A trans-identified male quietly dominated his age category at a national swimming championship held in Texas over the weekend, prompting concern from women’s rights groups. Ana Caldas, formerly known as Hugo Caldas and Hannah Caldas, took home multiple titles at the event.

The U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National Championship took place in San Antonio, Texas, from Thursday to Sunday. Competing in the women’s 45-49 age category for 02 Performance Aquatics was Ana Caldas, formerly known as Hugo.

Caldas entered five individual events during the meet: the 50 and 100 yard breaststroke, the 50 and 100 yard freestyle, and the 100 yard individual medley. Caldas came first in every event he entered, with beating out his female competitors by three seconds in the 100 yard freestyle and four seconds in the 50 and 100 yard breaststroke races.

A spokeswoman for the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) told Reduxx that Caldas’ latter gains were “absolutely insane” for short sprint races. “He’s just laughing at these women,” she added.

ICONS was aware of Caldas’ participation at the meet, and expressed concern directly to the U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) board in an email they sent on Saturday following Caldas’ first individual win at the event on April 24. In the email, ICONS outlines the board’s own policies on trans-identified males competing against women, which dictate that males must have had hormonal therapy and provide documentation showing testosterone levels are below 5 nmol/L, are woefully insufficient to protect female athletes.

“Transparency in these matters is critical to maintaining the integrity of the competition and the trust of all USMS athletes. There is no length of time during which testosterone suppression eliminates male advantage; therefore it should not serve as a guideline permitting men to compete in women’s swimming,” the letter reads. “At a minimum, it is USMS’s responsibility to enforce its current policy.”

USMS did not respond to ICONS’ email, and Caldas went on to sweep several more women’s events at the championship.

It is unclear whether any of the competitors who lost to Caldas were aware whether he was a biological male, as he has been competing as a woman in swimming, rowing, and Crossfit for decades, and has been careful to conceal his previous identity. However, Caldas’ birth name is still listed on multiple research papers he co-authored as an academic, and in records from Wake Forest University where he was a member of the faculty. Caldas also co-applied for a patent in 2004 using the names “Hugo” and “Hannah.”

Prior to identifying as a woman, Caldas participated on the Ohio Splash Team, a swim club for homosexual males.

From 2009 to 2012, Caldas competed in USMS women’s competitions, managing to collect 7 all-American honors during that time. In 2011, he was ranked by FINA, the World Aquatics governing body, as the fastest female masters swimmer in the world in the over 30 category for both the 50 meter and 100 meter freestyle.

Incredibly, Caldas was set to compete for Portugal at the 2012 Olympics in the women’s 50 meter freestyle, but failed to qualify by just 0.3 seconds. Since returning to swimming in 2021, Caldas has broken a World Aquatics record in the mixed relay, setting a new record at the South American championships in October last year. In March of last year, he won a women’s world title in the Masters 45–49 100m freestyle at the World Aquatics Masters World Championships in Doha, Qatar, despite World Aquatics’ 2023 policy barring male participation in women’s elite competition unless male puberty was suppressed before the age of twelve.

Out of all his lifetime achievements, Caldas has broken seven different individual US Masters records and six relay records, of which he still holds one and two respectively. He holds 37 state records in Arizona and North Carolina, and taken 22 national championship titles, with 15 of those being in individual events

In Crossfit competitions, which he competed in from 2012 to 2021, Caldas was ranked as the number one woman in his age category in his home country of Portugal from 2018 until his retirement from the sport. He has ranked highly in a number of competitions, including taking women’s prize money and first place in Croatia, Argentina and Cyprus from 2014 to 2016. This is all despite the fact that Crossfit did not allow trans-identified men to officially compete in the sport until 2019. Although the sport has recently undone this policy, there is no screening required.

During the global COVID-19 lockdowns, Caldas became the 2021 world champion in the open category of the indoor rowing world championships, and still currently co-holds the world record in the women’s 500 meter category.

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A 34-year-old Canadian man who identifies as “non-binary” has won his case to have taxpayers fund an experimental surgery that will leave his penis intact while placing a constructed “neo-vagina” in the space between his penis and anus. The surgery is currently only available in Texas and could cost Canadian taxpayers upwards of $70,000.

Reduxx first reported on the bizarre legal fight in April of 2024, after the man, known only as “K.S.,” won his first challenge against the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) at the Ontario Divisional Court.

After K.S.’s win at the divisional court last April, he took to social media to anonymously celebrate the ruling, but his Reddit account was quickly uncovered and linked back to him. His digital footprint included making sexually explicit posts on a Reddit board for “bigenital” persons. In the online posts, he claimed to be a disability advocate and that he suffered from bipolar disorder. 

