A trans-identified male who was convicted of multiple horrific sexual crimes against children was allowed to play in an American women’s Australian Rules football league due to its “inclusive” policies. A former champion player says a culture of “compliance” contributed to Joseph Hamilton being allowed to play the full-contact sport with women.

Hamilton, a former US Marine who now goes by “Lily,” joined the Golden Gate Australian Football League’s women’s side, the Iron Maidens, during the 2023 season. Female players were unaware that the male athlete tackling them on the field and joining them in private social settings was a registered sex offender.

According to a Quillette investigation published in August, a US military court found Hamilton guilty after he admitted to repeatedly raping a child under 12 between September 2003 and April 2004. Hamilton was also convicted of forcibly sodomizing two children under 12, with the offenses taking place in North Carolina between May 2003 and September 2003.

A court-martial order obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows Hamilton was sentenced on 7th September 2005 to 41 years’ confinement and a dishonourable discharge. Under a pre-trial agreement, the portion of the sentence exceeding 25 years was suspended.

Hamilton ultimately served approximately 15 years in prison. Quillette reported that he was released in 2021 or 2022, but Hamilton told CapRadio in 2024 that he emerged from prison in time to see the extensive protests that had shaken America in the summer of 2020.

Australian Rules football is not a low-contact recreational activity. The official league website describes USAFL club competition as “full contact” and the highest level of the sport in the United States, distinguishing it from a separate non-contact recreational version. Players sprint, collide, contest the ball in the air and tackle opponents to stop their movement or force a disposal, meaning female players were required to absorb contact from a male sex offender in a sport whose rules expressly contemplate forceful tackles and players being driven to the ground.

Hamilton was not merely permitted to appear on the fringes of the team. A now-deleted November 2023 club post named “L. Hamilton” as the recipient of its “Maidens Maiden Award,” alongside photographs of Hamilton playing and attending a club event. The same post celebrated the Iron Maidens winning their seventh national title.

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Reduxx understands that women affiliated with the club were not informed about Hamilton’s sex-offender status during the season.

The allegations surrounding what happened after the discovery are almost as disturbing. Quillette obtained a complaint sent to USAFL president April Munn stating that then-GGAFL president Jules Hatfield quietly removed Hamilton after the 2023 season, but that club and Iron Maidens leaders did not formally tell all players why.

The complainant said women had shared hotel rooms, alcohol-fueled nights and family events involving children with Hamilton, yet were not given the opportunity to say whether he had made them uncomfortable or placed them at risk.

“Every woman has a right to know if she is sharing vulnerable space with a registered sex offender,” the complaint stated.

In a response dated September 3 of 2025, Munn reportedly said USAFL did not control clubs’ internal recruitment, roster decisions or removal procedures. She pledged a bylaw barring people convicted of sexually abusing children from league leadership positions, but not from playing or otherwise participating. Over one year later, and it is unknown if that bylaw has been put into place.

The league has also left the underlying sex-based safeguarding problem intact. Its current 2026 Nationals rules expressly prohibit women from playing in men’s games and provide a separate women’s competition. However, there are no published rules preventing males who identify as women from entering the women’s category.

Speaking to Reduxx, former professional soccer player and champion Australian Rules Football player Carly Smolak says it was around 2018 or 2019 when she first noticed biological males beginning to openly participate on United States Australian Rules Football League (USAFL) women’s teams. She says the decision to include men was “sprung on everyone,” and a culture of silence and compliance quickly settled in.

“When it comes to politics in general, you don’t see very many female athletes sticking their necks out in team settings because nobody wants to deal with the hysterics and bullying of the activist types,” Smolak says, recounting a time she “misgendered” a trans-identified male and was quickly chastised by one of her teammates. “Of course I just rolled my eyes, but that’s the type of response you can expect if you don’t just ‘sit there and take it like a good girl.’ It’s so disheartening to think how easily we as women are being controlled right now. What’s even more disheartening is that it is primarily women self-policing ”wrong think’ like a bunch of obedient foot soldiers.”

Smolak says she only interacted with Hamilton a handful of times and found his behavior off-putting. At a club party, Smolak says she observed Hamilton wearing “a very large hunting knife on his belt.” During another interaction, Hamilton entered a dark bedroom where Smolak’s partner was sleeping.

“He entered the room where my girlfriend, now-wife, was asleep and presumably alone while the rest of the team was downstairs. I heard him say ‘oh, who’s in here?’ I happened to be standing in the shadows and quickly emerged. Furious,” Smolak recounts.

“The one time he introduced himself to me, he was basically friendly. But it was at our trophy parade, where the team barhops throughout the Mission District in San Francisco. We fill the trophy up with beer, and everyone rotates around and drinks from it. Even though he had been on the team for less than a year, he took it upon himself to be the one pouring beer into everyone’s mouth. One of my teammates asked me why I wasn’t drinking from the trophy, and I think I ended up having to leave the bar and take a lap around the block because I was so upset that all of my teammates, some of the most badass women I know, would be ok with this,” Smolak says.

“But remember, we are all there for the love of the game. We are there to play sports, not to get in political debates. So in one sense, I really don’t blame anyone for not wanting to get involved in these arguments. That’s really not why we play sports. But on the other hand, I still cannot believe that women are being so compliant. It’s just mind boggling to me.”

Hamilton is not the only trans-identified male known to have played women’s Australian Rules football in the United States.

The New York Magpies have fielded two male players over six feet tall, Cricket Temple, an Estée Lauder product scientist, and Matthew Baker “Emma” Moss, a diagnostic radiologist at Mount Sinai. A 2025 team write-up described both as “star” players.

According to one USAFL player who spoke to Reduxx under the condition of anonymity, Temple was known for stripping his uniform between games and walking around the field in a “slip dress,” something the player described as “not something I’ve ever seen any of the female players do at a tournament either before or since.”

Temple has since moved to Toronto, Ontario, is currently playing for the Canadian Women’s National AFL Team.

Smolak says she is unaware of just how many trans-identified males may be playing for USAFL women’s teams.

“I personally know of at least four trans-identified males that have competed on women’s teams in the league, but I think there may be more. I am unsure of how many are playing in total, but what I do know is that anybody that I know that takes issue with males on the women’s teams will only discuss it behind closed doors, and otherwise stay pretty quiet about it,” she says.

“Even in the discussions that I have had where players expressed discomfort, it seemed to me they didn’t know if they were ‘allowed’ to feel uncomfortable. It’s like they felt bad for thinking these guys were creepy or shouldn’t be on the women’s teams. All of the messaging out there is that you’re a complete bigot if your instinct is that something is off.”

She continues: “There are a lot of loud activist types in the league that are pushing policy at the highest levels, asking people to sign petitions to advocate for the rights of trans-identified males, and even designing team uniforms to include the ‘progress flag.’ Frankly, I don’t know what the consensus is of the female players; in fact nobody does, because nobody has actually surveyed the players. All you see is a loud activist minority, and we really don’t know what percentage of the players fall into the quietly dissenting category.”

Hamilton’s latest independently-verifiable public work has centered on criminal-justice advocacy. The Boundless Freedom Project announced Hamilton as its program administrator on 14th June 2024. Two months later, on 15th August, CapRadio photographed Hamilton lobbying at the California Capitol on prison spending and quoted him as a representative of the organization.

Hamilton had previously promoted himself as a consultant to people preparing for federal prison and their families. In a 2022 podcast, he discussed working to reintegrate offenders into families in which relatives may have “negative feelings” about the offender’s conduct, while the programme introduced him only as a former prisoner, Marine and advocate for “queer rights.” His convictions for raping and forcibly sodomising children were not disclosed.

Hamilton also appeared in a 2023 Buddhist talk produced by the Boundless Freedom Project, speaking of confronting “the harm I had caused” without specifying that the harm involved the sexual abuse of children.

California’s public Megan’s Law registry nevertheless lists Hamilton as a registered sex offender. The registry includes identifying physical details and statutory references to his sex offenses—information that was publicly available while women were sharing a changing room, field, accommodation and social environment with him.

Notably, Hamilton is listed as a “female” offender in the registry.

Speaking to Reduxx, a representative from the Independent Council On Women’s Sports (ICONS) condemned USAFL policy for allowing men like Hamilton to both compete with women and avoid scrutiny.

