The independent LGBTI association representing police in Scotland is fundraising for a youth charity which recently referred itself to police over allegations of child sexual exploitation.

LGBT Youth Scotland, formerly the Stonewall Youth Project, is known as Scotland’s national charity for “LGBTI young people.” The charity referred itself to Police Scotland after Reduxx reported on historic abuses alleged by two former youth members.

Sam Cowie, a university student from Glasgow, described his experience with LGBT Youth Scotland to Reduxx in December of 2022. He stated that he first became involved with the charity in 2010 at the age of 15.

“At first I thought it was great. There was a diverse group of young people involved. Colorful people and people who were unapologetically themselves. It was eye-opening and a lot to take in. The staff were friendly and nurturing,” Cowie said in December.

“I really didn’t realize I was being groomed until a much later date. It started with being given cigarettes. It later progressed to being taken for drinks and given alcohol. I was given a [fake] ID by a member of staff to gain entry into adult venues. I was given things that were considered special,” Cowie explains. “A staff member also made me show him my torso in the bathroom.”

Cowie recounts being taken by charity staff to gay clubs in Edinburgh while he was underage. He was exposed to a much older group of men who began offering the vulnerable teen money in exchange for sex.

“I was plied with alcohol free of charge, encouraged to sleep with older men and given money to perform sexual acts,” Cowie had told Reduxx.

Cowie cut ties with the charity at 17 and, now an adult, he is speaking out about his experience and demanding answers. Specifically, Cowie has been pursuing answers as to why a safeguarding investigation was not carried out into the organization after their former Chief Executive Officer, James Rennie, was convicted of organizing Scotland’s “largest pedophile network” in 2009, just one year before Cowie became involved with the charity.

James Rennie became Chief Executive Officer of LGBT Youth Scotland in 2003. In 2007, his pedophile ring was uncovered following a lengthy operation by Lothian and Borders police.

As well as collecting thousands of images and videos of child sexual abuse, Rennie also sexually abused his own infant godson over a four-year period. The abuse started when the child was just 3 months old. Rennie had also used the e-mail handle “kplover,” (kiddie porn lover) to communicate with another pedophile who described how he would like to rape, torture, and murder a child.

While soliciting child sexual abuse materials, Rennie once sent an email specifically requesting material featuring “young Down’s syndrome or learning difficulty kids.”

Rennie’s accomplice and fellow ringleader, Neil Strachan, had also sexually abused an infant boy, attempting to sodomize him while being HIV positive.

“Although I was young, many people involved in this charity were in their twenties and thirties, and, as far as I can tell, there was no safeguarding or anything. In fact, it seemed more like a social network to connect older men with [often vulnerable] teenagers.”

Nechtan told Reduxx that charity staff had encouraged him to use “gay chatrooms” where he met a 24 year-old man pretending to be a 16 year-old boy. He describes how the older man became his “boyfriend”. Nechtan explained that through his older “boyfriend” and the older men he were met through the charity, he was encouraged to accept payment in exchange for sexual acts. He also explained how he met Rennie and Strachan through the charity, the leaders of Scotland’s “largest pedophile ring.”

Nechtan explained how they would buy him drink and drugs as a teen. Rennie and Strachan would give him alcohol in exchange for sexual contact. On one occasion, Strachan allegedly instructed Nechtan, who was then aged 17, to have sex with a 16 year old boy in front of him. Despite Nechtan’s experience, LGBT Youth Scotland claimed at the time of Rennie’s arrest that no youth members of the organization had been impacted by his predation.

Following the Reduxx exclusive in December of 2022, LGBT Youth Scotland released a statement on their website addressing the allegations.

“LGBT Youth Scotland are aware of allegations of historic exploitation made by individuals who used our services in the past. LGBT Youth Scotland takes any complaints and allegations seriously and we have reported these allegations to Police Scotland and will support them fully with any investigation.”

Speaking to Reduxx on behalf of LGBT Youth Scotland, Holyrood Public Relations provided the Police Scotland reference number associated with the investigation and confirming that they had in fact referred the allegations to police. But Police Scotland has repeatedly refused to provide concrete details on the nature of the investigation despite multiple requests.

Despite an ostensibly open police investigation involving the charity and calls for them to be investigated by the UK charity commission for alleged child abuses, Scottish LGBTI Police Association announced on February 24 that they were crowdfunding on behalf of LGBT Youth Scotland.

In the description of their crowdfunder, the Scottish LGBTI Police Association wrote that LGBT Youth Scotland creates “safe spaces” for “LGBTI young people aged 13-25.” The Association is an independent membership group for police officers and policing staff in Scotland. They are officially recognized by the Scottish Government, Scottish Police Authority, Police Scotland and UK-wide police forces including British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence Police and Civil Nuclear Constabulary.

