A prominent LGBT activist who was recently arrested on charges that included the rape of a 4-year-old girl has been discovered to have organized a pedophile network in France. An investigation conducted by the Office of Minors (L’OFMIN), a newly-created branch of the French National Police, has uncovered a pedophile network that extends from the Loire-Atlantique region to Belgium.

Reporting on the revelations, Le Parisien neglected to name LGBT activist Pierre-Alain Cottineau as the leader of the criminal organization, choosing instead to refer to him as a “32 year-old family assistant in Loire-Atlantique.”

Cottineau was well-known in Loire-Atlantique for his political activism, which included advocacy for the LGBT community, youth, and minority populations. In 2021, he stood for departmental elections under the banner of La France Insoumise (LFI), a left-wing political party that has a hard-line “zero-tolerance” policy on “sexist, racist, anti-Semitic or LGBTIphobic remarks or behavior” amongst its members.

Cottineau, a professional caregiver and family aide, co-founded multiple activist organizations, including the Oudon Solidarity and Mutual Aid Collective, as well as the LGBTQI+ Association of Ancenis (EsAc). In 2018, Cottineau was elected president of The Rainbow Shelter (L’Association Esprit Arc-en-Ciel – ESAC), and hosted the community’s first-ever “forum” to combat homophobia and transphobia.

In addition to his LGBT activism, Cottineau was a member of the Association Lily Cerise et Cie, an organization which, according to its website, advocates against domestic abuse. The group also offers sex education lessons to very young children, and volunteer members have been invited by elected officials to discuss “children’s rights, consent, and intimate parts of the body,” according to information posted to their social media.

In materials aimed at children which introduce LGBT themes, Lily Cerise et Cie promoted and endorsed ESAC while Cottineau had worked in a leadership role.

A judicial review is underway at the Nantes court regarding OFMIN’s investigation. Among the horrific discoveries: the rape of very young children, including infants; victims being targeted in “the professional environment of a suspect”; sex orgies involving children broadcast on the darknet; and suspicions of drugging victims.

A total of four suspects in addition to Cottineau have been arrested to date. Among them is a man who has been convicted of the homicide and rape of minors in Belgium.

Law enforcement officials from several European countries were able to identify the suspects by analyzing child sexual abuse videos posted online. They are facing life imprisonment for the rape of minors, acts of torture and barbarism committed against minors, and human trafficking in an organized gang.

According to Le Parisien, Cottineau is suspected of being the network’s organizer and of providing victims to other sexual predators via his connections as a family assistant and early childhood professional. Cottineau allegedly offered up children and babies for men to rape from various regions of France, as well as abroad, using encrypted communications applications. During the pre-arranged sessions, the men would film the rape of the victims – with some of the children being in such a state of lethargy that investigators believe they may have been drugged.

Currently, a total of four victims under the age of five have been identified, though OFMIN expects there are more.

🚨A prominent French LGBT activist is in police custody after raping and torturing a severely disabled 4-year-old girl.

Pierre-Alain Cottineau, who was known for his work with minorities and youth, became a foster father to the girl last year.https://t.co/hbKpty6y7F

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) October 2, 2024

In September, Cottineau was arrested at Nantes Airport upon return from a vacation in Tunisia and charged with subjecting a severely developmentally disabled toddler he had fostered to horrific sexual and physical abuse.

Upon police interrogation, he admitted to sexually and physically abusing the little girl, and distributing videos through pedophile networks in France.

Cottineau obtained approval from Child Welfare services to become a foster parent on December, 1, 2023, specifically requesting children under the age of 6. He was rapidly matched with a developmentally disabled 4-year-old girl on December 7, 2023, who was then placed directly in his home.

OFMIN, in collaboration with Dutch authorities and the French National Police, became aware of graphic and violent child sexual abuse videos being exchanged through Telegram. Investigators were able to ascertain the whereabouts of the young victim by identifying a very unique medical bed seen in the footage. By tracing the sale and shipment history of the bed, police were led to Cottineau.

The crimes of which he is accused are severe enough to receive the classification of “acts of torture and barbarism,” a distinction reserved for brutal sexual abuse.

“I do not wish to go into detail, but for an act of torture or barbarism to be qualified, it is necessary to demonstrate the exceptional violence exercised,” emphasized Renaud Gaudel, public prosecutor of Nantes. If convicted only on charges related to the torture of the disabled girl, Cottineau may face life imprisonment.

“During his police custody, the interested party admitted to being the author of the rape to the damage of this very young child, as well as several sexual assaults,” said Gaudel.

