A prominent LGBT activist who provided diversity training to local police has been found guilty of raping a 12 year-old boy he met on Grindr. Stephen Ireland, 41, co-founder of Pride in Surrey, was convicted of raping the child in the Addlestone flat he shared with his partner David Sutton, 27, in April 2024.

On August 14, 2024, Ireland and Sutton were both arrested and jointly charged with 15 offenses, including conspiracy to kidnap a child and conspiracy to sexually assault a child.

Ireland was separately charged with an additional 22 offenses, including the rape of a child, the sexual assault of a child, and six counts of making indecent photographs of children under the age of 13. Sutton was charged with an additional 7 similarly serious offenses.

The Guilford Crown Court heard that Ireland targeted the boy on the gay hookup app and invited him to his home. He then showed pornography to the child before raping the boy. Ireland and Sutton admitted to possession of prohibited images of children while Ireland also admitted possessing an extreme pornographic image.

In a statement, Detective Chief Superintendent Debbie White, Head of Surrey Police’s Public Protection Team, said: “Stephen Ireland was a sexual predator who targeted a young boy and took advantage of his age and vulnerability for his own gratification. I would like to pay tribute to the victim in this case for their courage in coming forward and for giving evidence. I hope the guilty verdicts help them start to re-build their life.”

White continued: “Both men have demonstrated an extreme sexual interest in children and the fact that the jury has found them both guilty of multiple sexual offences today means that they will no longer pose that risk. Both men then tried to cover up their offending by intentionally deleting material from their phones once they became aware of the police investigation and following their arrests.”

UK: An LGBT activist facing 37 child sex abuse charges worked closely with local police prior to his arrest.

Surrey Police visited schools to promote LGBT awareness with Stephen Ireland's charity while investigating him for raping a child.https://t.co/6IcxGyYteV

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) August 17, 2024

Following Ireland’s establishment of Pride in Surrey in 2018, the organization was responsible for arranging the annual Pride festivities, which included activities for children and youth. As a result of his activism, Ireland garnered the support of Surrey Police, who regularly attended events he organized in cars outfitted with rainbow decals.

On June 6, shortly before Ireland was arrested on numerous child sexual abuse charges, Surrey Police visited local school Woking High with his organization to take part in “Pride engagement” work. The force would have already been aware of the charges prepared to be pressed against Ireland at this time.

Evidence presented during trial argued that the men were targeting children for their sexual proclivities” between 2022 and 2024. WhatsApp messages from 2022 showed the pair discussing “snatching” or “kidnapping” a schoolchild, Prosecutor Isabel Delamere revealed.

Other messages involved discussion of preying on children outside of school gates while pretending to be a talent coach or music manager, reported The Telegraph.

In one message, Ireland allegedly described himself as “a f—— up sick pedo perv.” Similarly, Sutton spoke of having a 14-year-old making sexual advances towards him. One message from Ireland read, “All I’m thinking of is making out with a 13”, while in another he said to Sutton “Every day passes and I wanna do something terrible with you.”

According to Prosecutor Delamere, in August 2022 the pair also made plans to procure a 13 year-old boy for Sutton to abuse for his 25th birthday, which would take place in October. When Sutton’s birthday drew closer, he and Ireland discussed picking up a teenage boy and possibly his younger sister, aged eight or nine, to rape at the flat they shared together.

However, Ireland and Sutton were acquitted of conspiring to kidnap a child, and Sutton was cleared of six counts of conspiring to sexually assault a child. Sutton also pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing indecent photographs of a child.

The trial was attended by representatives of local women’s rights group Women in Surrey. From their account on X, they shared what they had heard in court within hours of the verdict being delivered. Arguments and evidence presented during proceedings for which the pair were not convicted depict a disturbing network of predatory men involved with or adjacent to Pride in Surrey who still have access to children in their roles.

“During the trial we learnt that Ireland was previously married to a man who went on to identify as a woman. Ireland told the court that as a gay man he found this ‘difficult’ as he is ‘not attracted to women,” Women in Surrey wrote.

“In an effort to keep the marriage alive, Ireland and his husband introduced a third person into their relationship: Charlie Watts. Watts and Ireland went on to set up Pride in Surrey. Watts remains the current CEO.”

Court attendees from Women in Surrey went on to explain that while Ireland and Watts’ relationship developed, Ireland’s unnamed husband began another relationship of his own. Then, in 2020, university student Sam Powell became involved with Watts and Ireland, and he quickly became the Volunteer Manager at Pride in Surrey, and remains in the position to this date.

Additionally, Women in Surrey volunteers explained that the court was told how both Ireland and Sutton referred to themselves as “pedos” who fantasize about “pump[ing] children full of estrogen” and “get[ting] their vocal cords snipped.” In one message, Ireland, who is HIV positive, stated about a child, “If we breed him now, he’ll be [HIV positive] in 6-8 weeks.”

Ireland also declared in court that Sam Powell was into a BDSM fetish known as “pup play,” typically associated with the gay male community. The fetish involves elements of dominance and subordination, with one or more individuals roleplaying as dogs for the pleasure of a dominant “master.”

Last August, Reduxx revealed a social media trail that demonstrated how Ireland groomed a teen girl into transgenderism and “pup play” through Pride in Surrey. Ireland began interacting with the girl online when she was as young as 16 years old and assisted her to transition into a “boy” and “leatherpup.”

Their interactions were conducted through both his personal account and his Pride in Surrey account. The two referred to each other as “bro,” and exchanged jokes about urine fetishism. Their earliest interactions date to 2018, when Julie was just 16. At that time she had begun counting down the days until the first Pride in Surrey event.

As previously reported by Reduxx, prior to his charges, Ireland was an influential and respected figure within the LGBT community. As the founder of a Pride group in Surrey, he was responsible for organizing the annual local Pride festival. His work put him in close contact with regional police, who repeatedly recommended that people follow his group from their official social media accounts.

