The BBC has sparked fury after penning a “pathetic” biography of Adolf Hitler, which fails to address the Holocaust.
Key events and figures from the dictator’s regime were excluded from the broadcaster’s narrative of Adolf Hitler: From Childhood to Dictator, which was designed as a learning resource for GCSE pupils.
The short biography attempts to draw a comprehensive timeline of events of the Nazi’s life, from birth, to the rise of the Nazis, to his rule over Germany until his death – but appears to omit a number of atrocities committed against the Jews.
As a result, the corporation has been urged to revise the “woefully inadequate” resource, stressing that combatting antisemitism begins at school.
A spokesman for Campaign Against Antisemitism told GB News: “How can the BBC teach about Nazi Germany with no meaningful reference to the Holocaust?
“This pathetic attempt at educating students is so alarmingly vacant of key historical references that it almost reads as a whitewash of the Nazi dictator’s brutality.
“At a time when antisemitism in schools is at a record heigh, how can we expect the situation to improve if our resources even on Holocaust education – let alone contemporary antisemitism – are so woefully inadequate Combatting antisemitism starts with education, and the BBC must urgently revise this resource.”
The document stresses the Austrian “was not born a brutal tyrant”, urging readers to “explore Hitler’s life and discover the road that led to destruction”.
The biography also excludes any mention of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the night the Nazis ordered violent riots against European Jews.
Overnight, the SS, the SA and Hitler Youth destroyed around 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms, murdering 100 Jews as rioters smashed windows of around 7,500 Jewish-owned stores.
The police and SS arrested roughly 30,000 Jewish men, deporting them to concentration camps such as Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen.
But the BBC Bitesize depiction of Hitler’s life opted to sweep over the night altogether.
The document says that the Nazis “tried” to exclude Jews and other groups from public life since 1933, when the Nuremberg Laws were in place.
It adds: “Hitler characterised the laws as an effort to ‘achieve the legislative regulation of a problem which, if it breaks down again, will then have to be transferred by law to the National Socialist Party for final solution’.”
In its entirety, the page mentions “Jews” or “Jewish” on five occasions, none of which relate to the Holocaust.
It then goes on to omit that Hitler’s invasion of the USSR led to the systematic shooting of more than a million Jewish men, women and children in 1941.
Nor is there any mention of the Wannsee Conference which took place the following year where senior Nazi officials planned the logistics of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” – as well as a number of other key events.
High-ranking Nazi officials responsible for the Holocaust were ommitted from the learning resource, including Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels.
A BBC spokesman claimed the timeline of Hitler’s life was not a biography – despite the 2,400 document appearing to cover events from the failed artist’s childhood, adolescence and military career up until his death.
They added: “It is a single page, which includes reference to the horror of the Holocaust, and is designed for teachers to be used alongside extensive materials covering the Second World War, Hitler’s rise to power and a range of resources on the Holocaust.”
French authorities have blocked a high-profile gathering dedicated to the concept of “remigration”, issuing blanket bans on a weekend symposium and a street demonstration in the Paris region.
The intervention was spearheaded by Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez, targeting events organised by the Objectif Remigration (Objective Remigration) collective and the Polémia think tank.
The bans were issued on October 29 by the prefect of Hauts-de-Seine and the Paris police prefecture, which said it had acted at the minister’s request.
Officials cited acute risks to public order, referencing local security concerns and widespread tensions following recent incidents, notably the October 23 attack in Trappes and La Verrière, in the Yvelines department west of Paris.
One man, Pengo Bossio Wangi, was killed and seven people were injured in the shooting. French media have reported that the suspect, identified as Kevin T., admitted to targeting Muslims and Africans.
According to Bondy Blog, the Hauts-de-Seine order also stated that the concept of remigration seriously undermined human dignity and cited past convictions of several speakers for hate speech offences.
The weekend agenda was set to feature a colloquium titled “Remigration: Let’s open the debate” on October 31 at the Maison des Arts in Le Plessis-Robinson, Hauts-de-Seine, alongside a planned nationalist protest in the capital on November 1.
Prominent figures associated with the European identitarian movement — including French essayist Renaud Camus, former National Front MEP Jean-Yves Le Gallou and high-profile Austrian activist Martin Sellner — were slated to speak or host book-signing sessions.