“Female athletes are being gaslit on a mass scale. They are being told they can’t trust their instincts, shouldn’t expect privacy in their intimate spaces, and aren’t entitled to fairness in their own sports,” she said. “This isn’t even the first instance we’ve recorded of a sex offender beginning to ‘identify’ as a woman and slipping into women’s sports completely unobstructed.”

The ICONS representative references an earlier Reduxx investigation into Cary Sutton, a repeat child sex offender and tennis coach who began going by “Cari” and entered women’s competitions after transitioning.

Sutton had previously served more than two years in prison after being arrested in the late 1990s on two counts of statutory rape. After his release, he secured work coaching tennis at Laurel Park in Georgia, where a contractor had failed to conduct a background check. Sutton then sexually exploited a 12-year-old girl, providing her with a secret mobile phone used to send lewd messages. He was convicted of felony child molestation in 2009 and required to register as a sex offender.

After beginning to identify as a woman around 2020 or 2021, Sutton altered his first name from “Cary” to “Cari” and entered three women’s tennis events in 2022.

He competed in six more women’s events in 2023, including a match against a 14-year-old girl. The US Tennis Association suspended Sutton in June 2023 and the US Center for SafeSport added him to its disciplinary database that October, although the USTA did not designate him permanently ineligible.

“The culture of silence and compliance witnessed by Carly Smolak at USAFL is a problem across so many sports, but when these ‘inclusive policies’ are allowing even male convicted sex offenders to enter women’s sports and spaces, there can be no question about the danger they pose to women and girls,” the ICONS representative says. “USAFL needs to protect its female athletes. All sporting bodies need to make it their priority to offer a safe and fair space for women and girls to participate instead of worrying about satisfying an increasingly unstable minority of vocal activists.”

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A man who claims to identify as a woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for repeatedly raping a young girl. James Groves, 51, who wears a wig and goes by ‘April’, was convicted of 18 sexual offenses at the Bristol Crown Court, including nine counts of the rape of a child.

The jury unanimously convicted Groves on September 9.

The crimes came to light after Groves was arrested for inappropriate communication with a child. Upon his arrest, the victim came forward to reveal that he had also sexually abused her.

Groves was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison and will be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for an indefinite period following his eventual release. During the trial, Groves was referred to as a man.

According to a statement from Avon and Somerset Police, Detective Constable Ben Perrett, of Avon and Somerset Police’s Criminal Investigation Department, told the press: “This has been an extremely distressing case involving the sustained abuse of a vulnerable young girl, who was targeted and manipulated by the offender over several years. Groves’ actions demonstrate a calculated pattern of grooming designed to gain trust and exert control.”

“I would like to commend the victim for her exceptional bravery in coming forward and supporting the investigation, he continued. “Her courage has been instrumental in securing this conviction and preventing further harm. I hope this result sends a clear message that we take offenses of this nature extremely seriously. We will work tirelessly to protect vulnerable individuals and bring those responsible to justice.”

The victim told the court about the trauma she had endured.

“I am just a shell of my former self. I don’t remember chunks of my childhood because of what Groves did, and this is because of the trauma I have been through,” she said. “People have said to me that I am not the bright, bubbly girl I once was. I have lost my childhood. I will never get it back.”

Groves is not the first transgender sex offender to find himself before a British judge over his predatory history in recent weeks.

On August 11, a trans-identified male was jailed for 3 years after being found in breach of his sex offender conditions. Alex Smith, who was born Matthew Burren, was sentenced at Swindon Crown Court after being caught using a private web browser. Smith had a lengthy history of disturbing sex offenses dating from adolescence, including being convicted of raping a 5-year-old when he was just 12, and being repeatedly found in possession of prohibited images of children.

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A German politician who represents the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is being investigated by the state for incitement to hatred, defamation, and dissemination of personal data after a pro-pedophile activist filed a criminal complaint against her for social media posts denouncing “LGBTQ propaganda” and pro-pedophile activism. One activist who reported Vanessa Behrendt to police over her social media posts runs an online support group for “minor-attracted people,” or MAPs, and campaigns for pedophilia to be legally recognized as a protected characteristic.

In October 2024, Behrendt, the AfD’s family policy spokesperson, published a controversial opinion to her official X account, which has since racked up over 1 million views.

“The rainbow flag stands for: The machinations of pedophile lobby groups, the endangerment of children through LGBTQ propaganda, the harassment of toddlers with transsexuality, the legal ‘cuddling’ and ‘wrestling’ of foreign men with kindergarten children (‘Original Play’), and the treatment of gender identity disorders with puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and transgender surgeries,” Behrendt wrote. She followed her message with an image of the German flag, stating that its colors represented the country, while the Pride flag, she said, did not.

Her comments drew significant backlash, and are included in criminal complaints that have been filed against her. The investigation, which is ongoing, was confirmed by Behrendt in a March 2025 post that has remained as her pinned post on her X account.

“Because I have expressed critical views on rainbow ideology, the Göttingen Public Prosecutor’s Office is now investigating me,” Behrendt announced last year.

But among accusations of incitement to hatred for comparing the Pride flag to “the machinations of pedophile lobby groups,” the politician is also facing charges related to the dissemination of an individual’s name and address, a crime which is punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment.

This charge was lodged against Behrendt by a pro-pedophile MAP activist who had been sharing his information on various pedophile activism forums and websites. Florian Viets, who was identified by Behrendt, is a 39-year-old man who uses an avatar of a young girl waving a ‘MAP’ flag on social media. Under the moniker ‘Consuela,’ he operates several websites and forums dedicated to pedophilia activism.

Viets has stated that he is sexually attracted to girls aged “0 to 12.”

In a now-deleted post made by Behrendt to X on February 11, 2025, she wrote: “This pedophile with the angelic face has, according to his own statements, filed a complaint against me because I am so evil and incite hatred against pedophiles. Florian Viets from Norderstedt. Perhaps someone would like to inform him what one thinks of his demands.”

One forum run by Viets, mapsupport.de, is hosted by Mastodon and currently has over 300 participants. “We are a safe space for queer people and paraphilias,” reads the group’s description. “We welcome every sexual minority, transidentity, kink, fetish, radqueer, or anything else.”

According to information publicly posted on mapsupport.de, the forum is owned and operated by Florian Viets of Hamburg, Germany.

Child safeguarding advocates who monitor MAP activism taking place on Mastodon’s decentralized servers have told Reduxx that Viets decided to go public in 2024 by posting selfies and even creating videos of himself that he uploaded to YouTube – which have now been deleted. Therefore, his own public posts would have served as a primary source of information for Behrendt’s claims which are being considered as “defamation.”

One source, who chose to remain anonymous, provided Reduxx with a photo of Viets taken by himself at Rathaus Norderstedt (City Hall of Norderstedt). In the photo, Viets is proudly wearing a T-shirt featuring a depiction of the “pedobear,” which originated as a meme on 4chan to mock those who expressed a sexual interest in children. Over time, however, the symbol has been adopted by some members of the MAP community as a means of self-expression.

Viets has repeatedly boasted online of filing two reports against Behrendt, both on his blog and on Mastodon. In June of last year in a post he made to a MAP support community announcing his criminal complaints.

“In November, December, and January a female politician of the far-right political party AfD used Twitter to spew hate speech against me and other German MAPs by calling us child molesters. I went to the police and pressed charges against her,” Viets wrote.

“In February [2025] she decided to make the worst mistake of her life. She made a Twitter post, posting my data she stole from somewhere and called for violence against me (I had 152 people posting death threats). I filed more charges.”

According to Viets’ MAP activism blog, Behrendt became aware of one of Viets’ pro-pedophile websites, wir-sind-auch-menschen.de, and filed a criminal complaint against the site operators.

The complaint was dismissed, and Behrendt took to X to denounce the website, stating that she intended to make a “declaration of war against all those who believe they can make pedophilia socially acceptable.”

The website’s name translates to “We are also human,” and denounces the “stigma of pedophilia”. While the site does not explicitly advocate for adult-minor sexual contact, it does argue for the decriminalization of “materials where no children are harmed,” including AI-generated child pornography, as well as “drawings, animations, or fictional stories,” and the sale of sex dolls made in the likeness of children. Currently, Section 184l of the German criminal code prohibits the sale, acquisition, and possession of “sex dolls with a childlike appearance.”