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There have been at least five cases of trans-identified males assaulting female inmates after being transferred to women’s correctional facilities in Germany, with four of these attacks being described as “sexually motivated.” Two of these male prisoners have had to be relocated back to a men’s prison as a result of their aggression. The new information has come to light following information requests submitted to the Ministry of Justice by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Last April, the German Parliament, or Bundestag, passed one of the world’s most far-reaching laws allowing sex self-declaration on demand. The Self-Determination Act (SBGG) establishes ‘gender identity’ as a protected characteristic, allows parents to change the sex marker on their children’s documents from birth, and imposes hefty fines of up to €10,000 (approx. $10,800 USD) for revealing a person’s given name and birth sex without their permission – referred to by trans activists as ‘deadnaming.’

The SBGG came into effect on November 1, 2024, but violent male criminals were already being transferred into women’s prisons ahead of the policy. It is not clear when trans-identified males began to be housed in women’s facilities, but as previously reported by Reduxx, official information from the Senate Department of Justice in Berlin shows that since 2023 “15 people whose sex was registered as male at birth have been imprisoned in the Berlin correctional facility for women.” 

In January, the Federal States’ Ministry of Justice confirmed that at least five trans-identified male inmates had physically assaulted female inmates on several occasions, and that four of these men had been sexually aggressive. The admission was made in response to an information request from the AfD filed in December. Previously, all federal states had denied sexual attacks by imprisoned trans-identified men when asked by media.

Now, a response to a follow-up inquiry filed by AfD politician Marc Vallendar has revealed that two trans-identified males had to be removed from women’s prisons in Berlin due to the danger they posed to the safety of female inmates. Published February 7, the responses from Berlin State Secretary for Justice Dirk Feuerberg bizarrely claim that there haven’t been any incidents in women’s correctional facilities, while also stating that men had to be removed for security reasons.

“Two people with a trans identity of female were expelled from the women’s prison during their detention, and transferred to the men’s prison, and in both cases this was for security reasons due to threats against female prisoners,” Justice Feuerberg said, in response to Vallendar’s information request.

“It is noteworthy that despite the overall low number of transfers, two prisoners had to be sent back to the male estate because they threatened female prisoners in the women’s prison,” said Vallendar. “This shows that the new self-determination law destroys even the safety of women in prisons.”

Confusingly, government officials once more denied any negative repercussions as a result of gender identity policies. Justice Feuerberg claimed that there had been no “unpleasant surprises” in Berlin’s correctional institutions.

“What is the Senate’s position on the statement by René Müller, head of the Federation of German Prison
Officers (BSBD), who warned of a ‘weakening of gender segregation’ and possible ‘unpleasant surprises’ in the prison system?” wrote MP Vallendar.

“Contrary to the statement made by Mr. René Müller,” replied Justice Feuerberg, “there have been no ‘unpleasant surprises’ in the prison system of the State of Berlin since the principle of separation was reformulated in the Berlin Prison Act.”

When asked what impact the Self-Determination Act (SBGG) will have on the Berlin prison system, Justice Feuerberg dodged the question entirely, stating: “The effects of the SBGG (Self-Determination Act) cannot currently be assessed. It is possible that simplifying the process of changing the legal sex will lead to an increase of cases, where decisions must be made about accommodation, taking into account the needs of the person concerned, the requirements of security and order, the needs of other prisoners, and ensuring the achievement of the objectives of incarceration.”

The public inquiry response comes on the heels of news that Berlin prisons are planning to ditch sex-specific signage. One prison, Tegel, which is one of Germany’s largest prisons, has already done so, according to T-Online. The decision to remove sex-specific terms from the facility was made in response to complaints from trans-identified male inmates who claimed they were being discriminated against.

As previously reported by Reduxx, in May of 2024 women‘s rights organization Initiative Lasst Frauen Sprechen (Let Women Speak) began to file Freedom of Information requests requesting figures from all ministries of justice in the federal states in Germany on how many men have been or are currently imprisoned in women’s correctional facilities since 2023.

The campaign group also asked for information on the nature of the crimes the men had committed. For a response, the Ministry of Justice in Saxony demanded an egregious €1,100 fee.

The response from government officials show that males are already being housed in women’s prisons in every federal state, a practice that began months ahead of the German self-identification law coming into force in November. The only federal state that does not house men in women’s prisons is Saarland, because there are no women’s prisons in the region. As a result, trans-identified male criminals in the state may be relocated to female facilities in other federal districts.

However, details of the male inmates’ crimes and convictions were not provided on the grounds that the Berlin prisons do not report the offenses to the Senate Administration. Therefore, that information is not required to be revealed through the Freedom of Information Act.

German outlet NiUS also facilitated a request for similar information and received a response from the Ministry of Justice in Saxony indicating that three males had been housed at the Chemnitz correctional facility for women between 2023 and 2024. The inmates had criminal records indicating assault, sexual assault, sexual harassment and assault on law enforcement officers. One of them was convicted of rape.

