Reduxx

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[[File:Anna Slatz Rebel News.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Anna Slatz in her {{wpl|Rebel News}} days]]
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{{cquote|What kind of “feminist news” site has zero articles on fair pay or reproductive rights, and only articles about transgender people who have allegedly committed crimes?|||''The Washington Post'' on Reduxx<ref name="wp">{{cite news |last=Hesse |first=Monica |date=March 6, 2023|title= Listening to ‘The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling’ is exhausting work | work= | publisher=[[Washington Post]]| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/03/06/witch-trials-jk-rowling-podcast-hesse-column/|location= | access-date=}}</ref>}}
'''''Reduxx'''''{{efn|Notice that it has two Xs instead of one. This really shows that it is "feminist".}} is a [[Canadian]] [[far-right]] [[transphobia|anti-transgender]] [[hate speech|hate]] website run and founded by [[The Post Millennial#Anna Slatz|Anna Slatz]], formerly known as Anna De Luca. Slatz has a long history of far-right activity, support for [[Scientology]],<ref name="Dian2"/><ref name="Dian"/> virulent [[homophobia]] and [[racism]], and contributions to far-right outlets such as ''{{wpl|Rebel News}}'' and ''[[The Post Millennial]]''. [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] called the site "nothing but rabid [[transphobia]]".<ref name=splcenter>{{Cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/04/18/male-supremacy-core-hard-rights-agenda|title=Male Supremacy Is at the Core of the Hard Right's Agenda|last=Miller|first=Cassie|date=April 18, 2023|accessdate=August 4, 2024|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]}}</ref> Despite, or perhaps because of its overt far-right links, ''Reduxx'' enjoys significant popularity with [[TERF|anti-trans activists claiming to be radical feminists]] and has been described as the TERF answer to [[Breitbart]]. The website calls itself "pro-woman, pro-child [[TERF glossary#Safeguarding|safeguarding]]" and is singularly focused on obsessively publishing articles [[Pedophilia#Conspiracy theories|accusing trans people of being pedophiles]] or criminals. Genevieve Gluck, the website's most prolific writer, has "a very strange creepy obsession" with collecting images of trans women and linking them to crime.<ref name=missfredawallace/> The website has been referred to as a "trans-obsessed hate-porn site."<ref name=missfredawallace/> ''Reduxx'' has a sister publication called ''ThePublica'', also founded and edited by Slatz, that focuses on promoting racism and anti-immigrant politics.

==Anna Slatz, the founder==
{{cquote|[[Sodom and Gomorrah|sodom and gomorrah]] was a warning not an instruction manual|||''Reduxx's'' founder and chief editor Anna Slatz mocking a young [[gay]] man who discussed his [[HIV/AIDS|HIV]] diagnosis<ref>[https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1632520065219166208 Tweet by Anna Slatz], 2023</ref>}}
===Very serious journalism===
''Reduxx's'' founder and editor [[Anna Slatz]] has a long history of far-right activism. She initially gained notoriety in 2018 for uncritically publishing a letter to the editor from open [[neo-Nazi]] Michael Thurlow in the University of [[New Brunswick]]'s student newspaper ''The Baron''.<ref name="Buzz">{{cite news |last= Daro |first= Ishmael N.  |date=January 29, 2018|title= This Student Newspaper Let A Nazi Sympathizer Write For Them | work= | publisher=BuzzFeed| url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/the-baron-nsclrp|location= | access-date=}}</ref> Thurlow's piece praised [[Canada]]'s historical [[residential school]] system and propagated the [[antisemitism|antisemitic]] [[conspiracy theory]] that [[International Jewish conspiracy|Jews secretly control the world]].<ref name="Buzz" /><ref name="Brunswick">{{cite news |last= Blackmore |first= Olivia |date=January 30, 2018|title= New Brunswick Student Paper Laughs Off Critics Of Nazi Op-Ed | work= | publisher=CANADALAND| url=https://www.canadaland.com/unb-baron-laughs-off-critics-of-nazi-op-ed/|location= | access-date=}}</ref> Slatz defended her decision to publish the hateful screed in an editor's note stating she would "never censor, never correct or challenge."<ref name="Buzz" /><ref name="Brunswick"/> When an actual journalist at ''CANADALAND'' pointed that an editor's job involves editing, Slatz responded that she was "'not groovy' being told what her job should include."<ref name="Brunswick"/> ''The Baron'' issued an apology and removed Slatz from her position as editor-in-chief.<ref name="Brunswick"/><ref name="ctvnews1">{{cite news |last= Bissett |first= Kevin |date=February 1, 2018|title= Editor of student newspaper out after publishing controversial articles | work= | publisher=CTV News| url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/editor-of-student-newspaper-out-after-publishing-controversial-articles-1.3785190|location= | access-date=}}</ref>