As previously detailed by Reduxx, K.S. also claimed to identify as a “transgender baby,” a “little” who is attracted to diapers, and as someone who is “obsessed” with urinary and bowel incontinence. He claimed that his bedroom was designed to look like the bedroom of an eight-year-old girl’s.

Several of his online posts were to an “ABDL” community. “ABDL” is an acronym for “adult baby diaper lover,” a fetish which involves participants becoming sexually aroused while acting like children or babies.

K.S. had also posted content on Reddit about experiencing suicidal ideation related to childhood abuse and inadequate mental health supports. He appears to have deleted his account after Reduxx’s exposé.

Following the 2024 ruling in K.S.’s favor, OHIP appealed the decision but has now lost their second effort to refuse his request.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has unanimously upheld the lower court ruling that granted K.S. the right to a government-funded “penile-sparing vaginoplasty.” The three judges also awarded him $23,250 in costs. The province of Ontario has the right to appeal the latest decision to the Supreme Court of Canada on or before June 23, 2025.

The man’s lawyer provided a statement to Canadian media after his win, which read: “K.S. is pleased with the Court of Appeal’s decision, which is now the third unanimous ruling confirming that her gender affirming surgery is covered under Ontario’s Health Insurance Act and its regulation.”

K.S. was assisted by Egale Canada, a self-described 2SLGBTQI charity, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association; both groups appeared as intervenors on his behalf.

Because the province of Ontario incorporated standards of the widely-disgraced World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) into their own policies, judges from both the divisional and appeal courts have referred the radical WPATH standards in their decisions. WPATH endorses radical surgeries up to and including castration, and lists “eunuch” as a “gender identity.”

“The vaginoplasty sought by K.S. comfortably fits within the Act’s contemplation of an insured service. It is a specifically listed service in the Schedule of Benefits that has been recommended by Dr. Druce and Ms. Sela, health care providers appropriately trained in accordance with WPATH standards as contemplated by the Schedule of Benefits, and K.S. meets the requirements for prior authorization therein set out,” reads the Ontario Court of Appeal ruling.

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The German Armed Forces’ first transgender commander has lost an appeal against a reprimand he received after his highly sexualized public behavior put him in violation of the military’s code of conduct. Anastasia Biefang filed a counter-complaint against the reprimand, alleging discrimination on the basis of his “sexual identity,” but has now lost his case.

Biefang originally enlisted in the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) as Marc Biefang, but transitioned in 2017 to much fanfare from media and trans activists. Following the announcement of his new gender identity, he made headlines as both the first transgender and first “woman” to become the Lieutenant Colonel of the Information Technology Battalion in Storkow, Brandenburg. But just two years later, Biefang received a disciplinary reprimand after his highly graphic Tinder profile was uncovered.

In the profile, Biefang described himself as “spontaneous, lustful, trans*, [in an] open relationship and looking for sex. All genders welcome.” The Bundeswehr found that the content of the profile violated his off-duty code of conduct. Shortly after, Biefang was transferred out of Storkow to a new post in Bonn. During a farewell parade in his honor, he rode on a military vehicle that had been transformed into a unicorn float as a symbol of the “LGBTQI movement.”

In 2020, the Southern Military Service Court ruled that the wording of Biefang’s Tinder profile raised doubts about his moral integrity, noting that the wording of Biefang’s profile would have led an outside party to understand that he degraded himself and his sexual partners to “mere sex objects.” This was deemed incompatible with his duty to uphold a the reputation of the German Armed Forces, and maintain good standing in the eyes of civilians. The court argued that the profile could raise doubts about Biefang’s values, particularly in his role as a commander overseeing approximately 750 soldiers.

Though Biefang challenged the reprimand, in May of 2022, the Second Military Service Senate of the Federal Administrative Court upheld the reprimand. The court clarified that the profile text portrayed “sexual indiscipline” and a “promiscuous sexual lifestyle.” As a commander, Biefang was also said to have had a special responsibility to remain compliant with the code of conduct, as he must credibly enforce disciplinary measures against subordinates, such as in cases of sexual misconduct. The court saw the profile text as posing a risk that Biefang’s ability to implement such measures could be questioned, as the text could create the impression of an “uninhibited indulgence in sexual urges.”

Unsatisfied, Biefang escalated his complaint to the Federal Constitutional Court, alleging discrimination based on his so-called “sexual identity.” This month, the court has declined to hear his case. The court justified this decision by stating that the reprimand had already been expunged after three years under the Military Disciplinary Code, meaning there was no longer a need for legal protection. Biefang had not sufficiently demonstrated why a legitimate interest in a ruling persisted.

Despite having been reprimanded, Biefang’s sexualized behavior has been a central aspect of his public persona.