Last month, a survey by Die Welt was conducted in the 16 state justice ministries across the country, confirmed a number of incidents involving trans-identified male inmates who had been housed in women’s prisons.

In Vechta, a women’s prison in Lower Saxony, three sexual assaults were reported to have taken place by the same transgender perpetrator between 2023 and 2024. While the trans-identified male was not identified, it is known he had been convicted of the possession of child sexual abuse material.

One of the most widely-reported incidents occurred in 2023 at the Frauen-JVA Chemnitz, a full year ahead of the passage of the SBGG. The male inmate is said to have sexually harassed female inmates, repeatedly pressured them for sex, threatened them with assault, and masturbated in the corridors of the detention center.

The sexual harassment only came to light after a letter from a female inmate was published by German press. Following outcry, the trans-identified male was returned to a men’s prison.

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A trans-identified male from South Africa is standing trial for the murder of a security guard at the asylum shelter he had been staying at. Hilton Henrico G., who was identified as a “woman” by German press, had a history of violent assault leading up to the attack and had been in Germany illegally at the time as his asylum application had been rejected years ago.

Hilton, 38, was first apprehended in May of 2024 after fleeing the scene of a brutal stabbing at a refugee accommodation on Geschwister-Scholl-Straße in Potsdam. Due to strict privacy laws, Hilton’s full name has not been released by police.

While the motive for the crime is currently unclear, the prosecution has detailed that Hilton had a clear “intent to kill,” noting his repeat, targeted stabs to the victim’s heart. According to Tagesspiegel, despite rapid assistance at the scene, the security guard, who was a Syrian migrant himself, died of his injuries before making it to hospital.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Hilton fled the crime scene, triggering an extensive manhunt by the Brandenburg West Police Directorate. The area around the asylum shelter was cordoned off, and police searched the nearby Sanssouci Park with the assistance of tracking dogs.

In a bizarre twist, just three hours after the manhunt began, Hilton himself contacted police to file a report that he had been misgendered at a supermarket in the neighboring district of Schöneberg. Due to a lack of communication between police dispatches, the officers who responded to the misgendering incident were unaware that Hilton was on the run for murder, and took his statement on the alleged “hate crime.”

After reporting the “transphobic incident,” Hilton was allowed to leave and continue about his day.

A trans-identified male has been charged after allegedly stabbing a Syrian national to death at a refugee shelter in Potsdam, Germany.

The man fled, but was arrested after calling the police to report he had been misgendered.https://t.co/6uObRNpaZ7

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) May 31, 2024

Later on that day, the authorities in Potsdam learned of the complaint regarding the “transphobic incident,” which provided them with clues about the area where the Hilton might be located, ultimately leading to his arrest.

The deadly attack in May of 2024 was not the first incident linking Hilton to violence. As early as February of 2023, more than a year before the crime, he allegedly attacked another person with a knife in a housing facility in Potsdam, injuring them in the arm. This incident, which is also part of the current legal proceedings, was classified as dangerous bodily harm. Hilton was reportedly already known to authorities as a potential risk at that time.

Investigations by the Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten (PNN) further revealed that Hilton had attracted attention in several refugee shelters due to threats and “psychological abnormalities.” Fellow residents and staff reported repeated conflicts, which led to him being transferred between facilities multiple times.

Hilton arrived in Germany from South Africa in 2018, applying under an asylum claim that was rejected by May of 2021. Despite appealing the rejection, the Administrative Court in Cottbus upheld the decision and declared him “subject to enforceable deportation.” Matthias Vogt, a court spokesperson, told BILD: “Since May 2021, [Hilton] has been immediately deportable as we denied his urgent request against the rejection of his asylum application.”

The responsibility for facilitating Hilton’s deportation lay with the Potsdam Foreigners’ Office, supported by the Central Foreigners’ Authority (ZABH) in Eisenhüttenstadt. The ZABH is now accusing the city of Potsdam of failing to report Hilton’s location to them so they could ensure he was detained and deported.

The incident has now resulted in tension between the different authorities, all of whom are accusing one another of being responsible for the failures that resulted in Hilton being able to avoid deportation and commit the stabbing.

Hilton’s case has also sparked a broader political debate, with politicians accusing the German government of having “egregious administrative failure” and “a lack of political will to enforce the law at times.”

The trial at the Potsdam Regional Court is expected to last several weeks and aims to shed light on the circumstances of the crime as well as the failings of local authorities. Hilton faces a sentence ranging from at least five years to life imprisonment, though he denies ever having committed the crime.

