Trans Male Convict In Women’s Prison Charged With Rape

A California law passed in 2021 requires that male convicts, who “identify” as female, to be transferred to a woman’s prison.  That law, SB 132 introduced by progressive San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener passed both houses of California’s democrat super-majority legislature before being signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.  It removed the previous policy of state corrections officials to make individualized assessments regarding the transfer of claimed transgender inmates, excluding inmates who didn’t have gender-reassignment surgery.  As reported by Chris Pandolfo and Michael Ruiz of Fox News, three months after SB 132 became law,  habitual felon Tremaine Carroll, serving 25-years-to-life in prison for multiple crimes, including sex offenses, began identifying as a female.

In late 2021 Carroll, as required by the SB 132, was transferred to a California Women’s Facility.  Although he did not present as a woman and had not gone through sex-reassignment procedures, Carroll became the media posterboy for being one of the first trans-identifying inmates transferred under the new law.  In an op-ed for the San Francisco Bay View  Carroll wrote that he was “born with boy parts and a girl’s heart . . .”  Unfortunately, once inside a women’s prison, he decided to use his “boy parts.”  In January Carroll was indicted for forcible rape of a female inmate and intimidating a witness to prevent testimony.  The charges are based on the victim’s testimony that Carroll attacked her in a shower.  The complaint also refers to another female inmate who was assaulted. Carroll has since been transferred back to a men’s prison.

A feminist organization called WoLF aggressively opposes policies that permit biological males in women-only spaces. The group currently represents four female inmates in a lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that seeks to have SB 132, which is called the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, declared unconstitutional.  The groups Legal Director Lauren Bone told reporters:

“[SB 132] took away the ability to make individualized case assessments. It made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of anatomy and including things like hormones,” Bone said. “You don’t have to identify as a woman anymore. You can identify as non-binary or many other things. And so, what the results are is that there’s 50 men who are housed there. There are hundreds more on a wait list, who are still being processed. Nearly all of them have penises.”

To demonstrate how mindlessly naive the legislators who voted for and the Governor who signed SB 132 are, its author shared his concern:

“Transgender people in prison—particularly trans women—are at severe risk of assault and sexual victimization because they’re automatically housed by their birth-assigned sex,” Wiener said in a statement after his bill passed. “I’m authoring this legislation to ensure they can be housed where they’re safest. Transgender people should not be forced into isolation because they aren’t protected where they are forced to live.”

Like many other policies pushed by progressives to force transgender men into traditionally women-exclusive areas including sports, sororities and bathrooms, the demand to put them in women’s prisons throws biological woman and their rights and protections under the bus.