FIRST ON FOX — A brand new examine is sounding the alarm on female-identifying, biologically male felons being incarcerated at female-only prisons, saying these inmates pose bodily and psychological dangers to organic ladies.

The report from Unbiased Girls, a nonprofit, launched Thursday and shared solely with Fox Information Digital, says “male inmates figuring out as ladies are disproportionately prone to have dedicated sexual offenses, and incarcerated ladies face heightened dangers of harassment and assault beneath these insurance policies.

“Putting trans-identifying males, particularly these with totally intact male genitalia or a historical past of violent intercourse crimes, in shut quarters with feminine inmates dangers a severe deprivation of the feminine’s rights,” the report states. “These dangers — and the implications which have already manifested for girls subjected to mixed-sex jail environments — are identified, however are being intentionally ignored in deference to legal guidelines and insurance policies that marginalize incarcerated ladies and silence issues about their security.”

Amie Ichikawa spent 5 years in a California state jail after she was convicted of creating terroristic threats with a gun. After her launch, she started advocating for feminine inmates involved about being housed with organic males.

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Amie Ichikawa spent 5 years in a California state jail after she was convicted of creating terroristic threats with a gun. After her launch, she started advocating for feminine inmates involved about being housed with organic males. (Unbiased Girls)

“It is as a result of the legal guidelines are primarily based on self-identification. The one requirement is for somebody to state that they’re a feminine,” Ichikawa advised Fox Information Digital. “You possibly can’t base your denials on bodily attributes, together with retention of a penis. You possibly can’t deny any individual a switch primarily based on felony historical past.”

Male inmates who determine as feminine will usually sit earlier than a evaluate board to have circumstances heard and argue that sex-based prisons violate Equal Safety legal guidelines or declare they’re being discriminated towards on the idea of intercourse.

Transgender, organic male inmates may also argue that their housing circumstances in male-only prisons violate the Eighth Modification’s prohibition towards merciless and strange punishment, in line with the Unbiased Girls report.

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In 4 states, organic male inmates who determine as feminine may be positioned in female-only prisons.

States that enable housing of trans-identifying inmates primarily based on gender identification. (Unbiased Girls)

These states embody California, Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey. Two states — Utah and Louisiana — prohibit males in ladies’s prisons, whereas all others function on a case-by-case foundation.

As of October 2024, there have been 1,487 incarcerated males figuring out as ladies in federal prisons — solely a few of whom are housed in feminine prisons, in line with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

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Practically half of trans-identifying male prisoners have intercourse convictions, in comparison with lower than 12% of the overall male jail inhabitants nationwide, in line with BOP statistics cited within the Unbiased Girls report.

“Girls don’t should be housed in locked prisons with violent felony males, interval,” stated Could Mailman, authorized director at Unbiased Girls. “In the course of the [2024 presidential] marketing campaign, Kamala Harris, unashamed of her overt backing of trans-identifying males in ladies’s prisons, tried to point the regulation required such madness. 

“She was unsuitable. ‘Merciless and Uncommon Punishment: Stopping the Harmful Insurance policies Placing Males in Girls’s Prisons’ makes clear that coverage leaders maintain clear authority to guard ladies and implement sanity. It is a must-read for politicians and their employees attempting to finish the predations of gender ideology.”

Transgender coverage advocates say housing female-identifying inmates in female-only prisons permits them to stay in a safer surroundings as a result of transgender ladies face sexual abuse in male-only prisons.

“Prisons and jails routinely topic transgender folks of their care to abusive circumstances, together with denial of medical care, prolonged durations of solitary confinement, and harassment, sexual assault, and violence by the hands of guards and different folks with whom they’re incarcerated,” the Transgender Regulation Middle states on its web site. “Latest research present that transgender ladies are 13 occasions extra prone to be sexually assaulted in jail than others.”

However feminine inmates have additionally confronted sexual abuse by the hands of transgender inmates who’re biologically male, and so they really feel their issues should not being addressed.

