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Suicide of Norwegian Youth Calls Into Question Transitioning of Minors

By
Genevieve Gluck
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The suicide of a Norwegian teen who was undergoing medical transition at the National Treatment Service for Gender Incongruence (NBTK) has raised concerns about the transitioning of minors.

A newly-released warning letter first issued in June 2021 by Oslo University Hospital cites the youth’s case, and is believed to have led to an investigation by the state into the administration of cross-sex hormones to youth under the age of 18.

The parents of the minor, who have chosen to remain anonymous, recently gave permission to the media to publish on their experience. Speaking with Blikk Magazine, they explained that the youth was placed on drugs to halt puberty by National Treatment Service for Gender Incongruence (NBTK) at Rikshospitalet. The NBTK, which was then called the National Treatment Service for Transsexualism, is under the authority of Oslo University Hospital.

While on puberty blockers, the teen was also privately being administered hormones by prominent sexologist and trans-identified male Dr. Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, thereby undermining the NBTK’s policy banning cross-sex hormones for minors under the age of 16.

Dr. Esben Benestad.

Shortly after, the youth’s treatment was again overtaken by NBTK. Approximately four months later, the unnamed minor committed suicide.

According to the parents, the suicide is still being investigated, and a conclusion has not yet been reached as to the potential cause. Speaking with Blikk, the parents asserted that they did not oppose the transitioning of minors, and were instead concerned that their child’s death would lead to measures preventing other ‘trans teens’ from accessing ‘gender affirming’ medical procedures.

Yet despite the parents’ stated support for Benestad, he has a questionable history of circumventing protective protocols. In 2008 Benestad was reported to national health authorities for misconduct related to three of his female patients which he had referred for double mastectomies. In the process, Benestad fabricated diagnoses of health conditions in order to bypass medical guidelines.

In 2010, the Norwegian Board of Health issued a warning which, while it did not name Benestad specifically, detailed the exact scenario media reported he had been investigated for. According to the letter, a doctor specializing in the area of transsexualism had told health services that three female patients had certain neck conditions which would be alleviated by double mastectomies.

In the report accompanying the warning, the Board of Health stated that the unnamed doctor had argued his practices were necessary. They concluded that this practice had violated medical protocols by falsifying information. The ages of the female patients are not stated.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Benestad also has a sustained history of promoting the normalization of male sexual fetishes. Last year, he was criticized for assigning his students at the University of Agder to don fetish gear and attend a BDSM club.

Tonje Kristin Jensen, a student at the University of Agder, leaked the memo detailing the club’s dress code to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. It read: “We have a dress code which relates to rubber, lacquer, leather, and the like. Or one can choose the erotic dress code, where lace, corsets and the like dominate.” Female students were also prohibited from wearing jeans, or other casual clothes.

In 2017, Benestad and his wife Elsa Almås published an abstract in the Journal of Sexual Medicine of a talk they gave titled, Autogynephilia and Autoandrophilia Revisited, which argues that the sexual arousal men experience through transvestic cross-dressing should be normalized, and arguing “it should be interpreted… as natural in persons who experience the erotic qualities of women’s / men’s garments.”

Benestad’s wife Almås is also a member of the Gender Dysphoria Affirmative Working Group [GDA], an organization that campaigns for the social and medical transitioning of minors. On its official website, the GDA quotes pornographer and trans-identified male Zinnia Jones, who in 2018 tweeted, “If TERFs are going to get into slut-shaming trans women I feel like they really need to get up to speed because they have no idea how fucked up we really are. Furry porn? Mommy stuff? How about fisting, prolapses, enemas, huge insertions, gangbangs.”

In a February 2021 NKO interview Benestad encouraged giving 11-year-olds pornography, answering the question of how to discuss pornography with a child by stating: “I would first of all ask him what kind of porn he thinks he needs.”

Speaking with Reduxx, a representative of the Norwegian branch of women’s rights organization Women’s Declaration International (WDI) noted that Dr. Benestad had compared those who self-declare a transgender status to Indigenous peoples, and criticized the belief that there is a separate category of humans who are born in the wrong body.

“Esben Pirelli Benestad and other transactivists want us to believe in the existence of transsexual children and to trust him with our children’s safety. His view of himself and of what constitutes responsible healthcare is simply astonishing in its hubris,” the WDI representative stated.

“We urge Norwegian authorities to investigate his practices, as well as other practitioners who share his views. It is physically impossible to be born with a sexed soul or to change the sex of a body, and to allow charlatans such as Benestad to build careers on selling such lies to vulnerable children and adults is nothing short of a medical and ethical catastrophe.”

The WDI spokeswoman says that Norwegian authorities can not claim they are unaware of the unethical practices taking place within gender identity clinics, noting that red flags and warning signs have been clear for years.

“We demand urgent action: these harmful practices have to be banned, and Benestads violation of children right to safety, which has resulted in the avoidable death of a minor, must be prosecuted.”