The Scottish LGBTI Police Association shared their fundraiser on Twitter but were met with backlash from twitter users who pointed out the on-going investigation into the charity.

The Scottish women’s rights organisation, For Women Scotland, responded to the Scottish LGBTI Police association saying: “Aren’t the police supposed to be investigating this organization? Do @PoliceScotland make a habit of raising money for groups under investigation for child grooming and abuse?”

Survivor Sam Cowie also spoke out against the association on twitter calling the fundraiser “an absolute kick in the teeth,” and said he felt the move would send the wrong message to other alleged victims of LGBTYS who might be considering coming forward.

“Police Scotland are raising funds for the charity that groomed me and others. The same Police Scotland that aren’t doing anything to help me. The same Police Scotland that investigated former CEO paedophile of this charity and said his crimes weren’t connected to his role,” Cowie wrote on Twitter.

Scottish LGBTI Police Association have since put their Twitter account on private, but the crowdfunding page is still active.

The fundraiser was part of Purple Friday, a campaign organized by LGBT Youth Scotland to encourage people to show support for “LGBTI young people” by donating to their charity. However, the charity has only raised £1,612 on this year’s Purple Friday, their largest fundraising drive, despite having a target of £25,000.

On their official TikTok, the Scottish LGBTI Police Association made a music video about their efforts.

The funds are purportedly being used to fund LGBT Youth Scotland services and resources. As well as offering youth groups for children as young as 13, the charity provides information packages for public education, such as one created for school teachers to use on “international pronoun day.”

Other resources offered by the charity include a detailed sex guide for girls as young as 13 which includes information about anal sex, sex toys, oral sex and masturbation.

LGBT Youth Scotland also manages a scheme for employers and schools. They award businesses their “LGBT Charter” if they complete their program which involves training and a review of policies and procedures.

The Edinburgh division of the Scottish police signed up to the LGBT Youth Scotland’s LGBT Charter in 2021.

In addition to the police, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner of Scotland is also directing young people to use LGBT Youth Scotland’s services while the investigation into the organization’s potential misconduct ongoing.

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Norway’s most prominent transgender activist and gender clinician has had his medical license revoked following an investigation by the Norwegian Health Authority (NHA).

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, 73, a trans-identified male who has advocated for the concept of a “eunuch gender,” was previously investigated twice by the NHA for disregarding recommended safe practice policies in his medical treatment of minors. In 2021 it was revealed that he had privately administered puberty-blocking drugs and hormones to a teenager who went on to die by suicide. Benestad has also been active in the leading transgender medical organization, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

Reduxx has reviewed the 42-page decision handed down by the NHA detailing the reasons for their decision to revoke Benestad’s license to practice as a clinician. The health authorities stated that Benestad was declared “unfit to practice responsibly due to a substantial lack of professional insight, irresponsible activity, and substantial breaches of duty.”

Though the report acknowledges that Benestad has had support and praise from some of his clients, the inspectors pointed to several specific cases which were made known to them through complaints lodged by either family members or unnamed individuals. 

Of particular concern to the health authorities was Benestad’s tendency to neglect both the opinions of colleagues and nationally recommended protocols.

“We consider that you do not cooperate with other health personnel to a sufficient extent,” stated the authorities in their report.

“The National Health Inspectorate has also assessed that you do not follow the Norwegian Health Authority’s national guidance in your treatment of patients with gender incongruence. We consider it worrying that you justify this by saying that no one else has enough expertise or resources to provide this treatment, or that they advocate a method of treatment that you do not agree with.”

Benestad had been giving puberty-halting drugs to adolescents under questionable circumstances. 

The treatment of “gender incongruence” is overseen by Oslo University Hospital, or Rikshospitalet, which requires that a psychiatric assessment be undertaken prior to the implementation of medical intervention. Despite this regulation, Benestad had been repeatedly providing hormones and puberty-halting drugs to patients who were refused the medications following an assessment by professionals at Rikshospitalet.

The ages of the patients were redacted to protect their identities, and therefore it is unclear how young the children were at the time that medical intervention was initiated. However, in the past, Benestad has indicated that he has prescribed puberty-halting drugs to a boy that he began treating at the age of nine, an incident that spurred the first investigation into his practice by health authorities.

“We believe that by your actions you have breached the basic requirements set for you as a doctor,” the inspectors said in the report’s conclusion. “You come across as incorrigible and unwilling to conform to current guidelines for good practice. Consideration of public trust, quality and safety in the health and care service must weigh more heavily than consideration of you as a healthcare professional. In our opinion, the circumstances in question are of such a serious nature that we consider it necessary to revoke your authorization.”

Responding to news of the loss of his medical license, Benestad spoke to Norwegian media and asserted that he had not deviated from national protocols. 