During an appearance on German talk show Paillette geht immer (Sequins Always Work) in April of 2021, Biefang recounted that, as a teenager, he wore his mother’s clothes, masturbated in them, and blamed semen stains on his younger brother to conceal his actions.

In the same show, Biefang openly discussed his sexual preferences, stating: “I like to get fucked in darkrooms.” He also showcased his surgically enhanced silicone breasts and offered Olszinski to touch them. Olszinski asked, “Can I touch them later?” to which Biefang agreed, “Of course!” 

Biefang regularly attended the “Fuck Your Gender” party series organized by The Nipple Liberation Army, which has been held in Berlin since 2018. The party offers attendees darkrooms with sex accessories and promote a “hedonistic, safe space with a focus on body positivity.” Biefang commented, “I’m part of a collective. We throw our own sex-positive parties. It’s awesome, right?”

In September of 2022, Biefang participated in Folsom Europe in Berlin, a fetish and BDSM event in the Schöneberg district. He wore a tight-fitting latex outfit that accentuated his silicone breasts and a heavy metal chain with an Abus padlock around his neck.

Folsom Europe is known for public BDSM demonstrations, spanking sessions, and darkroom parties on Fuggerstraße in Berlin, and it regularly attracts criticism. The BZ Berlin reported on residents’ complaints that the street turns into a “madhouse for men in leather harnesses and rubber masks” each year, with “martial costumes reminiscent of NS uniforms” and public sex occurring, despite children living in the area.

Biefang’s so-called “transition” and his relationship with his wife was portrayed in the 2019 documentary “Ich bin Anastasia“ (I am Anastasia), directed by Thomas Ladenburger. The film follows him from his time as soldier Marc Biefang to his surgical procedures in his role as lieutenant colonel. An explicit scene depicts a “penis party” at Biefang’s home, where a penis-shaped cake symbolized the lead up to his vaginoplasty surgery.

Biefang has been the deputy chairman of QueerBw, the advocacy group for “queer members” of the German Armed Forces, since 2016. The organization was founded in 2002 as the Working Group of Homosexual Members of the German Armed Forces (AHsAB), with the original purpose of combating discrimination based on sexual orientation and strengthening the rights of homosexual soldiers. In 2020, it was renamed QueerBw “to encompass all queer identities“ and represents approximately 400 members.

Biefang has also advocated against single-sex policies in other countries. On April 1, 2023, he criticized Arkansas’ Senate Bill 270 (SB270), which would have criminalized trans-identified men for using public women’s restrooms when girls were present. The bill did not pass; instead, Senate Bill 294 (SB294) was enacted on March 21, 2023, which applies only to schools and prohibits so-called “transgender individuals“ from using restrooms of the opposite sex in public schools.

In December 2022, a female user on X demanded that Biefang not to use “women’s toilets, women’s showers, communal changing rooms, women’s hospitals, or women’s prisons.” Biefang responded via his now-deleted X account: “Didn’t want to go to prison anyway. Will still use the women’s shower. Maybe we’ll meet there sometime.”

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A transgender inmate in Illinois has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, among others, after allegedly being raped in prison. Autumn Cordellioné, born Jonathan Richardson, is claiming that Trump’s “transphobic” rhetoric is responsible for the attack.

Richardson is currently serving 55 years in prison for the brutal 2001 murder of his 11-month-old stepdaughter. As previously reported by Reduxx, Richardson murdered the child while she was in his care while her mother was at work. He was visited by friends the night of the killing 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 found guilty of her murder the next year, and sentenced to 55 years in prison, and began identifying as transgender in 2020.

In August of 2023, the American Civil Liberties Union announced they were representing Richardson in a lawsuit demanding that the state of Illinois pay for his desired “gender affirming” cosmetic surgeries. The suit was challenging a recently adopted Illinois state bill which prohibited the spending of state funds on “gender affirming” surgeries for inmates.

“The total ban on gender-affirming surgery violates [his] right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment,” the civil rights group argued in their complaint.

In September of last year, the ACLU won the suit, with federal Judge Richard Young demanding that the Illinois Department of Corrections arrange his taxpayer-funded orchiectomy and a penile inversion as soon as possible, a decision he held up in March this year, even after a clinical psychologist concluded that Richardson was not suffering from gender dysphoria but instead had “attention seeking” personality disorders.

But Richardson’s crusade against the state has not stopped, and Reduxx has now obtained a new lawsuit filed by Richardson in the Southern District of Indiana targeting President Donald Trump and multiple individiauls affiliated with the Indiana Department of Corrections.

In the suit, filed on April 1, Richardson argues that his civil rights have been violated since he was transferred from New Castle Correctional Facility (NCN) to Westville Correctional Facility (WCA), which he describes as being insufficient to his needs. Richardson claims that WCA is “a facility with no security cameras, with no doors on the cells, understaffed, and populated with mostly gang-affiliated prisoners who traffic with correctional staff in the form of drugs, sex and money.”

