for their careers, were initially provided biologically impossible instruction on giving care to males who were pregnant and in labor.

In a module about caring for women during childbirth the students were initially provided a “Skills Workbook” on catheterization that contained significant guidance about handling male genitals, and caring for biologically male “birthing people.”

According to the workbook, students were advised: “It is important to note that while most times the birthing person will have female genitalia, you may be caring for a pregnant or birthing person who is transitioning from male to female and may still have external male genitalia.”

While the introduction of the manual could perhaps be dismissed as a mistake, misprint, or uninitiated individual attempting to utilize ‘inclusive’ language, the University-made workbook clearly moves on to providing students instruction on how to accommodate a pregnant biological male.

The book informs students that they may need to be familiar with the catheterization procedures for “both female and male anatomy,” noting that, as a result of the fact both males and females may be giving birth, it will only utilize the term “birthing person” throughout the instruction.

The workbook reminds students that the “birthing person” may be a biological male in two separate sections.

In section 4.4 of the manual, catheterization processes for biological males are provided, with images of an instructor demonstrating the procedure on a male figurine’s penis and scrotum.

Anesthetic gel doses were also given based on male and female biology, with females recommended 6mls of analgesic gel, while males are recommended 11mls.

In another section, special instructions are provided for the removal of catheters with consideration for prostate glands, with students being instructed to warn “male persons” of “discomfort as the deflated balloon passes through the prostate gland.”

While instruction staff later realized the significant errors made, the hasty edit to the guidebook only corrected the initial wording in the introduction, changing “male to female” to “female to male.” All references to the handling of a penis, prostate gland, and other male biology remained, but also added the suggestion a female to male transgender person could give birth through a surgically constructed ‘penis.’

Despite the seemingly sloppy edit, concerns remain from students and experts about the lack of care given to the manual and instruction.

At the end of March, it was revealed that failures at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust in England resulted in the needless deaths of over 200 babies and 9 mothers over two decades. According to internal investigations “repeated failures in the quality of care and governance” was to blame, with an additional 1,486 families and 1,592 incidents being recorded as a result of inadequate maternity care oversight.

Speaking to Reduxx on the contents of the workbook, Elaine Miller said she was “deeply concerned.”

Miller, a Fellow of the Chartered Society for Physiotherapy, is the creator of Gusset Grippers, an award-winning educational program focused on women’s pelvic health. When shown the course materials, Miller expressed disbelief at the amount of factually incorrect information being provided to students.

“It is not possible for a male person to get pregnant,” Miller said, continuing that even the hasty edits the instructors made were rife with impossibilities.

“A [female] with a gender difference can become pregnant but will not have male genitalia,” she notes, expressing concern that even if instruction was given on serving female-to-male transgender patients, the information was still both incomplete and unrealistic.

“Most [females] who use testosterone, at the doses used for ‘transition,’ will develop vaginal atrophy.  The fragile tissue of an atrophied vagina may be unable to stretch to accommodate a baby’s head,” Miller says, also noting that female-to-male transgender people who wish to naturally deliver are at risk of sustaining “new types of birth injury” that have not yet been studied or investigated.

“Examining this potential risk is probably more important than learning to remove a catheter from a non-existent prostate gland.”

Miller’s concerns were supported by those of Dr. Susan Bewley, an Emeritus Professor in Obstetrics and Women’s Health at King’s College London. Commenting on the materials provided for her review by Reduxx, Bewley called them “puzzling” and said she initially questioned whether or not they may have been a hoax.

“There are no circumstances whereby qualified midwives can possibly be asked, or be expected, to catheterize a penis as part of their professional work,” she says, “The writers seem to have left school remarkably ignorant about basic biology, sex and anatomy.”

Bewley has written extensively on pregnancies involving female-to-male transgender people, but takes issue even with the edits made to the workbook after concerns were raised suggesting a female could give birth after having a penis surgically constructed through a phalloplasty.

“A few [female-to-males] undergo genital surgery but, in general, those with a surgically created neo-penis simply cannot get pregnant either because they undergo a hysterectomy as a prelude,” she says, concluding: “These materials are the opposite of the high-quality training that patients need from midwives and doctors. The project may have arisen from compassion and enthusiasm, but it is worrying that the writers don’t seem to know, care about, or check facts.”

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UK: Pedophile who Identifies as a 5-Year-Old Girl Spared Jail After Breaching Sexual Harm Order

By
Anna Slatz
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Janiel Verainer. Photo Credit: Kent Police.

A 60-year-old pedophile who claims to identify as a 5-year-old girl has avoided jail despite having beached a long-standing sexual harm prevention order by approaching and kissing two children.

Janiel Verainer, of Chatham, had an initial sexual harm prevention order imposed in 2016 after he was found kissing a small girl outside a restaurant. A subsequent police investigation also found child sexual exploitation images on Verainer’s devices. The man was sentenced to 15 months in prison, and a directive ordering him to stay away from children was implemented.