“The social condemnation of sexual acts with children must not extend to materials where no children are harmed. A pedophilic inclination cannot be changed, therefore pedophiles must find a way to deal with it – ideally one that respects the rights of others and is also healthy for themselves. It is important that pedophiles have access to such options and that not every option is criminalized,” the website states.

Additionally, Viets’ political advocacy site calls for recognizing pedophilia as a protected characteristic.

“The General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) protects people from discrimination based on their sexual identity. However, although undoubtedly a part of sexual identity, pedophilia is not considered to be included,” Viets writes. “The justification given is that, unlike other sexual identities, pedophilia is a crime when acted upon. In our opinion, however, this is not a valid argument, as sexual identity is not about actions, but about who someone is and how they feel. A sexual orientation alone does not make anyone a danger.”

In a blog post made by Viets in January 2025, he informed his supporters that he had made criminal complaints against Behrendt on allegations of defamation, false accusations, falsely reporting a crime, and incitement to hatred.

“We live in a society and time that is now characterized by hatred and incitement by right-wing populist parties such as the AfD and their politicians, who constantly sow and spread hatred and incitement against people because of their origin, skin color, sexual orientation, gender, disability and other characteristics, and think they can get away with it because of their political status,” Viets wrote.

“In a democratic society, freedom of expression is an important right; however, this excludes hatred, incitement, and false claims,” he continued. “No one should have to tolerate being publicly defamed to a significant degree by others because of who or what they are. This is extremely damaging to the reputation of all those affected, especially those who have been working for many years to educate the public about pedophilia. Ms. Behrendt will now also experience that freedom of expression has its limits where it causes enormous harm to others. The complaint, along with all evidence, will be submitted to the public prosecutor’s office today and will hopefully lead to a swift trial and conviction, while also demonstrating that no one has to tolerate hatred and incitement.”

Earlier this month, the Göttingen public prosecutor’s office filed charges against Behrendt for “inflammatory online posts,” with the court now weighing whether she may be guilty of defamation.

According to NDR (North German Broadcasting), judges are considering prosecuting Behrendt for defamation in four out of seven reported cases, while in one case, “there is also sufficient suspicion of a crime involving the dangerous dissemination of personal data.”

On his personal blog, Viets shared the news with his supporters while again boasting that the situation faced by Behrendt “concerns two complaints filed by me.”

“Through a campaign lasting over three months, she publicly labeled the website operators and other members of the site as “child abusers” on her social media channels. She also reported the website to the state parliament, which responded and even filed a criminal complaint, knowing full well that no crime had been committed,” Viets said.

“When all of this proved unsuccessful, Ms. Behrendt continued her hate speech in various hate media outlets, such as Apollo News, Kelle News, Nius, and Hallo Meinung, among others, in the form of news articles and videos. I am refraining from providing links, as I do not wish to offer such ideologies a platform. Ultimately, I felt compelled to report these crimes.”

Behrendt has expressed her intention to oppose the charges against her. The matter will go to trial, according to NDR, at the Helmstedt District Court.

“In the tweets in question, I formulated my political criticism clearly and pointedly,” Behrendt stated. “I neither called for violence nor announced any specific criminal offenses. I stand by my posts and consider them protected by freedom of expression. In a democracy, sharp, provocative criticism must also be possible.”

For his part, Viets has repeatedly indicated that he would like to see the full force of the law used against critics of pro-pedophilia activism.

“I would like to see more people, especially those on social media, but also media professionals and politicians, pay attention to what they write and stop using the word ‘pedophilia’ or ‘pedophiles’ in a negative context, with criminal offenses for their choice of words – thereby stigmatizing hundreds of thousands of people in a marginalized group, some of whom, like me, have been fighting for years for our right to a life without discrimination,” he wrote to his blog in March 2025.

Member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag, and AfD colleague Götz Frömming responded to Behrendt‘s post on X regarding the charges against her by noting that the city of Göttingen, where the Central Office for Combating Hate Crime on the Internet is located, has a played a role in the disturbing history of pro-pedophilia advocacy in Germany. Reports released by Hildesheim University in 2020 and 2024 named Göttingen, and specifically the University of Göttingen’s Pädagogisches Seminar, as an early intellectual and social hub for academic theories of “emancipatory pedagogy”.

These academic origins, or Ursprungsknotenpunkt according to the reports, would ultimately provide a foundation for a decades-long government-funded project which saw foster children rehomed with pedophiles.

While emancipatory pedagogy originated in the 1960’s as a framework for democratic education and social work, it was expanded upon by pro-pedophile academics who argued that children must be liberated from adult authority, and advocated favorably for adult-child sexual relationships under the guise of liberating the sexuality of minors, which gave rise to concepts of “emancipatory sexual education”.

The notorious Kentler Experiment was a state-sponsored program in West Berlin that systematically placed vulnerable, homeless, or institutionalized children, who were primarily young boys, into the foster care of men known to be active pedophiles. It was named after sexologist, psychologist, and professor of social education at the University of Hanover, Helmut Kentler. With the approval and assistance of the Berlin Senate, at-risk youth were rehomed with self-identified pedophiles beginning in 1969.

Official child welfare agencies in West Berlin actively approved, arranged, and funded the placements. Foster “fathers” received regular, tax-funded maintenance payments and child allowances from the state for housing the boys.

Investigations by University of Hildesheim researchers established that state-approved foster care placements of young boys with pedophilic men continued until approximately 2001. The reports name Klaus Mollenhauer, one of post-war West Germany’s most influential educational theorists, as a close collaborator and personal friend of Helmut Kentler. Mollenhauer completed his doctorate at the Pädagogisches Seminar Göttingen and was a leading architect of “emancipatory pedagogy” (Kritische Pädagogik).

Another leading figure involved in promoting “emancipatory sexual education” and pedophilic relations between adults and minors recently served on the Board of Directors for a “queer” organization promoting the medical transitioning of young children. As recently as 2024, Rüdiger Lautmann was listed as a Secretary for the Berlin chapter of working group SPDqueer, which has advocated for children to be permitted to initiate a “gender change” from the age of seven years old without parental consent.

Lautmann was also involved in a 1979 motion calling for the deletion of Section 176 of the German legal code, which would have effectively eliminated the age of consent. Throughout his career, Lautmann maintained a close relationship with the pro-pedophile sexologist Helmut Kentler.

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A serial sex offender who claims to identify as a woman has been sentenced to a maximum of three years and four months for assaulting a woman and attempting to rape her as she was walking home. Benjamin Charles Jones, who previously used the name “Lisa Jones,” but is now referring to himself as “Willow,” had just been released from a women’s prison one month prior to being arrested for the sexual assault.

Jones, who previously served a sentence in Germany for sexually assaulting a child, appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court last Thursday, where prosecutors explained that on the evening of September 8, he grabbed a 31-year-old woman as she walked past St. Mary’s cathedral in central Sydney.

CCTV footage recorded the attack as Jones pulled her by her waist into a hidden corner. When she demanded to be let go, Jones replied, “I want to f–k you. Just let me f–k you.”

As the woman struggled to get free, Jones pulled down his pants and attempted to force an object into her mouth to silence her. When she was finally able to break free, she ran towards bystanders who helped her flag down a police car. After a brief search, law enforcement arrested Jones.

According to courtroom reports from the Sydney Morning Herald, Jones was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. He reportedly told a psychiatrist that he lived in an “astral world,” and that the devil had made a bargain with his “sex spirit,” and forced him to “engage in sex rituals.”

But when Jones was standing before the court, he reportedly exclaimed, “I identify as transgender and queer… I had nothing to do with it.”

The woman shared the effect of the “unprecedented, unexpected, and aggressive act” in a victim impact statement she read to the court.

“The experience permanently made me more aware of a risk in public spaces and more cautious in situations where I previously felt at ease,” she said.

“I had always walked freely without fear or intimidation, and this experience fundamentally changed my sense of safety. I had become more prepared, but also more vigilant, knowing that one’s life can be suddenly disrupted by extreme violence, even when simply trying to get home.”

Judge Troy Anderson described the crime as “intentional and, frankly, very frightening”. However, during sentencing he took into consideration Jones’ diagnoses of schizophrenia, gender dysphoria, historic substance abuse and depression and anxiety. In Sydney, the maximum penalty for rape, or an attempt to commit it, falls under the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), and carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years; whereas Jones, a repeat criminal on the sex offender registry, was handed a three-year sentence. With time already spent in custody, Jones will be eligible for parole in just two months, on November 21.