Le Figaro reported that Reconquête party leader Éric Zemmour was also expected to take part. Sellner, author of the book Remigration, had been due to sign copies at a bookshop in Paris’ 7th arrondissement on October 30.
Instead, local prefectural decrees barred the gatherings and Sellner was stopped on arrival at Beauvais-Tillé airport, in the Oise department north of Paris, on October 29 and served with an administrative ban from French territory.
Critics were quick to point out the irony of the situation as a movement explicitly built around campaigning for the mass expulsion and repatriation of foreign nationals found a leading international figure locked out at the border and its organisers grounded by state decree.
Something European governments often claim is impossible to do with illegal migrants turns out to be very easy to use against nationalists, they argued.
The swift executive clampdown drew sharp rebukes from the event organisers, who announced their intention to challenge the prefectural bans in court, denouncing what they termed an infringement on freedom of assembly and speech.
Le Gallou, president of Polémia, took to X to denounce what he termed a “government in disarray” and a “liberticidal delusion”.
He announced that they had instructed lawyer Jérôme Triomphe to file an emergency fast-track legal challenge (référé-liberté) to overturn the prohibitions. The administrative court in Cergy-Pontoise was due to hear the case at 2pm today.
Objectif Remigration spokesman Stanislas Tyl said the collective would lodge its own urgent appeal against the ban on the Paris march.
“You can stop people but not ideas,” Sellner wrote on X, announcing what he described as his arrest. “Remigration will happen in spite of that.” He said he expected to be sent back to Austria today.
Fellow activist and Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek argued that Sellner broke no law and was persecuted for political reasons. She added that he was travelling as an Austrian citizen within the Schengen zone, meaning there should not even be border checks.
In May 2024, an administrative court in Potsdam blocked a German entry ban on Sellner, ruling the city had failed to show he posed a sufficiently serious threat to justify restricting his EU free movement rights.
In November 2025, Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court declared unlawful a separate 18-day entry ban imposed on him by the country’s federal police.
Figures from La France Insoumise (LFI) had lobbied for the shutdown. LFI parliamentary group leader Mathilde Panot posted on X ahead of the ban, declaring: “After the tragedy in Trappes, authorising an event inciting racial hatred is unacceptable and dangerous. Racists must be neutralised. The gathering planned for Saturday in Le Plessis-Robinson must be banned quickly.”
She celebrated the actions of the French Government.
A transgender pedophile in Virginia has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for the production of child sexual abuse material. Joseph Downing Barnes Jr., also known as Junior or Jada Barnes, coerced young boys to perform sexual acts on webcam in order to record the sessions and save the screen recordings as child pornography.
According to court records filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Barnes first came to the attention of authorities last year after Google became aware that he had been uploading what its system flagged as child sexual abuse material to his cloud storage. Gathering his account details, Google submitted a report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who then forwarded the information to the Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) based on the account details Google had identified.
Barnes’ sex offender registration on the Virginia State Police website.
In October of 2025, the VBPD obtained a search warrant for Barnes’ Google account, enabling them to search through the files he had uploaded using his Google email. Within the accounts, they found numerous files containing screen recordings of Barnes engaged in online sexual discussions with boys aged approximately 10-15 years old.
Investigators found Barnes would chat with young boys over a webcam-based platform, and expose his breasts to the children. He would then coerce the boys, who believed him to be a woman, to expose their genitals to him and masturbate for him. Barnes would record the sick sessions and save the files to his Google account.
During the course of the investigation, police learned that Barnes was already a registered sex offender, having been convicted of distributing child sexual abuse material in 2016.
Reduxx obtained the court filings from that conviction, which reveal Barnes had been active in sharing child sexual abuse material with other pedophiles. Some of the videos included prepubescent girls as young as 5 years of age being anally raped by adult men.
From the 2016 indictment against Barnes.
Barnes was ultimately sentenced to 108 months in prison in that case, and was subjected to the sex offender registry.
For the latest charges, Barnes entered a plea of guilty, waving his right to a trial.
On September 8, his lawyer submitted a position statement offering potential mitigating factors to be considered in the determination of his sentence. Among those factors was a claim that Barnes had been sexually abused as a child, grew up in poverty, had disordered sexual development, and had an IQ of 73. The position statement refers to him using feminine pronouns.