Despite the fact that Hilton has not changed his legal sex, several media outlets, such as B.Z. Berlin and Tagesspiegel, have referred to him as a “woman” standing trial for manslaughter.

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A trans-identified male in New Jersey is suing a Korean health spa after being denied access to the women’s nude area. Alexandra “Allie” Goebert first launched the discrimination suit against King Spa in Palisades Park in 2022, and is now moving to obtain compensation from the spa on the grounds of violating the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.

According to newly-filed court records, the incident occurred in August of 2022 when Goebert visited the location with a female companion. Upon registration, Goebert was provided wristband granting him access to the men’s locker room instead of the women’s. Goebert immediately complained, telling staff he was a “transgender woman” and was legally recognized as “female” by the state of New Jersey.

After making a phone call, the staff member gave Goebert access to the restricted women’s area. But after entering, Goebert came to the attention of a locker room attendant who quickly called the manager. The manager then began to question whether Goebert had undergone genital surgeries, at one point asking if Goebert still had “boy parts.”

Goebert responded that he did not have “boy parts” because he is a “woman,” implying that he had attempted to argue his penis was not an inherently male anatomy. But the manager continued to press on whether he had changed his anatomy, to which Goebert eventually admitted he was fully intact. The manager then told Goebert he needed to leave the female area of the spa.

King Spa is a venue modeling itself after a jimjilbang, a traditional Korean health facility which requires nudity in some areas. For that reason, the nude areas of the spa were strictly sex-segregated.

After being told to use the men’s side of the spa, Goebert protested and said he would be uncomfortable in the men’s area because he identified as a woman.

The manager then went to get the General Manager, Youn Park, who attempted to make a concession for Goebert in the form of allowing him to use the women’s area, but only if he wore a bathing suit. Goebert refused, stating he did not have a bathing suit to wear and accused the spa of being in violation of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. He was offered a refund on his admission and told to leave.

Less than two months later, Goebert, who is a US Army Veteran and law school graduate, filed a complaint against the spa with the state’s Department of Law and Public Safety.

Throughout the course of the proceedings, Goebert’s counsel has complained that King Spa has “misgendered” him in court filings.

In their position statement, lawyers for King Spa explained that Goebert had previously attended the spa and presented ID with his sex listed as “male,” prompting confusion from staff.

“When the agent, servant, and employee of [the spa] saw that the license indicating female and recognizing that this was the same individual who had utilized the male facilities, the question was posed as to has the front changed,” the position statement reads.

“This was an attempt at not being insulting, but deemed a necessity given that there are many other male and female customers who utilize the Spa and do so in the nude. Once this individual indicated that he had not change his front, to wit, that he had male genitalia, the agent, servant, and employee of [the Spa] made a reasonable accommodation. They indicated that the individual could certainly use the facilities, but not in the female nude area. To do otherwise would simply cause havoc and expose all the other nude females to a fundamental invasion of their privacy and certainly expose the [spa] to extensive liability for the same.”

The position statement also notes that there is an apparent exception in New Jersey’s statues denoting that public places are allowed to impose “reasonable restrictions” where facilities are reserved for “individuals of one sex,” such as summer camps, day camps, resort camps, bathhouses, dressing rooms, and more.

This exception has been challenged by Goebert’s lawyers, who claim the single-sex provision does not entitle facilities to discriminate on the basis of gender identity.”

“Nowhere in the LAD is there an exclusion for the wholly-fabricated ‘invasion of privacy’ or ‘extreme emotional distress’ the Defendant is convinced would befall all of the other female guests of the spa were [Goebert’s] gender identity to be respected,” Goebert’s lawyers claimed.

On February 14, 2025, Goebert’s counsel moved to request the court enter judgement in Goebert’s favor, and allow the matter to proceed to a jury trial to determine how much compensation he is entitled to.

While Goebert has now deleted most of his social media presence, Reduxx found that his Instagram profile had followed a wide range of fetish-related accounts. 

Among them are women’s lingerie company Honey Birdette and sex toy retailer Wet For Her. Hashtags followed by Goebert include “lesbian”, “boyinadress”, “menindresses”, and the misspelled “nuedisnormal”, which features photos of naked or nearly-naked women, often in sexualized poses.

Goebert’s lawsuit is not the first involving a trans-identified male lashing out at a Korean bathing establishment due to its sex-segregated policies.

In 2023, a court in Seattle, Washington, ruled that a female-only nude spa lacked the “constitutional right” to bar males from their facilities. The decision came after the spa sued the Washington State Human Rights Commission (WSHRC), which had forced them to change their sex-exclusive policy due to the complaint of a transgender patron.