Disturbingly, Jones’ most recent attack on a woman shares many similarities with a previous attempted rape he committed in 2021. In that case, Jones stalked a woman as she was walking home on Lennox Street in Richmond before grabbing her and attempting to rape her. While pinning her down, Jones repeated: “Why won’t you lay down and have sex with me?”

The woman had been on a phone call with her mother at the time, and began screaming her location into the receiver before Jones snatched the phone away and disconnected the call.

Jones put his hands down the woman’s underwear and tried to pull down the victim’s jeans, but she was able to successfully fight him off as bystanders came rushing to her aid. Jones was ultimately detained after some bystanders chased him down as he tried to flee the scene.

“I didn’t do anything, it was her fault,” Jones said.

While hearing the case, Judge Pardeep Tiwana told Jones, “You physically restrained her despite her screams for help and telling you to stop, you persisted.” Tiwana added that it was a “brazen and opportunistic” attack against a complete stranger.

During the trial, it was revealed that Jones had a prior record for sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl in Germany, for which Jones served six years in a male prison there prior to being deported to Australia in 2018.

Jones denied accountability for the attack, but was sentenced to three years and three months, and was placed in a women’s prison to serve his sentence in July of 2022. Within weeks, female inmates at the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre launched a petition to have him removed out of fears for their own safety.

According to the petition, many women prisoners have been victims of sexual assault and as a result, many “carry significant trauma associated with this experience.”

The petitioners said they have no prejudices against transgender individuals but were concerned for their safety, as Jones was said to have a “working” penis in addition to his history of violent sexual assault. Upon learning of Jones’ transfer, “the mental well-being of many of the women was severely compromised. They became visibly upset as they were triggered and traumatised.”

They addressed the Minister for Corrections, the Department of Justice and Community Safety, Corrections Victoria and the Ombudsman when asking for the matter to be handled swiftly.

“We feel threatened, unsafe, distressed and traumatised with this current situation. Accordingly, we demand that (the inmate) be immediately removed from the Murray unit,” the petition read. “We consider this petition a matter of urgency and would therefore appreciate your prompt response.”

However, the female inmates’ protest was ignored by lawmakers and authorities. While it is unclear how many trans-identified male transfers are currently housed at Dame Phyllis Frost, Reduxx has reported on another sex offender who is serving a shockingly lenient 4-year sentence there for creating horrific child sexual abuse material of his own child and distributing it to a pedophile lover.

Autumn Tulip Harper, who was anonymized in court records as “Hilary Maloney,” was in a BDSM-inspired relationship with the sex offender, who he referred to as his “Master.” The American offender encouraged Harper to sexually abuse his daughter for his own gratification, and praised him for doing so, calling him a “good girl,” and saying how “impressed” with him he was.

According to Australian police, Harper created at least 77 files that were identified as child sexual abuse material between May and June of that year, after his devices were seized in a raid on September 15, 2023. The images of his daughter, who he had abused on at least 19 separate occasions, were sent to the American pedophile over Discord, which has gained a reputation for allowing the grooming of children in various chat rooms on its platform.

During the trial, Dr. Rajan Darjee, a forensic psychiatrist, framed Harper as if he were a “female” who had been “pressured” into the offending by a sinister male pedophile. Darjee claimed Harper had no sexual attraction to children, and would not need any “specific interventions to prevent further sexual offending.”

The judge in the case, Nola Karapanagiotidis, allowed Harper’s supposed experience with “gender dysphoria” and “transphobia” to serve as mitigating factors, and accepted the argument from the defense that he had abused his own daughter solely to be “validated… as a woman and a sexual person.” The four year and nine month sentence handed out was a significant reduction from the potential maximum of 25 years, with an ability for parole after just two years and six months. Following his conviction, Harper was placed in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s correctional facility.

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A trans-identified male athlete has returned for a second season on Santa Rosa Junior College’s women’s volleyball team despite complaints about his inclusion, which triggered two federal Title IX investigations. With this latest victory, Santa Rosa opens its new campaign with six consecutive wins.

Head coach Ally Sather celebrated her 100th career win at the California college after the Bear Cubs swept both Napa Valley College and Butte College during a September 4 double-header. Ximena Gomez, a trans-identified male player on the team, started against Butte and helped SRJC win 25–14, 25–10 and 25–20, recording five kills, two blocks and 6.5 points.

The team’s Instagram account marked the result with a graphic declaring “100 WINS” and the caption: “100th Career Win for Coach Sather after beating Napa and Butte in convincing style!” Sather has led the program since 2018.

Women’s sports campaigner Beth Bourne branded the coach and program “CHEATERS,” noting that number 20, Gomez, is male.

🚨CHEATERS: Yesterday Santa Rosa Junior College women’s volleyball team defeated Butte College, 3-0.

Afterwards, Santa Rosa head coach Ally Slather boasted on Instagram it was her 100th win.

It’s insane/sad her team’s middle blocker #20 is a man. pic.twitter.com/GvJMeZ71IG

— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) September 5, 2026

Last year, Gomez was the subject of a formal complaint brought by three female players who alleged that the college sacrificed their safety, privacy, and playing opportunities in order to keep him on the women’s squad.

Gomez is now listed as a 5ft 10in sophomore middle blocker on the current 18-player roster. He has started all six matches and played in 18 of the team’s 20 sets this season.

According to SRJC’s current player statistics, Gomez has registered 26 kills from 67 attacks, a .209 hitting percentage, 36 points and 14 blocks. His six solo blocks and 14 total blocks are both team highs.

In the latest victory over Butte, Gomez made five kills from seven attacks with one error for a .571 hitting percentage, the best hitting rate recorded by any SRJC player in that match. The college’s match report praised him for “another efficient performance.”

Santa Rosa is the only unbeaten team in the Big 8 standings, sitting at the top of the overall table with a 6–0 record.

Five of their six victories have come in straight sets. Their only dropped sets were in a 3–2 win over Yuba College on 2nd September, meaning SRJC has won 18 of the 20 sets it has played. The team entered the state’s first 2026 Top 25 poll at number 21 on 31st August, when it was 2–0, and has since added four further wins.

Three female athletes at @SantaRosaJC have filed a Title IX complaint in an effort to remove a male from their volleyball team.

The women say they were penalized for expressing concerns about Ximena Gomez, even after he injured another player.https://t.co/dpbHNnK2F9

— REDUXX (@reduxx) September 5, 2025

The undefeated start comes one year after Madison Shaw, Gracie Shaw and Brielle Galli filed the original complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on 3rd September last year. As Reduxx reported at the time, the women accused SRJC, the California Community College Athletic Association and its member colleges of violating Title IX by allowing Gomez to compete in women’s volleyball and use the women’s changing room.

The complaint alleged that Gomez struck then-teammate Kiana Walker in the head with a spike during a 2024 practice, causing a concussion that kept her out for two weeks. It also stated that he hit Gracie Shaw in the face with a spike during practice on August 28 last year..

The three complainants said they refused to compete alongside Gomez and were then deprived of starting positions, playing time and coaching attention. They specifically accused Sather of retaliation after they raised objections with her, athletic director Matt Markovich and the college’s Title IX staff.

On 14th January, the Department of Education announced that its Office for Civil Rights had opened an investigation into SRJC as part of a group of 18 probes into educational institutions accused of permitting male athletes to compete according to gender identity rather than sex.

The following day, a joint Department of Education and Department of Justice Title IX Special Investigations Team opened a separate investigation into 3C2A’s Transgender Participation Policy. The federal announcement explicitly cited allegations that the policy had discriminated against at least three female athletes by allowing a male volleyball player to compete and enter women’s locker facilities during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.

Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey called the policy a “stunning indictment of our culture” adding that “women’s sports are for women.”

No public determination or resolution has since been announced in either investigation. SRJC said it was cooperating with the federal investigation and was committed to “accuracy, transparency, and compliance throughout the process.” The college and 3C2A have nevertheless continued to roster and permit Gomez to compete.