On October 23, the court handed down a sentence of 25 years, with a requirement that Barnes be subject to lifetime monitoring and registration after his release.
🇵🇱‼️ | ÚLTIMA HORA — Crisis institucional en Polonia: el presidente Karol Nawrocki ordenó dar la vuelta a su avión en pleno vuelo a Senegal después de que la policía del Gobierno de Donald Tusk irrumpiera en el recinto del Tribunal Constitucional. Al mismo tiempo, la web del… pic.twitter.com/qP3b6FoeJg
Shocking scenes in Poland. Police, dispatched by the Tusk government, have forced their way into the independent Constitutional Tribunal. Security personnel guarding the building and the Tribunal’s documents have been removed. The Vice-President of the Tribunal is being denied… pic.twitter.com/S12TLI5t6N
Liberal authoritarianism in action: An attempted JUDICIAL COUP is unfolding in Poland!
Police have been deployed to the grounds of Warsaw’s Constitutional Tribunal, while attempts are underway to suspend its president and vice-president through a highly disputed process. According to reports, Prime Minister Donald Tusk personally ordered the police operation.
The constitutional crisis is so severe that President Karol Nawrocki interrupted his official trip to Senegal and ordered his plane to turn around over Spain to return to Poland.
In Warsaw, police are deployed around independent constitutional institutions. In Budapest, lawfully elected heads of constitutional institutions are removed from office, opposition politicians are barred from running for re-election, and people are imprisoned on political grounds.
This is arbitrary rule. When those in power see constitutional safeguards not as rules to respect, but as obstacles to eliminate.
Daniel Foubert has this.
🇵🇱🚨 Liberal authoritarianism in action: An attempted JUDICIAL COUP is unfolding in Poland!
Police have been deployed to the grounds of Warsaw’s Constitutional Tribunal, while attempts are underway to suspend its president and vice-president through a highly disputed process.… pic.twitter.com/lcsBducjPS
Leftist Donald Tusk released a statement saying he is restoring the rule of law… Up is down. Left is right. Black is white…
Przywracanie rządów prawa jest naszym obowiązkiem. Po latach pisowskiego bezprawia to proces trudny, czasem bolesny i wymaga zdecydowanego działania. Innej drogi nie ma.
Europe has fallen, one boarded-up window at a time. These are pictures from Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy.
Two weeks ago, France burned. City halls were set on fire, Hermès and Dior were looted, and more than 900 police officers were injured. This weekend, the wave is spreading. In Berlin, the luxury stores of the Kurfürstendamm are boarding up their windows before Saturday’s protests, with more than 1,500 police officers deployed to protect a single shopping street. In Spain, shops are covering their storefronts.
So here’s a question for every European who still thinks this is normal: when will you realize what’s happening to your own countries? Plywood on the shop windows, metal detectors at Christmas markets, police escorts for football matches, no-go zones that every local knows to avoid, and governments that tell you it’s all just “a few isolated incidents.”
This is how the third world looks from the inside, and we’re getting used to it one weekend at a time.
Another weekend, another round of violence on the strife-torn streets of France. That was the grim forecast Friday as the country’s interior minister warned of a “very high risk of public disorder” over the coming 48-hours as some 70,000 police officers prepare for fresh riots across the Halloween weekend.
The minister pledged an “extremely firm” response after mass protests on October 17 degenerated into leftist-driven urban rioting and mass looting, as Breitbart News reported.
FRANCE24 details the new round of demonstrations come in an increasingly febrile political climate, with presidential elections six months away and the leader of the Front National, Marine Le Pen, surging in opinion polls.
“The day of October 31 presents a very high risk of public disorder,” Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told reporters.
Around 70,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed across France, matching the number mobilised a week ago, he said as per the FRANCE24 report.
The security measures introduced last week to protect shops will be strengthened, Nuñez vowed while demonstrations will be allowed, but “not in city centres, where there is a risk of public disorder.”
“We will tolerate no excesses,” he added, pledging an “extremely firm” response is in the offing.
Nunez also revealed authorities had detected social media calls for Halloween gatherings on Saturday evening demanding a “revolution.”
The appeals were being circulated by radical Islamo-fascist groups but “these gatherings will be banned,” he said.