The complaint was made by Haven Wilvich, who had sought a membership at the Olympus Spa in January of 2020, but had been denied on the basis that he had not undergone “gender reassignment” surgeries and his penis was fully intact. The WSHRC ruled in Wilvich’s favor, and demanded Olympus Spa revise its policies to ensure trans-identified males who claimed a female identity could access the female nude areas.

In March of 2022, Olympus Spa sued Andreta Armstrong, the executive director of the Washington State Human Rights Commission, asserting that the actions taken against them violated their First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of association.

But a Washington District Court dismissed their lawsuit in January of 2023, upholding the ruling by the WSHRC and affirming that the measures taken to prevent the spa from having a female-only policy were lawful.

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A Scottish newspaper has been reported to the police after they referred to a trans-identified male doctor as a “man” in articles covering an Employment Tribunal case centered around his gender identity.

The Scottish Daily Express has been one of the outlets covering the progression of a tribunal being held against Sandie Peggie, a nurse who had been employed at the Victoria hospital in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. The case relates to interactions between Peggie and Dr. Theodore “Beth” Upton, a male doctor who had begun using the women’s facilities after beginning to identify as transgender.

As previously reported by Reduxx, despite being a biological male, who Peggie asserts “looks like a man” to hospital patients, the two encountered each other in the female changing rooms at the hospital multiple times after they first met in August 2023.

On at least one of those occasions, Peggie had been in a state of undress, and felt extremely uncomfortable when Upton entered the changing rooms and saw her. During another interaction on Christmas Eve of 2023, Upton declared that he had “as much right” to be in the women’s locker rooms as Peggie did, leading to an argument that resulted in the nurse being suspended from work and an investigation being launched into her for “bullying.”

The case has continued to make headlines over the past two weeks, with Peggie being supported by a number of pro-women organizations outside the court. Peggie’s legal team has been referring to Upton as a man throughout the tribunal hearing, something that the opposing legal team had initially attempted to block them from doing.

Just prior to the start of the tribunal hearings, the lawyer representing NHS Fife and Upton demanded that Peggie and her legal team not be allowed refer to Dr. Upton with male pronouns at any point. The lawyer has claimed that her “gratuitous misgendering” of him had caused him “pain” and “harm.”

Jane Russell urged employment judge Sandy Kemp to force Peggie and her legal team to refer to Upton in “neutral terms” throughout the case. She claimed it was “simply a matter of courtesy” to use the preferred pronouns of someone, and that it was “troubling” to have Upton “repeatedly and deliberately” misgendered.

“I’m afraid the way the claimant and her representatives are conducting this case is a form of activism, that in my submission, is contributing to a climate of hostility and hatred towards trans people, which is actively harmful and has actively harmed the second respondent. It shouldn’t be allowed,” Russell argued. But NHS Fife’s argument was rejected by the tribunal after Naomi Cunningham, representing Peggie, argued that the fact of Upton’s biological sex is “right at the heart” of her case.

During the course of proceedings, Upton has attempted to argue that he is “biologically female” as a result of taking cross-sex hormones, and that sex has “no defined or agreed meaning in science.”

But as part of their coverage, the Scottish Daily Express chose to refer to Upton as a man, issuing a statement that Upton’s biological sex was a simple fact.

“In court stories, accuracy matters above all else (as I and many other journalists before me have found out to our cost) and so we believe the most accurate way of describing Dr. Upton is as a man, albeit one who is choosing to live as a woman,” editor Ben Borland wrote in the statement.

Because of this editorial decision, Borland was reported to Police Scotland by the SEEN Police Official Open Public Network, an account on X which claims it is dedicated to “challenging illegal policing decisions motivated by fear, hate, laziness or incompetence.” However, the Network has claimed that Police Scotland have yet to sufficiently action on the report.

Note that SEEN Police Official Open Public Network has no relation to Police SEEN UK, an advocacy group which serves officers and police staff who “hold lawful sex realist and gender critical beliefs” and seeks to remove ideological influences from policing.

We have submitted a second report to Police Scotland of targeted harassment of Dr Beth Upton by the Scottish Daily Express editor, Ben Borland.

This links to our first report, which Police Scotland are currently REFUSING to deal with. In this new incident, Borland explains..

— SEEN Police Official Open Public Network (@SEENpoliceUK) February 15, 2025

“This links to our first report, which Police Scotland are currently REFUSING to deal with. In this new incident, Borland explains his reasons for intentional and gratuitous misgendering and deadnaming are ‘simply stating a fact’ and other well-worn ‘gender critical’ tropes.  Yet, he is fully aware he is causing harassment and distress,” the account claims.

They suggest that if Police Scotland don’t act, it will “end badly” for them, as not arresting Borland would be tantamount to a “breach of the Equality Act,” despite UK law recognizing the rights of gender critical people under the act.