Ireland was invited to speak by the police multiple times, including at a training day for their LGBT task force. In 2021, Ireland was invited to speak at an LGBT History Month Seminar hosted by Surrey Police. In February of 2024, Pride in Surrey also shortlisted Surrey Police for a Community Champion Award. The page listing the event has since been scrubbed, but was viewed by Reduxx prior to its deletion.

Pride in Surrey also received substantial public funds. According to information provided by the Surrey County Council following a Freedom of Information request, nearly £100,000 were allotted to the LGBT activist group between 2020 – 2022.

Meanwhile, in the time leading up to and during the grooming and sexual abuse of minors for which Ireland and Sutton have been found guilty, Ireland was using his social media account to condemn critics of gender identity ideology.

Ireland reserved a particular disdain for “TERFs,” a derogatory term used most often to refer to women critical of gender ideology. The acronym stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist,” but is largely aimed at any woman who disagrees with the medical transitioning of children or accomodating trans-identified males in women’s spaces.

On several occasions, Ireland shared his thoughts about “TERFs,” and in June 2020, he took aim at beloved author J. K. Rowling.

“This is not HATE, this is FACT! JK Rowling has clearly expressed a view that is Transphobic, Intersexist and inconsiderate of the LGBTQ+ community who stand together in solidarity. SHAME ON YOU!” Ireland posted.

That same month, Ireland advocated for controversial gender self-identity policies, saying, “Please ALLOW Self ID, let those who want to be themselves, be! I won’t be sitting on my hands watching as you implement yet another step backwards for rights of those who are part of the community I hold dear.”

“Calling all MP’s who oppose this TERF bullshit, calling all celebrities who stand with us. We need you now, more than ever to be a voice and get people talking, we need you to stand strong and ensure the harm these proposed changes will have is known,” he added.

The convicted child rapist also responded to Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend on X, saying, “Trans Women are Women and therefor the same sex. Please stop your anti-trans and quite exclusionary rhetoric. It’s not achieving anything other than upsetting our Trans siblings who deserve the love and respect any other person deserves. You are NOT the voice of the majority.”

Disturbingly, after founding Pride in Surrey, Ireland had been actively leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) seminars, and was a patron of the trans activist charity Educate and Celebrate.

The charity, founded by Dr. Elly Barnes, a teacher who received an MBE for her contribution to equality and diversity in education, sought to “embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric” of societal institutions.

To promote this goal, Educate and Celebrate created lesson plans and resources regarding gender identity for public schools aimed at children and teenagers.

The organization ran a PRIDE Youth Network program targeted at children aged 11 – 18 years old, and encouraged youth to “campaign for social justice in their schools” while providing “a particular focus on gender identity and sexual orientation.”

Ireland was a patron of Educate and Celebrate alongside leading LGBT activist Peter Tatchell, with whom Ireland has attended events and has praised as an “inspiration.” Tatchell has been widely regarded as a pedophile sympathizer by many, and, as previously reported by Reduxx, Tatchell has an unsettling history of downplaying the harms of child sexual abuse.

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A federal judge has ordered the Indiana Department of Corrections to arrange urgent “gender affirming surgery” for a trans-identified male convicted of murdering a baby. In a shocking decision handed down last week, Judge Richard Young ruled that Autumn Cordellioné, born Jonathan Richardson, was suffering from “irreparable harm” from not having the various plastic surgeries he had requested, despite the fact that a psychiatrist testified that Richardson was not suffering from gender dysphoria.

The order is the latest update in a lengthy case that Richardson first filed in 2023 with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The suit was intended to challenge House Bill 1569, which took effect in July of 2023 and bans the spending of state dollars on sexual reassignment surgery for inmates. The bill, the ACLU argues, “mandates deliberate indifference to a serious medical need and therefore violates the Eighth Amendment.”

In the suit, ACLU lawyers refer to Richardson as an “adult transgender female prisoner confined in a male institution,” and complains that “the total ban on gender-affirming surgery violates [his] right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.”

Among a list of demands prepared by Richardson and presented as evidence in court was a document titled “Surgeries to Reach My Ideal Self.” The first item on the list, the court heard, was a “vagina,” followed by: breast implants, a brow lift, a brow reduction, a tummy tuck, gluteal implants (BBL), a uterus transplant, hair removal, and wigs.

However, during court proceedings Richardson stated that he had amended his demands to two surgeries, an orchiectomy and a penile inversion. In September of 2024, the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) was ordered to arrange the surgeries, but quickly encountered issues as the only provider of “gender affirming” surgery in the state refused to accept incarcerated patients.

IDOC later filed a motion to further challenge Richardson’s demands and the ACLU’s claims, this time entering testimony from an independent psychiatrist they had retained to offer a comprehensive analysis of Richardson’s preparedness for surgery.

After meeting with Richardson to perform an evaluation, Dr. Kelsey Beers concluded that Richardson was not suffering from gender dysphoria, but instead had “attention seeking” personality disorders that were not indicated for any medical interventions.

ACLU lawyers immediately disputed Dr. Beers’ findings, arguing that she was not competent on matters of “gender” for her testimony to be taken into consideration by the court.

On March 5, Judge Richard Young ruled that Richardson “has demonstrated that she is suffering irreparable harm and will continue to suffer such harm unless she is provided gender-affirming surgery. When balancing this harm against the harm Defendant would face if preliminary relief were granted, and when the impact of preliminary relief on the public is considered, the court finds that the balance of harms favors the issuance of a preliminary injunction.”

He then renewed the injunction demanding the IDOC seek to arrange Richardson’s surgery at the earliest possible opportunity.

Richardson is currently serving a 55-year sentence for the murder of his 11-month-old stepdaughter. As previously reported by Reduxx, Richardson had been left to care for the child while her mother was at work. That night, he was visited by friends who observed he was “acting strangely” and refused to invite them in the house as he normally would.

Despite claiming the little girl was sleeping, Richardson had loud music playing in the home, and his guests noted that he appeared to have a fresh, bleeding tattoo of the child’s name carved into his arm.