Richardson alleges that the Department of Correction’s Director of Classification “knowingly” moved him to Westville from New Castle in order to make him a target for abuse, noting the fact that he was a prominent transgender prisoner in the media.

In a number of bizarre recollected quotes, Richardson details that he was allegedly assaulted and raped multiple times over a four day period by 12 gang-affiliated offenders after his transfer. Richardson also alleges that during one rape, the offenders claimed they had been motivated by Trump’s “transphobia.”

“We saw your shit on Fox and Trump was talking about you fagass, dicksucking trannies, he said your [sic] messing up our kids in school with your sex change shit… Trumps [sic] president now and we won’t even get in trouble for fucking you trannies up, we’re patriots and even if you tell on us, Trump will pardon us and probably give us a medal,” Richardson quotes one of the offenders as telling him.

In the complaint, Richardson also quoted his unit team manager and case manager, who are also named defendants in the case, who spoke in a very similar manner to the inmates.

“I’ve seen your case on the news, and I personally don’t think us tax payers should have to pay for your surgery,” said the case manager. “God doesn’t approve of transgenders and gays, so what do you expect to happen, when you dress like a woman and have tits in a male facility?”

Richardson continues by claiming his case manager similarly invoked Trump in a transphobic rant towards him.

“Your [sic] that trans that won a lawsuit, and now us hard working taxpayers have to foot the bill, well there are only two sexes, male and female, and God made you a man, Trump’s putting a stop to all that fag shit,” stated his case manager. “I can’t help you, you reap what you sow,” she allegedly continued.

The actions of the above were “motivated and propagated due to their religious and political views and hatred,” argued Richardson, who suggests they have both violated tort law with their “gross negligence” and disregarded his safety, along with violating his 14th Amendment rights, as they discriminated against him due to his transgender status.

Richardson claimed that because President Trump “has on numerous occasions both as president and as former president spoken about his extremist rhetoric and transphobic hate speech,” he has “emboldened the Defendants and the assailants that brutally assaulted and raped plaintiff, not once, but multiple times, to act on their hate and prejudices, constituting the cause in action and his liability in this case. Therefore, President Trump was negligent due to his alleged knowledge that others may act on his words,” Richardson continued.

The inmate is looking for compensatory damage from the named defendants to the tune of $3.5 million, with punitive damages to be awarded by a jury. This is not the first complaint that Richardson has launched on the grounds of alleged human rights violations.

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

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A trans-identified male sex offender who attempted to enroll at a local high school in Oregon has been sentenced to 20 days in jail and two years’ probation. Alec Ray Craig, who uses the name Makayla Craig, 27, was arrested last December after an officer at South Albany High School reported him for pretending to be a 15 year-old girl in order to register as a student.

Craig has told school administrators that his name was Madison and provided a false date of birth. Upon his arrest, it was discovered that Craig is a registered sex offender. He was then arrested on charges of computer crimes, forgery, and false swearing.

“The person appeared to be an adult but was portraying themselves as a 15-year-old girl. After further investigation, the individual gave a false name and date of birth attempting to enroll in high school,” a statement from Albany Police Department read. When announcing Craig’s arrest online, law enforcement turned off comments in response to what they regarded as “hate speech.”

Many replies expressed frustration that the authorities had not included a photo of the sex offender, who was convicted of sexually abusing a minor in 2023. Details regarding his prior conviction were also noticeably absent.

Craig appeared before Linn County Court on April 4, where prosecutors requested a jail sentence of 40 days.

“She, as a registered sex offender, is trying to pretend that she is a juvenile… to become- to be involved with other juveniles in the high school system,” said prosecutor Coleen Cerda.

However, Craig’s defense counsel argued that this period of time in jail would not “serve the purpose that we want” and proposed that community service would be sufficient.

“I don’t know that jail really serves the purpose that perhaps we want,” defense attorney Erik Moeller countered. “And compensatory service, or community service, would better serve the community.”

Craig was ultimately sentenced to 20 days in jail, two years’ probation and was ordered to stay at least 500 feet away from schools.

On social media, Craig uses various terms associated with online fetish communities to describe himself. He has referred to himself as a “femboi,” a label synonymous with the transgender community, as well as a “furry” and a “therian,” indicating that he identifies as a non-human animal. In June 2022, Craig posted a “transfeline Pride” flag to his account, indicating that he identifies as a cat.

Multiple local news outlets reported on Craig’s case while referring to the child sexual abuser as simply a “woman.”