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UK: Woman Assaulted by Trans Activists At Feminist Event

By
Jennifer Sieland
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Footage from a feminist event in the U.K. is going viral today after a trans activist was caught on film physically assaulting a woman. The assailant was part of a black-clad gang preventing feminists from getting near a statue of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.

Manchester Speakers’ Corner hosted a pro-woman demonstration today led by vocal gender critical feminist Kellie-Jay Keen, also known as Posie Parker. The event, a peaceful demonstration of women and feminist allies in support of women’s sex-based rights, was quickly derailed by activist group Manchester Trans Rise Up.

The organization sent a number of black-clad ‘security’ guards to vandalize the nearby statue of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, draping it in trans-colored ribbons and flags, and also prevented feminist activists from going near it.

At one point during the event, a lone feminist approached the statue, seemingly with the intention of placing a flag baring the colors of the suffragette movement near it. But footage taken shows the woman being physically handled by the trans activists, with a male roughly grabbing her.

In the footage, which has almost 100,000 views at the time of this writing, the woman is seen attempting to hold one particularly aggressive man back and force him to keep his distance.

The man grabs at her arms and chest, and even slaps her wrist as she tries to keep her arms outstretched and hold him back. Over 10 seconds into the interaction, and the black-clad male is encouraged to stop touching the woman by another trans activist.

Shortly after, Police liaisons are seen entering the concrete circle surrounding the statue, with one stopping to talk to the woman who had been assaulted, but nothing seemingly being done about the man who had grabbed and slapped at her.

In a statement provided to Reduxx, women’s rights advocate Kellie-Jay Keen slammed the actions of the black-clad activists, comparing them to a child having a tantrum.

“Entitled spoiled men cannot help but act entitled and spoiled,” she said, “Their toddler like tantrums are not so cute when they’re adults. They are intimidating, aggressive and violent.”

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

On the activists who attacked the female demonstrator, Keen concluded: “Men like that cannot bear the burden of responsibility for their miserable lives so they blame women, and for some any woman will do.”

The antics of the activists caught the attention of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who quote-retweeted another video showing footage of the black-clad ‘security’ refusing to allow podcast host Stephen Knight near the statue, which sits on public property.

Videos taken at the event have quickly gained widespread attention and backlash, with many noting the apparent irony of trans activists refusing to allow feminist demonstrators concerned about the status of women near a statue of a feminist advocate.

“I’m not sure I could ever forgive the people who advocate for this movement,” YouTuber @cbucksrules wrote on Twitter, “How do you think you’re on the right side of history when your people are anonymous and violent towards women?”

Others were incredulous that police did not intervene on the woman’s behalf.

“Police watch a woman being assaulted and then ignore the attacker in favor of having a stern word with the woman being attacked. Unbelievable.” Twitter user Andrew Dowd wrote in response to the video.

Another user noted that the scene bore striking resemblance to a photo depicting the statue’s likeness – Emmeline Pankhurst – being manhandled by police while demonstrating for women’s suffrage.

This isn’t the first time trans activists have violently targeted feminist demonstrations.

Last year, France was a hotbed of anti-feminist violence, with Résistance Lesbienne and other French feminist groups reporting several events which were disrupted by trans activists.

In July 2021, footage was circulated by Get The L Out UK showing lesbian demonstrators being physically assaulted by trans activists during Paris Pride for protesting against males identifying into lesbianism. Months prior, women who gathered to demonstrate against the sex trade at a statue at Palace de Rèpublique were pelted with eggs and assaulted with red spray paint in their eyes.

Later, the statue where the incident had taken place was spray painted with words translating to “save a trans person, kill a TERF.”

In Spain, a corpse-like effigy of Spain’s then-Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo was strung up from a tree in the  Plaza 8 de Marzo in Compostela, a reference to International Women’s Day and a warning ahead of the pro-woman events that would take place there.

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Reino Unido: Mujer agredida por activista transgénero en evento feminista

By
Jennifer Sieland
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Imágenes que fueron tomadas en un evento feminista en el Reino Unido se viralizaron luego de que un activista trans fuera grabado agrediendo físicamente a una mujer. El atacante formaba parte de una banda de uniformados de negro que impedía que las feministas se acercaran a la estatua de la sufragista Emmeline Pankhurst.

En el día de hoy el Manchester Speakers’ Corner organizó una manifestación en apoyo a los derechos de la mujer liderada por la feminista crítica Kellie-Jay Keen, también conocida como Posie Parker. El evento, una manifestación pacífica de mujeres y aliadas feministas en defensa de los derechos sexuales de las féminas, fue saboteado por el grupo activista Trans Rise Up de Manchester.

La organización envió a varios “guardias de seguridad” vestidos de negro para vandalizar los accesos a la estatua de la sufragista Emmeline Pankhurst, cubriéndola con cintas y banderas alusivas al movimiento transgénero, y también impidiendo que las activistas feministas pudieran acercarse al lugar.