Later that night, after his friends left, Richardson went to his neighbor and asked him to call 911, claiming the child was unresponsive. When emergency personnel arrived, they were briefly able to resuscitate the girl, but she died shortly after being rushed to the hospital.

Richardson was interviewed by police, who noted he was “calm and unemotional” during questioning, and his story about what happened to the baby changed dramatically over the course of the two interviews conducted.

At first, Richardson claimed he found the baby unresponsive after doing some household chores. But in the next interview, Richardson said the child was being “fussier than usual” and he attempted to throw her up in the air repeatedly in an effort to calm her down. He said her “head bopped forward and back up in a rough type of a manner,” and that the child continued to cry so he proceeded to shake her aggressively in an effort to calm her down.

During a failed appeals hearing, detectives from the case recounted how Richardson “physically showed” how he had manhandled the girl, getting up out of his chair and demonstrating the action in a rough manner.

An autopsy subsequently found that the baby had died of asphyxiation by manual strangulation.

Richardson was booked awaiting a court hearing, and would later tell a prison official “all I know is I killed the little fucking bitch.” He was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to 55 years in prison for the horrific crime.

Richardson is currently incarcerated at the Branchville Correctional Facility, a men’s institution.

Last year, Richardson filed a complaint against the prison’s chaplain, Tony Gray, after he converted to non-denominational Islam and was allegedly denied access to a hijab.

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The owner of a soon-to-open women’s-only gym in London has faced backlash online after clarifying that the space will not be open to biological men who choose to identify as transgender, and instead prioritize the safety of biological women.

Last month, fitness influencer Natalee Barnet announced that her women’s-only gym, The Girls Spot, had finally secured a location in Wandsworth, London. As described on the facility’s website, the gym “stems from the desire to tackle gym harassment, intimidation and sexual harassment that women face in the gym regularly,” and markets itself as “an environment that allows women to thrive as women.”

Barnet, who has amassed over one million followers on TikTok, had long shared her plans of opening a women’s-only gym with her fans, and regularly offered them updates on her progress. But after proudly declaring her dreams had become a reality, past comments Barnet had made on social media sparked debate.

In 2021, she made a post on X, then Twitter, regarding her policy on trans-identified males using her planned gym. “Respectfully, if you have a problem with trans women attending my gym then you can find another gym to train at,” Barnet posted. “I have discussed this several times before, trans women are women and also a minority that need to be protected. Please keep your transphobia away.” The fitness influencer repeated the sentiment in other social media videos at the time.

However, on Sunday, Barnet clarified in a video posted to X that her position had since changed on the issue. She noted that she had not really fully considered the vision of the gym, which now extends to self-defense classes such as Muay Thai, and hosting “events, workshops and activations around PCOS and training on your menstrual cycle.” The majority of women who would want to come to the gym are those who had experienced harassment or sexual assault, and therefore it was “imperative that [she] stick to the vision and the mission and ensure that these women feel safe.”

As a survivor of sexual assault in a gym herself, Barnet explained the issue of creating a single-sex space was close to her heart. In 2022, she spoke to the Daily Mail about a traumatic incident that she had survived when she was just 18.

“I was sitting in front of the mirrors next to a male gym-goer, who I’d known for a while, and we were talking,” she said. “As I laid back on one of the benches, he touched me really inappropriately. I don’t want to give exact details as it’s too upsetting. It was so rapid that at first, I questioned whether it had happened at all. I couldn’t believe a man would do such a thing to a woman in a public space.”

“I jumped to my feet, without saying a word and kind of stumbled away. I was in shock. He’d never done anything to make me suspect he’d behave like that. I’ve no idea why he thought he could get away with it,” Barnet added. “I didn’t say anything to any of my family. I was upset and processing what had happened. I’ve got brothers and knew if they found out they would be very angry.”

After her announcement, Barnet immediately faced backlash from trans-identified male and pro-trans commentators for her decision, with some arguing that this amounted to a “rug pull.”

Others argued that the concept of the women’s-only gym was unenforceable, and suggested that it was impossible to tell males and females apart from one another in some cases.

“You gonna do genital checks? Gonna do DNA scans? Gonna refuse any woman who happens to look too masculine for your tastes? Think you can ‘always tell’? you had a good concept and turned it into something centered around hateful judgement,” one furious commentator remarked.

Beth McColl, a London-based freelance journalist who has bylines in Vice and Elle magazine, suggested that it was “men” not “trans women” who harassed women inside and outside of gyms.

“Our efforts to tackle harassment, sexual assault and violence should include all victims of that,” McColl said. “A real shame.”

But the detractors, who have also targeted Barnet with chilling death threats and perverse sexual comments, were challenged by supporters who praised the influencer for her decision to stand by women.

Barnet quickly attracted attention from Sex Matters trustee Emma Hilton, and the founder of women’s-only app Giggle, Sall Grover. Women’s rights advocates similarly piled into Barnet’s replies to defend her from abuse.

Today, Barnet made another post clarifying her position.

“I wholeheartedly sympathise with Trans women and allies who feel hurt by my recent announcement and I appreciate that the decision to operate in this way will come to [sic] as a disappointment to some,” Barnet said. “This has been the unwavering driver behind The Girls Spot and I am excited to launch this space.”

“I want to be clear, I am in no way saying that trans women don’t face adversity or that they don’t deserve a safe space because they absolutely do. We’re all entitled to be treated with kindness and respect,” she added. “The Girls Spot is no different to many other businesses and we operate in accordance with carefully considered financial budgets, balanced by location, operating hours and longevity, meaning it isn’t possible in our early stages to provide all-alternatives [sic].”

“The decision to have The Girls Spot as a single sex gym for those biologically female was not an easy decision and something that I thought over for many years. I spent a great deal of time and money seeking legal advice and it was absolutely not a choice made lightly or out of exclusion or malice, but rather out of my commitment to ensuring a space where women who have experienced trauma, harassment, or discomfort in co-ed gyms can feel at ease,” Barnet continued. “That has always been my mission and drive behind the business. The Girls Spot is on a long journey and I will continue to listen, learn and lend my support for there to be inclusive fitness spaces for all. My hope is that every woman, cis and trans, finds a space as they need to feel secure, strong and empowered.”