Hungary’s agreement with the Trump administration to combat far-left terrorism has triggered a domestic backlash, mainly over the notorious 2023 Budapest Antifa attacks. Fidesz figures question whether Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s government is genuinely committed to confronting the militant network linked to those assaults, while left-wing activists who helped defeat Viktor Orbán accuse Tisza of adopting Washington’s political agenda.
At Thursday’s meeting in Washington, Foreign Minister Anita Orbán and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed memorandums on energy infrastructure and law-enforcement cooperation. Rubio hailed their shared determination to confront the ‘resurgence of far-left terrorism’. Orbán, speaking after the signing ceremony, explicitly named Antifa Ost, the Germany-based militant network whose members are accused of carrying out the February 2023 Budapest attacks against people perceived as right-wing. The new arrangement is intended to strengthen information-sharing and criminal investigations.
Over three days, Antifa Ost militants carried out a series of brutal assaults, targeting nine people apparently selected for their perceived right-wing appearance and leaving six seriously injured. One victim, László Dudog, was beaten unconscious with iron bars, leaving the left side of his face paralysed, while his fiancée was stabbed twice in the legs and kicked in the face. The attacks led to two of Hungary’s most infamous Antifa cases: Italian far-left MEP Ilaria Salis, accused of participating in the assaults but protected by parliamentary immunity, and German activist Maja T, convicted for involvement in the same attacks.
The agreement itself continues a policy championed by both Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump. In September 2025, the former Hungarian prime minister called for Antifa to be classified as a terrorist organization, citing the Budapest attacks and following Trump’s lead. Hungary designated Antifa Ost a terrorist organization that month; Washington followed with a Foreign Terrorist Organization designation in November.
🚨 A stunning display of political hypocrisy!
Did Anita Orbán lie to the US Secretary of State?
The Hungarian Foreign Minister smiled as she signed an agreement in Washington, negotiated by Viktor Orbán and the Trump administration, aimed at strengthening joint efforts against… pic.twitter.com/5ef0IVYo8M
Former political director to Viktor Orbán and current Fidesz MEP Balázs Orbán announced that he would formally inform the US State Department of the Tisza government’s controversial record on far-left extremism, questioning whether Rubio had received the full picture during the Washington meeting.
In October 2025, the European Parliament preserved Salis’s immunity by just one vote, 306–305, after Magyar stayed away and instructed Tisza MEPs to abstain or not vote. Balázs Orbán questioned whether the Americans had been informed of that decision, arguing that Washington deserved to know how the Hungarian government had handled cases involving the very extremist networks it now pledged to combat.
He also raised concerns over plans to transfer Maja T to Germany, questioning whether the move could lead to an early release. The German activist was sentenced to eight years in February 2026, reduced on appeal to seven years in September. Preparations for a transfer are under way, although the arrangement predates Tisza: German government records confirm that Hungarian authorities had agreed to a possible transfer after conviction under Viktor Orbán.
Political commentator Zoltán Ceglédi raised a related concern: why did Anita Orbán’s initial Hungarian-language announcement describe the counterterrorism memorandum merely as cooperation against crimes committed by ‘radical organizations’, omitting the far left and Antifa altogether? He suggested that Fidesz forward the domestic explanation to Rubio or Vice President JD Vance. Orbán did subsequently identify Antifa Ost explicitly in a Hungarian-language video published after the earlier statement.
The agreement also angered the radical left. Former MP András Jámbor, a far-left activist associated with the radical-left Szikra Movement, described the pact as a ‘slap in the face’ to left-wing campaigners who helped Tisza win. He argued that an existing 2008 counterterrorism agreement already provides for information-sharing and demanded to know why far-left violence was being singled out instead of far-right or Islamist terrorism.
Jámbor also recalled that he and Szikra had been accused of links to the Budapest assaults, allegations he rejected. He demanded an inquiry into possible political manipulation and intelligence-service involvement in the original investigations.
Hard-right Our Homeland (Mi Hazánk) leader László Toroczkai also weighed in, claiming that Rubio had ‘humiliated’ Anita Orbán by making her sign an anti-Antifa agreement despite Tisza having come to power, he said, with the support of international left-liberal forces. Pointing to Jámbor’s furious reaction, Toroczkai praised Rubio’s manoeuvre and predicted that the controversy would ultimately increase the likelihood of a split within Tisza’s support base.