“The Norwegian Health Authority does not understand that you can be a champion and a professional at the same time,” he told VG. “I have followed national and international guidelines in everything I have done.”

These statements contradict previous comments Benestad has made.

During a November 2009 interview recorded at Benestad’s office in Oslo, the clinician admitted to using his celebrity status to medically transition children and boasted of neglecting national guidelines.

“Parents of kids who don’t perform gender the way ‘they should’ often call me because they have seen me on television. The first kid I ever met was nine years old. She was a somatic boy, she had a penis but felt like a girl,” Benestad said.

Benestad went on to explain that he was aware of research being conducted in the Netherlands that involved the halting of pubertal development. This research, beginning in 2006, would go on to be called The Dutch Protocol and established the practice of medicating children with drugs that are currently euphemistically called “puberty blockers”, but which have also been called “chemical castration” by medical experts, as the drugs have historically been given to the most dangerous convicted sex offenders.

Referring to the nine-year-old patient using feminine pronouns, Benestad stated that it was possible to “postpone puberty in cases like hers,” and that he proceeded to do so. Following this move, Benestad said he was “turned in by the GID Clinic psychiatrist who said that this was the wrong medical treatment,” and that he had “another malpractice case pending with the Norwegian Health Authority.”

During the 2009 interview, Benestad gloated about winning the case, and added that he had a warning “hanging over” his head.

“If I do this again, they’ll take my license away,” Benestad acknowledged, adding that he could still prescribe hormones, despite attempts to prevent him from doing so.

“There is an old Latin saying that the drops will carve out the stone, not by its force, but by its constant dripping. So I have made my life a constant dripping,” he added.

In the video, Benestad can be heard joking about his prior malpractice investigations with the interviewer. Laughing, he said: “I have to face the health authorities, not the legal authorities. They would not send me to jail. They would have problems finding what jail to put me in anyway,” he says, adding that any prison cell he would potentially be placed in should have “a nice wardrobe and lots of big mirrors.”

Benestad was first investigated in 2004 by the NHA for providing puberty-blocking drugs to young boys under the age of 14 in violation of Norwegian law. In September 2003, Chief Medical Officer at Rikshospitalet, Arnt Jakobsen, wrote a letter to the medical authorities describing Benestad’s practices as questionable, and referred to a boy between the ages of 14 – 15 who had been given “female sex hormones.”

In 2008, Benestad was again reported to Norway’s health authorities for misconduct related to three female patients he had referred for radical mastectomies. Benestad had fabricated diagnoses of health conditions in order to bypass medical guidelines and secure the female patients the procedures. Their ages are not known.

Years later, it was revealed that another young patient under the age of 16 being given cross-sex hormones by Benestad had taken their own life. 

The youth had been placed on drugs to halt puberty by National Treatment Service for Gender Incongruence (NBTK) at Rikshospitalet. While on puberty blockers, the teen was also privately being administered hormones by Benestad, thereby undermining the NBTK’s policy banning cross-sex hormones for minors under the age of 16. Shortly after, the child’s treatment was again overtaken by NBTK. Approximately four months later, the unnamed minor committed suicide.

In addition to his clinical work, Benestad has an academic career which spans two decades, with his primary focus being on paraphilias. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Adger. 

Benestad has advocated for normalizing sexual fetishes and is largely credited with introducing the concept of “gender euphoria” as an alternative to “gender dysphoria.”

In 2017, Benestad and his spouse and co-professor, Elsa Almås, founder of the Norwegian Association for Clinical Sexology (NFKS) co-authored an article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine titled, Autogynephilia and Autoandrophilia Revisited, which argues that the sexual arousal men experience through transvestic crossdressing should be normalized, and “interpreted not as an underlying paraphilia that is the primary motivation for becoming a woman/man (because the person is turned on by the image of oneself as a woman/man), but as a learned erotic variation that is natural in persons who are attracted to women/men, and to persons who experience the erotic qualities of womens’/mens’ garments.”

Benestad was also listed as a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) until as recently as November, but at the time of this writing his membership is no longer publicly visible on the organization’s website.

The gender clinician has spoken at and attended conferences hosted by WPATH and has exerted influence on their policies. 

Benestad was present at a WPATH conference held in June of 2009 where academics involved in a pedophilic and sadomasochistic fetish forum presented a concept of a “eunuch” gender identity. The concept would later be incorporated into official WPATH Standards of Care guidance, and appears to have influenced Benestad’s own interest in the subject.

Benestad has advocated a theory of seven gender identities, one of which he calls the “eunuch gender,” a concept which he briefly mentioned in a 2009 interview, and again wrote about in a 2010 paper titled, From gender dysphoria to gender euphoria: An assisted journey.

In the paper, Benestad claims to have met members of the “eunuch gender” and cites a website called the Eunuch Archive as being a source for his research.

