FFS Friday: Alissa Kamholz
April 26, 2024
I don’t have fear in speaking up. My voice is my weapon and I am not afraid to use it.
The latest in the series FFS (Female Free Speech) Friday honors Alissa Kamholz, a woman incarcerated in California’s women’s prison. FFS Friday honors women who are bravely speaking out, in whatever ways they can, about the harms of “gender identity” for women and girls.
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Kamholz is a rape survivor whose step-father was a Hell’s Angel. For ten years, she was raped repeatedly by him and “his biker buddies.”
In an interview with the Independent Women’s Forum, she explains the impact of California’s SB 132, which permits men to be housed in the women’s prison if they claim to have a “gender identity” that differs from their actual male sex. The law, called the “Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act,” was enacted by the state legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020. It went into effect in January 2021.
Kamholz says:
We were told, “This is what’s happened and it’s not going to change, and we’re not asking your opinion.”
We brought up what our concerns were and stuff, and we were told, “Don’t worry, none of them are going to members of security threat groups, none of them are going to have crimes against women …”
Since they’ve been here, almost all of them are members of security threat groups. A large majority of them have crimes against women or children …
They’re very honest once they get here. They’ll say, “I’ve been down all this time, I’ve exhausted all my appeals, I’m never going home,” and, excuse my language, but they say, “I just want p*ssy.” And so that’s what we’ve been dealing with.
I came home from my job and one of the men was in my room. He just happened to be a long-haired white man, which is what my abusers all were. It was a very very difficult situation for me…
I found out that he’s from the same town that I’m from, a little small town in San Diego, a little off-street. So I asked him if he knew where the clubhouse was, where all my abuse happened, and he knew exactly where it was; it was, like, his hangout spot. I know he wasn’t one of my abusers because he’s only, like, seven years older than me, but there’s like a 97% chance that [he was] there in the building or even in the room while I was being raped and stuff.
There’s much more. Please watch the interview if you’ve got five minutes to spare.
Amie Ichikawa (who was formerly incarcerated in the same California women’s prison) founded the organization Woman II Woman, a support network for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. Amie posted the interview on X earlier this month. Had I not seen that post, I wouldn’t have known about this interview or about Kamholz’s story. Please give that post some likes and give Amie a follow at @ichinita310 if you’re on X.
Kamholz ends the interview:
I don’t have fear in speaking up.
My voice is my weapon and I am not afraid to use it.
Alissa, today’s FFS Friday is for you.
8th amendment violation of these women is clear, yet somehow it is cruel and unusual to place these men ... with men? I am shocked - no, that's not the right word - dismayed, disgusted ...that people don't even know about this and more disturbing are of those that do,they don't seem to care or worse, support this ...
There are no longer any women's prisons in these states. These are majority female holding places to be used by misogynists to inflict cruel and unusual punishment on females by placing males in there to rape or do whatever they want. These deranged males are being placed there by the type that would gleefully volunteer to be a concentration camp guard. As a young, US Army reservist in the early 80's, I had to go for my physical to Fort Sam Houston. Many (but not all, thankfully) had quite a bit of hostility towards the military female. I walked into the room for my pap smear, and an overwhelming sense of doom permeated my brain. The "doctor," Jabba the Hut, was sitting on his stool, about 400lbs of white grease ball. He proceeded to arrange the table so I was sitting up enough so he could stare at me as he hand-raped. There is zero doubt in my mind the staff knew exactly what was going on and was titillated by the thought of Jabba raping military women. This is the purpose of putting males in formerly women's prisons.