What’s Current: Male pedophile who sexually abused his own daughter housed in New Jersey women’s prison

  • A male pedophile who filmed child exploitation videos of his seven year-old daughter is being housed in a New Jersey women’s prison. Marina Volz, 34, is serving his 25 year sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility alongside his accomplice Ashley Romero (aka Adam Romero), 30, who is also a male identifying as “female.” In 2022, officials in Somerset County sentenced Volz, Romero, Sean Allen, and Dulcinea Gnecco to a combined 67 years in prison for trafficking and sexually assaulting Volz’ daughter. The group had been operating what they described as a “family-owned transgender pornography production studio specializing in amateur, BDSM and taboo fetish content” at the home they had shared in Franklin Township. Volz, born Matthew, is now recorded as “female” in official prison records.
  • The Biden administration is offering a $500,000 grant to help teach English in Pakistan, with a program component that specifically focuses on “trans youth.”
  • A trans-identified male named Austin Killips secured overall victory in the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico, competing in the female category. Killips broke free from the pack late in the final stage of the tour in New Mexico, finishing at 3:07:16 ahead of Marcela Prieto and Cassandra Nelson by a margin of 89 seconds. Killips took home $35,000 U.S. with the win. In response, past Canadian world champion cyclist Alison Sydor tweeted:

“The current UCI rules that allow males to compete in female cycling events are not fair to female athletes. Time for UCI to admit this current rule situation is unsustainable and leaving a black mark on cycling as a fair sport for females.”

  • There is no trans genocide.
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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.