Reduxx has previously reported on the identities of several academics involved in the Eunuch Archive, and revealed that the forum is dedicated to producing and hosting graphic written depictions of child sexual abuse involving themes of castration, torture, and snuff. 

Many of the Eunuch Archive fantasy materials center around children having their puberty halted, either chemically or surgically. In some narratives, children with stunted puberty are raped by doctors. In others, children are castrated by force as part of a sadistic sexual torture ritual.

Benestad has recently estimated the number of patients he has seen in his 37-year-long career to be between approximately 1,800–2,000 in total. Prior to administering puberty-blocking drugs to under-18’s, Benestad was treating child sexual abusers, which he has referred to as “pedosexuals,” and insisted pedophilia was a common human trait.

“We’ve all been pedosexuals once,” Benestad told VG in 1998, and cited “prevailing taboo notions” around pedophilia as a cause for child sexual abuse. The clinician’s statements mirror those made by pro-pedophilia lobbying groups, as well as those made by a German sexologist credited with coining the term ‘cisgender.’

Benestad has announced that he intends to appeal the decision to revoke his medical license through a process which will take approximately three weeks to review.

Reduxx contacted the University of Agder for comment on the investigation into Benestad’s medical practices, and the removal of his license to practice.

Dean Anders Johan W. Andersen responded by saying that when considering Benestad for employment, the university evaluated his credentials “in the same manner as every other applicant seeking a promotion to Professor, according to the laws and regulations at that time, and was by a scientific committee found worthy of this title.”

When asked whether university officials supported Benestad’s position on the medical ‘transitioning’ of children, Dean Andersen replied that the university does not “‘support’ individual researcher’s views,” but rather “their academic freedom to research and publish their scientific findings.”

In 2021, a student in the University of Adgder’s sexology department told the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation that she had decided to forego a study trip in Oslo after receiving a letter providing a required dress code that included fetish gear on the theme of “lacquer and rubber.” The study trip, she said, was planned for a BDSM club called Cat People.

In response to news of the NHA’s decision to revoke Benestad’s medical license, Norway’s leading trans activist lobbying group, Foreningen FRI (FRI), and the Norwegian Patient Organization for Gender Incongruence (PKI), both expressed support for the former gender clinician.

“The news that the country’s leading therapist in the field is losing [his] authorization hit us with shock and disbelief,” said Inge Alexander Gjestvang, head of FRI, using feminine pronouns to refer to Benestad. “This means that she cannot continue to provide the wonderful help to those of us who have needed the best professional practitioner in the field of gender diversity in Norway.”

FRI, previously known as The National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation, has worked towards the repeal of sexual paraphilias and fetishes as mental health diagnoses in both Norway and abroad since 1997. FRI’s campaigns successfully resulted in sadomasochism, transvestic fetishism, and general fetishism being re-classified as variants in sexual arousal in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

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The attorney who assisted in the prosecution of a transgender child molester has reportedly been suspended from his role by the District Attorney’s office after being accused “misgendering and deadnaming” the predator.

Shea Sanna, who had been the lead prosecuting attorney for part of the case of Hannah Tubbs, has been suspended for 5 days without pay by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon. Fox News was first to report the details in an article which used “she/her” pronouns to refer to the offender.

Sanna had previously argued Tubbs was attempting to use his gender identity to receive favorable treatment from the justice system, something Fox sources say made others in Gascon’s office uncomfortable and ultimately led to the suspension. Sanna had based his opinion on comments Tubbs himself had made.

Tubbs, born James, was sentenced last year in connection to the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl in 2014. The predator was only two weeks shy of his 18th birthday when he followed the young girl into the bathroom of a Denny’s in Palmdale, California. He grabbed her by the throat and forced his hand down her pants, only stopping his assault when someone entered the restroom, and then ran away before he could be detained. It was later learned that Tubbs had committed a similar act of sexual violence upon a 4-year-old girl at a California library just one year prior.

Prior to moving to California from Idaho, Tubbs had a lengthy criminal record under his birth name.

In a decision which would spark international backlash, Tubbs was handed what was considered an outrageously short sentence after pleading guilty to the 2014 crime as part of a bargain.

Tubbs was initially sentenced to two years in a juvenile facility housing female youth because of his gender identity, and the fact he was technically a minor when he committed the crime. He was also told he wouldn’t have to register as a sex offender following the completion of his sentence.

It was quickly revealed that the short sentence was a result of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon repeatedly refusing to transfer Tubbs’ case to adult court, limiting the scope of possible sentencing options.

In February of last year, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin released exclusive audio from an in-custody phone call between Tubbs and his father in which he laughed and boasted about the lenient sentence he had been offered. The recording appears to have been from just before the final decisions in the case were made.