There were, however, also voices speaking positively about the agreement. Former Hungarian ambassador to Washington András Simonyi, speaking to InfoRádió, called the Rubio meeting a diplomatic breakthrough and the counterterrorism memorandum ‘very important’ to national and domestic security. He also warned that radical-left movements were increasingly affecting American politics and creating difficulties for the Democrats.
Spain’s response to its second deadly high-speed rail crash this year has drawn comparisons with Greece, where the transport minister quit the day after the country’s worst rail disaster.
Transport Minister Óscar Puente ruled out resigning on October 28, hours after a Renfe AVE ran into the back of a stationary Iryo train near Urda, in Toledo province, central Spain.
Puente blamed a decision taken at the Adif control centre in Madrid, which he called inexplicable. He said the AVE had been cleared to resume normal running after the LZB automatic control system failed, despite a red signal ahead.
It was Spain’s second high-speed rail disaster on the Madrid-Andalusia line this year, after the derailment near Adamuz, in Córdoba province, on January 18 that killed 46 people.
In Greece, then transport minister Kostas Karamanlis stepped down on March 1, 2023, after visiting the scene of the Tempi collision near Larissa. A passenger train and a freight train had met head-on on the same track the night before, killing 57 people, most of them students.
Karamanlis said at the time that resigning was the least he owed to the memory of the dead. He described his departure as taking responsibility for long-standing failings of the Greek state and its political system.
His exit did not close the matter. In July 2025 the Greek Parliament referred him to a judicial council on a single misdemeanour count of breach of duty, against the backdrop of cover-up allegations against the Greek Government that drew mass protests.
The trial of 36 rail and ministry officials opened in Larissa on March 23, 2026, though no politician is among the defendants. European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi has said the crash could have been avoided had the signalling been modernised in time with European Union funds.
In Spain, the Central Sindical Independiente y de Funcionarios (CSIF) union demanded Puente’s resignation on October 28. It accused him of making an Adif employee a scapegoat instead of shouldering responsibility himself.
People’s Party (PP) leader Alberto Núñez Feijoo, speaking in Urda on October 29, said political responsibility could not wait for any investigation to finish. He accused Puente of frivolity for blaming an operator at Atocha, though he stopped short of calling for him to go.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose Government faces a general election on November 29, said the causes would be investigated. He promised action if negligence was found.
Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media (May 12, 2025)- Wikimedia Commons, Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar , CC-BY-SA-4.0
The Holy See’s announcement that Pope Leo XIV — the first U.S. citizen to be elected to the papacy — has voted in the U.S. midterm elections by mail raises a serious question: why is an absolute monarch voting in an American election?
For the first time in the Church’s 2,000-year history, a pope has cast a ballot, betraying his sacred office as a Catholic monarch.
BREAKING: Pope Leo votes in US midterms, becoming the first pope to vote in a secular election.
For the first time in the Church's 2000-year history, a pope has cast a ballot, betraying the sacred office as a Catholic monarch. pic.twitter.com/RAFEiEw5Ww
“Pope Leo XIV has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so,” according to the Vatican statement. “In keeping with this long-standing practice of civic participation, he has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago.”
Michael Walsh, a British historian and author who has written books on the papacy, told CNN that Leo XIV is the first pope to vote in a democratic, secular election.
“I don’t think popes have ever voted in a democratic election before,” said Walsh.
“The Holy Father has also confirmed that, during his years of residence in Peru he exercised his right to vote whenever he was eligible to do so,” noted the statement. “The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes.”
According to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times, which first broke the story, the chief of staff at the Will County Clerk’s Office confirmed that the Pope, who remains registered as Robert Prevost at a New Lenox, Illinois, address, requested a mail-in ballot on October 3.
Since 2000, Prevost has voted in five primary elections, requesting Democratic ballots twice and Republican ballots three times, according to Illinois State Board of Elections records.
Most recently he voted in the 2024 presidential election.
Here is Pope Leo XIV’s recent voting history.
He’s voted in both Democratic and Republican primaries.
Parents of girls attending El Camino High School in Sacramento, California, have come forward to allege that a male student playing on the girls’ volleyball team sexually harassed the female players after being permitted to use the girls’ changing room. Despite filing a sexual harassment complaint against the student, the parents say the school was more concerned with including him than protecting their girls.
