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Pro-Woman Website Reduxx Faces Lawsuit in Japan Over 'Misgendering' Author

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  November 17, 2025 1:30 PM

Pro-woman website Reduxx has done a lot of good work protecting women's rights and championing women's causes against radical trans activism. They've covered stories like the Swiss man jailed for a "transphobic" social media post, men in women's prisons, and registered sex offender Richard Cox in Virginia.

Now they're being sued over an article in which they referred to a trans woman as a man.

Reduxx writes:

On October 15, 2024, Reduxx published an article titled EXCLUSIVE: Award-Winning Trans-Identified Male Author From Taiwan Sues Critics Who Say He’s Not A “Lesbian." The article was focused on a Taiwanese-born writer named Li Kotomi. Kotomi, an author, is a trans-identified male currently residing in Japan.


The article reported on Kotomi's campaign of terror against women's rights advocates, and how he had filed multiple lawsuits and criminal charges against women who refused to validate his identity as a “woman” and “lesbian.” 

It also noted that Kotomi had taken literary prizes intended for female writers, and called into question concerning statements Kotomi had made comparing pedophilia to a sexuality.

Kotomi found a Reduxx writer who happened to live in Japan, providing the grounds to file a lawsuit. In that suit, Kotomi alleges defamation and claims to be "legally and socially" a female. Kotomi is seeking a "hefty" financial settlement from Reduxx, as well as an order for the website to pull the October 2024 article

"In other words, he believes he can litigate us into validating his identity," Reduxx wrote. "Not gonna happen."

They also allege Kotomi found people associated with the Japan-based Reduxx write,r and the wrong person received the legal notice of the suit.

"We believe the move was calculated to both advance the suit and intimidate us by raising concerns for our writer’s safety. Perhaps Kotomi believed this pressure would cause us to simply back down and comply," Reduxx wrote.

Reduxx co-founder Genevieve Gluck thanked supporters.

Others stood in support of the organization and its work.

"I know there are a lot of requests for funding legal cases now, but fighting in the courts is where we’re at, seeing as appealing with logic, facts, and reason outside of them doesn’t work," Katrina wrote. "If you’re able to donate even a small amount towards helping Reduxx defend this lawsuit, they’d be grateful."

Alarmingly, the suit lists numerous unrelated individuals, which is causing problems.

She wrote, "As I’ve said - we’re being vague right now for a very good reason. As I’ve said - Kotomi has named *unrelated individuals* in the suit, incorrectly (or perhaps, intentionally misleadingly) associating them with the outlet in an effort to effectively smoke out his target. As I’ve said - that target is not Reduxx *as an entity* because he can’t get us. As I’ve said - our lawyer’s first line of business is actually ordering a number of redactions to protect those people who have *nothing* to do with us but that Kotomi named anyway."

And continued, "But Kotomi’s primary motivation here does not appear to be winning this suit. It appears aimed at letting us know he has access to our writer and at making us fear for her and her family’s safety. We decided to go public with this after many weeks of debate because we need him to know this strategy is not going to work and he can fight the suit on its (very poor) merits or f**k off."