Durante el evento, una solitaria feminista se acercó a la estatua, aparentemente con la intención de colocar a sus pies una bandera con los colores del movimiento sufragista. Pero las imágenes tomadas muestran a la mujer siendo maltratada físicamente por los activistas trans.

En el video, que tiene casi 100,000 visitas al momento de escribir este artículo, se puede ver a la victima intentando mantener a distancia a un hombre particularmente agresivo.

El hombre la agarra por los brazos y el pecho, e incluso le golpea las muñecas mientras ella trata de mantener sus brazos extendidos para alejarlo. Más de 10 segundos después de la agresión, otro activista trans logra convencer al hombre de negro a que deje de manosear a la mujer.

Poco después, se ven a los funcionarios policiales entrar en el círculo de concreto que rodea a la estatua, uno de los cuales se detiene para hablar con la víctima, pero aparentemente no se tomaron medidas contra el sujeto que la agarró y abofeteó.

En declaraciones ofrecidas a Reduxx, la defensora de los derechos de la mujer Kellie-Jay Keen fustigó las acciones de los revoltosos de negro, comparándolos a niños con rabietas

“Los hombres mimados no pueden resistir actuar como mimados”, dijo, “Sus berrinches de niños pequeños no son tan lindos cuando llegan a la adultez. Son intimidantes, agresivos y violentos”.

Keen es conocida por su campaña Standing for Women, que se enfoca en garantizar que el lenguaje que rodea los problemas femeninos se articule claramente para que los derechos femeninos basados en el sexo no se vean erosionados por la ideología de género.

Con relación a los activistas que atacaron a la mujer manifestante, Keen concluyó: “Hombres así no pueden soportar la carga de la responsabilidad de sus vidas miserables, por lo que culpan a las mujeres, y para algunos, toda mujer es culpable”.

Las payasadas de los activistas llamaron la atención de la autora de Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, quien citó y retuiteó otro video que muestra imágenes de la “seguridad” negándose a permitir que el presentador de podcast Stephen Knight se acercara a la estatua, que se encuentra en un espacio público.

Los videos tomados en el evento rápidamente ganaron la atención y rechazo del público. Muchos notaron la aparente ironía de que los activistas trans se negaran a permitir que las manifestantes feministas preocupadas por la situación de las mujeres se acercaran a la estatua de una defensora del feminismo.

“No estoy seguro de poder perdonar a las personas que apoyan a este movimiento”, escribió el YouTuber @cbucksrules en Twitter, “¿Cómo puedes creer que estás del lado correcto de la historia cuando tu gente es anónima y violenta hacia las mujeres? ”

Otros se mostraron incrédulos de que la policía no interviniera en favor de la mujer agredida.

“La policía observa a una mujer siendo agredida, ignora al atacante prefiriendo regañar a la victima. Increíble.” El usuario de Twitter Andrew Dowd escribió en respuesta al video.

Otro usuario notó que la escena se parecía mucho a una foto que mostraba la imagen de la estatua, Emmeline Pankhurst, siendo maltratada por la policía mientras luchaba por el sufragio femenino.

Esta no es la primera vez que activistas trans atacan violentamente a manifestaciones feministas.

El año pasado, Francia fue un semillero de violencia antifeminista, con Résistance Lesbienne y otros grupos feministas franceses informando sobre varios eventos que fueron interrumpidos por activistas trans.

En julio de 2021, Get The L Out UK hizo circular imágenes que mostraban a manifestantes lesbianas siendo agredidas físicamente por activistas trans durante el Orgullo de París por protestar contra los hombres que se identifican con el lesbianismo. Meses antes, un grupo de mujeres que se reunió para manifestar en contra del comercio sexual frente una estatua del Palacio de la República y recibieron ataques con huevos y aerosol rojo en los ojos.

Más tarde, la estatua donde se dio el incidente fue pintada con aerosol con palabras que se traducen como “salva a una persona trans, mata a un TERF”.

En España, una efigie cadavérica de la entonces Vicepresidenta del Gobierno Carmen Calvo fue colgada de un árbol en la Plaza 8 de Marzo de Compostela, una referencia al Día Internacional de la Mujer y una advertencia antes de los eventos a favor de la mujer que tendrían lugar allí.

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NZ: Trans-Identified Male Behind Stabbing Attack at Indian Restaurant

By
Reduxx Team
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PHOTO: CHRISTEL YARDLEY/WAIKATO TIMES

The identity of the suspect behind a vicious stabbing attack at an Indian restaurant in Cambridge, New Zealand has been revealed due to a lapse in name suppression.

Matthew Richard Nelson, a male who identifies as a woman named Emma, appeared in Hamilton District Court on May 5. Nelson’s name had previously been withheld from the public, but has now been revealed as the case has gone to court and name suppression has not been re-applied.