While El Camino High School appears to have taken steps to conceal the boy’s identity, Reduxx can confirm his name as Ariana “Ari” Grialou, born Bradley Grialou. Grialou previously ran on the boys’ track and cross country teams in middle school, but began to identify as a girl in the 8th or 9th grade. After enrolling at El Camino, Grialou signed up for the girls’ junior varsity volleyball team, and eventually moved up to girls varsity at the start of this year’s season.
According to sources at the school, during varsity tryouts, two senior girls who had played on the team for the previous three years were cut, and Grialou’s participation had an immediate impact on the opportunities given to the female players. One parent who spoke to Reduxx under the condition of anonymity said Grialou was given more game time than many of the girls on the team, and was able to choose his position based on his personal preference.
“Ari gets to play in whatever position he wants. He is allowed to play a good portion of the playtime during games because he gets to play all-around. So all of the girls are impacted, because he gets to say what he wants to do and the coach listens,” Carol, whose name has been changed to protect her family’s privacy, said. “Sometimes there were games where I had to wonder if my kid was even going to get to play at all. There have been games where my kid maybe gets 10 minutes playtime, where Ari is out there for two-thirds of the game.”
However, at the beginning of the 2026 season, coaches were forced to address the issue after a game against Rio Linda High School. Following the match, a concerned aunt of one of the Rio Linda players sent an email to the coaches and staff of the schools set to play against El Camino. The subject line read: “Safety of Varsity Girls Volleyball Teams.”
In the email, which was shared with Reduxx, the aunt writes: “As I watched, I became increasingly concerned for the girls on Rio Linda’s team. After playing for much of the game, it became obvious to me that #13 on El Camino is a boy. He particularly had at least two hits that nailed a couple of the girls in the head that came in much harder than a girl would hit.”
The email sent from a concerned aunt regarding Grialou’s participation.
The email prompted an immediate scramble among the staff at El Camino.
According to another parent who spoke with Reduxx, the next game El Camino played had school officials and staff stationed throughout the gym, including in the stands. There was also a “significant presence” of representatives from the California Safe School Coalition – a network of organizations and individuals who act as advocates for LGBT students.
But the efforts to “protect” Giralou didn’t stop there. A girl on the El Camino team was required to switch jerseys with Grialou in order to further hide his presence because he had previously been identified as player #13.
“After the jersey exchange, Ari pulled all the girls aside for a private conversation. This was when the team had disappeared from the gym. During that conversation, Ari told the girls that he hadn’t been completely truthful with them and revealed that he was transgender. He explained that the reason Safe Schools and so many school officials were present was to support him. He also told the girls that he hoped none of them were particularly attached to their jersey numbers because, throughout the season, each of them would be expected to switch jerseys with him and take turns wearing #13,” explains Kelly, another mother from El Camino whose name has also been changed to protect her family’s privacy.
“What was particularly concerning was that no school officials or coaches appeared to be involved in this conversation with the girls. Ari was the one leading the discussion, explaining the jersey changes, and communicating what was expected of his teammates. He told them that the school fully supported him and that this was why so many officials were present that day.”
Kelly says that several of the girls went home in tears that night because they were frightened of being made to wear jersey #13.
“They didn’t want to be mistaken for him or become the focus of attention or controversy simply because they were wearing his former jersey,” Kelly says.
But both Kelly and Carol mention that serious safety concerns were raised after the jersey switch.
“If the school believed Ari could be placed in an uncomfortable or potentially unsafe situation by continuing to wear #13 after being publicly identified, why would they think it was appropriate to transfer that same attention or potential risk to another girl,” Kelly questions.
The school later acknowledged that the decision was inappropriate and agreed to retire jersey #13 altogether. Grialou was subsequently assigned jersey #17.
Grialou during recent games.
But the parents reveal the jersey issue was only one of many apparent safeguarding failures prompted by the school’s efforts to accommodate Grialou.
“Even before Ari disclosed that he was transgender, several girls had expressed feeling uncomfortable around him because of the nature of his conversations and comments,” Kelly says. “According to the girls, Ari frequently made inappropriate and sexually suggestive comments about their bodies. He would ask personal questions about their relationships with their boyfriends, including whether they had sex and whether they had tried different sexual positions. These were not isolated comments, and the girls found the conversations invasive and uncomfortable.”