Despite some claims from online trans activists that Barnet’s decision would violate the law, the Equality Act does allow for single-sex spaces that specifically block out trans-identified males, even if they have legally changed their sex on documents.

Guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission was updated on the issue in 2022, which says that trans-identified men may be excluded if the reasons are “justifiable and proportionate.” The guidance also specifically mentions two of the points that Barnet discussed in her video and further statement.

One example given by the EHRC in 2022 was where “a leisure centre introduces some female only fitness classes. It decides to exclude trans women because of the degree of physical contact involved in such classes.” The Muay Thai classes that Barnet suggested the gym would end up focusing on would be one of these. 

Furthermore, the EHRC said it would also “most likely to be proportionate to exclude, modify or limit trans people’s access where a service provider has limited resources and physical space to alter the way the service is provided or if they are dealing with groups with particular needs; for example, female victims of male sexual assault who may feel unable to participate in the presence of someone they perceive as male.” Given the specifics of The Girls Spot creating a safe space for women who had been sexually assaulted in a gym before, this would also likely fall within the scope of the protections of the act.

Last year, Reduxx reported how a trans-identified male who was denied membership and access to the women’s showers at a female-only fitness center in Bavaria sued the facility for €2,500 in compensation, claiming “personal injury suffered.” The suit came just mere weeks after the gym was already ordered to pay him €1,000 by the federal anti-discrimination commissioner.

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Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has chosen to honor a controversial boxer for International Women’s Day, despite the global outcry over his participation in the women’s category during the Paris 2024 Olympics. Lin Yu-Ting (林郁婷) made headlines last year for taking home the gold medal in the women’s 57 kg featherweight category despite having previously been disqualified from women’s boxing due to having XY chromosomes.

In a graphic shared today by the official social media account of the DPP, Lin is pictured prominently alongside female boxers Chen Nien-chin (陳念琴）and Wu Shih-yi (吳詩儀).

“Join us in celebrating International Women’s Day and embracing a future where gender equality is a reality, not just an aspiration. As President Ching-te Lai says, achieving true equality requires persistent, daily effort,” reads the DPP post. “We are committed to that effort, building a more inclusive society and showcasing Taiwan’s dedication to gender equality on the world stage.”

Join us in celebrating #InternationalWomensDay and embracing a future where #genderequality is a reality, not just an aspiration. As President @ChingteLai says, achieving true equality requires persistent, daily effort. We are committed to that effort, building a more inclusive… https://t.co/e3xXXiA5v5 pic.twitter.com/7PUmKsn9oZ

— 民主進步黨 Democratic Progressive Party (@DPPonline) March 8, 2025

Last year, intense debate ensued during the 2024 Olympic Games after Reduxx broke the news that Lin was one of two boxers participating in the women’s category who had previously been disqualified from a women’s championship for having “XY chromosomes.”

In 2023, Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), announced the disqualification of multiple boxers from the Women’s World Boxing Championships. At the time, Kremlev stated that medical tests had proven the athletes in question “had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events.”

Kremlev said that IBA executives had met towards the championship’s grand finale to discuss “fairness among athletes and professionalism,” after concerns were raised about the biological sex of some participants. He added that after “a series of DNA-tests,” the IBA “uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretend to be women.”

🚨Two Olympians competing as "female boxers" in Paris were previously disqualified from a women's boxing championship for having "XY chromosomes."

Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting have been accused of "pretending to be women" by @IBA_Boxing.https://t.co/oZSAzNoV7k

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) July 27, 2024

However, Lin, who had previously won 5 gold medals in women’s boxing tournaments. was permitted by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to compete in the Paris games in the women’s featherweight category. This was made possible by the fact that the IOC had ended sex testing for athletes in 1999, and allowed individual Olympic committees to set their own rules for eligibility.

Lin easily won the gold medal at the Olympics in a 5 – 0 sweep. His match against Turkish boxer Esra Yildiz Kahraman drew particular concern from critics after he delivered what appeared to be an illegal rabbit punch to the back of her head – a move that is banned on the basis for its potential to cause brain damage or death. As Lin struck the back of Kahraman’s head, the audience booed, and even the sports commentator noted with surprise that, “Lin got away with that.”

🚨BREAKING🚨

Taiwan's Lin-Yu Ting has just defeated Türkiye's Esra Yildiz Kahraman 5-0. This comes just days after @IBA_Boxing confirmed that Lin was previously disqualified for having XY chromosomes.

As she left the ring, Kahraman repeatedly made an "X" gesture at the crowd. https://t.co/1TfSfXHn6S pic.twitter.com/0RW3EM5pQt

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) August 7, 2024

After having lost out on her chance to earn an Olympic medal, Kahraman raised her arms to the crowd defiantly and made an “X” with her index fingers, and footage of her protest symbol swiftly went viral online.

Yet despite massive controversy and evidence identifying Lin as male, he was immediately hailed as a hero upon his return to his home country following his ill-gotten Olympic win.

Taipei’s Chinese Culture University, one of the largest universities in Taiwan, appointed Lin to the post of an assistant professor within the Department of Physical Education.

In addition, Lin was named an “anti-bullying ambassador” by Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰), due to his “decision not to take legal action” against critics, such as acclaimed author J. K. Rowling, who have pointed out that he is male. Yet in the case of such litigation, the onus would be placed on Lin to prove that such claims are slander – and to date, he has not volunteered evidence which would indicate he is female.

Premier Cho Jung-tai also said he had asked the Ministry of Education to grant Lin a Kuo Kuang medal and NT$900,000 from a Kuo Kuang scholarship fund, as a gesture of goodwill as his 2023 world championship bronze medal had been revoked at the behest of the IBA.

Lin was also made an official representative for a company that sells sanitary pads for women. Every Day Mask produced a video featuring Lin in August 2024.

