First on Fox – A new study sounds the alarm about biological male criminals being held in women-only prisons, saying these female inmates constitute… Physical and psychological risks To the biological woman.
the Report from the Independent Women's Organizationa nonprofit organization, released Thursday and shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, says “male inmates who identify as women are disproportionately likely to commit sex crimes, and incarcerated women face increased risks of harassment and assault under these policies.”
“The situation of transgender males, especially those with completely intact male genitalia or a history of disease Violent sexual crimes“Being in close proximity to female prisoners threatens to seriously deprive women of their rights,” the report stated. “In respect of laws and policies that marginalize women prisoners and silence concerns about their safety.”
Emi Ichikawa spent five years in a California state prison after being convicted of making terroristic threats with a gun. After her release, she began advocating for female inmates concerned about being housed with biological males.
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Emi Ichikawa spent five years in a California state prison after being convicted of making terroristic threats with a gun. After her release, she began advocating for female inmates concerned about being housed with biological males. (independent woman)
“The reason is that the laws are based on self-identification. The only requirement is that the person states that he or she is female,” Ishikawa told Fox News Digital. “You cannot base your denial on physical characteristics, including retention of a penis. You cannot deny someone transportation based on criminal history.”
Male prisoners who identify as female often sit before a review board to hear cases and argue that sex-based prisons violate equal protection laws or claim that they are discriminated against on the basis of sex.
According to the Independent Women's Report, transgender male inmates will also argue that their housing conditions in male-only prisons violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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In four states, biological male prisoners who identify as female can be placed in women-only prisons.
States that allow transgender prisoners to be housed based on gender identity. (independent woman)
Among those states is California, Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey. Two states – Utah and Louisiana – ban men from women's prisons, while all others work on a case-by-case basis.
As of October 2024, there were 1,487 incarcerated men who identified as women in federal prisons — only some of whom are in women's prisons, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
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People wave a transgender pride flag at the 2023 Los Angeles Pride Parade on June 11, 2023, in Hollywood, California. (Robin Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
Nearly half of transgender male inmates have sex convictions, compared to less than 12% of the total male prison population across the country, according to BOP statistics cited in the Independent Women's Report.
“Women do not deserve to be housed in closed prisons with violent criminal men, period,” said May Millman, legal director at Independent Women. “During the (2024 presidential) campaign, Kamala Harris, who has not been shy about her public support for trans men in women’s prisons, tried to suggest that the law requires such insanity.
“She was wrong. Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Stopping Dangerous Policies That Put Men in Women's Prisons shows that political leaders have clear power to protect women and enforce reason. This is a must-read for politicians and their staffs trying to end the predation of gender ideology.”
Transgender policy advocates say housing female inmates in women-only prisons allows them to live in a safer environment because trans women face sexual assault in male-only prisons.
“Jails and prisons routinely subject transgender people in their care to abusive conditions, including denial of medical care, long periods of solitary confinement, harassment, sexual assault, and violence at the hands of guards and other people with whom they are incarcerated.” The Transgender Law Center states on its website. “Recent studies indicate that transgender women are 13 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in prison than non-transgender women.”
But female prisoners also face sexual abuse at the hands of transgender prisoners who are biologically male, and feel their concerns are not being addressed.
Inmate Dana Gray told Independent Women that she was sexually assaulted by an “able-bodied” transgender woman in January 2023.
Inmate Dana Gray told Independent Women that she was sexually assaulted by an “able-bodied” transgender woman in January 2023. (independent woman)
“It was terrifying and disgusting because I knew I couldn't do anything,” Gray said.
“This is the perfect Trojan horse in the largest victim pool anyone could hope and dream of.”
“The transgender community has been hijacked as a hideout for severely mentally ill sex criminals,” Ishikawa said. “This is the perfect Trojan horse in the largest victim pool anyone could ever hope and dream of. There[are]trans women I talk to in men’s prisons who don’t want anything to do with this and are terrified of the people that states and federal institutions allow.” Transferred (to women's prisons).”
Furthermore, those who oppose housing transgender inmates in women-only prisons also cause traumatic events for some women.
According to the report, Alyssa Kamholz, a survivor of child sex trafficking, had to share a cell with a man with female identification who belonged to the same gang who abused her as a child.
According to the report, Alyssa Kamholz, a survivor of child sex trafficking, had to share a cell with a man with female identification who belonged to the same gang who abused her as a child. (Alyssa Kamholz)
Ishikawa believes that there are some men who identify as female to game the system and send them to the women's prison to gain more power than they have in the men's prison.
The issue of housing transgender inmates in women-only prisons has sparked lawsuits and controversial news headlines across the country.
Last year, a man pretended to be a transgender inmate at Riker's Island Rape of a prisonerThis is according to the lawsuit filed by the victim. Also last year, Tremaine Deon Carroll, a biological prisoner from California who identifies as female, was charged with two counts of forcible rape and one count of “dissuading a witness from testifying” after attacking a woman at the Central California Women’s Facility, according to a criminal complaint. It was first obtained from the 4W website It was later reported by Reduxx.
Tremaine “Tremaine” Dion Carroll, 52, a violent felon imprisoned in California, has been charged with rape in Madera County. Carol, a transgender person, was housed in a women's prison upon request and was transferred to a men's prison after being indicted for rape. (Kddak)
Demi Minor, a transgender prisoner in New Jersey, Two female prisoners were impregnated in 2022. Moore later expressed her fear after being transferred from the women-only prison in an interview with NJ.com. An Indiana judge ruled last year that a biological man who identifies as female convicted of killing a child can receive state funding. Transgender surgery.
Hannah Tubbs is a transgender prisoner in California who, aged 17, was convicted of molesting a young girl in a religious bathhouse in 2017. Under former Attorney General George Gascón's mandates for suspects under 18, Tubbs, then 26, was convicted year when the case was finally filed. He tried, and was sentenced to softball for two years In a juvenile facility for girls Because the date of the crime was a few days before Tubbs' eighteenth birthday.
Hannah Tubbs began identifying as female after she was arrested in a 2014 child molestation case in Los Angeles County. (Los Angeles County)
But before he could complete his sentence, 27-year-old Tubbs was charged in Kern County with first-degree murder, threatening a witness, robbery and assault. Tubbs pleaded guilty to manslaughter and lesser charges for a 15 years imprisonment In November 2023.
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IWF's new documentary series, Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Male Takeover of Female Prisons, shares stories of abuse and retaliation to voice their concerns about the issue.
The IWF report calls for solutions, including amending the Prison Rape Elimination Act “to prevent transfers based on gender identity to women's prisons,” explaining that the Americans with Disabilities Act “does not mandate 'transitional' services or gender-mixed housing.” “. Protect the rights of female prisoners to report abuse without retaliation, “eliminate reliance on activist medical guidelines” and “link federal prison funding to policies that prioritize the safety of female prisoners.”