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Professional disc golf athlete Abigail Wilson walked off the tee in protest over the inclusion of a trans-identified male in the women’s competition this week. Wilson found herself being expected to compete against male participant Logan ‘Natalie’ Ryan in the Music City Open held in Nashville, and refused in an act of defiance being celebrated by women’s rights advocates the world over.

Wilson posted a video of her protest to her Instagram account, saying: “Females deserve to have their gender protected division be protected. This is unfair. I have worked so hard to get to this point to play on the DGPT, but the sacrifice of my career and my hard work is worth it if it means I can make a difference for other women, daughters, nieces, and the future of our sport. If you feel how wrong it is to have biological males be competing in female protected divisions in sports, now is the time to speak up and stand your ground.”

She added that she had been having “anxiety” about playing against the trans-identified male because of “threats of violence” at last year’s competition, referencing a terrorist threat that had suspended the Music City Open last year.

“After speaking with a member of the DGPT staff yesterday they made it clear they would be unwilling to change me to an earlier tee time when regarding my fears of safety on the course. They assured me that there would be bag checks, police, and security at the event. Upon arriving this morning there was no security or police presence… There were zero security precautions,” Wilson said.

“Today I most likely ended my career and that is okay because this is bigger than me.”

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According to his player profile, since 2019 Ryan has racked up 19 tournament wins in the Women’s Pro level, and has reportedly taken home over $40,000 in prize money.

In December 2022, Ryan announced he would be taking legal action against the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) over a recent revision that had been made to their gender identity policies. The updated rule, which appeared to have been adopted due to his presence in the women’s category, stated that “players who were assigned male at birth” must have started their medical “transition” before the onset of puberty to be considered eligible to compete against women.

It also stipulated that trans-identified male players must “continuously maintain a total testosterone level below 2.0 nmol/L. The average normal testosterone level in women is typically between 0.20 and 1.67 nmol/L.

“This policy attacks touring athletes due to my success on the 2022 tour,” Ryan stated in his request for financial support.

He then criticized women who had complained about his participation by insinuating that they were poor sports and medicore athletes. “The reality is that I’m not all that great, but I’m good enough to win and that alone scared people into believing I was some monster. Some of my fellow competitors decided they wouldn’t work on their games and improve themselves but instead tear me down because my game was complete.”

Ryan has repeatedly mocked female competitors who express discomfort with him playing in the women’s division.

“My most active detractors have been complacent and haven’t improved their games in years,” Ryan posted to his Facebook in 2023. “Trans people’s anger for situations like this has been used against them for generations as justification for our collective removal from public spaces. I refuse to fall in line and accept that this is okay. My frustration is valid.”

He continued: “‘But the advantages!’ I hear you screech for the millionth time! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, sports aren’t fair. Every single player has their own set of advantages, like being tall or young or having a good head on their shoulders. I don’t know if I have anything from my past but if I did, why is mine illegal and everyone else’s is okay? People think that mine is unnatural or a choice I made to get here.”

In total Ryan raised over $14,000 to assist in his lawsuit. On January 5, 2024, he announced that the case had been settled in his favor. US District Judge Troy Nunley granted Ryan a temporary restraining order to allow him to play.

“It appears there was an intentional act, the creation of a policy, that excludes individuals based on their protected status as transgender women,” Nunley wrote in his decision. “The Court makes no determinations as to whether this is sufficient to actually establish intentional discrimination, but it raises serious questions,” he added.

“Thank you all for donating, it was instrumental in my victories in court,” Ryan said on GoFundMe. “The money you all donated me helped secure my first lawyer and covered the initial filing and expert fees. Thank you all for helping trans athletes regain a future in Disc Golf!”

Over on Instagram, Ryan stated that he was “ruthless” in his legal pursuit. “I’m excited to announce that the PDGA, DGPT and I have reached an agreement. All trans women will be equals at the elite level again. I had to be ruthless to get them to listen.”

In a statement posted to the PDGA website revealing that the policy restrictions had been removed due to the ruling, the disc golf authority pointed out that they had lacked the funds to pursue the matter further.

“The PDGA is not financially or logistically in a position to take the lead in multi-state litigation on this topic. For the first time in recent memory, the PDGA will end the year with a net operating loss, and it is not in the best interest of our members to continue to allocate resources to further litigation. Accordingly, and as part of a settlement ending the litigation against the PDGA and DGPT in both California and Minnesota, the Board of Directors is altering section C of the Policy.”

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Last year, professional disc golf player from Estonia, Kristin Lätt (formerly Tattar), who holds the highest PDGA rating in the FPO (Female Professional) division, spoke out against males playing in her sport. Lätt had lost to Ryan in the 2022 MVP Open in Massachusetts.

Lätt said that in 2023, women were threatened with disqualification if they didn’t accept trans-identified males in their category.