“Don’t worry about it. It’s a strike, but they’re gonna plead, I’m [going to] plead out to them and then plead guilty. They’re going to stick me on probation. And it’s going to be dropped. It’s going to be done, done. I won’t have to register,” Tubbs says in one recording, to which his father responded with confusion, seemingly not understanding how his son’s crime would result in no severe penalty.

“For offender… you won’t have to register?” Tubbs’ father asks, to which Tubbs responds, “I won’t have to do none of that!”

But Tubbs’ light sentence would ultimately be cut short after prosecutors in Kern County issued felony charges against him, including murder and robbery, in connection with the 2019 death of Michael Clark.

According to local KGET coverage, Clark’s decomposed body was discovered in the Kern River in August 2019. Prosecutors brought charges against Tubbs earlier this month after ongoing investigation into the case resulted in enough evidence for a Judge to bind Tubbs for trial.

Tubbs is currently being held in Kern County awaiting trial on the felony charges. He is listed under his birth name, and is housed at the Lerdo Justice Facility with an anticipated hearing date of March 17.

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A man who identifies as transgender has admitted to sexually assaulting two female volunteers at a local food bank. Graeme Beck, 53, who also uses the name Jane Beck, targeted the women for abuse while working in the kitchen in the cities of Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, between 2021 and 2022. Additionally, Beck also admitted to having exposed his penis to coworkers in a separate incident.

Beck was also accused of repeatedly assaulting a 13-year-old girl but entered a plea of not guilty to the charge relating to that allegation, The Scottish Sun reported. He will return to court in April.

Beck was set to go on trial on Thursday, February 23, facing four charges total but instead decided to plead guilty to three of the four counts — including two of sexual assault and one of offending public decency.

The court heard how Beck began to frighten the female volunteers at the Fed Up Community Cafe at Stranraer Baptist Church, a facility for adults struggling with alcohol and drug dependencies and financial problems. The sexual incidents began in October of 2021, when Beck was a patron of the services at the food bank.

In November of 2021, Beck began volunteering in the kitchen, and was afforded more close contact with some of the female volunteers, including the one he’d already harassed.

Imran Hussein, prosecuting, told the court that the first victim said that “Beck was nice to her at the beginning,” but quickly began to develop a habit of touching her without her consent. She explained that Beck grabbed her by the arm, and, when she asked what he was doing, replied “just a wee bit of Strictly,” in a reference to the television program Strictly Come Dancing.

On other occasions, Beck would approach the woman from behind and “slide [his] body against the back of the complainer,” according to the prosecutor.

Hussein added: “It was full physical contact – it was deliberate, sexually motivated and the complainer developed a genuine fear of the accused.”

Despite the sexual nature of the crimes, Hussein used “she/her” pronouns to refer to Beck in his statements to the court.

A second female volunteer told the court that Beck had sexually groped her during what she had thought would be nothing more than a friendly hug. As she moved away, she said the behavior constituted “sexual harassment.” Beck laughed in response, and the woman reported the incident to the police.

In a separate incident related to his work with cosmetics company Avon, the court was told how Beck would participate in weekly conference calls from his home in Stranraer with colleagues between October and December 2021.

“The accused would wear a loosely tied dressing gown with nothing on underneath,” said Hussein. “The accused was warned on several occasions in relation to her attire by one of the complainers. On at least two occasions, the accused’s camera slipped, exposing her penis which was seen by other members,” Hussein said, using feminine pronouns to refer to Beck despite describing his genitals.

Beck, originally from Leeds, had been previously jailed for two years in 2008 after sexually assaulting a sleeping woman he met through volunteer work conducted through a Christian organization.

The woman, who began to trust him, had allowed him to sleep on her couch, and was horrified to discover that he had climbed into her bed, completely nude, before attempting to rape her.

When Beck appeared in court in August 2008, his lawyer Robert Campbell claimed: “It could have been worse.”

Speaking to the Ayrshire Post during the court case, the victim said: “His lawyer said in court that it could have been worse. How could it have been worse? That is a ludicrous statement. I thought I was going to die. I was attacked in my own home, the place where I should be most safe.”

Campbell further attempted to argue that the victim was to blame, having allowed Beck back into her home the following day.

The victim blasted Beck’s lawyer in press, stating the defender had gotten the facts of the case completely incorrect: “How mad would I have to be to do that after what happened? That is factually incorrect … He ran off to Leeds the next day, where he was arrested. I had police and forensics teams in my house the whole day,” she said.

“It was also claimed in court that he left when I asked him to. Again, that isn’t true. I had to fight for my life to get him off me. He had his hand on my throat, I thought I would never see my children again.”

Beck had told the woman that he was unable to return to his own residence to sleep, claiming he had allowed another person to stay the night there.

“He tried to make out in court that we were in a relationship,” the victim told the press. “I had never been alone with this man before. I didn’t want to have him sleeping over in my house but as an act of kindness, I let him.”