“We are ready to apply for judicial review if this continues any longer. We will not allow Police Scotland to go on excluding the trans section of the public from the protection of a police service – which is effectively what they are doing, and have been doing since their infamous cowardice with JK Rowling,” they continued. The account was likely referring to the refusal of Police Scotland to charge JK Rowling last year under the country’s new hate crime law, which created a new offence of “stirring up hatred” related to protected characteristics such as gender identity.

“They are fobbing us off and know they are wrong,” the account concluded. “FAFO [f**k around and find out] Police Scotland. FAFO.”

Despite the threatening conclusion of their public statement, a Police Scotland spokesman told the Scottish Daily Express that they had “received a report on Friday, 7 February and a further report on Saturday, 15 February,” but that “on both occasions the information was assessed and no further police action was required.”

The SEEN Police Official Open Public Network account has repeatedly engaged in conspiratorial posting. According to the account, the assassination of Donald Trump was “staged,” and the President was never hit, and that criticizing transgender ideology is tantamount to “Christo-fascism.”

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A German left-wing extremist who attacked multiple innocent people in Budapest after mistaking them for “Nazis” claimed to be “non-binary” in an effort to avoid extradition to Hungary. Simeon Ravi Trux is now demanding to be returned to Germany on the basis that Hungary is “gender-, homo-, and trans-hostile.”

Trux, 23, is a member of a left-wing militant group called “Hammerbande,” which was established in Leipzig, Germany, in 2017. The group is known for assaulting individuals they label as “right wing” with hammers and batons. Often, they have no basis for associating their targets with the “far-right” beyond unconfirmed assumptions.

On February 9, 2023, Trux travelled from his home in Jena, Germany, to participate in an assault on three people in front of a café in Budapest, Hungary. The attackers injured the victims by bludgeoning them with their weapons, causing them to suffer bruises, contusions, and fractures. 

These attacks occurred around the so-called “Day of Honor” in Hungary, when neo-Nazis and right-wing extremist groups from all over Europe travel to glorify the failed breakout attempt by the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS from Budapest, besieged by the Red Army in 1945. However, Trux and his associates are said to have assaulted random people who they believed to be far-right simply on the basis of their clothing colors.

Following the attack, Trux fled back to Germany.

Hungarian law enforcement issued a European arrest warrant against Trux for membership in a criminal organization and grievous bodily harm. He was finally apprehended by German law enforcement in December of 2023 and placed in pre-trial detention in Dresden. At that time, public broadcasters like Tagesschau reported him as being a “man” named “Simeon T.”

In February of 2024, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office took over the investigation against “the German national Simeon T.” and obtained an arrest warrant from the Federal Court of Justice against him. The case was taken over by federal prosecutors due to its particular significance, as Trux is a member of a criminal organization which, according to the investigative authorities, promotes a “militant left-wing extremist ideology” that sought to use “violence against members of the political right-wing spectrum.”

However, during his pre-trial detention, Trux began claiming to be a “non-binary person” and using the name “Maja.”

Trux’s lawyers submitted a comprehensive statement arguing that Trux would not receive a fair trial in Hungary due to his gender identity. Trux’s attorney, Maik Elster, obtained an interim injunction from the Federal Constitutional Court in June 2024, preventing Trux’s extradition to the Republic of Hungary, arguing that Hungary has “gender-, homo-, and trans-hostile policies.”

The court responsible for Trux’s extradition to Hungary was urged to not rely on “information provided by the Hungarian authorities,” and stressed that the Hungarian prison system “does not maintain a register of prisoners’ gender identity,” but only records their sex. They argued that Trux would be classified as a male in the system, placing him at risk of harm.

However, the injunction from the Federal Constitutional Court was granted slightly too late, and was imposed just a few hours after Trux had already been transferred to Austria as the first leg of his transport to Hungary.

According to Die Welt, Trux was flown to Austria by helicopter at 2 AM by the State Criminal Police Office because authorities feared attacks by militant left-wing extremists who had threatened to prevent his extradition “by any means.”

As reported by Tagesspiegel, left-wing extremists called for violence against judges and officials following the news Trux had already been sent to Hungary. The activists claimed that “the time for demonstrations was over,” and that no one involved in the process “should be able to sleep peacefully.”

Since Trux was extradited to Hungary, there have been repeated marches by violent left-wing extremists, particularly in strongholds of left-wing autonomists like Hamburg, Berlin, and Leipzig.

They have adopted the chat “Free Maja,” referring to Truss’s newfound “non-binary” identity, and are accusing the German state of putting him in harm’s way by sending him to a country that does not recognize his gender identity.

