FIRST ON FOX — A new study warns of biologically male female-identifying offenders incarcerated in women-only prisons, claiming these female inmates are posing physical and psychological risks biological women.
The report by Independent WomenThe nonprofit organization, released Thursday and shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, says that “male inmates who identify as women are disproportionately likely to commit sexual offenses, and incarcerated women face an increased risk of harassment and assault under these rules.”
“Putting trans-identifying men, especially those with fully intact male genitalia or histories violent sexual crimesin close quarters with female inmates risks serious denial of women’s rights,” the report states. “These risks—and the consequences already evident for women subjected to a mixed-gender prison environment—are known but willfully ignored. in deference to laws and policies that marginalize incarcerated women and silence concerns for 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 worried 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 worried about being housed with biological men. (Independent women)
“This is because the laws are based on self-identification. The only requirement is that someone declares that they are female,” Ichikawa told Fox News Digital. “You can’t base your denials on physical attributes, including penile retention. You can’t deny someone a transfer based on a criminal record.”
Male inmates who identify as women will often sit before a review board to hear cases alleging that gender-based prisons violate equal protection laws or alleging gender discrimination.
Transgender, biological prisoners will also argue that their housing conditions in male-only prisons violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, according to a report by Independent Women.
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In four states, biologically male inmates who identify as female can be housed in women-only prisons.
States that allow the housing of trans-identifying prisoners based on gender identity. (Independent women)
These states include California, Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey. Two states – Utah and Louisiana – ban men from women’s prisons, while all others do so 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 trans-identifying male inmates have been convicted of having sex, compared to less than 12% of the general male prison population nationwide, according to BOP statistics cited in the Independent Women report.
“Women don’t deserve to be put in locked prisons with violent criminals, period,” said May Mailman, legal director of Independent Women. “During [2024 presidential] Campaigner Kamala Harris, unashamed of her open support for trans-identifying men in women’s prisons, tried to point out that the law required such madness.
“She was wrong. ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Stopping the Dangerous Policies of Putting Men in Women’s Prisons’ makes it clear that political leaders have a clear mandate to protect women and enforce common sense. This is a must-read for politicians and their staff trying to stop the end of the predation of gender ideology.”
Transgender policy advocates say housing female-identifying inmates in women-only prisons allows them to live in a safer environment because transgender women face sexual abuse in male-only prisons.
“Jails and prisons routinely subject transgender people in their care to abusive conditions, including denial of medical care, prolonged periods of solitary confinement, and harassment, sexual abuse, and violence by guards and other people they are incarcerated with,” the Transgender Law Center states 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 from transgender inmates who are biologically male and feel their problems are being ignored.
Prisoner Dana Gray told Independent Women that in January 2023 she was sexually assaulted by a transgender woman “who was physically intact”.
Prisoner Dana Gray told Independent Women that in January 2023 she was sexually assaulted by a transgender woman “who was physically intact”. (Independent women)
It was scary and disgusting because I knew there was nothing I could do, Gray said.
“This is the perfect trojan horse in the highest number of casualties that anyone could hope and dream of.”
“The trans community has been hijacked as a hideout for mentally ill sex criminals,” Ichikawa said. “This is the perfect Trojan horse in the highest number of victims that anyone can hope and dream of. There [are] trans women I talk to in men’s prisons who want nothing to do with it and are horrified at the people that states and federal institutions allow to transition [to female prisons].”
Furthermore, those against housing transgender inmates in women-only prisons also evoke traumatic events for some women.
Alissa Kamholz, a survivor of child sex trafficking, had to share a cell with a man who identified as a woman and was affiliated with the same gang as her childhood abusers, according to a report.
Alissa Kamholz, a survivor of child sex trafficking, had to share a cell with a man who identified as a woman and was affiliated with the same gang as her childhood abusers, according to a report. (Alyssa Kamholz)
Ichikawa believes that there are some men who identify as women in order to rig 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 disturbing news headlines across the country.
Last year, a man posing as a transgender inmate at Riker’s Island raped a prisonerit is stated in the claim of the injured party. Also last year, Tremaine Deon Carroll, a biologically male California inmate who identifies as a woman, was charged with two counts of involuntary rape and one count of “witness tampering” after he allegedly assaulted a woman at a women’s facility in Central California , according to the criminal report it was first acquired by the 4W website and later reported by Reduxx.
Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 52, a violent felon incarcerated in California, has been charged with rape in Madera County. A transgender person, Carroll was placed in a women’s prison at her request and transferred to a men’s prison after being charged with rape. (CDCR)
Demi Minor, a transgender inmate from New Jersey, impregnated two female prisoners In 2022, Moore later expressed her fear after being moved from a women’s only prison in an interview with NJ.com. An Indiana judge ruled last year that a biological man who identifies as female and is convicted of murdering a child can receive state funding. transgender surgery.
Hannah Tubbs is a transgender inmate from California who, at age 17, was convicted of molesting a young girl in a Denny’s bathroom in 2017. Under former District Attorney George Gascon’s mandates for suspects younger than 18, Tubbs, who was 26 when the case was ultimately settled, was tried , received a softball sentence of two years in a juvenile home for girls because the date of the offense was just days before Tubbs’ 18th birthday.
Hannah Tubbs began identifying as a woman after she was arrested in a 2014 child abuse case in Los Angeles County. (Los Angeles County)
However, before he could finish 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 in exchange for a A sentence of 15 years in prison in November 2023.
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The IWF’s new documentary series, “Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Male Takeover of Women’s Prisons,” shares stories of abuse and retaliation for raising concerns about the issue.
The IWF report calls for solutions, including amending the Prison Rape Elimination Act to “prevent gender identity-based transfers to women’s prisons,” clarifying that the Americans with Disabilities Act “does not mandate ‘transition’ services or accommodations for mixed-sex persons,” protecting the right of female inmates to report abuse without retaliation, “eliminating reliance on activist medical guidelines,” and “tying federal prison funding to policies that prioritize safety a prisoner.”