Nelson is accused of stabbing three victims with a knife at the Sahara India Restaurant on May 4. One of the victims, a female, was Nelson’s former partner. A police summary of the incident that was presented to the Hamilton District Court said the attacker acted in a “quick and aggressive manner.”

Nelson had entered through the rear door of the Indian restaurant and stabbed a male staff member in the shoulder as he worked in the kitchen.

Another worker, a female, has been confirmed as Nelson’s ex-partner. Nelson slashed her in the face and stabbed her in the upper back, causing her to suffer a punctured lung. She is currently hospitalized at Waikato Hospital in critical condition, with reports stating she has blood in her chest cavity.

A customer who attempted to intervene and save the two was similarly attacked, losing over a liter of blood after he sustained an injury to his abdomen.

Nelson then grabbed a chair, which he used to smash the restaurant’s front windows, and fled.

While being forensically swabbed in police custody by a doctor, Nelson is alleged to have remarked: “this is a bit excessive for only stabbing three people.”

Details on the motive for the attack are not currently known.

Nelson is charged with three counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and one of causing willful damage. He has yet to enter his plea and is scheduled to appear in court again on May 18.

In local media coverage, outlets referred to Nelson using ‘she/her’ pronouns, with other sources referring to the attack as being the fault of a ‘woman.’

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UK: Trans-Identified Pedophile Blames ‘Male’ Self for Offending

By
Genevieve Gluck
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Carlisle Crown Court

A U.K. sex offender who identifies as transgender has been caught with extreme pornographic images which depict the rape of children in an “explicit and realistic way.”

On March 17, Carlisle Crown Court heard how Jasmine Challands, 46, whose birth name is Peter James Challands, hid two mass-storage USB devices in a box of Legos. Investigators discovered the devices and the child sexual abuse materials they contained during a routine inspection for compliance to a sexual harm prevention order, which included an obligation to inform police about any digital storage devices.

In an interview with police at the time of his arrest on March 16, Challands blamed his “former” male self for the offending, saying, “Peter was responsible for them.” Challands emphasized that Peter, rather than Jasmine, had “bad” things on the USB devices which reflected fantasies of sexually abusing children.

Challands’ defense attorney, Jeff Smith, told the court that his client no longer wished to be a man and was beginning a transition process. Magistrates were told that Challands is a “tortured” individual who is now struggling with his identity.

“[He] tells me this will take 10 to 11 years,” said the lawyer. “So [he] is tortured, regarded by no one, and respected by no one. [He’s] said to me in the cells that [he] doesn’t know who [he] is, what [he] is, where [he’s] going, or where [he] belongs.”

Challands had been a registered sex offender since 2019, when he was previously convicted for making and possessing animated child sexual abuse images. Official court records detail that within the five allegations against Challands of possessing child sexual abuse materials there were over 10,000 indecent images. Some of the media met the standard to be classified as ‘category A,’ the most severe form of child sexual exploitation image which includes penetrative sex, sexual activity with an animal, and/or sadism.

At the time, Challands had spent on remand the equivalent of a 14-month jail sentence, but was freed in 2020 under the condition of a five-year sexual harm prevention order. He was released despite having admitted to four new charges: failing to comply with Sex Offender Registration rules, twice breaching a court order to prevent offending, and failing to tell police that he had a computer flash-drive device.

Challands protested his own release, saying he felt safe in jail. Mark Shepherd, representing him in 2020, said: “He clearly wishes to remain in prison and finds comfort within the prison system far greater than he felt in the community.”

However, Judge Nicholas Barker said continuing to jail Challands would not offer any form of “protective package” to the public. “Prisons are not there to house vulnerable individuals,” said Judge Barker. “They are there as centers of punishment and to control risk.”

The judge imposed a three year community order, with 20 days of rehabilitation and a Sex Offenders’ treatment program. Challands was also given a five year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and put on the Sex Offenders’ Register for the same period.

Challands is currently remanded to Durham Prison and has yet to enter a plea regarding the new charges against him. His case will be heard in Carlisle Crown Court on May 16.

Local media News and Star referred to Challands as a “woman” and did not reference his self-declared gender identity in their most recent news report concerning current charges.

Challands’ bizarre claims bear some similarity to those of U.S. serial killer Donna Perry.

Born Douglas Robert Perry, the sadistic killer murdered three prostituted women in a four-month timeframe in 1990. During his trial for the slayings, Perry referred to his “male” and “female” identities in separate contexts, accusing his “male” side of having committed the crimes while his “female” identity was innocent of them.

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Disgraced Instructor Who Called Pedophiles “Minor Attracted People” Hired at Child Safeguarding Center

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Reduxx Team
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A Johns Hopkins-affiliated public research center is facing backlash after hiring an instructor who was forced to resign from their University after defending the “dignity” of “minor attracted people,” and entertaining theories about giving pedophiles “high quality child pornography.”