The contrast with the complainants is stark. Official 2025 statistics record no match appearances for either Madison or Gracie Shaw. Galli played in six matches and 21 sets, all before conference competition, while Gomez appeared in 15 matches and 46 sets and accumulated 71 kills, 19 blocks and 82.5 points.

Fox News reported in May that Madison had abandoned her plan to transfer to an NCAA volleyball programme, was working three jobs to save for tuition and was exploring opportunities outside sport. Gracie initially continued practising while refusing to play, but ultimately left the team. Galli said the lack of game footage had also damaged her recruitment prospects.

At that point, Galli and Gracie planned to complete another year at junior college. However, none of the three complainants appears on Santa Rosa’s current roster, and Reduxx could find no public record showing that any has joined another college volleyball program. Gomez, meanwhile, remains a starter on the women’s team and its leading blocker.

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A convicted pedophile who began identifying as “transgender” after his incarceration is currently housed in a women’s prison in Minnesota, where he has been exposing himself to women and writing poetry about rape. Daniel Patrick Benz, who legally changed his name to Danielle Marie Whitebird in June of 2023, has been accused by multiple female inmates at Shakopee women’s prison of exposing his penis to them and asking them to read aloud poetry he wrote containing descriptions of rape.

Female inmates have told Reduxx that the fear of retaliation from prison officials has kept many women from filing official complaints. One common method of punishing inmates is to place them in segregation, or “seg,” which is a temporary form of solitary confinement.

“They put Danny in the same unit as me,” said inmate Chaos Bell. “Since he has been in the unit, he has been showing his penis to us, having women read his poems that are about rape. He is across the hall from [redacted] and she told someone that he showed his penis to her, too. He got aggressive after I confronted him. I keep telling everyone to report him, but they are scared of going to seg.”

Another inmate, who will be referred to as “Jane Doe” to protect her safety, verified the claims to Reduxx and said she lodged a complaint on September 1. “I was working cleaning the unit, and he was housed in RSVLT upper B. His room was right next to the bathroom I was cleaning,” Doe said.

“He called my name and asked me if I wanted to see his dick. I said no, and he said, ‘Well, can I read you something?’ and he started reading out of his book where he writes poems. What he was reading me was gross. He mentioned things that consist of rape and being in charge.”

“I do not feel safe at all, especially since I filed the report,” Doe continued. “I know there are other girls who are afraid to come forward. An officer came to speak with me and all he asked me was, did Danny leave the unit immediately after what he did to me. I do not think they are taking this seriously. I just saw Danny in the court yard this morning and I was really uncomfortable.”

Benz has a lengthy criminal history spanning two decades. Yet despite his many convictions for robbery, assault, and the sexual abuse of a 6-year-old girl, Benz was released last year from women’s prison MCF Shakopee. He was recently arrested and placed in MCF Shakopee for a second time after being convicted on new felony charges shortly after his release. According to the accounts provided by female inmates, he began behaving in a sexually aggressive manner almost immediately.

After his most recent release from Shakopee in September 2024, Benz was again arrested in June this year for threatening law enforcement upon their discovery that he was in possession of illegal firearms. As reported by Alpha News, an officer noticed his pickup truck exit from an area of storage units after midnight. The truck was missing its front license plate, causing the officer to become suspicious.

Law enforcement confronted Benz and discovered a power tool in his pocket, as well as bolt cutters and a pry bar inside the truck. Officers soon observed that three storage units had been broken into, and a search of the pickup truck uncovered a loaded handgun, a modified 12-gauge shotgun, and 20 rounds of ammunition. Officers ran a background check, noted Benz’s extensive criminal history, and saw that he had been prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition due to four prior violent felony convictions, including burglary with a dangerous weapon and criminal sexual predation.

Benz was previously transferred into the women’s facility in 2023 while serving a sentence in a men’s prison for the theft of a motor vehicle in 2018, a charge which carries a maximum ten-year sentence. During his time there, he was also accused of exposing himself to women. It is unclear what measures, if any, the Minnesota DOC took to address his sexually aggressive behavior.

The convicted sexual predator obtained a transfer to the women’s prison by claiming to suffer from “gender dysphoria”. On February 27, 2023, Benz filed a civil rights complaint which ultimately resulted in his transfer into MCF Shakopee.

The complaint was lodged ahead of his legal name change to Danielle Marie Whitebird in June of that year, after his petition was approved by the state of Minnesota. In addition to the name change, Benz also was supplied with a “replacement birth record” which declared his sex as female, despite not having undergone any surgeries, according to his own legal complaints.

In 2007, Benz was convicted of criminal sexual misconduct with a victim under the age of 13. According to court records obtained by Reduxx, St. Louis county police officers responded to a tip from the Eveleth Police Department in July regarding the sexual abuse of a minor.

Eveleth police had received a text message informing law enforcement that Benz had “played a game of touch the peanuts” with a 6 year-old girl. The informant, whose name has been redacted, said the girl had been acting oddly for two weeks. The child divulged to the individual that “Dan” had sexually molested her on multiple occasions.

Benz had been staying in the same residence as the victim after having been evicted from his apartment. During an interview with a social worker, the girl stated that Benz had been touching her genitals.

“One night when her mommies went to pick up her daddy, she was with Dan at her house,” reads the 2007 complaint. “They were sitting together watching a movie… [The girl] stated that Dan reached with his hand and went inside of the left leg of her pajama pants. He then put his hand inside her panties and touched her on top of her vagina.” The victim also described other similar instances of abuse.

Benz was handed the maximum 25-year sentence. However, his long history of criminal behavior indicates that he was released after serving just five years, in approximately 2012, when he was convicted of a misdemeanor for giving a police officer a false name – a charge that appears multiple times throughout his criminal record.

While incarcerated in a men’s facility, Benz began claiming to experience “gender dysphoria”. When filing a request for a change of name and legal sex in February 2023, Benz claimed to be a “transgender woman [whose] legal documents do not match my gender and gender identity.”

“It is painful, difficult, and uncomfortable for the party addressing me, when they inquire about the ‘male’ legal name, and my ‘male’ sex identifier are on my legal documents,” Benz wrote.

He continued: “I humbly request this court changes my ‘current legal name’ Daniel Patrick Benz to Danielle Marie Whitebird, and my current sex identification from ‘male’ to ‘female’, in order to match my gender and gender identity. This will alleviate my unnecessary suffering.”

Concurrently, Benz had also filed a human rights complaint requesting a transfer to the women’s prison MCF Shakopee on the basis of the Eighth Amendment’s clause against “cruel and unusual punishment.”

“Ms. Benz-Whitebird’s case satisfies both elements of the deliberate indifference test,” Benz wrote in his complaint, referring to himself in the third person. “She has presented extensive evidence that, despite hormone therapy, she continues to experience gender dysphoria so significant that she continues to have thoughts of self-castration and is at serious risk of acting on that impulse again.”

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) violated Benz’s human rights, he claimed, by failing to transfer him to MCF Shakopee in a “timely manner,” and “failing to house Plaintiff in a female facility according to her gender identity which would ensure safety and reduce the risk of sexual victimization.”

Benz is not the only trans-identified male transfer to Shakopee who has been accused of exposing himself to women held there.

Bradley Richard Sirvio, who is serving a life sentence for brutally beating a man to death with a hammer, recently underwent genital surgery and has allegedly been exposing his mutilated penis to female inmates.

Former Shakopee inmate Rebeca Warmbo regularly communicates with women prisoners and advocates against the placement of trans-identified male convicts there. Speaking with Alpha News journalist Liz Collins, Warmbo said Sirvio has repeatedly exposed his genitals to female inmates.

“As soon as he got it done, he started showing it off to everybody,” Warmbo said. “He’s been exposing himself to the women in there, and ended up going into segregation for it.”

“How can you feel safe when you have a man showing off parts that are now deformed and cut off? The reason why they’re doing this is because they’re afraid that when these new laws go into effect, they’re going to be sent back to a men’s prison. They’re doing this so they can guarantee they will stay in a women’s prison,” she added.

As is typical for “transgender” body alterations obtained while incarcerated, taxpayers have footed the bill.

At least five male convicts have been transferred to a Minnesota’s women-only prison following the adoption of a gender identity policy by the Department of Corrections in January of 2023. Two of the men who are now being held at MCF Shakopee are sexual predators serving sentences related to the abuse of children.

