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Ninety-nine per cent of trans people in the UK told non-profit TransActual that anti-trans coverage by right-wing media outlets had harmed their metal health in some capacity.

Nearly all of the 4,008 people surveyed as part of the Trans Lives 2025 report said they had seen or heard a politician express transphobic sentiments, which had impacted their mental health greatly.

Ninety-eight per cent of respondents, surveyed between December 2024 and January 2025, who said they had experienced transphobia from their own family members believe that anti-trans media coverage had affected their loved ones’ thinking on the community.

In total, 97 per cent of respondents have experienced some form of transphobia, with 84 per cent experiencing it in 2024 alone.

The most common sources were through online harassment (82 per cent), strangers on the street (71 per cent), and from family members (80 per cent). Nearly 2,000 respondents say they had faced transphobic comments or harassment while using public transport.

Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. In this case, the Proton Mail account was affiliated with the Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF) group and Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing. Broadly, members were protesting the building of a large police training center next to the Intrenchment Creek Park in Atlanta, and actions also included camping in the forest and lawsuits. Charges against more than 60 people have since been dropped.

Information the FBI received showed a specific person as the payment source for a particular Proton Mail account, the record shows. “On January 25, 2024, subscriber information received from the Swiss Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty Unit, revealed [full name] (SUBJECT) as the payment source for the Proton e-mail address defendtheatlantaforest@protonmail.com,” it reads. 404 Media is not publishing the person’s name because they don’t appear to have been charged with a crime, according to searches of court databases.
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The document says the FBI believes that whoever manages the Proton Mail account likely has administrative access to the blog. The FBI received details about that Proton Mail account from the Swiss authorities via a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, or MLAT. An MLAT is when authorities in one country agree to provide information to an agency in another country. These are often used when the company or entity holding the information may only respond to local law enforcement demands for data.

Edward Shone, head of communications for Proton AG, the company behind Proton Mail, told 404 Media in an email: “We want to first clarify that Proton did not provide any information to the FBI, the information was obtained from the Swiss justice department via MLAT. Proton only provides the limited information that we have when issued with a legally binding order from Swiss authorities, which can only happen after all Swiss legal checks are passed. This is an important distinction because Proton operates exclusively under Swiss law.” Functionally, though, the material was provided to the FBI.

Here are the vote counts for the candidates in first, second and third place:

• Hannah Spencer (Green Party): 14,980 votes
• Matt Goodwin (Reform UK): 10,578 votes
• Angeliki Stogia (Labour Party): 9,364 vote

Matt Goodwin, the GB News presenter standing for Reform UK in this month’s Gorton and Denton byelection, says he wants his “country back”. But Good Law Project can reveal that he received a salary of up to €10,000 a month from a far-right pressure group based in Hungary.

Goodwin has been speaking at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) events since 2024 and seems to have served as a “visiting fellow” since at least last summer, when he returned to Budapest in August to speak on a panel moderated by the British anti-trans commentator Joanna Williams.

According to leaked documents obtained by Direkt 36, visiting fellows are paid between €5,000 and €10,000 per month “plus housing, office space, health insurance and, where appropriate, family support”. The fellowship ranges from two weeks to a year, but Direkt 36 found that it’s common for fellows to continue on a retainer. The investigation also found one-off guest speakers from abroad are paid handsomely: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son was paid €7,000 for two one-hour panel discussions.

MCC is a college and propaganda outfit for Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán based in Budapest. It is funded in part by a 10% stake in MOL Group – an energy giant that refines oil, most of which comes from Russia.

Last week, we revealed how MCC has spent more than £500,000 giving a megaphone to extreme rightwing voices in the UK. The college is plugged into an influence operation built around the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation – a network that includes Nigel Farage’s senior adviser and anti-abortion theologian James Orr, the Spectator editor and former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove, the anti-trans figurehead Kathleen Stock and the Palantir co-founder and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel.

In October 2025, Goodwin spoke at the Roger Scruton symposium at the Hungarian Embassy in London alongside other figures from the British right, MCC representatives and officials from Hungary’s energy and European Union Affairs ministries.

Earlier this week, the anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate passed us their research into Goodwin’s fellow campaigners. They had identified five separate individuals who had been out campaigning with Goodwin who had shared racist content online or expressed support for far-right groups. In some cases, there is little grey area: Goodwin’s campaigners have expressed clear support for the far-right group Britain First, baselessly suggested that 60-70% of transgender people are paedophiles or posted online that Muslims are only in the UK because they wish to “conquer” it.

This is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is the fact that Nigel Farage has always been at pains to distance his party from known far-right groups. He’s been publicly critical of Tommy Robinson on many occasions, and as UKIP leader he banned ex-British National Party members from running for his party.

And yet Goodwin, who is striving to become Farage’s ninth MP, and whose victory would probably represent the biggest and most significant one so far for Reform, appears to have surrounded himself with exactly the kinds of characters Farage claims he keeps at a distance.

Chief among these is Adam Mitula, who is currently serving as Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside. On his Facebook page Mitula has posted photos of himself with what appears to be a small team assisting Goodwin in his bid to become MP, also including Tameside councillor Allan Hopwood (who you might remember from this Mill interview) and Rob Barrowcliffe, Tameside’s interim Reform branch chair.

Mitula is an entrepreneur who has been involved in various businesses, including in real estate, crypto and Fintech. He was born in Szczecin, Poland, and on his website he says he was raised in a traditional Catholic culture and drew inspiration from Arnold Schwarzenegger in his weightlifting pursuits.

Mitula’s output, posted on social media, includes his suggestion that “60-70%” of transgender people are paedophiles, the fact he would “never touch a Jewish woman”, and his use of the n-word. Meanwhile, discussing the number of people who died in the Holocaust in July 2024, he appears to try and play down the statistics, writing: “6 million polish [sic] people including some Jews. They always use Poles to make up the number. And on top of it they claim Poles were killing. Just sick.”

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