Slatz has written for far-right Canadian outlet ''[[The Post Millennial]]'' since 2019.<ref name="postmillennial1">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=|title=Anna Slatz | work= | publisher=[[The Post Millennial]]| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317215024/https://www.thepostmillennial.com/author/annade/|location= | access-date=}}</ref> In 2020, Slatz covered the [[Police brutality#George Floyd|George Floyd]] protests in [[New York City]] for ''{{wpl|Rebel News||,}}'' another far-right outlet from the Great White North.<ref name="rebelnews1">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=September 8, 2020|title= Special Thank You From Anna Slatz | work= | publisher=Rebel News| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226021023/https://www.rebelnews.com/save_anna_slatz|location= | access-date=}}</ref> ''Rebel News'' was co-founded by [[Ezra Levant]] and has employed such great minds as [[Lauren Southern]] and [[Proud Boys]] founder [[Gavin McInnes]].<ref name="rebelnews3">{{cite news |last=Oppenheim |first=Maya |date=March 13, 2018|title= Lauren Southern: Far-right Canadian activist detained in Calais and banned from entering UK | work= | publisher=The Independent| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lauren-southern-far-right-canada-racist-calais-detain-uk-ban-enter-visa-a8254116.html|location= | access-date=}}</ref> Journalist Freda Wallace has described Slatz as "part of a few [[Islamophobia|anti Islam]] funded media networks around [[The Daily Wire|the Daily Wire]] which campaigned against [[Black Lives Matter]] protests and [who] has written for various vaguely anti-leftist sites."<ref name="missfredawallace">{{cite news |last= Wallace |first= Freda |date=March 13, 2024|title= Reduxx — The Trans Obsessed Hate- Porn site | work= | publisher=| url=https://medium.com/@missfredawallace/reduxx-the-trans-obsessed-hate-porn-site-afe5a20d82f5|location= | access-date=}}</ref>

===Homophobia and cult apologism===
[[File:AnnaSlatzLRHShrine.png|right|thumb|250px|Slatz's shrine to [[L. Ron Hubbard]].]]
Slatz has a history of [[homophobic]] statements so extreme that she has alienated fellow travellers in the "[[transphobia|gender-critical]]" movement. In 2023, she mocked a gay [[TikTok]]er for disclosing his [[HIV/AIDS|HIV]] diagnosis, tweeting that "[[Sodom and Gomorrah|sodom and gomorrah]] was a warning not an instruction manual."<ref>[https://twitter.com/ICanSeeForever1/status/1633114744537186304 Screenshots posted by @ICanSeeForever1 on Twitter]</ref> In 2024 she responded to a [[Reddit]] post from a [[cisgender]] gay man sharing a disapproving anecdote about a trans man in a gay bathhouse with "personally I'm glad their virus exchange party was interrupted."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20241103180311/https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1853135851011903580 Tweet by Anna Slatz (@Slatzism)]</ref> Veteran gay-rights activist turned transphobe {{wpl|Fred Sargeant}} called Slatz a "fire breathing, hateful racist and homophobe" in 2024, holding that "her despicableness is something that her supporters excuse and, at times, celebrate."<ref>[https://twitter.com/FredSargeant/status/1758536883703881997 Tweet by Fred Sargeant (@FredSargeant)]</ref> [[Graham Linehan]] accused Slatz of "destroy[ing] the reduxx brand" after she responded to gay anti-trans activist "Arty Morty" with a photo of a bundle of sticks (a coded reference to a [[LGBTQ orientation glossary#Fag.3B faggot|homophobic slur]]). Another anti-trans Twitter user remarked that Slatz "really can't go 25 minutes without having a pop at the gays." Slatz managed to get banned on the far-right hellscape formerly known as [[Twitter]] in 2024, with Fred Sargeant commenting: "Good! And, of course, her likewise homophobic followers keepin' it classy."<ref>[https://twitter.com/FredSargeant/status/1758263686962032880 Tweet by Fred Sargeant (@FredSargeant)]</ref> She was also banned from the platform under the pre-[[Elon Musk|Musk]] regime in 2020.<ref name="rebelnews4">{{cite news |last= Bexte |first= Keean |date=April 30, 2020|title= Twitter suspends Post Millennial contributor Anna Slatz for Joe Biden meme | work= | publisher=Rebel News| url=https://www.rebelnews.com/twitter_suspends_post_millennial_editor_anna_slatz_for_joe_biden_meme|location= | access-date=}}</ref>