One of the men convicted of child sexual abuse who has been transferred in to Shakopee has, according to sources, become visibly erect after he stood up during a classroom session and began ranting about the harmful impacts of rape. Elijah Thomas Berryman is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the women’s prison, having pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct committed against a child over a period of a year.

According to reports from inmates, Berryman has used his internet privileges to obtain photos of female inmates’ children in order to threaten them into silence.

Last year, a man with multiple convictions for domestic assault who was transferred in was accused of attacking a female inmate. Nathan Trevon Jones, who calls himself “Natalia,” is a repeat offender who was most recently convicted of assault in the fifth degree, was said to have repeatedly punched a woman during an altercation.

The prison policy was altered following a June 2022 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.

The discrimination claim was filed by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice on behalf of Craig ‘Christina’ Lusk, who was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men. 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.

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The High Court of Australia has denied an appeal lodged by women’s rights advocate Sall Grover in a landmark case which ruled that “sex is changeable” and ordered her to pay $20,000, and additionally at least $100,000 in court fees, to a trans-identified male for recognizing him as a man. To date, Grover has had to raise over $1.5 million to cover legal costs, and confirmed to Reduxx that she has been ordered to pay a sum that will ultimately amount to around $500,000 in fees to compensate the legal team of the man who sued her.

The case has now set a legal precedent allowing men with a self-declared gender identity, or a legally fictitious recording of sex, to take priority over sex-specific protections for women and girls.

The response comes after years of litigation initiated in December 2021, after Jason “Roxanne” Tickle filed a discrimination complaint through the Australian Human Rights Commission over being denied access to women-only application Giggle for Girls, which was founded by Grover. Tickle had been barred from using the female-only platform, intended as an “online refuge” for women, after Grover identified him as male based on a photo he submitted during the membership application process.

The court case, known as Tickle v. Giggle, tested the meaning and scope of the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA), which was altered in 2013 under the government of prime minister Julia Gillard.

The revisions to the SDA made it unlawful under federal law to discriminate against a person on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status.

The High Court’s rejection of Grover’s appeal was released today, and stated, “There is no reason to doubt the Full Court’s construction of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984… Special leave to appeal is refused with costs.”

Grover responded by saying, “I will never stop fighting. Men are not women.”

Tickle, a man who claims to be both intersex and transgender, claimed he attempted to join the female-only app in February 2021 but found that his membership was revoked in September that year. The Giggle app utilizes a screening process which uses AI to determine the sex of an applicant based on a selfie. Tickle was initially granted access to the female-only digital community by the AI.

During an interview with The Australian in April 2022, Grover explained that she took it upon herself to remove Tickle after seeing his photo and identifying him as male. “The person was removed from the Giggle app because they are male, no other reason. The removal was manual. I looked at the onboarding selfie and saw a man. The AI software had let them through, thereby making a mistake that I rectified.” Lawyers defending Grover said that she had been unaware that Tickle identified as transgender during the screening process.

Tickle was therefore booted from the community, and then made several attempts to contact Grover to complain. He sent Grover multiple emails and called her at her home in October 2021. Tickle first filed the discrimination complaint with the with the Australian Human Rights Commission against Giggle creator and CEO Grover in December 2021.

Tickle had, in his first complaint, sought damages from Grover of up to $200,000, alleging that her “persistent misgendering”, or referring to him as male, had prompted “constant anxiety and occasional suicidal thoughts”. He also requested that Grover be made to “seek out education” regarding the concept of gender identity.

“I believe that I am being discriminated against by being provided with extremely limited functionality of a smartphone app by the app provider compared to that of other users because I am a transgender woman,” Tickle wrote in the complaint. “I am legally permitted to identify as female… I believe that Giggle and Sall Grover have decided in error that I am male.”

Tickle bizarrely went on to compare Grover to a white supremacist group, saying, “I have been unable to locate a Facebook page or website for the Ku Klux Klan in Australia. Yet groups that favor discrimination against people based on their gender identity appear to have no need to hide their face.” He then went on to list several Australian women’s rights groups which are critical of males being permitted to identify as female, and referred to this position as “bigotry”.

In July of 2022, Tickle, being unable to bear the costs of pursuing the matter further, filed a Notice of Discontinuance with the court, and the complaint was dropped. But five months later, Tickle filed another complaint, having received a $50,000 grant from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, and assistance from Barry Nilsson lawyers, who run a multimillion-dollar pro bono program.

In contrast, Grover was left with no other option than to crowdfund an incredible $500,000 in order to defend herself against the discrimination claim.

In August 2024, after nearly three years of litigation, the Federal Court of Australia ruled that Grover had committed “indirect gender identity discrimination” by rejecting Tickle’s membership. While reading out the verdict and reasons for his decision, Justice Bromwich referred to Tickle with feminine pronouns.

“Roxanne Tickle is a transgender woman whose female sex is recognized by an official updated Queensland birth certificate… I have found that Ms. Tickle’s claim of direct gender identity discrimination fails but that her claim of indirect gender identity discrimination succeeds.”

Justice Bromwich then ordered Grover to pay Tickle $10,000 compensation, in addition to court costs up to $50,000, within 60 days.

“In relation to the direct discrimination claim, the evidence did not establish that Ms Tickle was excluded from the Giggle app by reason of her gender identity, although it remains possible that this was the real, but unproven, reason,” Justice Bromwich told the court.

Justice Bromwich went on to say that “that indirect gender identity discrimination did take place” on the basis that “Tickle was excluded from the use of the Giggle app because she did not look sufficiently female according to the respondents.”

The argument made by Grover’s legal team was that Tickle was discriminated against on the basis of his sex, which is not prohibited, rather than on the basis of gender identity, as he claims. Justice Bromwich’s verdict stated that “these arguments failed” due to a “long history of cases decided by courts going back over thirty years” which he said established that, “in its ordinary meaning, sex is changeable.”

Throughout the court proceedings, Grover refused to refer to Tickle with feminine honorifics or pronouns. “I don’t think it’s kind to expect a woman to see a man as a woman,” she said at a hearing in May 2024.

Tickle appealed the 2024 verdict of indirect discrimination, seeking a ruling of direct discrimination. In May of this year, Justice Melissa Perry sided with Tickle, doubled the compensation payout from $10,000 to $20,000, found Grover guilty of direct discrimination, and ordered her to pay court costs for Tickle up to $100,000. In her decision, Justice Perry cited the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984, which was significantly amended in 2013 to include explicit protections for “gender identity.”

Under Section 4(1), “gender identity” is defined as: “…the gender-related identity, appearance or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of a person (whether by way of medical intervention or not), with or without regard to the person’s designated sex at birth.”

Section 5B defines what constitutes discrimination in a legal situation and is divided into two categories: direct discrimination, and indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination “occurs when someone is treated less favorably than a person of a different gender identity would be treated in the same or similar circumstances.” It can be inferred from this definition that the law is suggesting that all individuals possess a “gender identity.”

Indirect discrimination is said to occur “when a condition or requirement is imposed that is the same for everyone but has the effect of disadvantaging people of a particular gender identity, and that condition is not “reasonable” under the circumstances.”

The final ruling stated that Grover had “engaged in unlawful direct discrimination” against trans-identified male Tickle by “excluding Ms Tickle from access to the Giggle App on the basis of her gender-related appearance,” “refusing to restore Ms Tickle’s access to the Giggle App on the basis of her gender-related appearance,” and “thereby treating Ms Tickle, who is a transgender woman, less favourably than a person designated female at birth seeking access to the Giggle App.”

Incredibly, Justice Perry argued that having “male facial features” was a protected characteristic of “transgender women.”

“It is apparent that Ms Grover made her decisions in relation to Ms Tickle solely on the basis of viewing the latter’s onboarding selfie and her conviction that that photograph showed a male person… Ms Tickle’s selfie was in evidence and we were taken to it in the course of argument in the appeal. Although the photograph presents Ms Tickle as a woman (eg hair, clothing), there are features of her appearance that may be considered discordant with that presentation. Ms Tickle’s appearance, it may safely be concluded, was the reason why Ms Grover concluded that she was not entitled to remain as a user of the Giggle App; and that appearance had elements (“characteristics”) that generally appertain to, or at least are imputed to, transgender women – namely, for want of a better expression, male facial features.”