On May 12, the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse announced that disgraced Old Dominion University instructor Allyn Walker would be joining the Center as a postdoctoral fellow.

Walker, a female-to-male transgender who identifies as non-binary, was the subject of widespread controversy last year after she sat down for an interview with Prostasia – a registered 503c which many have called “pro-pedophile” for their stances on legalizing child-like sex dolls and routinely comparing pedophilia to a sexuality.

Walker was an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and had interviewed with Prostasia’s now-defunct podcast in November to promote her book titled “A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity.”

In the interview, Walker stated she used the term “minor attracted people” out of consideration for pedophile’s feelings, noting “… I think it’s important to use terminology for groups that members of that group want others to use for them.” She also stated that “MAP advocacy groups like B4U-Act have advocated for use of the term, and they’ve advocated for it primarily because it’s less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile.”

While Walker initially noted in the interview that she was not seeking to answer the question of whether or not she considered pedophilia a sexual orientation, her later comments suggest she did place it on a similar spectrum.

“… on one hand, just because someone has attractions to children, doesn’t mean that they will never experience attraction to adults as well, or even that their attractions to children will persist for their entire lives.” She said, “Sexuality can be fluid, and there are many MAPs who have a range of attractions to both children and adults.”

At another point in the interview, Walker stated she “sort of empathize[s]” with pedophiles because of identifying as Queer.

Word of Walker’s interview with Prostasia spread like wildfire, with many expressing outrage that a University instructor was portraying pedophilia in a sympathetic light.  Copies of Walker’s PhD dissertation quickly began to circulate, showing Walker had entertained theories regarding allowing pedophiles to access “high quality child pornography” in belief it may reduce offending.

The backlash was so severe that Old Dominion University President Brian O. Hemphill was forced to issue a statement just days after the interview was released, and soon after placed Walker on administrative leave. On November 26, a joint statement issued by ODU announced that Walker was resigning from ODU. In it, Walker blamed media as well as transphobia for “mischaracterizing” her work.

Speaking with Reduxx, Dr. Alaric Naudé called Walker’s new position “insane.”

Dr. Naudé is a Professor focused on social sciences and linguistics at Suwon University in South Korea. In February, he had his research on Prostasia removed from The British Journal of Sociology and History just 24 hours after it was first published after the organization pushed the Journal to remove it.

The article, titled A Case Study via Sociolinguistic Analysis of [a] Covert Pro-Pedophilia Organization Registered as a Child Protection Charity, focused on how Prostasia claimed to be for child protection but built a narrative framing pedophiles as victims of “an oppressive social structure.” Dr. Naudé found that many organizations “claiming to want to protect children” had “linguistic markers [denoting] that something else was their intention.”

Dr. Naudé emphasized how the Moore Center’s partnership with Walker demonstrated a microcosm of a much larger issue.

“The example of Dr. Walker being welcomed along with her ideology to the Moore Center is a piece of a puzzle. The parts of the puzzle continue to come together to give us a clearer picture of the pro-pedophilia agenda being pushed by an unholy triad of academia, psychology associations and pseudo-child protection groups,” Dr. Naudé asserted.

“The façade of safe guarding and child protection that fosters pedophilia as a sexuality is now becoming a perverse parody which if left will eventually result in pedophiles becoming a protected group. This will be a disaster for decades of work attempting to eradicate the pestilence of child abuse in society,” Dr. Naudé said.

Last fall, while Walker’s views were being lambasted by the media, director of the Moore Center Elizabeth Letourneau published an op-ed in The Washington Post defending her. In the op-ed, Letourneau states she also prefers ‘minor attracted person’ to ‘pedophile.’

The Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse is affiliated with the John Hopkins medical establishment, which has a long history of endorsing theories related to child sexuality in addition to promoting transsexual surgeries.

John Money, who coined the term “gender identity,” was a sexologist and psychologist who founded the Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and started an extensive research program on the medical treatment of sexual paraphilias and on “sex reassignment” procedures.

Dr. Fred Berlin, a controversial psychiatrist who was mentored by Money, had a clinic within Johns Hopkins until the mid-1990s. Berlin is infamously known for protesting against a law that required mental health professionals to alert police when they were aware a client was actively sexually abusing a child.

Berlin managed to gain an exemption to that mandatory reporting law for his clients for a period of time, something which sparked outrage amongst child safeguarding groups.

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ACLU Claims “Males, Females” Do Not Exist: Court Docs

By
Anna Slatz
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The American Civil Liberties Union is intervening in a lawsuit launched by four female inmates who were subjected to abuse at the hands of trans-identified male transfers. In the intervention, the ACLU claims that human beings are “not sexually dimorphic,” and that males have no biological differences from females.

In November of 2021, the Women’s Liberation front (WoLF) launched a lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in response to the state’s transfer of male inmates to women’s prisons. In the suit, WoLF included representation for four female inmates currently incarcerated in the state who had experienced violations of their rights at the hands of male inmates who had been transferred under SB-132, one of which was sexually assaulted by a trans-identified male transfer.