“I’ve been through hell,” she added at the time, foreshadowing the most recent attacks by stating: “He is evil and I believe he will strike again.”

For the 2008 attack, he was placed on the sex offenders’ registrar for a term of 10 years, but his name would have been removed in 2018. Since pleading guilty to three of the more recent sex offenses he was charged with, Beck has been re-added to the register ahead of his anticipated sentencing in April. He has also been referred for a criminal justice social work report and risk assessment.

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Trans activists violently attempted to siege Mexico City’s Congress on Tuesday after an initiative was introduced to ban minors from accessing “gender affirming” surgery.

The initiative was first introduced by América Rangel, a representative from the conservative National Action Party (PAN), on February 9, and sought to both prohibit the interventions as well as punish medical providers who do not comply with the law.

Rangel is alleged to have been the target of the activist aggression, posting that she believed the activists were specifically attempting to get to her.

In disturbing footage circulated on Twitter from both inside and outside of the House of Congress, a hoard of screaming trans activists were seen smashing their way into the historic building by beating and breaking the glass window panels open. The building was further insulated by decorative cage-style doors which had been locked shut, but the activists managed to dislodge several of the bars and create a pathway for them to enter.

Victoria Sámano, a trans-identified male who had been directing the protest, was the first to jump through the entry, pushing his way through the security guards trying to defend the building and getting into a physical altercation with some of them. Other activists quickly followed Sámano’s lead, and began forcing their way through the passage they had created in the bars.

Once inside the building, more damage was done as the activists painted graffiti on the walls and destroyed windows. Activists got as close to their target as the doors of the Congressional hall, but were blocked by security personnel.

Un último video que muestra que claro que son un grupo violento. Eso da terror a todas las mujeres que marcharemos el #8m

¿Cómo garantizarán la seguridad de las mujeres ante la violencia de los transfemeninos @anafrancismor @GobCDMX ? pic.twitter.com/6SagKUzHQf

— Contra El Borrado de las Mujeres México (@ContraBorradoMx) February 21, 2023

The protest was ultimately quelled by riot police, who responded to the scene and used fire extinguishing gas to disperse the activists.

Sámano took to Twitter and uploaded a video of himself complaining that the guards had fought back, and suggesting that the activists had simply been peacefully demonstrating for their rights when they were brutally attacked without reason.

“We were only demanding our rights and they started beating us, they hit me in the legs. Here are the marks of how they beat me for this city. [Representatives] are more important than trans people,” he says in the video.

According to some Mexican news outlets, the parliamentary coordinator for Morena, the left-wing governing party, has assured protestors that their deputies do not plan to file a criminal complaint for the damages caused to the building.

But, dissatisfied with the response from the Congress, América Rangel has filed her own report with the Prosecutor General’s Office of Mexico yesterday.

In a video uploaded to Twitter, Rangel said she had filed a criminal complaint against the demonstrators who sieged the Congress.

“I have just filed criminal complaints against the people who assaulted the Congress of Mexico City and tried to attack me,” Rangel said in her video. “Specifically, [I] have precisely identified three people, of whom we have already given all the evidence to the Prosecutor’s Office. We also request that the investigation be carried out to find the others. We hope that the authority does its job and does not cover up if there are people from Morena behind all this. There can be nothing and no one above the law.”

Trans activists in Mexico are known for being particularly aggressive and staging aggressive or hostile demonstrations against those they disagree with.

In July of 2022, a transgender politician violently disrupted a government conference aimed at tackling human trafficking after becoming offended at the implications abolitionist policies would have on trans “sex workers.”

Maria Clemente, a trans-identified male politician elected to Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies last year, called the suggestion that the sex trade be abolished for the protection of women and children “hate speech.” To a critic, Clemente said: “I am a woman, and I am a whore!  It’s my job and and how my family eats! I love it!”

Clemente was later exposed for having allegedly lied about being in the sex trade after his ex-husband issued a scathing rebuttal of his public persona in a public letter he posted in an effort to demand Clemente finalize their divorce.

Months later, trans activists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico staged a “coup” of one of the women’s washrooms on the campus in apparent retaliation for a lesbian pride mural having been painted nearby.

The activists claimed the mural made them feel “unsafe” and demanded another gender neutral washroom be established near the Samuel Ramos Library. Less than 24 hours later, the activists took over the largest women’s restroom in the building, littering the walls with threatening vandalism directed at women who are critical of gender ideology.

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A fashion designer is going viral after alleging that beleaguered former Department of Energy official and “gender fluid” activist Sam Brinton stole her suitcase and was photographed wearing the custom clothing she had inside the luggage.

Asya Idarous Khamsin, a Tanzanian fashionista from Texas, took to Twitter on February 20 to explain that her suitcase had been stolen from Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. almost 5 years ago. Khamsin says the stolen baggage contained a number of custom-made outfits she had designed herself, and, after hearing about Brinton’s chronic luggage theft, had looked him up out of curiosity.