In addition to his attempts to access the female-only social networking app, Tickle has been playing field hockey on a women’s team. He has opposed proposed legislation which would have prohibited men from identifying into women’s sports, while boasting of using the women’s change rooms. Tickle took to X to reveal that the youngest girl he competed with on the field hockey team was just 15 years old.

On his personal Instagram account, Tickle has also shared photos of his underwear, jokes about sex toys, and several cartoons drawn by Canadian transgender diaper fetishist Sophie Labelle.

Grover, a former Hollywood screenwriter, created the Giggle app after experiencing “horrific” sexism in the industry, including both sexual harassment and assault.

Speaking with feminist author and activist Julie Bindel, Grover defended the right for women to gather without the presence of men. “The reasons for female-only spaces have not gone away. So we should not be in a position to have to justify them. We do not have to relive the trauma we have gone through at the hands of men every time we want to defend why we want to be away from them occasionally.”

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A convicted murderer identifying as “transgender” was transferred to a women’s prison where he allegedly impregnated a female inmate before being released to a halfway house for women. Clayton Jacob Warkentin, who now goes by Natalia Anastasia Warkova, was 19 when he strangled his mother to death in a drug-induced rage before attempting to make the murder resemble a suicide.

In 2018, Warkentin pleaded guilty in a B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack to killing his mother two years prior. He was handed a life sentence for second-degree murder charges, while members of his family gave emotional victim impact statements to the court.

“I struggle to trust people, as one of the people I trusted most, my baby brother, killed my mother,” Clayton’s older brother Logan said at the sentencing hearing. “How do I tell my children that their uncle killed their grandmother?”

On the night of the murder, Warkentin is said to have consumed an eight ball of cocaine. As the narcotic wore off, he began to become enraged. He asphyxiated his mother in the bathroom before dragging her body into the garage and tying a noose around her neck.

Warkentin’s motive was said to be related to a demand for money from his 51-year-old mother, Lois Unger, which he intended to use to pay back his drug dealer. While high on cocaine, Warkentin mortally asphyxiated his mother. While he was initially charged with first-degree murder, the charge was reduced to second-degree murder on the agreement that he would plead guilty. Both carry a life sentence, while a second-degree murder conviction stipulates no chance of parole for at least 10 years.

Crown counsel Grant Lindsey described how Warkentin became fixated on body building from the age of 15, and subsequently began abusing steroids and human growth hormone. To counter the effects of the steroids, Warkentin first became addicted to caffeine before escalating to cocaine use.

Witnesses told the court that Warkentin told them he might kill his mother for the insurance money, which indicated a level of planning that led to the initial charge of first-degree murder. However, the court accepted the rationale that such comments were nothing more than a sick joke, in order to allow a plea deal to be made.

Following sentencing in January 2018, Warkentin was sent to Kent in Agassiz to start his life sentence, reports independent writer Paul Henderson. He was subsequently moved to to Pacific Institution in Abbotsford in 2020. Then, in September 2021, he legally changed his name to Natalia Warkova and was relocated to Fraser Valley Institution for Women.

Fraser Valley (FVI) is a multi-level facility for women which includes a minimum security residential-style apartment unit and residential-style small group accommodation houses. There is also a Mother-Child Program at FVI, which takes place in a house comprised of facilities such as a shared kitchen, lounge and bathroom, as well as multiple bedrooms. It is situated within a compound of similar housing units, arranged to look much like a neighborhood.

Several dangerous male convicts have been transferred to FVI after declaring a transgender status, including Canada’s youngest dangerous offender, was handed a rare indeterminate sentence after being convicted of the violent rape of a 3-month-old infant. Adam Laboucan, who calls himself Tara Desousa, was 15 years old when he raped the infant so violently that the boy had to undergo reconstructive surgery.

Warkentin is alleged to have impregnated a female inmate during his stay at FVI. One anonymous source within the Correction Service Canada (CSC) reportedly told Henderson, “You didn’t hear it from me but … ‘she’ now serves at Fraser Valley Institution for Women. And ‘she’ has a 19-year-old girlfriend now, too. We have had sexual assaults, pregnancies, and who knows what else since we became ‘coed.’ I see no coverage of this in the media.”

Another tip came from a woman who had been incarcerated at FVI with Warkentin, who confirmed that he had impregnated a woman while he was held at the women’s institution.

One family member speculated that Warkentin may have been taking advantage of a loophole in order to avoid being a “pretty boy” in a men’s prison. Warkentin’s brother’s step-mother, Theresa Clark-Kampman, told Henderson: “Clayton/Natalia was not having an easy time in Kent being a young, good-looking guy so he found a loophole and said he was a girl and was moved to the female prison in Abbotsford in minimum security.”

Despite being handed a life sentence without parole eligibility for 10 years, Warkentin was released from prison after serving just seven years of his sentence for the murder of his mother.

On February 26, 2025, two days after the ninth anniversary of this horrific murder, “Natalia Warkova” was granted day parole and moved into a halfway house for women in New Westminster.

While at the halfway house, Warkentin was accused of “coordinated assault” and “toxic behavior,” according to parole board records. He had attempted to initiate a relationship with one of the women there, and displayed “escalating… bullying and controlling behavior”.

Warkentin dismissed the allegations by blaming “mean girl behavior” and claimed to have been discriminated against by women based on his “gender identity.” After his parole was revoked in October 2025, Warkentin filed an appeal arguing that the board did not consider the “harm experienced by transwomen in primarily women-identifying spaces,” and stating that “transgender women experience a disproportionate amount of violence, bullying and harm” from women.

In response, the board acknowledged Warkentin’s feelings and preferred identity.

“The Parole Board member confirmed you wished to be addressed by your chosen name, Natalia, and respected your pronouns, as did all participants, throughout the hearing … When asked by the Board about how you were doing prior to your suspension, you read from a written statement in which you described ‘transphobic hate and harassment’ towards yourself and its impact on your release,” the decision reads.

The parole process attracted condemnation from his victim’s family, who noted he appeared to have no remorse during the hearing.

“During the parole hearing, we did not see any remorse from him about murdering this mom, still just making up excuses and saying the drugs made him not remember what he was doing,” Theresa Clark-Kampman said. “Now after only serving nine years he is out free to live his life. Well, we are scared for our lives…. Lois doesn’t get to live her life or watch her grandchildren.”

“It’s sad that we have to now live scared as he might reoffend to be able to go back to [a woman’s] prison,” Clark-Kampman added.

As reported by Reduxx, the Canadian government was recently forced to admit that female inmates have been raped and sexually abused by trans-identified male transfers. The admission was made in a statement of defense submitted in response to an ongoing lawsuit against Correctional Service Canada (CSC) challenging the policy titled Commissioner’s Directive 100: Gender Diverse Offenders. The guidelines detail the CSC’s “commitment to meeting the needs of its gender diverse offender population in ways that respect their human rights and ensure their safety and dignity.”

In a statement of defense filed on August 31, lawyers for the Attorney General defended the practice of housing trans-identified male inmates in the female estate: “A gender-diverse offender’s request to be placed in, or transferred to, an institution that better aligns with their gender identity or expression is determined through an individualized assessment that considers the offender’s risks and needs, CSC’s security and operational requirements, and health and safety considerations for the offender, other inmates, and CSC staff at the receiving institution.”

Included in the statement of defense, surrounded by jargon defending the policy of transferring violent male convicts into women’s prisons, is the admission that two trans-identified male transfers were charged with sexual assault.

A third transfer, the aforementioned convicted infant rapist Adam Laboucan, was also referenced in relation to a situation wherein he assaulted a female inmate, fracturing multiple ribs. After prison guards intervened, the female inmate who had been attacked was punished by being placed in segregation for “inciting” his assault against her. In the statement of defense it is implied that the investigation into the matter was dropped upon the discovery that the assault occurred after the female inmate referred to the convicted pedophile as a “pedophile”.

Despite the official admission of harm, the Attorney General of Canada claims, in a statement of defense, that housing violent male convicts in women’s prisons “does not infringe the rights guaranteed to cisgender women inmates.”

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An ongoing lawsuit against Correctional Service Canada (CSC) has forced the federal government to admit that female inmates have been raped by at least two trans-identified male transfers since the implementation of a gender identity housing policy in 2017. Despite the official admission, the Attorney General of Canada claims, in a statement of defense, that housing violent male convicts in women’s prisons “does not infringe the rights guaranteed to cisgender women inmates.”

