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“”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[1]

Reduxx[note 1] is a Canadian far-right anti-transgender hate website run and founded by Anna Slatz, formerly known as Anna De Luca. Slatz has a long history of far-right activity, support for Scientology,[2][3] virulent homophobia and racism, and contributions to far-right outlets such as Rebel NewsWikipedia and The Post Millennial. Southern Poverty Law Center called the site "nothing but rabid transphobia".[4] Despite, or perhaps because of its overt far-right links, Reduxx enjoys significant popularity with 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 safeguarding" and is singularly focused on obsessively publishing articles 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.[5] The website has been referred to as a "trans-obsessed hate-porn site."[5] 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[edit]

“”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 diagnosis[6]

Very serious journalism[edit]

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.[7] Thurlow's piece praised Canada's historical residential school system and propagated the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews secretly control the world.[7][8] Slatz defended her decision to publish the hateful screed in an editor's note stating she would "never censor, never correct or challenge."[7][8] 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."[8] The Baron issued an apology and removed Slatz from her position as editor-in-chief.[8][9]

Slatz has written for far-right Canadian outlet The Post Millennial since 2019.[10] In 2020, Slatz covered the George Floyd protests in New York City for Rebel News,Wikipedia another far-right outlet from the Great White North.[11] Rebel News was co-founded by Ezra Levant and has employed such great minds as Lauren Southern and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.[12][13] Journalist Freda Wallace has described Slatz as "part of a few anti Islam funded media networks around the Daily Wire which campaigned against Black Lives Matter protests and [who] has written for various vaguely anti-leftist sites."[5]

Homophobia and cult apologism[edit]

Slatz's shrine to L. Ron Hubbard.

Slatz has a history of homophobic statements so extreme that she has alienated fellow travellers in the "gender-critical" movement. In 2023, she mocked a gay TikToker for disclosing his HIV diagnosis, tweeting that "sodom and gomorrah was a warning not an instruction manual."[14] 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."[15] Veteran gay-rights activist turned transphobe Fred SargeantWikipedia 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."[16] 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 homophobic slur).[17] Another anti-trans Twitter user remarked that Slatz "really can't go 25 minutes without having a pop at the gays."[18] 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."[19] She was also banned from the platform under the pre-Musk regime in 2020.[20]

Slatz ran a Scientology apologist blog under the domain name "neohubbard.com" around the time she served as editor of The Baron.[3][21] 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."[2] 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."[21]

From at least 2023 Slatz has faced backlash from some of her fellow "gender-critical" activists over her "off the Richter scale racism".[22] She was also discovered to have a verified account on Kiwi Farms, a forum linked to organized harrassment and trolling.[23]

Peddling hatred and fear[edit]

“”my job is just…. hate
—Reduxx's founder and chief editor Anna Slatz[24]
The latest frontier of "feminism:" selling a prohibited weapon with a Nazi dogwhistle.

Slatz founded Reduxx in January 2022 as a "pro-woman, pro-child safeguarding platform" and serves as its main editor.[25] Reduxx exists solely to publish an endless stream of alarmist stories selectively highlighting actual and imagined misdeeds of named trans people.[4] 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 inherently prone to criminality."[4]

The site is frequently used as a source by right-wing news outfits like Fox News.[4] One of the site's staffers, Genevieve Gluck, collaborated with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles to "expose" the horrors of "hypnosis porn" and its alleged relevance to transgender people.[26] Freda Wallace has described Gluck as having "a very strange creepy obsession with trans women" that involves "collect[ing] images [...] from porn sites."[5] Reduxx content has been repeatedly shared by far-right agitator Libs of TikTok.[27][28]

This cozy relationship with anti-feminist conservatives hasn't stopped Reduxx from becoming popular with TERFs. The "about" page formerly boasted that the site was "proud to take style guidance" from the infamously anti-trans Women's Liberation Front.[29] Notable TERFs who have boosted Reduxx articles include Maya Forstater,[5] Helen Joyce,[5] and J.K. Rowling.[1][30][31] Rowling praised the site for "reporting on all the things women are supposed to pretend aren't happening" in 2024.[32]

Reduxx was revealed to be selling bladed knuckledustersWikipedia as part of its Clown World-themed Patreon reward scheme in November 2024.[33] The objects – which are illegal in Canada, where Reduxx ships from – were presented as "keychains" that are "great for um...protection."[33][34] The site offered reshipment in the event "your item is rejected your country's borderWikipedia."[33] This lead to the suspension of the Reduxx Patreon account on November 11.[35] Reduxx released a statement blaming a "mass-report campaign" by "rabid trans activists."[35]

Additionally, Reduxx relies on doxing and hearsay to out transgender people. For instance, its outing of a women's volleyball player at San Jose State University 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.[36][37] Because of this, USA Today called Reduxx "a website that specializes in transphobia and invasions of privacy."[38] (Or...ReDoxx.)