Both Kelly and Carol also note that Grialou’s locker room usage was a “major concern” amongst the girls, who reported to their parents that he would often “hover,” and “stare” at the female players while they undressed. He would allegedly remain in the facilities despite never actually changing himself.
Eventually, several girls organized to file formal complaints about what they perceived as ongoing sexual harassment.
“Following those complaints, the parents were contacted by the school and informed of the allegations and their daughters’ Title IX rights. However, the school also communicated that it felt confident the inappropriate comments would stop and that no further action was necessary,” Kelly says. Carol adds that she felt the response from the school was “very poor” and expressed upset that no monitors were assigned to the locker room after the girls came forward.
Even after the complaint, Grialou continued to be allowed to use the female changing room. Eventually, many of the girls took to changing in the bathroom stalls to avoid his gaze.
“From a parent’s perspective, it increasingly felt as though whatever Ari wanted, the school was willing to accommodate, regardless of how those decisions affected the rest of the team,” Kelly says.
Carol also describes a concerning pattern in Grialou’s public behavior she noticed from the bleachers as she watched El Camino games.
“Ari was constantly manipulating his genitals,” she says. “He would touch himself during the game, excessively. Between every play or every other play.” Carol says she believes Grialou was adjusting his “tuck,” but would not do so in a discreet manner and was often seen with his fingers “lodged” in his behind or genital area.
“The girls didn’t want to high-five him or touch him because of this. They were grossed out. I could understand if it were once or twice, sure, but it was constant. In public. At every game.”
In terms of Grialou’s athletic performance, both parents note that his physical advantages were obvious.
“He hits hard. He has the hands of an adult man. He has a longer reach. He can jump higher. His strength is fully as a boy,” Carol says, noting that there had been multiple reported injuries involving girls being hit or elbowed by Grialou.
“What has been most frustrating throughout this entire situation is the apparent lack of consideration for the other girls,” Kelly says. “This isn’t simply about Ari being transgender or participating on the girls’ volleyball team. It’s about how the school handled the situation, the expectations placed on the other players, the reported inappropriate behavior, and whether the school took meaningful steps to ensure that every student felt equally respected, supported, and safe.”
Carol echoes Kelly’s remarks, adding: “I am fairly open minded. I couldn’t care less than he is trans. Be who you want to be. But don’t negatively impact everyone around you. My issue is not with who he wants to be, it is with how he is significantly impacting girls around him. Everyone is putting this child’s rights ahead of the rights of my child.”
Last week, the situation at El Camino escalated after women’s rights advocate Beth Bourne became aware of Grialou’s participation in a game against Woodland High School. Bourne regularly attends sporting events to support young female athletes who oppose boys being able to self-identify into their sport.
Speaking to Reduxx, Bourne says that within minutes of her arrival, Grialou was pulled off the court.
“I waited a few minutes and then decided to head into the cafeteria area that is adjacent to the gym. As I was walking around the cafeteria, the Woodland High School principal approached me,” she recalls, noting that the principal told her she was not allowed to film the game.
Bourne posted the video of the interaction to her X account, where it received over 3 million views.
🚨🚨UNREAL: Last night at the Woodland High School vs El Camino High School girls’ varsity volleyball game, the principal approached me to warm me that I was not allowed to film any “minors” unless I was related to the player.
“I told him I was there to support the girls on the both sides of the court. I had heard from parents in the Woodland schools for the last two years that they were upset there was indoctrination in the schools around gender ideology and I had heard from several fathers that they wanted their daughter’s sports to be only for girls. I had also heard from an El Camino parent via DM on Facebook about the boy on the team,” Bourne says.
The principal, Gerald Salcido, then reportedly demanded to know which parents had contacted Bourne.
“I think it so wrong that the principal insisted on knowing which parents were concerned about their daughter’s safety. For what purpose did he need this information?”
Bourne praises the parents at El Camino who came forward, and says that she will continue to show up to support young female athletes.
“I believe it’s important for adults to speak out because an entire generation of girls in California have been taught to prioritize the feelings of the trans-identified boys over their rights to fairness and safety in girls’ sports and privacy and dignity in the bathrooms and locker rooms,” she says. “Not only am I hoping to keep the female athletes’ sports fair and safe, but also the boy athlete should understand biological reality. No child is born in the wrong body.”