Slatz ran a [[Scientology]] apologist blog under the domain name "neohubbard.com" around the time she served as editor of ''The Baron''.<ref name="Dian">[https://web.archive.org/web/20230512064724/https://twitter.com/ARCCollective/status/1164974417056636928 Twitter thread by Kurt Phillips (@ARCCollective)]</ref><ref name="dian3">{{cite news |last= Najarian |first= Bernie |date=October 11, 2019|title= Anna Slatz vs. the pedophile car-chasing habit  | work= | publisher=| url=https://justpaste.it/2qk1q|location= | access-date=}}</ref> In 2018, she tweeted that she had read ''[[Dianetics]]'' fifteen times, adding that "I began my own personal Dianetics journey 4yrs ago (after research for 2yrs before then), and I could not be happier."<ref name="Dian2">Anna Slatz (@YesThatAnna), 25 March 2018. [https://archive.ph/nw9A8#selection-3764.4-3844.1 "I am glad for you that you found a path that worked. Everyone deserves that dignity. It did only take me one try, but I have read it about 14 times since then. I began my own personal Dianetics journey 4yrs ago (after research for 2yrs before then), and I could not be happier."] ''Twitter'', via archive.today.</ref> She admitted to taking a framed photo of [[L. Ron Hubbard]] on a vacation and used "Oh my Hubbard" as a substitute for "oh my God."<ref name="dian3" /> 

From at least 2023 Slatz has faced backlash from some of her fellow "gender-critical" activists over her "off the Richter scale racism".  She was also discovered to have a verified account on [[Kiwi Farms]], a forum linked to organized harrassment and trolling.<ref>Username Yesthatanna</ref>

==Peddling hatred and fear==
{{cquote|my job is just…. hate|||''Reduxx's'' founder and chief editor Anna Slatz<ref>[https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1686142594982764549 Tweet by Anna Slatz]</ref>}}
[[File:ReduxxKnuckleduster.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The latest frontier of "feminism:" selling a prohibited weapon with a [[Clown World|Nazi dogwhistle]].]]

Slatz founded ''Reduxx'' in January 2022 as a "pro-woman, pro-child [[TERF glossary#Safeguarding|safeguarding]] platform" and serves as its main editor.<ref name="reduxx-about">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=|title= About | work= | publisher=Reduxx| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301082915/https://reduxx.info/about/|location= | access-date=}}</ref> ''Reduxx'' exists solely to publish an endless stream of [[fearmongering|alarmist]] stories [[Nutpicking|selectively highlighting]] actual and imagined misdeeds of named [[transgender|trans]] people.<ref name=splcenter/> As described by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], the site is "nothing but rabid transphobia" and "an endless scroll of alleged trans sex offenders and pedophiles," reminiscent of "[[white nationalist]] websites that list endless pages of 'Black crime' meant to suggest that Black people are [[racism|inherently prone to criminality]]."<ref name=splcenter/>