Trux’s lawyers have also successfully filed a constitutional complaint, claiming that the extradition was a violation of Article 4 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU), as determined by the Federal Constitutional Court in its decision on February 6, 2025. According to the ruling, the court did not do enough to assess whether or not Trux would be safe, as a non-binary person, in a Hungarian prison.

The first Hungarian hearing in the Trux case is scheduled for February 21, 2025, and, after a possible conviction, he may be returned to Germany.

When Trux was arrested and extradited to Hungary, the Self-Determination Act had not yet come into force in Germany, meaning he would have been charged under his birth sex and name. But since November 1, the process for changing legal name and sex markers on official documents has been dramatically eased, and even criminals are able to obtain new documents upon request.

Since the implementation of the Act, almost 15.000 individuals in Germany have altered their legal sex, a figure which significantly surpasses the initial estimate of 4,000 total changes per year. 

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A court has heard that a prominent LGBT activist from Surrey, UK, raped a 12 year old boy after inviting him over to smoke marijuana. Stephen Ireland, who founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, is currently facing a lengthy list of criminal charges related to the sexual abuse of children.

Ireland has been charged alongside his housemate, David Sutton, who also volunteered with his LGBT activist group.

The two men are jointly charged with 15 offenses relating to the sexual abuse of children, including four counts of arranging the commission of a child sex offense, six counts of conspiracy to sexually assault a child, and one count of conspiracy to kidnap a child.

Sutton is also facing five additional counts on charges involving the production of indecent photographs of children. Ireland is facing an additional 20 counts, including raping a child and causing a child to engage in sexual activity. Prosecutors say the offenses occurred between August 2022 and July 2024. Almost all of the children in question were male.

UK: A prominent LGBT activist has been arrested on 37 total charges related to rape and sexual abuse of children under the age of 13.

Stephen Ireland, founder of Pride in Surrey, previously spoke at an LGBT event hosted by local police.https://t.co/Ko4yxfy5Ji

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) August 16, 2024

This week, Guildford Crown Court heard that the pair deliberately targeted children “for their sexual proclivities,” an allegation both of them are set to tell jurors was completely “ill-founded” and “untrue.”

During proceedings, it was revealed that in April of 2024, Ireland contacted the 12-year-old victim through gay dating app Grindr. Ireland then met with the child, and took him back to his flat to sexually assault him. According to a police interview conducted with the victim at a later date, pornography had been playing at Ireland’s residence on a laptop.

Following the assault, Ireland began to refer to the child as his “secret underage boy” in an encrypted Telegram chat, saying it was “naughty and kinky” that the victim was just 12 years old. Ireland also reportedly asked the boy if he would have a threesome with him and Sutton; Sutton allegedly received a message from Ireland about the boy later.

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

Ireland was invited to speak by the police multiple times, including at a training day for their LGBT task force.

We're looking forward to once again taking part in Pride in Surrey, which is being hosted in #Godalming this Sat (25 Sept)🏳️‍🌈.
Follow @PrideInSurrey for details on the event, and @SurreyBeatLGBT who will be there on the day helping keep the community safe!https://t.co/iGFNJfd6du pic.twitter.com/IAyjdoh5yd

— Surrey Police (@SurreyPolice) September 21, 2021

Disturbingly, Surrey Police visited a local senior school with Pride in Surrey on June 6 last year, shortly before Ireland was arrested on child sexual abuse charges. The timing of the investigation indicates that police were already aware that Ireland would be prosecuted, yet still collaborated with him on the youth-based project.

Ireland also had extensive connections to the education system, having been a patron of the trans activist charity Educate and Celebrate, which created lesson plans and resources for schools in order to “embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation” into the fabric of educational institutions.

Another patron of the organization is Peter Tatchell, who has repeatedly drawn controversy for making sympathetic comments about child sexual abuse and pedophilia. Ireland once cited Tatchell as an “inspiration” in a glowing social media post from 2023.

In 2017, the charity placed books encouraging children to question their gender on their reading lists for nurseries and primary schools – meaning they would be accessible to children as young as three years old.

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

In August of 2024, Reduxx learned that Ireland had further used his influence in the LGBT community to groom and encourage a teen girl to embrace being “transgender.”

In 2018, the 40-year-old communicated with “Julie,” then 16, telling her to come to the Pride in Surrey event that year. One year later, at the August 2019 Pride event, Julie can be seen dressed in “leather pup” fetish gear, a community most associated with gay males that involve sexually submissive partners roleplaying as dogs. In the photo, Ireland can be seen holding a lead fastened around the teenage girl’s neck.

Julie began volunteering with Pride in Surrey when she was just 17, a move that she credited with giving her the backing to take testosterone, and undergo a double mastectomy and hysterectomy. Ireland spent her 18th birthday with her, while she was wearing the pup fetish gear. The alleged child sexual abuser had previously defended minors being involved in the pup community, claiming children “inherently understand everything.”