“In sports, it’s obvious to me why there are two divisions. We are designed differently. I think women should be in their own category. I want us all to be happy and to be able to play disc golf in fair conditions.”

Additionally, the mother of two female professional disc golf players slamming Ryan as a “man” after her daughters lost to him at a PDGA tournament.

“Morgan [Lynds] tied [with] a biological MAN for first place in regulation then lost to him in a playoff,” Tonya Lynds said. “Congraulations Morgan for a FPO (Female Pro Open) first place and congratulations Jordan for a FPO second place finish! It’s very difficult to watch this happen. It isn’t about the losing, it’s about losing to a MAN!!”

In 2023, 33 professional female disc golf players petitioned the courts to save their sport. The petition was referred to as the Stockton Declaration in a nod to Ryan’s disqualification after already competing in day one of the FPO (female pro open) OTB Open in Stockton, California that year.

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That summer, professional player Catrina Allen also organized an action which she livestreamed from her Instagram account.

“It is a act of biology that being born with male biology, going through male puberty, and experiencing male levels of testosterone conveys enormous performance advantages. Elite sport for those of us born biological females cannot exist without eligibility standards that consider these basic biological facts,” Allen said.

“What an absolute blow to women’s sports this year. I really, really wish the PDGA could have reached out for financial support from those of us that would have helped along the way. They should not have had to fight alone, while NR received free counsel and gofundme support. Such a sad time for women disc golfers. At this point just focus on putting NR at the bottom of the leaderboard,” Allen stated in her post.

In response, Ryan shot back on Instagram: “Catrina said what I already knew she believed, she doesn’t see me as the human being I am. If the PDGA actually found that transwomen had any substantial advantage in FPO we wouldn’t be playing with women at all.”

“All her statement says to me is that she needs to work on her mental game. If the presence of someone she doesn’t agree with can ruin her day, then her skin is pretty thin.”

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Ryan has claimed to be one of the only trans-identified males currently competing at the professional level against women. However, a website dedicated to tracking male athletes in women’s sports, SheWon.org, lists dozens of other trans-identified males who have taken top placements in the female category of disc golf, as well as taking prize money set aside for women.

But while Ryan is attracting controversy for his continued participation in female athletics, Reduxx has learned that one of Ryan’s trans-identified male colleagues is also competing at the professional level in women’s disc golf.

Reduxx can reveal that Ryan’s online acquaintance, a 48-year-old trans-identified male who uses the name Amanda Branch, has recently begun participating in women’s disc gold tournaments. On March 29, Branch placed fourth in the Women’s Pro Open.

On March 15, Branch posted that he had signed up to compete in the 2025 PDGA Women’s Disc Golf Championship, set to be held in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in June.

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Reduxx can reveal that a founding member of the organization now known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) was in correspondence with and defended a leading figure behind a notorious pro-pedophile lobby group. American sexologist Vern L. Bullough was a pioneering academic involved with the US-based Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, later renamed to WPATH, and served on the editorial team for a pro-pedophile academic publication which advocated for the normalization of adult-child sexual relations.

Bullough was a prominent sexologist. He was Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Social Science at the state university college of Buffalo, New York, in addition to acting as a professor of history at the San Fernando Valley State college. He was also professor emeritus at the State University of New York (SUNY), as well as Faculty President at California State University Northridge, and a president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, first established in 1957.

Bullough was the founding director of the Center for Sex Research at Cal State, Northridge, where he organized international conferences on prostitution, pornography, and gender identity. The university now has a clinic offering “gender-affirming care.”

Bullough published and spoke on the topics of transvestitism, transsexualism, gender identity, and child sexuality. In 1973, he was the first speaker to present at a conference organized by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), when it was still known as the Erickson Educational Foundation. His lecture on “Transsexualism in the Past” came directly after an introduction by sexologist John Money, his colleague, who pioneered the development of the concept of “gender identity” and medical “transition.”

His most well-known books include “Sexual Variance in Society and History” (1976), “Homosexuality: A History” (1979), and “Cross-Dressing, Sex and Gender” (1993), which is still used as a textbook in some university gender studies programs.

In addition to his role in the early formation of WPATH, Bullough was a member of the editorial board of Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia, which advocated for sexual relationships between adults and children.

In 1996, Bullough was interviewed for Paidika by editor Joseph Geraci — with whom he maintained a close working relationship, as Bullough’s position on the editorial board lent academic credence to the pro-pedophile journal.

Despite repeatedly arguing that his interest in the topic of pedophilia, or “intergenerational sex,” as he referred to it, was purely academic, Bullough revealed during the Paidika interview that he believed there was a “hysteria” surrounding the topic of child sexual abuse, and blamed “feminists” for the widespread opposition to pedophilia.