The site is frequently used as a source by right-wing news outfits like [[Fox News]].<ref name=splcenter/> One of the site's staffers, Genevieve Gluck, collaborated with ''[[The Daily Wire|Daily Wire]]'' host [[Michael Knowles]] to "expose" the horrors of "[[hypnosis]] [[pornography|porn]]" and its alleged relevance to transgender people.<ref name="lgbtqnation1">{{cite news |last=Bollinger |first=Alex |date=April 28, 2023|title= Rightwing pundit warns listeners about 'hypnosis' adult content that’s turning men trans | work= | publisher=LGBTQ Nation| url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/04/rightwing-pundit-warns-listeners-about-hypnosis-adult-content-thats-turning-men-trans/|location= | access-date=}}</ref> Freda Wallace has described Gluck as having "a very strange creepy obsession with trans women" that involves "collect[ing] images [...] from porn sites."<ref name=missfredawallace/> ''Reduxx'' content has been repeatedly shared by far-right agitator [[Libs of TikTok]].<ref name="mediamatters1">{{cite news |last=Tirrell |first=Alyssa |last2=Gogarty|first2=Kayla |date=November 2, 2023|title= TIMELINE: The impact of Libs of TikTok told through the educators, health care providers, librarians, LGBTQ people, and institutions that have been harassed and violently threatened | work= | publisher=[[Media Matters]]| url=https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/timeline-impact-libs-tiktok-told-through-educators-health-care-providers-librarians|location= | access-date=}}</ref><ref name="dailyheil1">{{cite news |last=Mann |first=Sophie |last2=Tatananni|first2=Mackenzie |date=April 14, 2024|title= 'Shame on the adults!' Riley Gaines leads outrage over trans Oregon runner being allowed to compete against girls and totally obliterate them | work= | publisher=[[Daily Mail]]| url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13311051/riley-gaines-outrage-trans-runner-oregon-high-school-track-event.html|location= | access-date=}}</ref>

This cozy relationship with anti-feminist conservatives hasn't stopped ''Reduxx'' from becoming popular with [[TERF]]s. The "about" page formerly boasted that the site was "proud to take style guidance" from the infamously anti-trans [[Women's Liberation Front]].<ref>[https://archive.ph/umnYr "About - Reduxx"]. ''Reduxx'', via archive.today.</ref> Notable TERFs who have boosted ''Reduxx'' articles include [[Maya Forstater]],<ref name=missfredawallace/> [[Helen Joyce]],<ref name=missfredawallace/> and [[J.K. Rowling]].<ref name=wp/><ref name="pinknews1">{{cite news |last=Wakefield |first=Lily |date=May 31, 2022 |title= JK Rowling slammed for 'demonising' trans inmates at prison where women raped by guards | work= | publisher=PinkNews| url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/05/31/jk-rowling-trans-prison-trans-reduxx-edna-mahan/|location= | access-date=}}</ref><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughJKRowling/comments/1cj540d/another_new_low_for_jk_rowling/ Screenshot reposted on Reddit]</ref> Rowling praised the site for "reporting on all the things women are supposed to pretend aren't happening" in 2024.<ref name="rowling1">[https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1853439439655113144 Tweet by J. K. Rowling]</ref> 

''Reduxx'' was revealed to be selling bladed {{w|Brass knuckles|knuckledusters}} as part of its [[Clown World]]-themed Patreon reward scheme in November 2024. The objects – which are illegal in [[Canada]], where ''Reduxx'' ships from – were presented as "keychains" that are "great for um...''protection''."<ref name="terfipedia1" /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220916014024/https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-98-462/fulltext.html Canadian criminal code]</ref> The site offered reshipment in the event "your item is {{wpl|arms trafficking|rejected your country's border}}."<ref name="terfipedia1" /> This lead to the suspension of the ''Reduxx'' Patreon account on November 11.<ref name="pinknews2">{{cite news |last=|first=|date=November 12, 2024 |title= Anti-trans site Reduxx blames trans people after its weapons-selling Patreon is shut down | work= | publisher=PinkNews| url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/11/12/reduxx-anti-trans-site/|location= | access-date=}}</ref> ''Reduxx'' released a statement blaming a "mass-report campaign" by "rabid trans activists."<ref name="pinknews2" />