Feminine inmate Dana Grey advised Unbiased Girls she was sexually assaulted by a transgender lady “that was bodily intact” in January 2023.

Feminine inmate Dana Grey advised Unbiased Girls she was sexually assaulted by a transgender lady “that was bodily intact” in January 2023. (Unbiased Girls)

“It was terrifying and disgusting as a result of I knew there was nothing I might do,” Grey stated.

“It is a good Computer virus into the most important sufferer pool anybody might ever hope and dream of.”

— Amie Ichikawa

“The trans neighborhood has been hijacked as a hiding place for very mentally unwell intercourse criminals,” Ichikawa stated. “It is a good Computer virus into the most important sufferer pool anybody might ever hope and dream of. There [are] trans ladies that I communicate to in males’s prisons that need nothing to do with this and are horrified on the those that the states and federal establishments are permitting to switch over [to female prisons].”

Additional, these towards housing transgender inmates in female-only prisons additionally set off traumatic occasions for some ladies.

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Baby intercourse trafficking survivor Alissa Kamholz needed to share a cell with a female-identifying man affiliated with the identical gang as her childhood abusers, in line with the report.

Baby intercourse trafficking survivor Alissa Kamholz needed to share a cell with a female-identifying man affiliated with the identical gang as her childhood abusers, in line with the report. (Alissa Kamholz)

Ichikawa believes there are some males who determine as feminine to rig the system and be despatched to a ladies’s jail to have extra energy than they might in a males’s jail.

The subject of housing transgender inmates in female-only prisons has prompted lawsuits and jarring information headlines throughout the nation.

Final yr, a person posing as a transgender feminine inmate at Riker’s Island raped a feminine inmate, in line with a lawsuit filed by the sufferer. Additionally, final yr, Tremaine Deon Carroll, a organic male California inmate who identifies as feminine was charged with two counts of forcible rape and one in all “dissuading a witness from testifying” after allegedly attacking a lady at Central California Girls’s Facility, in line with a felony criticism first obtained by the web site 4W and later reported by Reduxx.

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Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 52, a violent offender incarcerated in California, was charged with rape in Madera County. A transgender individual, Carroll was housed in a ladies’s jail by request and transferred to a males’s jail after an indictment for rape.  (CDCR)

Demi Minor, a New Jersey transgender inmate, impregnated two feminine inmates in 2022. Moore later expressed worry after being transferred out of the female-only jail in an interview with NJ.com. An Indiana decide dominated final yr {that a} female-identifying, organic male convicted of killing a child might get state-funded transgender surgical procedure. 

Hannah Tubbs is a transgender California inmate who, at 17 years outdated, was convicted of molesting a younger lady in a Denny’s lavatory in 2017. Beneath former District Lawyer George Gascon’s mandates for suspects beneath 18, Tubbs, who was 26 when the case was finally tried, acquired a softball sentence of two years in a juvenile facility for women as a result of the date of the offense was simply days earlier than Tubbs’ 18th birthday.

Hannah Tubbs started figuring out as feminine after being arrested in a 2014 baby molestation case in Los Angeles County. (Los Angeles County)

Earlier than he might full the sentence, nevertheless, a 27-year-old Tubbs was charged in Kern County with first-degree homicide, threatening a witness, theft and assault. Tubbs pleaded responsible to manslaughter and lesser fees in trade for a 15-year jail sentence in November 2023.

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IWF’s new documentary collection, “Merciless & Uncommon Punishment: The Male Takeover of Feminine Prisons,” shares tales of abuse and retaliation for voicing their issues concerning the situation.

The IWF report is looking for options, together with amending the Jail Rape Elimination Act to “stop gender identity-based transfers to ladies’s prisons,” clarifying that the People with Disabilities Act “doesn’t mandate ‘transition’ providers or mixed-sex housing,” defending feminine inmates’ rights to report abuse with out retaliation, “eliminating reliance on activist medical pointers” and “tying federal jail funding to insurance policies that prioritize security for feminine inmates.”