ThePublica, Reduxx's sister publication oriented towards racism[edit]

“”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[39]

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 sex offender who was reportedly caught in possession of child pornography and was trading said content on sites like DeviantArt.[40] Looking up the offender's name only leads to the page in question, putting said report in doubt.

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Notice that it has two Xs instead of one. This really shows that it is "feminist".

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hesse, Monica (March 6, 2023). "Listening to ‘The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling’ is exhausting work". Washington Post. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anna Slatz (@YesThatAnna), 25 March 2018. "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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Twitter thread by Kurt Phillips (@ARCCollective)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Miller, Cassie (April 18, 2023). "Male Supremacy Is at the Core of the Hard Right's Agenda". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved August 4, 2024. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Wallace, Freda (March 13, 2024). "Reduxx — The Trans Obsessed Hate- Porn site". 
  6. ↑ Tweet by Anna Slatz, 2023
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Daro, Ishmael N. (January 29, 2018). "This Student Newspaper Let A Nazi Sympathizer Write For Them". BuzzFeed. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Blackmore, Olivia (January 30, 2018). "New Brunswick Student Paper Laughs Off Critics Of Nazi Op-Ed". CANADALAND. 
  9. ↑ Bissett, Kevin (February 1, 2018). "Editor of student newspaper out after publishing controversial articles". CTV News. 
  10. ↑ "Anna Slatz". The Post Millennial. 
  11. ↑ "Special Thank You From Anna Slatz". Rebel News. September 8, 2020. 
  12. ↑ Warnica, Richard (August 18, 2017). "Rebel without applause: How Ezra Levant built an extreme media juggernaut — and watched it all begin to unravel". The National Post. 
  13. ↑ Oppenheim, Maya (March 13, 2018). "Lauren Southern: Far-right Canadian activist detained in Calais and banned from entering UK". The Independent. 
  14. ↑ Screenshots posted by @ICanSeeForever1 on Twitter
  15. ↑ Tweet by Anna Slatz (@Slatzism)
  16. ↑ Tweet by Fred Sargeant (@FredSargeant)
  17. ↑ Screenshots by @Terfipedia
  18. ↑ Tweet by @ThatWillWeirdo
  19. ↑ Tweet by Fred Sargeant (@FredSargeant)
  20. ↑ Bexte, Keean (April 30, 2020). "Twitter suspends Post Millennial contributor Anna Slatz for Joe Biden meme". Rebel News. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Najarian, Bernie (October 11, 2019). "Anna Slatz vs. the pedophile car-chasing habit". 
  22. ↑ Tweet by @shularises
  23. ↑ Username Yesthatanna
  24. ↑ Tweet by Anna Slatz
  25. ↑ "About". Reduxx. 
  26. ↑ Bollinger, Alex (April 28, 2023). "Rightwing pundit warns listeners about 'hypnosis' adult content that’s turning men trans". LGBTQ Nation. 
  27. ↑ Tirrell, Alyssa; Gogarty, Kayla (November 2, 2023). "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". Media Matters. 
  28. ↑ Mann, Sophie; Tatananni, Mackenzie (April 14, 2024). "'Shame on the adults!' Riley Gaines leads outrage over trans Oregon runner being allowed to compete against girls and totally obliterate them". Daily Mail. 
  29. ↑ "About - Reduxx". Reduxx, via archive.today.
  30. ↑ Wakefield, Lily (May 31, 2022). "JK Rowling slammed for 'demonising' trans inmates at prison where women raped by guards". PinkNews. 
  31. ↑ Screenshot reposted on Reddit
  32. ↑ Tweet by J. K. Rowling
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Twitter thread by Terfipedia (@Terfipedia)
  34. ↑ Canadian criminal code
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 "Anti-trans site Reduxx blames trans people after its weapons-selling Patreon is shut down". PinkNews. November 12, 2024. 
  36. ↑ Barnes, Katie (26 November 2024). "Inside San Jose State's polarizing volleyball season". ESPN. Retrieved 2 December 2024. 
  37. ↑ Webb, Karleigh (30 September 2024). "Boise State volleyball chose to forfeit a match instead of play against an athlete they think is trans". OutSports. Retrieved 2 December 2024. 
  38. ↑ Wolken, Dan (28 November 2024). "Don't blame Boise State players for forfeit vs. San Jose State. Extremists forced the issue.". USA Today. Retrieved 2 December 2024. 
  39. ↑ Twitter
  40. ↑ South Dakota Sex Offender Indicted On Charges Related To Child Sexual Exploitation Material
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