Shockingly, Khamsin uncovered a number of photos of Brinton wearing clothing she identified as being her creations.

While the thread has just gone viral on Twitter this week, Khamsin first tried to bring attention to Brinton’s alleged thievery in December of 2022 when she made an Instagram video showing Brinton wearing her pieces.

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In her Twitter thread, posted two days ago, she shared additional images of Brinton with side-by-sides of the clothing she had taken at other points in time.

One photo Khamsin provided showed a model walking a runway in a stunning yellow and gold dress, one which bears a design that looks impossibly similar when compared to outfits Brinton has been seen wearing in 2018 and 2019.

The gold crescent pattern on the fabric appears on many of Khamsin’s designs from her 2018 fashion show, Lady In Red.

Brinton had been photographed wearing at least two of the pieces suspected to have come from Khamsin’s luggage at the 2018 Trevor Project gala in New York City.

Shocked and appalled, social media users began digging through photos of Brinton to try to find outfits that could also be items from Khamsin’s missing luggage.

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— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) February 22, 2023

One user found a photo of Brinton wearing a top which was similar in design to the dresses, and asked Khamsin if she recognized it. The fashion designer claimed the top as yet another piece of clothing that had been in her stolen luggage.

Khamsin explained that she first looked into Brinton as a suspect after his arrest for stealing luggage was reported by Fox News. Brinton has recently been charged with stealing a woman’s luggage at a Minneapolis airport in September 2022. The contents of the luggage was valued at $2,325.

Shortly after his arrest, Brinton was charged again for stealing another woman’s suitcase in an earlier incident at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport. According to police, the suitcase contained more than $3,500 worth of jewelry, clothing, and makeup. Security footage appears to show Brinton walking through Harry Reid International Airport with the luggage in July 2022.

According to the arrest warrant, Brinton had already received his own bags from the carousel before grabbing the stranger’s luggage and making off with it.

Brinton appeared in court regarding the incident in Minneapolis on February 15. He was released without bail. He had appeared in court regarding the Las Vegas incident in December of 2022. In Nevada, bail for Brinton was set at $15,000 on a felony grand larceny charge. The Nevada judge in that case told the former nuclear waste official to “stay out of trouble.”

If found guilty of his charges, Brinton could face up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.

Prior to his arrest, Brinton worked as deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Energy’s Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition. However, he has since been released from his position after the Biden administration came under scrutiny following his arrest.

Brinton’s employment in such a high ranking government role had raised eyebrows even prior to his alleged thievery coming to light due to his profile as a “genderfluid” LGBTQ activist and “kink lifestyle.”

When Brinton was first appointed to the Biden Administration, an article by Metro Weekly featuring Brinton called “Puppy Love” began to circulate publicly.

In the article, Brinton explains his relationship with another man who pretends to be a dog called “Nubi”. “I can hear when Pup needs something faster, because of the difference in the grunts or the moans,” Brinton said. “I actually have trouble when we transition from pup play to having sex. Like, ‘No, I can’t have you whimper like that when we’re having sex,’ because I don’t want to mix that world. It’s interesting, because he doesn’t have to come out of pup mode to have me f*ck him.” Brinton told Metro Weekly.

As well as pup play, Brinton has also given talks at universities on BDSM. In one seminar titled ““Ropes, Whips, & Kinks, Oh My!!” The Polytechnic“, Brinton discussed various sexual fetishes, including adult babies, diaper play, humiliation, degradation, and more.

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A 36-year-old man who wrote a Master’s thesis on “girlcock” and BDSM has launched a paid “trans youth” mentorship program to connect adolescents with older, “experienced” transgender adults.

On February 12, CBC reported that Cat Haines was starting the program, called Into the Streets, specifically to connect “transfeminine” male youth with “transfeminine” male adults. Haines told CBC that “within Regina, there’s still a big lack of visibility of transgender communities, especially trans women and girls,” and that the program would change “the constrained view of how trans women should look or act.”

Haines is a trans rights activist who lives in Regina, Saskatchewan and received a Master’s Degree in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Regina in 2021. His thesis was titled “Transmisogyny and the Abjection of Girlcock.”

On his personal website, Haines describes the thesis as a look at “how trans women are cast as dangerous and disgusting intruders in (cissexist) feminist and lesbian spaces, theory, and media.” 

“I will argue throughout this thesis that through the metaphor of girlcock, trans women are said to be too loud, too angry, and too ‘male’ to be safely allowed into feminist and lesbian spaces.” Haines writes in the introduction. “This notion of too-much extends to our bodies as well, with the potential of our girlcocks being too-much-flesh for many cissexist lesbian and feminist spaces.”

