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FIRST ON FOX — A new study is sounding the alarm about biologically male offenders who identify as women and are incarcerated in women-only prisons, saying those inmates represent physical and psychological risks to biological women.
He independent women reportnonprofit organization, published Thursday and shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, says that “male inmates who identify as women are disproportionately likely to have committed sexual crimes, and incarcerated women face higher risks of harassment and assault under these policies.”
“Placing trans-identified men, especially those with fully intact male genitalia or a history of violent sexual crimesin confined spaces with female prisoners runs the risk of serious deprivation of women’s rights,” the report states. “These risks, and the consequences that have already manifested themselves for women subjected to mixed prison environments, are known, but are deliberately ignored. “in deference to laws and policies that marginalize incarcerated women and silence concerns about their safety.”
Amie Ichikawa spent five years in a California state prison after being convicted of making terroristic threats with a weapon. After her release, she began advocating for female inmates concerned about being housed with biological men.
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Amie Ichikawa spent five years in a California state prison after being convicted of making terroristic threats with a weapon. After her release, she began advocating for female inmates concerned about being housed with biological men. (Independent Women)
“It’s because the laws are based on self-identification. The only requirement is that someone declares that they are a woman,” Ichikawa told Fox News Digital. “You can’t base your denials on physical attributes, including the retention of a penis. You can’t deny someone a transfer based on a criminal record.”
Male inmates who identify as women often appear before a review board to have their cases heard and argue that sex-based prisons violate Equal Protection laws or claim they are being discriminated against based on sex.
Transgender biological male inmates will also argue that their housing conditions in all-male prisons violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, according to the Independent Women report.
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In four states, biological male inmates who identify as female can be placed in women-only prisons.
States that allow the housing of trans-identified inmates based on their gender identity. (Independent Women)
Those states include California, Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey. Two states, Utah and Louisiana, ban men from women’s prisons, while all others operate 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 housed in women’s prisons, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
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Nearly half of male prisoners who identify as trans have sexual convictions, compared to less than 12% of the overall male prison population nationwide, according to BOP statistics cited in the Independent Women report.
“Women do not deserve to be locked up in closed prisons with violent criminals, period,” said May Mailman, legal director of Independent Women. “During the (2024 presidential) campaign, Kamala Harris, unashamed of her open support for trans-identified men in women’s prisons, tried to indicate that the law required such madness.
“She was wrong. ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Stop Dangerous Policies That Put Men in Women’s Prisons’ makes clear that political leaders have clear authority to protect women and enforce sanity. This is a read “A must for politicians and their staff trying to put an end to the depredations of gender ideology.”
Proponents of transgender policies say that housing inmates who identify as women in women-only prisons allows them to live in a safer environment because transgender women face sexual abuse in men-only prisons.
“Prisons and jails routinely subject transgender people in their care to abusive conditions, including denial of medical care, prolonged periods of solitary confinement, and harassment, sexual assault, and violence at the hands of guards and others with whom they are incarcerated. “. states the Transgender Law Center on its website. “Recent studies show that transgender women are 13 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in prison than others.”
But female inmates have also faced sexual abuse at the hands of transgender inmates who are biologically male, and feel their concerns are not being addressed.
Inmate Dana Gray told Independent Women that she was sexually assaulted by a transgender woman “who was physically intact” in January 2023.
Inmate Dana Gray told Independent Women that she was sexually assaulted by a transgender woman “who was physically intact” in January 2023. (Independent Women)
“It was scary and disgusting because I knew there was nothing I could do,” Gray said.
“This is a perfect Trojan horse for the largest group of victims anyone could hope for and dream of.”
“The trans community has been used as a hiding place for mentally ill sex offenders,” Ichikawa said. “This is a perfect Trojan horse for the largest group of victims anyone could ever hope for and dream of. There are trans women I talk to in men’s prisons who want nothing to do with this and are horrified at the people who “The states and federal institutions are allowing the transfer (to women’s prisons).”
Additionally, those who oppose housing transgender inmates in women-only prisons also trigger traumatic events for some women.
According to the report, child sex trafficking survivor Alissa Kamholz had to share a cell with a man identified as a woman affiliated with the same gang as her child abusers.
According to the report, child sex trafficking survivor Alissa Kamholz had to share a cell with a man identified as a woman affiliated with the same gang as her child abusers. (Alissa Kamholz)
Ichikawa believes that there are some men who identify as women in order to manipulate the system and be sent to a women’s prison to have more power than they would have in a men’s prison.
The issue of housing transgender inmates in women-only prisons has sparked lawsuits and discordant news headlines across the country.
Last year, a man posed as a transgender inmate at Riker’s Island. raped an inmateaccording to a lawsuit filed by the victim. Additionally, last year, Tremaine Deon Carroll, a California male biological inmate who identifies as female, was charged with two counts of forcible rape and one count of “dissuading a witness from testifying” after allegedly attacking a woman in the Central California Women’s Center, according to criminal complaint first obtained on the 4W website and later reported by Reduxx.
Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 52, a violent felon imprisoned in California, was charged with rape in Madera County. Carroll, a transgender person, was placed in a women’s prison upon request and transferred to a men’s prison after a rape allegation. (CDCR)
Demi Minor, a transgender inmate from New Jersey, got two inmates pregnant in 2022. Moore later expressed fear after being moved out of the women’s-only prison in an interview with NJ.com. An Indiana judge ruled last year that a biological man identified as a woman and convicted of killing a baby could get state funding. transgender surgery.
Hannah Tubbs is a transgender California inmate who, at age 17, was convicted of sexually abusing a girl in a Denny’s bathroom in 2017. Under former District Attorney George Gascon’s mandates for suspects under 18, Tubbs, who was 26 years old when the case was finally closed. judged, received a two-year softball sentence in a youth center for girls because the date of the crime was a few days before Tubbs’ 18th birthday.
Hannah Tubbs began identifying as female after being arrested in 2014 in a child abuse case in Los Angeles County. (Los Angeles County)
However, before he could complete his sentence, Tubbs, 27, was charged in Kern County with first-degree murder, threatening a witness, robbery and assault. Tubbs pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and lesser charges in exchange for a Sentence of 15 years in prison in November 2023.
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IWF’s new documentary series, “Cruel & Unusual Punishment: The Male Takeover of Female Prisons,” shares stories of abuse and retaliation for expressing concerns on 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,” clarifying that the Americans with Disabilities Act “does not mandate services of’ transition’ or mixed housing”. protect the rights of female inmates to report abuse without retaliation, “eliminate reliance on activist medical guidelines,” and “tie federal prison funding to policies that prioritize female inmate safety.”