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A trans-identified male in Norway recently convicted of beating his female partner to death with a baseball bat has had his sentence reduced on appeal. Despite the crime being committed by a male, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), which is subsidized by the government, has described the killer as a “woman.”

On the evening of November 27, 2023, a 22 year-old female who went by the name Oliver Ravn Rønning was beaten to death with a baseball bat at her apartment in Porsgrunn, which she had just moved into days before with her partner after having met via an LGBT dating app that summer. Rønning is a female who identifies as a man, while her partner, who Reduxx will refer to as Jonas, is a 19 year-old male who identifies as a woman.

The couple had just been married five days prior to the murder.

A trans-identified male is in custody for the brutal murder of his trans-identified female partner in Norway.

The suspect, who identifies as a "woman," physically abused the victim, who identifies as a "man," in the weeks leading up to the murder.https://t.co/rvGDaaWLCT

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) June 5, 2024

Leading up to the November 2023 murder, Jonas had previously been reported to police multiple times for domestic violence against Rønning.

According to police reports, on October 12 Jonas had pinned Rønning down, and strangled her as he beat her head into the floor. While being questioned by police on her injuries, Rønning explained that her head was hit so hard that she temporarily lost hearing in one ear. She also stated that she had hoped to seek emergency care, but was prohibited from doing so by Jonas. Following the incident, police assessed Jonas as being at a “medium risk” for recurring violence.

Two weeks later, police were again called to the scene after Jonas had engaged in the same style of physically abusive behavior. After this, authorities re-classified the trans-identified male as having a “high risk of violence.”

However, despite being aware of ongoing abuse, authorities did not take appropriate action to prevent the homicide – a matter which has now been taken up by Marit Storeng, head of prosecution investigations in the Bureau of Police Affairs.

Attorney General Helene Holtvedt, when initially handing down a sixteen-year prison sentence at the Telemark District Court, was convinced that Jonas killed Rønning for attempting to end the relationship. Holtvedt stated that no mitigating factors ought to be taken into account, and that the killing was a “brutal act committed with great intensity.”

Two court-appointed experts, psychologist Karin Susanne Nordby Johansen and psychiatrist Ove Westgård, testified that they believed Jonas was likely to commit a violent crime again in the future.

However, Jonas’ defense attorneys, Heidi Ysen and Tore Moen, appealed the murder conviction and requested an acquittal on the claim that the trans-identified male had beat the young woman with a bat in self-defense. Jonas attempted to claim that it was in fact Rønning who had been abusive towards him during the course of their brief relationship.

“She has admitted that she beat Oliver to death,” said Ysen, referring to the male defendant with feminine pronouns. “She has been doing that ever since she was arrested, but it was in self-defense.”

The judges in the Agder Court of Appeal disagreed with the acquittal request, and noted that, “Violence, threats of violence, and social control of the other are a repetitive pattern of action in the defendant’s relationships.”

Despite this, the Court of Appeal reduced Jonas’ sentence from 16 years to 14 and a half years.

The Institute of Forensic Medicine determined that Jonas struck Rønning in the head at least seven times. The victim’s mother witnessed the brutal murder of her daughter from outside of the apartment, having run to the window when she heard the young woman crying out in pain.

Rønning’s mother was aware that her daughter was in an abusive relationship and had tried to convince her to leave. On the night of November 27, they had returned to the apartment in Porsgrunn so that Oliver could pick up her bank card, code chip, phone and laptop.

After the young woman rang the doorbell, Jonas appeared with a baseball bat and beat Rønning to death just inside the entrance as her mother ran to the window and rapped on the glass desperately, begging him to stop.

News outlet Kragerø Blad has reported that Jonas “began to dress in girls’ clothes” while in high school, and was described by those who know him as someone who “could become enraged over little things.”

Some Norwegian sources have speculated that both Rønning and Jonas were once patients of a prominent gender clinician who was recently deemed “unfit to practice responsibly” by the Norwegian Health Authority. Rønning’s parents confirmed that their daughter was given testosterone by Esben ‘Esther Pirelli’ Benestad, a clinician who himself identifies as transgender, and who had his medical license revoked over malpractice issues related to minors. But Østlandsposten reported that Jonas had begun illicit hormones without medical supervision just before the slaying.

The murder has received significant attention and media coverage in Norway. However, the language used to describe the case has perplexed some readers. Many news reports have altered language used to refer to both the victim and suspect, or have described the case as one in which a woman violently beat her husband to death, obfuscating the sexes of those involved completely.

Yet in official records, the deceased 22-year-old victim is registered as a woman, while the trans-identified male convicted of murder is registered as a man.

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