SB-132, or the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, went into effect in January of 2021, and allowed male inmates to seek transfer to women’s prisons on the basis of self-declared gender identity. Male inmates did not have to be on hormones, have surgery, be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, or even have legal documents supporting their transgender status in order to gain transfer.

But the ACLU has now filed a motion to intervene in the suit, claiming the state of California cannot adequately represent their interests against WoLF, and that they must join in to defend SB-132.

But in the motion, filed on May 9 in the Fresno District Court, the ACLU not only rejects the details in WoLF’s suit, it also makes some bold assertions — including that “males” and “females” do not exist.

“Proposed Intervenors deny that ‘men as a class’ are defined and differentiated from ‘women as a class’ by their ‘anatomy, genitalia, physical characteristics, and physiology,'” the ACLU writes, going on to state that they “deny the allegation” that there are anatomical, genital, and physical characteristics that differentiate men from women.

The ACLU also claims that human beings are not sexually dimorphic, and there are no reproductive systems, hormones, or chromosomes which result in differences between males and females.

Speaking to Reduxx, WoLF legal director Lauren Adams expressed a mix of confusion and amusement at the ACLU’s claims in the filing. But rather than seeing it as an obstacle, Adams says there is opportunity that bodes well for WoLF’s position.

“The ACLU is suggesting that the state of California is not going to adequately represent their position because some officials don’t agree with the policy… to that, I would say: well, yeah! Once people find out what the policy is, they largely don’t support it,” she says, continuing: “The officials likely recognize they cannot keep women safe while successfully implementing the policy.”

Adams says the ACLU’s intervention may be the result of a concern that the state might be more inclined to protect incarcerated women than trans-identified males.

“I think the fact that the state is even saying that they care about the women’s safety is a threat to the ACLU. They joined in to make sure that there was at least one party in the case that didn’t care about women at all.”

Adams says that the ACLU often leverages their argument for transferring men into women’s institutions on the basis of a claimed risk of victimization while in a men’s institution, something Adams believes opens the door to an argument that they are also at a higher risk of perpetration.

“If you are saying this group has a risk of victimization, we can say the group also has a risk of perpetration. In the federal system, one-third of the substantiated prison rape complaints include a victim who was a sex offender. That is, in fact, the single biggest risk factor of being a victim of prison rape in male prisons.”

Adams notes that, despite ample evidence to the contrary, the ACLU denies that sex offenders were disproportionately represented amongst trans-identified male inmates, a claim that is easy to debunk.

“One-third of the requests for transfer from men’s prisons to women’s prisons include an inmate who had been convicted of a sex offense,” Adams says, noting that the figures are similarly stark in the federal prison system, where 48% of trans-identified male inmates were imprisoned on a sex offense.

“Ultimately what we are dealing with is a complete denial of reality,” Adams says, “The ACLU along with every person on this planet knows what men and women are, and what makes them different. Their denial of this fact in order to validate the identities of male offenders is embarrassing.”

WoLF is expected to file their response to the ACLU’s intervention by May 31.

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La Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles dice que “Hombres y Mujeres” no existen

By
Anna Slatz
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La Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles está interviniendo en una demanda presentada por cuatro reclusas sometidas a abusos de hombres identificados como trans que fueron trasladados a su prisión. En la intervención, la ACLU afirma que los seres humanos “no son sexualmente dimórficos”, y que no hay diferencias biológicas entre machos y hembras.

En noviembre de 2021, el Frente de Liberación de la Mujer (WoLF) interpuso una demanda contra el Departamento de Correcciones y Rehabilitación de California (CDCR) en respuesta al traslado de reclusos varones a prisiones de mujeres. En la demanda, WoLF incluyó representación legal para cuatro reclusas actualmente encarceladas en el estado que habían experimentado violaciones de sus derechos a manos de reclusos varones que habían sido transferidos bajo SB-132, una de las cuales fue agredida sexualmente por uno de los prisioneros masculinos que se identifica como trans.

SB-132, o la Ley de Respeto, Agencia y Dignidad Transgénero, entró en vigencia en enero de 2021 y permitió a los reclusos varones solicitar el traslado a prisiones de mujeres basándose en una identidad de género autodeclarada. Los reclusos varones no tenían ni que estar tomando hormonas, someterse a una cirugía, ser diagnosticados con disforia de género o siquiera tener documentos legales que respaldaran su condición de transgénero para obtener el traslado.

Pero la ACLU ahora ha presentado una moción para intervenir en la demanda, alegando que el estado de California no puede representar adecuadamente sus intereses contra WoLF, y que deben unirse para defender la SB-132.

En la moción, presentada el 9 de mayo en el Tribunal de Distrito de Fresno, la ACLU no solo rechaza los detalles en la demanda de WoLF, sino que también hace algunas afirmaciones audaces, incluida la de que los “hombres” y las “mujeres” no existen.