“The feminist influence also most certainly is a factor in the hysteria,” Bullough said. “Some radical feminists, though thankfully a minority, have gone so far as to claim that every female child was probably sexually abused in some way by a male member of their family, and can even define sexual abuse as show-and-tell and other childhood activities.” Bullough did not provide a reference for his claims in regards to his argument.

“I do not subscribe to their version. Unfortunately, many of these most militant feminists are involved in the child-abuse industry,” he added. Bullough defined the term “child-abuse industry” as involving individuals he saw as profiting from the “hysteria” over childhood sexual abuse.

“Paedophiles have become the scapegoat for everything that seems to be wrong with American society and the family,” Bullough continued. “We have institutionalized the hysteria… Paedophiles are so excluded from mainstream American society that they cannot really say what they do or what they believe in.”

But perhaps most disturbingly, Bullough kept regular correspondences with a top member of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), a lobby group that advocates for the normalization of sexual relationships between adult men and young boys.

Attorney Lawrence Stanley was a member of the steering committee for NAMBLA, which advocated for relaxing laws regarding sexual activity between men and boys. Stanley also published a newsletter titled “Uncommon Desires,” which focused on pedophilic relationships between adult men and young girls.

In July 1987, Stanley wrote to Bullough imploring him to read and consider his article “The Hysteria over Child Pornography and Pedophilia,” which was soon published in Paidika and Playboy. In an introductory letter, Stanley told Bullough: “With respect to sizeable collections of child pornography, it is my impression that the Kinsey Institute’s is larger than the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.”

Stanley’s article, “The Hysteria over Child Pornography and Pedophilia,” argued that law enforcement officers engage in deliberate entrapment schemes. “Under the guise of ‘protecting children,’ millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to investigate and prosecute would-be consumers of child pornography, many of them individuals who do not pose any immediate danger to children.”

Stanley went on to describe at length various international publications specializing in pedophilic content to the sexologist, and stated that the “largest source for erotic depictions of young girls is Japan.” The NAMBLA attorney added: “I hope this information has been both interesting and helpful to you.”

Bullough replied in a letter dated January 1988, congratulating Stanley on the publication of his article.

“As far as collections of movies of child porn, the San Francisco Institute is much larger, simply because the major distributors of porn films in the United States, particularly child porn, got rid of incriminating evidence by donating it to the Institute in San Francisco.”

In a follow-up letter the next month, Bullough suggested: “If you get good duplicates of material and don’t know where to send them, I would like to add to my collection, most of which is now in the California State University, Northridge, library.”

In September 1989, Stanley was found in possession of hundreds of child pornography publications, as well as five videotapes, which he had kept locked in a safe under his bed. Various titles of the magazines included Bambina Sex, Children Love, Lolita Color Special, Loving Children, Masturbating Lolita and Schoolgirls.

Most of the photographs depicted very young girls with their genitalia exposed. In certain instances, children were seen to be masturbating or urinating, and other photographs depicted prepubescent girls engaged in oral sex with adult men.

In his defense, Stanley claimed to be a sex researcher acting on behalf of The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, and claimed that that as an academic researcher, he was entitled to possess the child pornography under the First Amendment.

Stanley testified in court that the pornography was acquired in connection to research he was conducting on the topic of “The Child Pornography Myth,” an article he authored which was published in the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal. The magazines were obtained in the Netherlands, where the journal Paidika was published — and where Bullough had himself just visited.

As the court proceedings were underway in 1991, Bullough submitted a character testimonial in favor of Stanley, calling him a “knowledgeable professional in the field of human sexuality,” and that he would “strongly vouch for his character and integrity.”

Bullough wrote: “I have known Lawrence Stanley for four or five years and worked closely with him for part of that time in publishing a newsletter for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.”

In 1993, federal authorities accused Stanley of conspiring with photographer Don Marcus to import child pornography. Marcus fled to France to escape prosecution, and asked Stanley to retrieve a suitcase that was found to contain child pornography. His attorney argued that Stanley did not know what was in the suitcase, and a jury acquitted him in 1993.

It was during this time that Bullough again argued in his defense and sent him multiple letters of reference. The academic leveraged his credentials in universities and as an expert in the area of modern sex research.

“I can speak with some expertise on the subject of child pornography. I know of few topics more deserving of intense, scholarly investigation than child porn, a topic about which there is both a great deal of hysteria couple with a lack of information,” Bullough prefaced.

The professor then pleaded for the release of the “seized material,” referring to the child pornography magazines that were confiscated by authorities. He requested that Stanley “and others” should be permitted to “examine” the pornographic content, and that it might be “deemed suitable for widespread publication.”