But in 2019, Verainer repeated his offense and breached the terms of his order, approaching two little girls and kissing them on the lips during a public gathering for which he was playing piano.

According to Kent Online, at a sentencing hearing held last week, Verainer was handed a seven-month jail term suspended for 18 months. He was also told to carry out 20 rehabilitation days with the probation service.

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

During the first hearing for the beach held in December of 2021, Verainer was dressed like an elf, wearing a green and red dress, red and white thigh-high stockings, and a festive sweater. He was also sucking his thumb throughout.

Verainer at a 2021 court appearance. Photo Credit: Kent Online

At a previous court appearance for his 2016 abuses, Verainer had adorned pig-tails and had been sucking on a pacifier, later also bringing a large stuffed doll into the courtroom. It was then that he first declared his identity as a 5-year-old girl named Jorven Seren.

A psychiatric evaluation was done on Verainer in 2021, with psychologists concluding he had personality issues, but no mental health problems. The court chose to affirm Verainer’s feminine self-identification by referring to him by ‘she/her‘ pronouns throughout his hearings. Some media outlets reporting on the case followed suit.

Verainer’s sexual harm prevention order has now been extended to 2030.

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Transgender Inmate Convicted Of Raping Female Prisoner at Women’s Facility

By
Reduxx Team
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A trans-identified male inmate at Rikers Island has been convicted of raping a female prisoner while in the women’s section of the New York prison. Ramel Blount, 33, who uses the alias Diamond Blount, was sentenced to seven years after accepting a plea deal for a lesser charge of attempted rape.

While housed in the female facility, Blount approached a 33-year-old woman in the bathroom at the Rose M. Singer Center of the Rikers complex on February 8, 2021. The victim had just finished showering when Blount grabbed her by the neck, held her down and sexually assaulted her.

The unidentified victim reported the attack and the results of a rape kit matched Blount’s DNA. Blount was initially charged with first-degree rape, sexual misconduct, first-degree sexual assault, and sexual touching, but accepted a plea deal on April 7, 2022 for attempted rape. He was handed a seven-year sentence with an additional eight years of post-release supervision. He will be required to register as a sex offender, and an order of protection was issued.

Blount had been incarcerated on charges of misdemeanor assault when the attack took place. On August 10, 2018, Blount attacked a man who was walking along the Hudson River. The motive for the attack was unknown, but presumed to be robbery. Local news outlet The Villager reported Blount as a “woman” at the time.

Prior to the Hudson River assault, Blount had also been arrested on charges of robbery and assault in 2012 after beating a man outside of a gay bar in front of the Stonewall Inn.

Current New York Department of Corrections Records show Blount is now housed at the Vernon C. Bain Center of Rikers, which is a male facility. It is unknown when he was transferred.

In a press statement issued on April 25, Bronx County District Attorney Darcel Clark said, “Sexual violence against anyone is unacceptable,” but did not address the unique circumstances of the rape only having been possible because a trans-identified male had been housed with vulnerable women.

In January of 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a policy that would allow trans-identified male inmates in the state to be transferred into women’s prisons on the basis of a self-declared “gender identity.”

New York City adopted a policy on transgender inmates in 2018, with inmates being housed based on their self-declared gender identity unless the outcome of a federally required safety assessment or the preferences of the inmate require alternative housing.

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‘Hijra’ Charged With Sexually Assaulting Woman in Mumbai

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Genevieve Gluck
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A trans-identified male has been arrested in Mumbai after robbing and sexually assaulting a commuter in the women’s car of a commuter train. Prafulla Panchal, who uses the alias Sania, 23, brandished a fake gun while threatening to murder the victim.

As the train began to leave the station, Panchal approached the woman and sat directly across from her. He then began making “lewd gestures,” according to The Times of India. Using a fake gun to threaten her, he stole over Rs 4000 (approx. $50.00 USD) from the frightened woman, at which point he also began to grope her. The attack took place just minutes after the car’s uniformed guard left the car as his shift ended.

After Panchal exited the train, the victim, a flower seller from Bhiwandi, went to police and lodged a formal complaint.

“There were four to five other travelers in the compartment but none came to the victim’s rescue. The victim was courageous enough to shoot videos of Panchal discreetly. She gave us these videos later and they helped us to track him down,” said Senior Inspector Anil Kadam.

Authorities charged Panchal with extortion and molestation. Panchal had previously been booked for a similar offense that involved burglary at knifepoint. 

The attack comes just weeks after a similar incident in a women’s-only train car, with a male boarding the car and attacking the sole female passenger once the guard had left his post.

Hijra are broadly defined as a ‘third gender‘ in India, but in recent years they have begun to be recognized under the ‘transgender’ umbrella. Hijra are primarily characterized by the development of their feminine identity through their sexual receptiveness to men as well as a castration ceremony that some, but not all, undertake. Hijra wear stereotypically feminine clothes, and often leave their families to join fictive kinship hierarchies with other Hijra, many of which are criminal gangs engaged in petty crime.