“Los interventores propuestos niegan que los ‘hombres como categoría’ se definan y se diferencien de ‘las mujeres como categoría’ por su ‘anatomía, genitales, características físicas y fisiología'”, escribe la ACLU, y continúa afirmando que “niegan la alegación” de que hay características anatómicas, genitales y físicas que diferencian a los hombres de las mujeres.

La ACLU también afirma que los seres humanos no son sexualmente dimórficos, y que no hay sistemas reproductivos, hormonas o cromosomas que resulten en diferencias entre hombres y mujeres.

En declaraciones a Reduxx, la directora legal de WoLF, Lauren Adams, se mostró entre confundida y divertida ante las afirmaciones de la ACLU. Pero en lugar de verlas como un obstáculo, Adams dice que son una oportunidad que promete ser positiva para la posición de WoLF.

“La ACLU está diciendo que el estado de California no va a representar adecuadamente su posición porque algunos funcionarios no están de acuerdo con las normas … a eso, yo diría: ¡pues claro! Una vez que la gente descubra cuál son esas normas, la mayoría no las va a apoyar”, dice, y continúa: “Es probable que los funcionarios reconozcan que no pueden mantener a las mujeres seguras si implementan con éxito dichas normas”.

Adams dice que la intervención de la ACLU puede ser el resultado de su preocupación de que el estado pueda estar más inclinado a proteger a las mujeres encarceladas que a los hombres que se identifican como trans.

“Creo que incluso el hecho de que el estado diga que se preocupa por la seguridad de las mujeres es una amenaza para la ACLU. Se unieron para asegurarse de que hubiera al menos una parte a la que no le importaran las mujeres en absoluto”.

Adams dice que la ACLU, para transferir a hombres a instituciones de mujeres, a menudo usa el argumento de un supuesto riesgo de victimización cuando están en una institución de hombres, algo que Adams cree que abre la puerta al argumento de que también tienen un mayor riesgo de ser ellos los que victiman.

“Si estás diciendo que este grupo tiene un riesgo de victimización, podemos decir que el grupo también tiene un riesgo de victimar. Un tercio de las denuncias probadas por violación en prisión incluyen a una víctima que fue delincuente sexual. Ese es, de hecho, el mayor factor de riesgo de ser víctima de violación en prisión en cárceles masculinas”.

Adams señala que, a pesar de la amplia evidencia de lo contrario, la ACLU niega que los delincuentes sexuales estuvieran desproporcionadamente representados entre los reclusos varones identificados como trans, una afirmación que es fácil de desacreditar.

“Un tercio de las solicitudes de traslado de hombres a prisiones de mujeres son de reclusos condenados por un delito sexual”, dice Adams, señalando que las cifras son igualmente claras en el sistema penitenciario federal, donde el 48% de los reclusos varones identificados como trans fueron encarcelados por un delito sexual.

“En última instancia, lo que estamos viendo es una negación completa de la realidad”, dice Adams, “La ACLU y todo el mundo en este planeta sabe lo que son los hombres y las mujeres, y lo que los hace diferentes. La negación de este hecho para validar las identidades de delincuentes masculinos es vergonzosa”.

Se espera que WoLF presente su respuesta a la intervención de la ACLU antes del 31 de mayo.

Traducción cortesía de Salagre.

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Viral TikTok Shows The Dark Side of Surrogacy

By
Genevieve Gluck
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A US-based woman who entered into a surrogacy arrangement and gave birth to twins last year is now raising the children with her husband after the intended parents cut off contact.

In a TikTok that went viral, wracking up over 4 million views in a matter of days and sparking outrage, the mother, who goes by Amanda, revealed that she had been left to raise twins after the couple she had been a surrogate for never came to retrieve the children she had given birth to, and cut off contact with her.

Amanda had previously been a surrogate and decided to repeat the process. She registered with a surrogacy company that connected her with a couple who lived overseas. She gave birth to twins Hannah and James in February 2021, but the intended parents never arrived to pick them up. 

“They weren’t willing to quarantine for two weeks before entering the US,” Amanda explained.

Yet when COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in November last year, the couple still made no plans to come and take the children.

“I was okay taking care of them for a little while,” she wrote in the comments of her TikTok account. “But days turned into weeks and weeks into months… with no travel progress.”

Initially, the couple was sending money to Amanda and her husband to provide for the babies’ care. But after Amanda asked them not to send money if they had no intentions of taking the children, the intended parents ceased all contact.

In the viral TikTok video, Amanda explained that over 50 days had passed since they heard from the couple, and 14 months since she had given birth. Amanda, whose TikTok handle is @mom_11203, has since locked her account.

“Not only did they not pick up the twins – they never established their parental rights,” she explained.

Currently, both Amanda and her husband are listed as the legal parents on the twins’ birth certificate. The surrogacy contract had detailed that a second birth certificate would be drawn up when the parents arrived to take the infants home.