The feminine hygiene company captioned the advertisement with references to Lin being a “girl,” saying: “When magic tries to distort the facts, direct all doubtful eyes on her. We’ll tell the world, Lin Yuting is our spokesperson. A spokesperson for a sanitary tampon brand, as a girl. She will not only endorse our products but more – she will endorse our belief in girls. Because we believe every girl has the right to live in the most comfortable way as she likes. No need to explain to anyone, let alone prove to anyone. In our eyes, that is the most girlish you.”

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Lin was again promoted shortly afterwards, and this time by the government. In October 2024, he was a speaker at an event held honoring the International Day of the Girl, organized by the Youth Development Agency of the Ministry of Education.

The event was aired on Taiwan’s public broadcasting service, the Public Television News Network. Lin told viewers that “no one can define what kind of girl” he should be, and that “no matter how the outside world evaluates it, we have the courage and strength to change our destiny.”

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“Today is International Girls Day, which reminds me of myself along the way. From the moment I stepped into the ring, I knew this road was not easy, but I also firmly believed that no one could define what kind of ‘girl’ we should be,” Lin said.

“As an athlete, I want to tell all the girls who are pursuing their dreams: Don’t be afraid of challenges and be brave enough to pursue the life you want. Our strength comes not only from our bodies, but also from our inner persistence and belief.”

“Whether in the boxing ring or every challenge in life, as long as we believe in ourselves, our dreams will get closer step by step. I hope my story can inspire more girls to find their own stage and strive for their future.”

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A group of trans activists are calling for a boycott of a clothing-optional spa in San Francisco after a trans-identified male was told he would not be allowed to go nude during a female-only event.

The Archimedes Banya, a Russian bathhouse on the shores of the San Francisco Bay, advertises itself as a space to hang out “with old friends, make new ones, or have a quiet time just to refresh and energize yourself.” As part of their offerings, the spa holds sex-segregated nights where only males or only females are allowed into the clothing-optional facility. The nights cater towards those of religious persuasions that restrict intimate mixing between the sexes.

However, transgender activists are now protesting against the spa after one activist, known as Breath Mormorer, was informed that he would have to remain clothed at all times if he wanted to attend the female-only night.

“It goes against everything that I came here for,” Mormorer said during an interview with local CBS News. “I came from Alabama specifically to escape that type of prejudice and hate. And I got here and I found out this city has just as much of it,” he added.

On his TikTok account, Mormorer, who pronounces his name Momor-ray, regularly uploads videos of him protesting for various trans causes in San Francisco. He is known for wrapping himself in clingfilm in order to produce life-size mannequins of trans-identified males, which he then distributes across San Francisco as performance art intended to raise awareness for “trans visibility.”

After the initial boycott started, Archimedes Banya issued a statement claiming that they stood by the “diversity of the Bay Area,” and wanted to respect both their “commitment to inclusivity” and the needs of religious and cultural communities who require gender-segregated spaces.

As such, they announced the introduction of two different events: an Inclusive Women’s Night, which they described as “open to all individuals who identify as women,” and a Cultural and Religious Women’s Night, which they state is “designed to provide a space that aligns with the needs of women from religious or cultural backgrounds who observe practices requiring a female-only environment based on sex assigned at birth.”

But despite the accommodation, trans activists continued their protest and took to form a picket line outside of the spa. One protestor, identified to CBS as ‘Jordan,’ claimed that the idea of biological sex, especially in religions, was not as simple as people claimed.

“In a lot of pre-Christian Slavic cultures there was a lot of, gender and sexuality was much more fluid than, and it was put down by the Christians, but even without all that, there are a lot of Catholic, Orthodox Jewish and Muslim people who are trans allies if not trans themselves,” he argued. “That response is really discriminatory when you think about it because if you had a night where you excluded, say, a certain race, that would not fly and we’re just saying, trans exclusive nights won’t fly.”

Another trans protester, Dakota Rose Austin, argued it was simply more evidence of hostility to transgenderism that has risen across the United States.

“As Latinos, as trans, as queer, as African American, the fear is turned now. If you weaponize DEI and affirmative action and all these other things that were a benefit of everyone in America and you weaponize them against us, now I’m in fear,” Austin said.

This is not the first time a spa has been targeted by trans activists for refusing to allow males to be nude around women.

As Reduxx reported last month, Archimedes Banya is not the first spa to face the ire of transgender activists. King Spa in Palisades Park in New Jersey, that models itself after the Korean jimjilbang spas that require full nudity in some areas, is currently being chased for compensation by Alexandra Goebert, a trans-identified man who was forced to leave from the women’s area after a manager became aware of his trans status in 2022.

In 2023, a court in Seattle ruled that a similarly Korean-based women’s only spa in Washington state did not have the “constitutional right” to ban biological males. Haven Wilvich, a trans-identified man, had complained to the Washington State Human Rights Commission, alleging that his application to use the facilities at the spa had been rejected after staff told him that “transgender women without surgery are not welcome because it could make other customers and staff uncomfortable.”

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Reduxx has learned that a trans activist based in Washington state who serves on the board of directors for an LGBTQ+ youth group is a BDSM fetishist who maintains a profile on a controversial fetish website where he arranges sex parties. Jason Hogle, who uses the name Tela Rose Hogle, recently spoke out during a school board meeting against a resolution ensuring that girls’ sports are protected for females only.

During a Tumwater school board meeting on February 27, Hogle said that a resolution protecting girls’ high school sports would lead to young people committing suicide.

The Tumwater School Board in WA has passed a resolution banning males from girls sports after a 15-year-old girl took a stand and refused to play basketball against a team with a male player.

During a board meeting, a trans activist suggested the decision would lead to suicides. pic.twitter.com/weNB5arbyl

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) March 1, 2025

“The reason we are in the schools is to counter the effects bullying has on LGBTQ youth and keep them alive,” Hogle, said.

“I don’t think you’re protecting the safety of anyone by eliminating the right of a trans student to participate in sports,” he added.

Despite adamant opposition from Hogle and several other trans activists who attended the Tumwater school board meeting, the resolution was passed. After the majority vote, proceedings were stalled by a protest staged by the activists who had attended.