Some Hijra gangs engage in ‘blessing’ scams in which they extort money from the parents of newborn babies under threat of curses, kidnapping, or physical harm, leading them to sometimes be described as “mafia-like.”

Over the last few years, there have been multiple reported cases of Hijra criminal gangs abducting young boys, castrating them, and trafficking them in the sex trade.

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Health Care Providers Offering ‘Gender Affirming’ Letters for Surgery, HRT in One Hour

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Anna Slatz
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Mental health professionals are gathering for a gender identity conference which will instruct them on how to assess, diagnose, and write letters for transgender clients in a single one-hour session so that they can access surgery and hormones. Some clinicians already offering the rapid services were even willing to provide the letters to minors.

The Do Something Identity(ies) Conference is set to be held on May 13 and features over a dozen speakers discussing a range of topics including decolonization, kink and polyamory, transphobia, neo-pronouns, and more.

Do Something Identity(ies) Conference Panels

The conference is being organized by Van Ethan Levy, whose biography states: “Van (they / elle) is a queer, non-binary, trans, socialized as female, nBPOC (not Black Person of Color), who is autistic and has dynamic disabilities amongst many more historically excluded identities.” Levy is a licensed family and clinical counsellor in the state of California, and has specializations including working with children and adolescents.

In addition to being a single-day event, the conference can also count towards over 7 credit hours utilized for the requirement of continuing education needed by mental health professionals. The conference is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, which is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. It is also recognized in multiple states, including New York and California, for various mental health practitioner professional bodies and associations.

In the press release issued for the conference, Levy states that it is the “Inaugural Conference For Mental Health Professionals to Learn From Trans/Non Binary Folx [on] How to Provide Affirming Care.” One of the key components throughout the various panels and presentations it to ‘end gatekeeping,’ defined by Levy as “when someone in a position of power prevents someone from having access to something that others have.”

Levy has been a leading advocate for the end of ‘gatekeeping’ gender identity services. Since 2021, Levy has populated a spreadsheet of professionals willing to provide letters of approval for ‘gender affirming’ interventions within one hour.

Affiliated with the Do Something Identity(ies) Conference’s site, an entire page is dedicated to clinicians who can provide letters for hormones and surgery in a single session. Organized by state, Levy’s spreadsheet offers the names and contact information of over one hundred licensed medical and mental health service providers across the United States who have committed to what is effectively ‘no questions asked’ gender affirmation.

At least two California-based providers listed in the spreadsheet were willing to offer letters at no cost.

Perhaps most disturbingly, the gatekeeping-free guarantee seems to extend to minors.

One parent who wishes to remain anonymous provided Reduxx with a number of e-mail exchanges she had with providers from the spreadsheet conducted over the past year. Most of which were explicitly willing to help the parent’s 16-year-old child access the letters required for surgery and hormones in a single session with no pre-existing relationship or follow-ups needed.

Two of the e-mail exchanges provided to Reduxx.

Only one provider told the parent they did not work with minors, but was quick to provide a list of clinicians willing to write the letter that did. Another stated they were unsure if the assessment of a minor might take up to two sessions rather than just one.

In addition to the conference and spreadsheet, Levy also offers a $100 course on ‘affirming letter writing.’ The 50-minute workshop, open to licensed therapy professionals, provides instruction on how to “write a letter for clients so that the client can gain access to affirming care.”

Helena Kerschner says she was “disturbed” by the conference and its stated goals of limiting the questions and consultations provided to those seeking ‘gender affirming’ interventions.

Kerschner is a leading voice amongst detransitioners — a growing community of people who ceased or wish to reverse gender transitions. She also serves as an advisor for GenSpect, an international alliance of parent groups, professionals, and detransitioners seeking to challenge gender ideology and draw attention to its impact.

“My own experience is that I was given hormones without even a letter in less than an hour. But the thing that’s often said is ‘oh, that’s not happening,'” Kerschner says, continuing that the narrative that trans-identified people often have to overcome massive hurdles to get ‘gender affirming’ care stands in stark contrast of the evidence to the contrary. Kerschner notes that many detransitioners did not experience robust questioning prior to making medical decisions they later regretted.

“It’s a deceptive dynamic. You’ll have people who very well know that they’re quickly changing the standards so that people are met with even less and less [resistance] and given complete access to these interventions… those very same people will be saying that these things never happen.”

Kerschner says the incidents of providers offering free letters demonstrates the motive is often ideological, rather than monetary.

“Often times you have people, understandably, pointing to financial interest as one of the motivators of this phenomenon, I do think that is the case for many providers,” Kerschner says, continuing, “But I also think that something like [free letters] points to that this is also a belief system … You have providers who really and truly believe they are doing something important and good, to the point that they’re willing to do it for free.”

Kerschner dismisses Levy’s crusade against ‘gatekeeping’ as “ridiculous,” noting that even non-medical industries are regulated to protect consumers.

“If it’s going to be a medical treatment, it should be held to standards of ethical medicine.”

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