Amanda and her husband have hired a lawyer and have decided to raise the twins. “We ARE working with a lawyer. Yes, there was a legal contract in place,” Amanda said in a comment. “Our contract states that I am legally bound to give up my rights. But they’re also legally bound to come get their babies.”

She is determined to keep the twins even if the intended parents establish contact again and attempt to pick them up. “I will not give them up without a fight,” she said.

Jennifer Lahl, founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, has combined her experience as a pediatric critical care nurse with her advocacy against the surrogacy industry. She has also produced several documentary films exposing the medical harms involved in the surrogacy process and highlights the personal stories of women who have been harmed.

Speaking with Reduxx, Lahl explained that though she had never spoken with women who had been abandoned by the intended parents, she has often seen cases where the intended parents demanded that the surrogate mother terminate a pregnancy or reduce the number of fetuses she is carrying.

“Never has the surrogate done this, but what they struggle with after giving birth is wondering whatever became of the babies. Did the intended parents keep the babies, give them up for adoption, or keep one but not all. This is more common than intended parents never coming to claim their babies,” Lahl said.

“In some U.S. states, the surrogate mother’s name is on the birth certificate when the baby is born and the intended parents have to go through a legal adoption. But in states like California, New York, and Washington, the surrogate waives her maternal rights at the signing of the contract, before she is even pregnant, and in this case, she would have to go through a formal adoption to legally become the mother of the child.”

Lahl, who has over a decade of experience working with women who were involved in surrogacy contracts and has spoken at the United Nations on the topic, went on to describe why she believes the industry is inherently exploitative.

“The industry, what I call Big Fertility, preys on women’s financial need and sense of altruism to help others have a family. They ignore the risks to women’s health, they groom women ⁠— you aren’t pregnant, you are on a ‘journey’ ⁠— to comply and obey. When things go wrong, they are last in line to help these women,” Lahl says.

“Bottom line, they are selling a product: a healthy baby. Their customer is the wealthy intended parent.”

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UK: Trans-Identified Male Jailed After Pleading Guilty to 21 Child Sex Offences

By
Reduxx Team
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Richard/Rachel Fenton

A man who identifies as a woman has been jailed for 10 years after pleading guilty to using social media to groom children for sexual abuse.

Richard Fenton, who identifies as ‘Rachel,’ has been sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty to 21 total child sex offenses, including seven counts of attempting to incite a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity. Fenton was also charged on a drug offense.

According to Manchester Evening News, Fenton was originally reported to police in November of 2021 after an anti-predator vigilante group informed law enforcement the had been communicating with a fake social media profile they had established in the likeness of a 12-year-old girl.

Not knowing who was behind the profile and believing it to be a child, Fenton attempted to incite the ‘girl’ into sexual activity, and sent the profile perverted images.

Fenton also tried to encourage the ‘girl’ to engage in sexual activity with a six-year-old. Police soon after arrested him at an address in Wythenshawe on suspicion of attempting to sexually abuse a child, also charging him with marijuana possession.

The 45-year-old man was then released on bail, where be quickly began communicating with yet another fake profile, this one established by law enforcement. The profile was one he believed to belong to a 12-year-old girl, and Fenton sent the account indecent images and encouraged the fake child to engage in sexual activity. Fenton also contacted a third fake profile and engaged in similar behavior.

Fenton was re-arrested in January of 2021 on a total of 21 offenses, to which he pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court on Monday. Fenton was also issued a sexual harm prevention order, and made to register as a sex offender.

According to sentencing information, Fenton is listed as a male under his birth name and the court records utilized masculine pronouns for him, which indicates he does not have a gender recognition certificate (GRC). Despite this, many media outlets opted to validate Fenton’s identity, calling him “Rachel,” and utilizing gender-neutral language to address him.

The lack of ‘affirming’ information within court records also suggests Fenton would not be sent to a female prison immediately.

Speaking to Reduxx on the case, Dr. Kate Coleman, Director of Keep Prisons Single Sex, says the primary concern is if Fenton chooses to apply for a GRC and cement his transgender identity in law.

“[GRCs] have successfully been obtained by prisoners serving sentences for the most serious violent and sexual offenses against women and children,” Dr. Coleman says, “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.”

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.

Dr. Coleman notes that male inmates serving long sentences may be motivated to begin to fulfill the requires for a GRC and apply.

“What else is there to do?” She asks, pointing out that a GRC would be beneficial if the offender is habitual and knows they are likely to wind up in prison again.

“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 says, 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.”

On Fenton, Dr. Coleman says a GRC would possibly be of particular advantage.

“A GRC would confer an additional advantage for this prisoner, which is that he will then be risk assessed only using the risk assessment tools for female offenders. This is significant because he has been convicted of a sexual offense – a GRC would mean that the risk assessment tool designed for use with adult male sexual offenders can never be used with him again.”

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