The resolution was a direct result of a troubling situation that occurred in February, wherein a female athlete playing for Tumwater’s girls’ basketball team sat out of the championship game. Student Frances Staudt, who is 15 years old, refused to play against the opposing team from Shelton High due to the inclusion of a trans-identified male player, Andi Rooks.

As a result of her decision, and for referring to the boy with male pronouns, Staudt has said that she is being investigated by school officials for “harassment and bullying.” In response to massive public outcry, the Tumwater School Board discussed and ultimately passed the resolution safeguarding girls’ sports within their district.

Hogle serves as the Board President for an LGBTQ+ Youth group called Pizza Klatch, which operates within three schools in Thurston County. The organization’s mission statement reads: “School will be a positive and supportive space where LGBTQ+ youth are accepted and celebrated – free to learn without violence, harassment, discrimination, suicidal ideation or self-harm.”

It continues: “The after-school support group provided a refuge for youth in need, but was discontinued in fall of 2007 after students were discovered by disapproving parents and suffered punishment … The support group quickly moved to lunchtime, and pizza was served at the first Pizza Klatch in February of 2008. Now youth had a safe and confidential place to meet during school hours to gain support and community.”

In a biography posted to the Pizza Klatch website, Hogle says that he began claiming a transgender status in 2017, and that the youth group “played an instrumental role” in his decision. Hogle made his decision public in 2020, and has been facilitating the youth groups since 2022.

Reduxx has located several social media profiles belonging to Hogle. Curiously, a social media post by Hogle in 2017, the year he claims to have begun identifying as transgender, highlights the work of Canadian trans-identified male diaper fetishist Sophie Labelle.

Labelle has, on several occasions, been invited into schools and public libraries to speak to young children about gender identity ideology. In February of 2021, Labelle came under widespread scrutiny after it was discovered that he had been producing and posting diaper fetish art on secret social media accounts, as well as furry fetish site “FurAffinity.”

In some cases, Labelle had used photos of other people’s children as models for his furry diaper fetish illustrations.

Hogle’s post featuring an image of Labelle’s book, “My Dad Thinks I’m a Boy,” is one of the very first uploaded to his Instagram account under the handle tela_rose.

Other images shared to Hogle’s account include multiple memes featuring photos of very young girls. When Jason Hogle announced on Facebook that he would be changing his name to “Tela,” he had also set as his profile picture an image of two prepubescent girls.

One post of a meme challenging respondents to divulge a “scary, unsettling secret” sees Hogle commenting: “I gave my Raggedy Andy doll a vaginoplasty when I got my first pocket knife.”

Several images depicted overt sexual themes. One photo of a woman wearing a thong appears to have been an ad targeted at Hogle, and he commented, “Why do I wish my a** looked like this?” Another shows a woman’s legs bound in rope and decorated to resemble a Christmas tree, while another was “stolen from a lesbian page” and carries overt sexual innuendo.

Reduxx also discovered Hogle’s Fetlife account, which he created in 2022, shortly after beginning to publicly claim to be a transgender woman. Fetlife is one of the largest social networks for the BDSM and fetish community. Fetlife users post homemade pornography and utilize the platform for hookups or to plan sex parties.

Hogle calls himself “Tela” on Fetlife, indicating that any interactions he may have had on the site would have involved referring to him by the same name that he uses in his daily life.

In his profile, he describes himself as a “bottom, rope bunny, brat,” and “mommy,” whose orientation is “pansexual queer bisexual.” Hogle indicated he was hoping to match up with a “dominant play partner,” and that his fetishes include “nipple play” and “spanking.”

A testimonial from Hogle features on the website of Queer Body Love, a coaching business operated by therapist and queer performance artist Elizabeth Cooper, who says her art work involves “performing naked and blind in a horse head mask.” In Hogle’s remarks, he insinuates that he was raped as a child.

“I learned that consent is the most important aspect of any relationship,” Hogle said. “I often took for granted other people’s need for consent. This is a direct result of my physical and emotional boundaries being violated, and of being ridiculed for even expressing the word ‘stop’ as a child.”

“Until I could see how much having my physical and emotional boundaries respected as a child could have spared me years of grief and trauma, I would never have understood that intentions do not justify actions which betray anyone else’s sense of safety, no matter how good.”

Bizarrely, an image of a BDSM strap-on device features on the social media account of the LGBTQ+ Youth group run by Hogle. A 2023 silent auction online fundraiser for the organization promoting last-minute items shows what is described as a “handcrafted, custom leather piece from Little Death Leather.”

According to the seller’s website, the leather products are produced by “a kinky, disabled queer for fellow weirdos and deviants,” and the item shown by the youth group’s account is a strap-on intended to hold dildos. “We’ve tested this harness with 5 inch toys to 1.5 foot toys – and it holds up,” boasts the product description.

In addition to working with children in a leadership role at Pizza Klatch, Hogle has been a guitar and ukulele instructor to young children at his business, Tela Rose Music Studio. He has also run for public office, as a representative in Washington state senate.

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A prominent gay politician who was arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography last fall has committed suicide after having admitted to the charges. Mikkel Eskil Mikkelsen, a former member of the Sámi Parliament, was arrested in November for acquiring images of children being sexually assaulted, and had led the Norwegian Sametinget’s work on gender identity reform.

Mikkelsen was arrested on November 4 by police and charged with having shared and acquired material showing sexual abuse of children. Mikkelsen admitted to the charges in the local court for Salten and Lofoten in Nordland, Northern Norway, and was facing a prison sentence of up to one year.

Den 35 år gamle kirkemusikeren og #Sametingsrådets medl, Mikkel Eskil Mikkelsen, er fengslet for overgrepsmateriale av barn. Han har hatt ansvar for oppvekst, ungdomspolitikk og LHBTQI+ i Sametingsrådet. Dét utelot #Dagsrevyen fra dagens omtale. Men, bra @NRKno identifiserer ham. pic.twitter.com/qTZG8U7pvX

— Elin Gregusson (@elingre1) November 6, 2024

However, Norwegian media has now reported that Mikkelsen committed suicide on February 13. Mikkelsen’s public defender, Mette Yvonne Larsen, confirmed the death to news outlet VG.