==Witch hunts==
Relying on [[confirmation bias]], doxing, and hearsay, ''Reduxx'' attempts to "out" women as transgender, especially in sports. For instance, its outing of a women's volleyball player at San Jose State University in 2024 led to opposing teams forfeiting games, transphobic attacks being made against the school, and a teammate of that player joining legal efforts to void the eligibility of the outed player.<ref>{{cite web|last=Barnes|first=Katie|title=Inside San Jose State's polarizing volleyball season|url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/42549609/inside-san-jose-state-university-2024-volleyball-season-gender-fairness-safety|publisher=ESPN|date=26 November 2024|accessdate=2 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Webb|first=Karleigh|url=https://www.outsports.com/2024/9/30/24101986/boise-state-san-jose-forfeit-blaire-fleming-trans-athlete/|title=Boise State volleyball chose to forfeit a match instead of play against an athlete they think is trans|work=OutSports|date=30 September 2024|accessdate=2 December 2024}}</ref> Because of this, ''USA Today'' called ''Reduxx'' "a website that specializes in transphobia and invasions of privacy."<ref>{{cite web|last=Wolken|first=Dan|url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2024/11/28/boise-state-forfeit-san-jose-state-volleyball/76640865007/|title=Don't blame Boise State players for forfeit vs. San Jose State. Extremists forced the issue.|work=USA Today|date=28 November 2024|accessdate=2 December 2024}}</ref> (Or...''ReDoxx''.)

Also in 2024, ''Reduxx'' repeated claims on an obscure French website that Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif had a genetic test confirming XY chromosomes. In fact, that claim was based on cherry-picking and incorrect translation of the website.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/algeria-condemns-baseless-imane-khelif-medical-leak/a-70692314|title=Algeria condemns 'baseless' Imane Khelif medical leak|last=Crane|first=Jonathan|last2=Sumlaji|first2=Dana|publisher=Deutsche Welle|date=6 November 2024|access-date=17 February 2025}}</reF> Furthermore, Khelif is cisgender and has never identified as transgender or any other gender identity.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://glaad.org/fact-check-participation-and-eligibility-of-paris-2024-olympic-boxers-imane-khelif-and-lin-yu-ting/|title=FACT CHECK: Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif, Participation and Eligibility in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games|last=Morrison|first=Tony|publisher=GLAAD|date=2 August 2024|access-date=17 February 2025}}</ref>

==''ThePublica'', ''Reduxx's'' sister publication oriented towards racism==
{{cquote|A child-raping migrant from Africa has been allowed to stay in the [[United Kingdom]] after claiming deportation would harm his mental health.|||Typical story featured in ''ThePublica'', ''Reduxx's'' racist-focused sister publication<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240425191653/https://twitter.com/ThePublicaNow/status/1782524723420598674 Twitter]</ref>}}
''ThePublica'' is ''Reduxx's'' sister publication oriented towards general [[racism]] and far-right politics. It is also founded and edited by Anna Slatz. It usually publishes stories about migrants being [[rapists]], migrants causing housing problems, more ridiculous ragebait [[culture war]] topics such as complaints about [[veganism]], and transphobic and homophobic content. It differs from ''Reduxx'' primarily in how ''Reduxx'' is targeted to those who are absolutely obsessed with demonizing trans people, while ''ThePublica'' targets a broader far-right audience.

Further throwing doubt in ThePublica's reliability is its questionable sourcing and lack of corroborative attribution, like in 2023 when they ran a report about a supposed transgender [[child sexual abuse|child sex offender]] who was reportedly caught in possession of child pornography and was trading said content on sites like [[DeviantArt]].<ref>[https://archive.ph/DiTfi South Dakota Sex Offender Indicted On Charges Related To Child Sexual Exploitation Material]</ref> Looking up the offender's name only leads to the page in question, putting said report in doubt.

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==External links==
*[https://transdatalibrary.org/organization/reduxx-media/ Trans Data Library on Reduxx]

==References==
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