An entire chapter of the thesis is also devoted to a lengthy discussion of the pornographic film The Training of Poe (2017). Haines argues that the film’s portrayal of a “BDSM Dominant/submissive” relationship is an example of media that “sublimes” a trans woman’s body and sexuality. 

“There are shots that allow for the fullness of Poe’s sexuality to exist, such as shots of her girlcock dripping with precum,” Haines praises.

Throughout the chapter, he proposes a framework of “BDSM and wilful submission” to “help us understand the process of material re-embodiment,” and expresses his own personal belief that there is “tremendous power in exploring and enacting Dominant/submissive style relationships.”

Haines also discusses the film’s frequent reference to the “submissive” as a “slave” and writes “to invoke the term slave within the context of BDSM is to invoke a history of violence, subjugation, and forced labour (which may be desirable elements within the scene).”

He finds the term “slave” problematic for its connections to American slavery, but he does not find “violence, subjugation, and forced labour” to be problematic within a BDSM Dominant/submissive relationship.

The supervisory and examining committee found the thesis “acceptable in form and content” and concluded that the candidate “demonstrated satisfactory knowledge of the subject material.”

Haines describes himself as both an academic and an artist with a focus on the intersection of his identities as a “dyke and a trans woman.”

In 2020, he wrote a short zine called The Lesbian Body as an update to a 1973 work by the same name and a challenge to the idea that “the lesbian body is limited to the cisgender dyadic female body.”

Using graphic and often gory language in the style of the original text, Haines expresses his frustration at being denied by “transmisogynistic lesbians” and describes a male body as a “lesbian” body.

“The women loose your dogs on m/e when I approach,” he writes, “Everything is denied m/e, even the right of asylum.”

In the next panel, he continues: “I begin to sing as you sink your teeth into the flesh of m/y cock m/y most beautiful one, m/y most feared one.”

In 2022, Haines released a second zine titled Trans Feminist Self Help Zine: Volume 0, inspired by the Feminist Self Help Movement which began in the 1970s. In the preface, Haines explains that the purpose of the zine is to trouble the term “women’s health” by invoking a “Trans Feminist Self Help Movement.”

He goes on to discuss his residency at Ender Gallery, an exhibition space inside the game Minecraft, where he had a digital art installation that he described as “a monumental reconstruction of my surgically reconstructed genitals.” Haines then details the outcomes of his surgery while speculating on his surgeon’s possible sexual motives for how it turned out:

“I always expected to be given a vulva look book, but instead my genitals were reconstructed towards a platonic ideal—a cisgender man’s fantasy of what a vulva and vagina should look like. Deep, tight, and tidy. Did my surgeon imagine how it would feel for his own cock to penetrate my soon-to-be vagina when he told me to get naked and somewhat flippantly informed me that I had more than enough material for a successful surgery? Did he wonder whether my cunt would be deep and large enough to fit not just any (and every) cock but specifically his own?”

Haines also makes short films about being a “lesbian,” including The Lovers (2021), which “attempts to unpack [trans-for-trans] butch and femme aesthetics and love.”

In the film, Haines and another trans-identified male, “Jaye,” discuss what makes their relationship a “butch/femme relationship.” Haines, who refers to himself as the “femme,” is shown in a women’s bathing suit.

Originally from Saskatchewan, Haines began identifying as transgender in his late 20s while living in the San Francisco Bay Area. After moving back to Saskatchewan, he started taking part in transgender activism and became co-chair of Trans Sask, a a non-profit research network for “trans-identified, genderqueer, intersex and gender non-conforming individuals.” Trans Sask has received funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada, a government department.

Haines also became the program co-ordinator with UR Pride Centre at the University of Regina, where he advocated for legislation that would allow “gay-straight alliances” and student confidentiality in schools.

Leaving parents in the dark about their children’s activities at school has become a theme for Haines. 

In June of 2022, the Western Standard reported that he was a “special transgender guest speaker” for grades 5 to 8 students at a school in the Regina Public School system. The principal confirmed that the school would not be sending out consent forms for the talk.

Today, Haines continues his efforts to connect with young people and have them follow in his footsteps through his Into the Streets mentorship program, telling the Regina Leader-Post: “My hope is that it will jumpstart a new generation of activists who are keen and eager to do the work.”

He also expressed his wish that the program be a “coming-into-themselves” for the girls participating, the “girls” he is referring to are male children.

Applications to be a mentor for Into the Streets are open until the end of February. The plan is for the youth and their mentors to participate in one-on-one and group activities, as well as a series of projects during Trans Pride 2023 in June. Mentors will receive a $200 sponsorship for their pride project and a $1,000 stipend for taking part in the program.

Into the Streets is being supported both administratively and financially by UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity and Ivy + Dean Consulting, a “100% queer owned consulting firm” in Regina.

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