“As a defender, I would like to emphasize that Mikkel Eskil was charged with downloading and sharing abuse material where the level of punishment would have been in a few months to 1 year in prison. The charge was not extended at any time and the police did not investigate him for other matters either. The case was in the final phase and it was agreed that it should go as a confession case,” Larsen said.

Leading up to Mikkelsen’s suicide, national news outlet NRK reported that authorities had begun questioning him again, three months after his arrest, from a “new” approach, but did not specify the nature of the interrogation.

Mikkelsen was a prominent LGBT activist and politician who hailed from the small community of Tysfjord, a municipality with wracked by child sex abuse scandals. Despite having a population of less than 2,000 people, Tysfjord has been the location of hundreds of child sex abuse cases from 1980 to 2017. In 2016 alone, 151 criminal cases were opened by the police involving 82 victims and 92 defendants.

In 2018, Mikkelsen was named LGBT Person of the Year at the Norway’s national Gay Gala.

Mikkelsen is a former Sámi politician and member of the Sámi Council. He represented the Norwegian Samers National Association (NSR) at the Sámi Parliament, or Sametinget, from 2017 to 2024. During his time in this role, he led the Sametinget’s work on its first LGBT plan, which was published in April 2023.

In its introduction, the Sametinget report on gender equality states: “Prejudice and hatred have their roots in many centuries of Norwegianization and oppression. Social norms and gender roles have changed significantly in just a few decades. We stand in a cultural tension between traditional Sámi society and today’s expectations of modernity.”

Section 2.2, “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity,” opens with a photograph of Mikkelsen receiving his awared at the 2018 Gay Gala.

The section begins by stating: “Sexual orientation and gender identity have been particularly challenging for many in Sámi communities. In the process of this work, it has become clear that it is important to develop concepts in the Sámi languages, which makes it easier and more natural to talk about topics and have important debates about sexual orientation and gender identity in Sámi.”

The passage goes on to provide a definition of “gender identity” as “a person’s internal experience of being female, male, both female and male, or neither.”

The text further describes the term “transgender,” stating: “an umbrella term for people who have an appearance or identity that expresses a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth.”

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The Minnesota House of Representatives held a public safety panel yesterday to debate legislation which would require the Department of Corrections to remove trans-identified males from the state’s only women’s prison, MCF-Shakopee. Speaking in support of House File 435, former Shakopee employee-turned-whistleblower Alicia Beckmann revealed that female inmates have been made to endure sexual harassment and intimidation from the male transfers, several of whom are sex offenders, over the past two years.

Beckmann, who has a degree in criminal justice and a Master’s in education, worked as a GED instructor at MCF-Shakopee for ten years before resigning in protest last fall over the DOC’s decision to implement gender identity policies by allowing convicted male criminals to be transferred into the women-only facility.

“In June of 2023, unbeknownst to myself, frontline staff and roughly 600 female offenders, ‘Christina’ Craig Lusk, a biological male, was transferred to Shakopee Correctional Facility after he successfully won a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections,” she said. “This decision opened the floodgates for the nightmare that was to follow.”

Beckmann was referring to a June 2022 discrimination lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed in the female estate. As Reduxx previously reported, Lusk was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men – but had also been accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, who has called him “scammer” and a “big fat liar.”

The discrimination claim was filed, on behalf of male convict Craig Lusk, by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice. In order to aid their legal fight to have violent men placed into the women’s prison, Gender Justice was granted nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funds from the administration of Governor Tim Walz.

Lusk was eventually given a personal payout of $495,000, also at taxpayers’ expense.

“Multiple incarcerated men were able to manipulate the system and transfer to Shakopee,” Beckmann testified to the House Committee.

“The men who ultimately transferred to Shakopee included at least two sex offenders and one murderer with a violent history during his incarceration over the past 30 years. At no point were the staff at Shakopee given a voice.”

Beckmann also noted that “a large percentage of incarcerated women have been victims of sexual, emotional and physical abuse at some point in their lives,” and that housing them with violent sex offenders caused them to be re-traumatized.

There have been multiple bizarre and frightening instances involving the behavior of the male inmates at Shakopee.

Elijah Thomas Berryman, a convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against a minor was among the men transferred into the women’s prison. Sources inside Shakopee have told Reduxx, via women’s inmate advocate Rebeca Warmbo, that Berryman often talks to himself using both a deep voice and a higher-pitched voice, as though he were two different people of the opposite sex.

During one classroom session held at the prison, Berryman allegedly stood up and began talking about the harmful impacts of rape. Witnesses said that he became visibly sexually aroused as he did so.

Another child sexual abuser transferred into Shakopee is Sean Windingland, who sexually assaulted two 6-year-old relatives and posted videos of the abuse and grooming on pornography and pro-pedophile websites. Warmbo told Reduxx that Windingland was recently transferred back to a men’s facility, Stillwater, for repeatedly masturbating in front of staff and inmates.

According to reports from inmates seen by Reduxx, pedophiles Berryman and Windingland had been using their internet privileges to obtain photos of female inmates’ children in order to threaten them into silence.

In another instance, female inmates reported feeling terrified that they were being forced to share a shower facility with a violent male murderer. Bradley Richard Sirvio, 53, who beat a man to death with a hammer, was transferred into Minnesota women’s prison MCF-Shakopee at the end of last year after claiming to identify as transgender and adopting the name “Aurora.”

Additionally, a convicted pedophile who abused a six year-old girl is said to have been flashing his genitals at female inmates in Shakopee. When filing a request for a change of name and legal sex in February 2023, Daniel Patrick Benz claimed to be a “transgender woman” and said that it was “painful, difficult, and uncomfortable” for him to be referred to as a man.

Beckmann, when speaking before the House Committee yesterday, noted that despite these serious instances of sexual abuse of female inmates, top officials had refused to even acknowledge that official reports had been filed with the DOC.