“In the past we used to cover up child abuse, now we exploit it and exaggerate it,” Bullough said. “What we need is to do some serious investigation. Lawrence has an effective methodology to study the materials, and should be allowed to continue the studies he started.”

In 1998, a Dutch court convicted Stanley in absentia for the sexual abuse of three children ages 7 to 10. As Stanley’s legal troubles worsened, he fled the United States for Brazil. In 2002, he was arrested on charges of child exploitation. Stanley had built an international business photographing Brazilian girls and selling their photos online. Stanley’s “MiniModels” web site featured photos of girls ages 8 to 14 in what authorities described as “sensual poses.” Police said Stanley paid the girls $20 to $40 for each photo session.

Bullough was also a main organizer of the World Pornography Conference, with the first event taking place in 1998 at the Center for Sex Research at Cal State Northridge, with the financial backing of the pornography industry’s lobby group, the Free Speech Coalition.

One journalist, Matt Balash, who attended the 1998 conference took note of a presentation on child pornography, which included photos of a boy holding the photographer’s penis.

“Dr. Bullough thought it was OK as long as the photographer was a professional and had obtained permission from the parents. Dr. Bullough related how his kids used to pull on his schwong in the shower. Matt asked if Dr. Bullough invited other children into the shower to pull on his schwong. A conference organizer and hospitality lawyer stepped in to reprove Matt for asking inappropriate questions.”

When Bullough passed away in 2006, his obituary, published by the Los Angeles Times, was penned by former WPATH president, and former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Eli Coleman.

“It would be very hard to find somebody that had so extensively studied so many areas within sexuality,” Coleman said. “Vern was all over the field — not in a superficial way but in a very deep way.”

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A trans-identified male is lashing out against the New York City Tennis League Network after being banned from competing against women. Cameron ‘Cammie’ Woodman, 25, is now on a crusade to have the Network banned from using public courts by complaining to city officials.

Last week, Woodman played two sets against female opponents in the Lincoln Terrace Park tennis courts of Brooklyn and was victorious in both matches. One of his opponents then contacted the Tennis League Network’s CEO, Steve Chagnon, to alert him about the presence of a male in the women’s matches. The Tennis League Network is an amateur recreational league with branches nationwide.

“I played my first match last night and discovered when I arrived that Cammie Woodman is a male playing in a women’s league,” the woman wrote.

“I’m aware how controversial this issue is right now and I am sorry to put this on you, but I don’t think there’s a way around the fact that it’s unfair for me, or any other woman in this league, to play against a man under the pretense that he is a woman,” she added.

Chagnon, head of the Tennis League Network, forwarded the complaint to Woodman with the accompanying message: “Can we move you over to an appropriate level Men’s Division?”

Woodman refused the offer, stating: “I am a transgender woman who has been medically transitioning for the past four years. I believe in my integrity as a woman player, as I play women often… I am not willing to join a men’s league where I would have a disadvantage due to my medical transition.”

He went on to name the woman who had sent in the complaint, and slammed her as “a very inexperienced player who wouldn’t even have rated as high as a 3.0 based on her skills,” and added that he found it “offensive” that she had brought the matter to Chagnon.

Woodman shared images of the email exchange on his Instagram profile and did not blur out the woman’s name. He also publicly shared Chagnon’s email address and called on his followers to contact him. Shortly after, Woodman shared the contact information for the Tennis League Network, saying sarcastically, “bestie Steve turned off his email.”

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Woodman additionally shared a series of posts further demanding action to “fight transphobia on NY courts” and stating that the Tennis League Network “should be removed from our city’s courts for violating NY Human Rights Law”. He is calling on the New York City Parks Department and the New York City Commission on Human Rights to investigate.

A spokesperson for the city Parks Department, Chris Clark, told New York-based publication The City that “discrimination has no place in our city.”

“Our public parks are spaces where all New Yorkers and visitors should feel welcome,” he added.

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Laura Brantley, a spokesperson for the city Commission on Human Rights, said: “Discrimination based on gender identity is illegal under the New York City Human Rights Law. Anyone who has experienced or witnessed discrimination, should reach out to the commission.”

Woodman has said that he received a message of support from United States Tennis Association – Eastern, which featured him in a social media campaign last year promoting Pride Month.

According to the New York City Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), examples of discrimination based on “gender identity or gender expression” include “failing to use an individual’s preferred name or pronoun,” and “refusing to allow individuals to utilize single-sex facilities and programs consistent with their gender.”

Last year, Reduxx reported that a trans-identified male had filed a lawsuit against the city of New York and demanded over $22,000,000 in compensation for discrimination on the basis of his gender identity. Ali Miles, formerly known as Dylan Miles, who identifies as a Muslim woman, claimed that his rights were violated after he was detained in a men’s detention center while awaiting trial for domestic abuse charges.

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