As biological males who identify as transgender women or nonbinary are being transferred upon request to female prisons in California, biologically female inmates have been assaulted by these new transfers, says Lauren Adams, Legal Counsel for the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF).
Following a California law that went into effect on Jan. 1 allowing inmates to use their claimed gender identity to determine whether they are incarcerated in men’s or women’s facilities, there have been 261 prison transfer applications. All but six were to be transferred to women’s prisons, Fox News reported. At least 26 men have been transferred, but it may be more, Adams told the John Solomon Reports podcast Wednesday.
Adams cited a 2009 study that found 20.5% of biological men identifying as transgender women are registered sex offenders, with 49.8% of transgender women having committed crimes against persons.
As a result of the transfers following the new law, female inmates have been assaulted by male inmates.
“One of the first assaults we heard of was a man who was victimized in the men’s prison,” Adams said. “It’s documented, he sued the state over it, and has transferred, and within weeks had attacked his female cellmate. And then they took him away, put him in prison jail, right — administrative segregation — for a couple of weeks and then dumped him on a different yard.”https://9b0c0fa3a1ae69645d39c741e25f14e3.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Adams said that there have been many similar incidents since the recent transfers began.
A transgender woman inmate who had sexually assaulted two young boys was transferred to a women’s prison and stopped taking estrogen, “and he’s already been sexually active with multiple women” within the three weeks he’s been there, Adams said.
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Adams said that “no one’s listening” to the female inmates who are terrified of the violent men coming to their prisons. She also referenced the Department of Health and Human Services citing a 1994 study in 2001 that found 80% of female inmates had been victims of abuse.
“All of the organizations who usually work on prisoners’ rights are not speaking out on this — they either want to stay neutral, or they’re in favor of the law,” she said.
Biological men identifying as transgender women cannot legally be separated in men’s or women’s prisons since it is legally considered stigmatizing and discriminatory.
Despite WoLF tagging California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Senator Scott Wiener, the law’s author, in social media posts and emailing them the information, “they don’t want to hear from the women in there, they’d rather just forget them,” Adams said.
Gov. Newsom’s office and state senator Wiener’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday evening.
SPRINGDALE, Utah – On the morning of Wednesday, November 23, Zion National Park shuttle drivers reported that visitors had encountered an injured man and a non-responsive woman in the Narrows.
The Zion National Park Search and Rescue Team responded and found the man on Riverside Walk. Team members transported the man to the Zi on Emergency Operations Center. Farther up the Narrows, other team members found a non-responsive woman near the Virgin River. First responders administered emergency aid, but they determined she was deceased.
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Zion National Park’s response involved more than 20 search and rescue team members.
Background:
A 33-year-old man and 31-year-old woman, a married couple, had started their permitted 16-mile trip through the Narrows from the top-down on Tuesday, November 22. The man reported they became dangerously cold overnight and experienced symptoms consistent with hypothermia.
The pair stopped about a mile and a half from the north end of Riverside Walk (a paved trail that leads from the Temple of Sinawava to the Narrows). Early in the morning of November 23, the man continued on to get help while the woman remained. Park rangers encountered the man on Riverside Walk where other visitors were assisting him down the trail. Other visitors farther up the Narrows administered CPR to the woman before Zion Search and Rescue Team members arrived.
After 7 years, a Thanksgiving tradition is still going strong following an accidental text message.
On Tuesday, Jamal Hinton posted on Instagram that he would be with Wanda Dench on Thanksgiving. Dench had believed that she was texting her grandson in 2016, to invite him over for Thanksgiving. Instead, she had unintentionally texted Hinton.
Dench, from Mesa, Arizona, didn’t know that her grandson had changed his phone number. Hinton, 17, had been in class at Desert Vista High School when he had gotten the message.
After the two determined the mistake, they sent pictures of themselves to each other. Hinton then asked if he was still invited.
“Of course, you can. That’s what grandmas do…feed everyone,” Dench responded.
Every year, Hinton documents the special occasion on social media.
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In 2021, Dench and Hinton discussed their friendship.
“I would have missed out on a wonderful relationship. I’ve changed my view so much on the younger generation, and now that I’ve reflected back on all these years, I didn’t change their life; they changed mine,” she said.
