No males in women’s jails

This time it’s personal

December 10, 2024

“NO MALES IN WOMEN’S JAILS!” is a slogan that TERFs often chant and/or display on signs when we’re out protesting the housing of male inmates in women’s prisons and jails.

This is a serious issue that does not get nearly enough attention. In March of 2021, the news outlet My Northwest reported that a whistleblower at the Washington Correctional Center for Women (WCCW) had come forward to say that a half dozen men had been transferred to the women’s facility. One of them was Donna (Douglas) Perry, who had been convicted of killing three prostituted women. Another was a man named Princess Zoee Marie Andromeda Love (Hobby Bingham) who had been convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl.

Not a single national outlet picked up the story.

In February 2022, the same outlet took to task the state Department of Corrections for failing to disclose the fact that these men (among others) were committing crimes against female inmates in the facility. Two months later, it reported that at least 150 male inmates were lining up to be transferred to the women’s prison because state administrative policy makes it easy for men to get access to incarcerated women by calling themselves “transgender.”

Still not a peep from the national media.

This November, the group Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) filed a letter of complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, requesting an investigation into this egregious sex-based discrimination by the state Department of Corrections. On November 17, Women’s Declaration International USA held an event called “Protecting Women and Girls in Washington,” where WDI USA board member Irene Lawrence read a statement by April Morrow of the group Sovereign Women Speak about the case. You can watch a recording of the entire event here. I happen to know that April is in frequent contact with incarcerated women in Washington. They report that they are terrified of the men who are housed in locked cells with them.

None of this is limited to Washington. In the case of Chandler v. CDCR, the group Women’s Liberation Front is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation over the constitutionality of SB 132, which mandates that inmates be housed consistent with their “gender identities.” Over forty male inmates are being housed in the California women’s prison.¹ One of them, Tremaine Deon Carroll, has been criminally charged with two counts of raping female inmates while in the facility. Amie Ichikawa, who founded the group Woman II Woman after serving time in the state women’s prison, talks about this issue as much as she can, but very few media outlets are willing to listen to her.

Just today, the feminist publication Reduxx reported that a man named Danielle Marie Whitebird (Daniel Patrick Benz) has been transferred to the Minnesota state women’s prison after having been convicted of sexually molesting a 6-year-old girl by touching her vagina. A female inmate has claimed that he exposed his penis to her while inside the facility. I have completely lost track of the number of male inmates who are being housed in the women’s prison in Tim Walz’s Minnesota.²

None of this is even remotely unusual or anomalous. It is happening in states, red and blue, across the country. I recounted several of these horrific stories in my 2023 book, The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls. I reported on stories from California to Washington to Minnesota to Kansas to New Jersey to Maine, and others.

Also today, FAIR is reporting that men are being housed in the women’s section of the King County Jail in Seattle, Washington because they claim to have woman “gender identities.”

Many feminists and others who care about these things, including me, are sick and tired of vulnerable women being subjected to this kind of abuse. These days, I typically just gloss over these stories because they are so common. But the news about the King County Jail stopped me. This time it’s personal.

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