“An administrator within the DOC made the claim back in September that there have been no reported instances of violence or threats. This is simply not true. I have spoken to several correctional officers that have filed reports on behalf of women who have been harassed, flashed, intimidated, and overall live in fear of their safety,” Beckmann said.

She added that staff feel afraid of speaking out for fear of retaliation, and that because of this, she had made the difficult decision to quit in order to be able to speak honestly.

“The day my students came to me in tears, not knowing what to do about their fear and concern about men being incarcerated at Shakopee was the day I realized I could no longer help keep them safe. I knew my job would be in jeopardy had I spoken up while still employed,” Beckmann said.

Multiple trans activists attended yesterday’s hearing on bill HF 435 and expressed their fervent opposition to removing the male criminals from Shakopee. Before the meeting was fully underway, Democrat Representative Emma Greenman referred to the definition of ‘woman’ in the bill as “extreme language” and said that she believed it was language that was “imported” into Minnesota by the Trump administration.

To clarify, Representative Mary Franson, who introduced HF 435, read the text aloud:

“For the purposes of this section, ‘female’ means a female as biologically determined by genetics and defined with respect to an individual’s reproductive system. A ‘female’ is defined as an individual who naturally has, had, or will have, or would have, but for congenital anomaly or intentional or unintentional disruption, the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports, or utilizes eggs for fertilization… A woman is an adult human female. A girl is a minor human female.”

Democrat Representative Brad Tabke also accused Beckmann of being “hyperbolic” and of “misgendering” the male convicts. One member of the public who commented, Lucy Geach, called HF 435 a “discriminatory and pernicious bill” which “scapegoat[s] the most vulnerable members of our society.”

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A 35-year-old trans-identified male in Alberta, Canada, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault last week after attacking his children, during which he severed the esophagus of his 8-year-old daughter. The girl is in hospital and will require a feeding tube in what is expected to be a lengthy recovery.

Alice Michael Joseph Attwood, who uses “she/they/he” pronouns and describes himself as a “genderfluid queerdo” on social media, was arrested after the February 19 attack and appeared before a justice of the peace in Grand Prairie. The court then chose to release Attwood pending his next court date on March 13. However, Attwood’s family members were concerned about the release plan and quickly petitioned the court for an involuntary psychiatric hold so that Attwood would be committed to a hospital.

The family told media that they feared for the safety of Attwood’s children, themselves, and the public, and did not understand why the judge had released him on a promise to appear. Their application for a psychiatric hold was ultimately granted, leaving Attwood confined to a mental health unit. However, it appears that Attwood was released on February 25, earlier than the family anticipated.

Attwood has been active on social media since the violent attacks – even commenting about and admitting to stabbing his children.

“For obvious reasons I’m going to sit and stay silent on the locally viral rumors going around. I understand people’s upset (trust it’s not as high as my own) and I’m going to answer for what I did. When I can see the picture more clearly then I will be here to hold myself accountable as well. It’s just… not the right time for that. I need to focus on my mental health and finding the WHY to this happening… which means not being online,” he wrote.

“I am very apologetic and hurt though. Trust that. This was nowhere near my 2025 bingo card,” Attwood posted on Facebook this week from the psychiatric hospital where he had been staying.

In a comment below the post, he admits to stabbing his children: “And yes, I stabbed my daughter in the shoulder, and scraped my sons arm. The cause, and the why are the slander I am mentioning here. I definitely had some sort of mental break… that’s why I’m in psych.”

Another user added screenshots of comments Attwood made on Discord while he was still held on psychiatry unit.

“On the psychology ward. I sort of had a break happen. My kids are OK, but I did sort of… unconsciously stab Mia in the shoulder. I feel terrible. Then I had this feeling in emergency tonight that a ritual was taking place and people didn’t even know it… but I watched the whole thing unfold. I even saw an Indigenous queen. She was so regal. (Literal old lady with her son walking around.) All in my head of course, but it did… kind of make me feel better about the whole thing,” wrote Attwood.

Bizarrely, Attwood also posted selfies he took while in his hospital bed.

In another comment, Attwood responded to a woman who offered him sympathy for his situation, writing: “Thank you so much. I was definitely terrified of just being rejected for that happening. I’ve got a lot to go through now, and it’ll be a lot of work… but I finally found my friends… And it’s all of YOUUUU. Mod Squad!!! Assemble!”

Attwood was previously employed as a paramedic in Alberta. He has made several social media posts about being unable to work due to an alleged “disability,” or Fibromyalgia. He set up a GoFundMe for donations to support him and his three children, the youngest two apparently living with him full time. He posted that he was separated from the children’s mother.

In another Facebook post, Attwoord stated he would use some of the funds to ensure his oldest could go to a “trans-inclusive” school in Calgary, suggesting the child identifies as transgender.

“This is terrifying enough to get a GoFundMe made… let alone expect it to do well… I just, don’t have any other way right now. It’s me… and this thing, and what little bit my co-parent can manage to send me trying to live in Calgary so our oldest can go to the only trans-inclusive school we have been able to find…”

Just days before stabbing his own children, Attwood uploaded a reel to Instagram in which he said that he needs to “protect [his] family from the negativity within.” He also posted a meme about Elon Musk being “transphobic,” accompanied by a series of rambling thoughts.

“Nobody needs T.R.A.S.H in their lives. It’s insidious. Like being a cop. It can infect the whole family, and even the friend group. That level of Fash was only reserved for one group before, until incels showed up anyways… well, and cops. Because, ACAB. Unless they’re going to actually do something about it, and then they’re a reformed version of that. Just remember though. Just because you’re trash, doesn’t mean you can’t do great things. Don’t let shame hold you down,” he wrote, adding that T.R.A.S.H was an acronym which stood for: “Transphobic. Racist. Ableist. Sexist. Homophobic.”

Attwood continued that he “used to be trash too.”

In media coverage of the stabbings, most Canadian news outlets referred to Attwood using “she/her” or “they/them” pronouns.

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