In 2017, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) adopted an interim policy (Bulletin 584: Bill C-16) which allowed male inmates to be housed according to their “gender identity” rather than according to their biological sex. Five years later, in 2022, the CSC finalized its approach and formally enacted the policy titled Commissioner’s Directive 100: Gender Diverse Offenders. The guidelines detail the CSC’s “commitment to meeting the needs of its gender diverse offender population in ways that respect their human rights and ensure their safety and dignity.”

In April 2025, lawyers funded by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms launched a legal challenge on behalf of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CAWSBAR). The non-profit organization has worked to preserve the sex-based rights and protections of women and girls across Canada. The lawsuit argues that allowing trans-identified male inmates to transfer to, and be housed in, the female estate poses a direct risk to female inmates and violates their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“The risks created by transferring a Trans-identifying Male Inmate to a Female Prison are not eliminated or alleviated by drugs (hormones) and/or surgery. Hormone therapy does not guarantee that the Trans-identifying Male Inmate with male genitalia will not have erectile capacity. Neither penectomy (surgical removal of the penis) nor gonadectomy (surgical removal of the testes) change other characteristics indicative of Male criminality including aggression and potential for violence,” reads the claim.

In a statement of defense filed on August 31, lawyers for the Attorney General defended the practice of housing trans-identified male inmates in the female estate: “A gender-diverse offender’s request to be placed in, or transferred to, an institution that better aligns with their gender identity or expression is determined through an individualized assessment that considers the offender’s risks and needs, CSC’s security and operational requirements, and health and safety considerations for the offender, other inmates, and CSC staff at the receiving institution.”

In response to CAWSBAR’s filing, the statement of defense reveals that one inmate was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment in May 2020 after a female inmate filed a complaint.

Reduxx can reveal that the inmate, Steven “Sam” Mehlenbacher, had been transferred to the all-women’s prison Grand Valley Institute (GVI) after sexually assaulting female inmates at the Edmonton Institution for Women (EIW).

As reported by The Toronto Sun, Mehlenbacher began claiming to identify as a woman after his incarceration, some time between 2015 and 2019. A serial offender, Mehlenbacher has accumulated 16 bank robbery convictions. In May 2019 he was transferred to women’s facility GVI from EIW, and by March 2020 he was under investigation for sexual assault.

One former inmate who spoke to the outlet said Mehlenbacher told her he “just wants to get laid.”

“I’ve walked in on him having sex in the gym, in the bathroom making out with someone else and wanting a threesome with me,” the woman said. “Three women needed the morning-after pill.”

Reduxx previously spoke with the victim in the May 2020 ordeal, using the pseudonym of “Emma” to protect her identity. “Why don’t my rights matter? Why doesn’t the CSC care about the trauma I’ve gone through, and why have they put me in a situation where I could become a victim again?” Emma told Reduxx last year.

She was responding to having recently witnessed another sexual assault at GVI committed by a trans-identified male transfer. Frederick Radcliffe, who has been convicted of the rape of teenage girls on several occasions, was accused of sexually predatory behavior and assaults by multiple female inmates last year, and Emma had seen him attack another woman.

Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI), located in Kitchener, is organized into a campus-style setting with several buildings, or “houses,” where inmates live together. Radcliffe, a convicted pedophile who claims to identify as a transgender woman, was transferred into a housing unit at GVI at the beginning of 2023.

Once officials became aware of the sexual assaults, Radcliffe was removed from House 11, where he had been staying with the women, and placed in a maximum security unit. Officers then began to interview all of the women who had been living in the same house, inquiring as to Radcliffe’s behavior. Some women noted that he had been walking around the housing unit while wearing only a shirt, naked from the waist down and exposing himself to the women.

One woman, “Maria”, came forward with an account of Radcliffe sexually abusing her in. The victim said that Radcliffe pushed her against a wall in an area near the library’s bathroom and forcefully shoved his hands down her pants before engaging in unwanted sexual contact.

Radcliffe had only been staying with the victim in House 11 for two weeks before he assaulted Maria. The dangerous sex offender had previously been living in a housing unit for Indigenous women, but was transferred to House 11 due to his ongoing sexual harassment of the women there.

Despite multiple reports of predatory and disturbing behavior, the CSC has now acknowledged that Radcliffe was charged with two counts of sexual assault for one instance in 2024.

Radcliffe, who now calls himself Carissa Maria, has a lengthy criminal history and is a convicted child sexual abuser. He was declared a Dangerous Offender in 2010, a designation which requires him to remain incarcerated until the parole board says he is no longer a risk to the public.

In 2017, Radcliffe, still using the name Frederick, appealed his 2009 conviction and his 2010 indeterminate sentence. The judge dismissed both appeals. It was around this time that Radcliffe began identifying as “transgender” and changed his name and pronouns. Soon after, he was transferred in to Edmonton Institution for Women (EIW).

Also mentioned in the statement of defense is a 2018 incident involving Adam Laboucan, who is Canada’s youngest dangerous offender, and who was handed a rare indeterminate sentence after being convicted of the violent rape of a 3-month-old infant. Sometime in 2018, Laboucan began to identify as transgender and changed his name to Tara Desousa. It was around this time that Laboucan was transferred into the Fraser Valley Institution for Women (FVI) in Abbotsford, which features a unit for mothers and infants.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Laboucan has been observed leering at and making aggressive remarks towards the children at the FVI Mother-Child unit, leading to anger and concern from the female inmates.

In 2018, soon after he was transferred into FVI, a female inmate responded to Laboucan’s disturbing behavior by defending another woman and her baby, demanding that he desist in his threatening conduct and calling him a “pedophile.”

It was at that point that Laboucan “picked her up, threw her, and then charged at her once she was on the ground and continued the assault.” After prison guards intervened, the female inmate who had been attacked was punished by being placed in segregation for “inciting” his assault against her. This is despite the fact that she had suffered from multiple fractured ribs.

The CSC submitted charges against both inmates. But, in the statement of defense it is implied that the investigation into the matter was dropped upon the discovery that the assault occurred after the female inmate referred to the convicted pedophile as a “pedophile”.

Legal counsel for Attorney General Sean Fraser further claimed in the statement that the policy of housing violent males in women’s prisons “does not infringe the rights guaranteed to cisgender women inmates,” and said allegations of harm “relating to the placement and transfer of gender diverse offenders into women’s institutions are vague, lack specificity and are insufficiently connected to CD 100.”

Incredibly, the statement of defense also asserted that the use of the term “female”, as seen in the Justice Centre’s original filing, “risks mischaracterizing or misgendering gender diverse inmates,” and the Attorney General’s counsel insisted on using the term “cisgender women” instead.

It further clarifies that the CSC has never had a policy of housing inmates according to sex, and asserts that the CSC “had the implicit authority to place inmates according to gender identity prior to the introduction” of the 2017 interim guidelines.

Speaking with Reduxx, female inmate advocate and founding member of CAWSBAR Heather Mason highlighted the “double standard” involved in putting women at risk in order to ensure the safety of trans-identified male inmates.

“The CSC is saying that putting trans-identifying male inmates into women’s prisons does not infringe the rights of women, while at the same time acknowledging sexual assault complaints that resulted in criminal charges. How do those two things make sense together?”

She continued: “These women are in your custody. They cannot leave. They cannot choose who they are locked up with. It is your job to keep them safe and rehabilitate them. Prison is their punishment. Being sexually assaulted by a male inmate is not supposed to be part of their sentence. So if a woman can be sexually assaulted by a male inmate CSC chose to put in a women’s prison and the government still says her rights are not being infringed, then what does count as an infringement?”

“If f the risk of sexual assault is relevant when deciding where a male inmate should be housed, why does that same risk suddenly stop mattering when it is female inmates who are being sexually assaulted?” Mason said. “We are told that trans-identifying male inmates are not safe in men’s prisons and need to be protected from sexual violence. Fine. Then why does that concern disappear when it is women who are at risk of sexual violence?”

“You cannot say the risk of rape matters when the person at risk is male, but then say women’s rights are not being infringed when women are sexually assaulted by male inmates placed in their prisons. That is the double standard. The violence problem started in men’s prisons, but instead of dealing with it there, the risk created by these transfers has been offloaded onto women.”

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