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Billboard Campaign Targets California Transgender Prison Policy Ahead of Rape Trial
NTD News ^ | February 12, 2026 | Daniel Monaghan

Posted on 02/15/2026 3:58:27 PM PST by TheDon

A pair of women's rights groups is making waves in California with an eye-catching campaign to raise awareness about men being housed in women's prisons. The statewide billboard truck campaign is calling attention to the upcoming rape trial of a man accused of assaulting two women in the female prison that he was allowed to transfer into. NTD's Daniel Monaghan spoke with the director of Women to Women about the campaign.

This week, advocacy groups Women Are Real and Woman to Woman launched a statewide billboard truck campaign across California to raise awareness about men being housed in women's prisons under law SB 132. SB 132 was authored by state Senator Scott Weiner and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. It allows men to be housed in women's prisons if they say they are transgender.

Since there are no requirements within any of the gender self-ID policies, this just allows for anyone, whether they're in transition or not, to transfer. So what this translates to is there's just regular men with beards and tattoos from head to toe, they're walking around women's prisons. The mobile billboards feature stark messages including, women in California prisons raped by male inmates, and SB 132, state-sanctioned rape, media silent.

I use this term specifically state-sanctioned rape because this is exactly what it is. Our legislators were fully aware, if you have a working brain, you would know that giving people free range to gender self-ID within the carceral system is going to lead to people gaming the system and taking advantage of an opportunity. Why wouldn't they? Amy Ichikawa is the executive director of Women to Women.

She knows the correctional system all too well, having spent five years in Central California Women's Facility in Chochilla. These days, women are facing a new threat that wasn't present when she did her time. In early 2024, I received several phone calls about a couple of rapes that took place within a 24-hour period in this Central California Women's Facility.

The billboard campaign is drawing attention to the upcoming trial of the man accused of those rapes. Tremaine Carroll was transferred to the Chochilla Women's Correctional Facility after claiming to be transgender after 22 years in a men's prison. The judge in his rape trial ordered the prosecutor to refer to Carroll by she-her pronouns.

Ichikawa says many of the men who have transferred into women's prisons are sex offenders. There's hundreds of people on the waiting list, many of whom are registered sex offenders. 33.8 percent of the original transfer requests were registered sex offenders.

She says many female prisoners fear for their safety, sleeping in eight-bed dorms with the male inmates. Well, just knowing the nature of their crimes, their size, the fact that they know above all their feelings will be prioritized over women's safety and well-being. She says they are also afraid to speak out.

Women just don't want to talk about it anymore because they've seen what happens to the women who have spoken up. They see what happens when you do stand up for yourself or you do file a formal complaint. You get your privileges taken.

You lose honor dorm privileges. Some people even lose parole suitability grants. Ichikawa says the medical aspect is also disturbing.

There's women that have to petition the courts to get basic health care needs while these individuals that are trans-identified are prioritized and no questions asked. Facelifts, nose jobs, cheek and chin implants, Rogaine for their male pattern baldness. From 2017 to 2023, the California corrections system spent nearly $2.5 million on vaginoplasty and around $600,000 in breast implants, facial feminization, and laser hair removal.

SB 132 is called the Transgender Respect Agency and Dignity Act. The legislation is described by its creators as allowing incarcerated transgender, non-binary, and intersex people to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their gender identity. Ichikawa says woman to woman, women are real, and other groups will continue to fight it.

Historically, there hasn't been anyone to defend incarcerated women who are the pawn in this game that the powers and are playing. But we're not going to stop. Women are real, woman to woman, we're not going to stop.

The truck campaign opposing it has traveled through San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. A truck will also travel to Central California Women's Facility on Friday.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: billboard; california; crackifornia; trans

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Inmates are running the asylum here in California.

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1 posted on 02/15/2026 3:58:27 PM PST by TheDon
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To: TheDon
Inmates are running the asylum here in California. A state fully captured by the Democrat Party.


2 posted on 02/15/2026 4:20:22 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: TheDon

Why should trannies be treated any different than any other criminal? As they parade out of the port-a-potties with their rainbow fag flags, we’re finding out that more and more of them are murderers. Ungood.


3 posted on 02/15/2026 4:37:17 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (**** ICE (Illegal Criminal Emigrants).)
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To: TheDon

How many women, sorry trans men, are demanding to go to a men’s prison?


4 posted on 02/15/2026 4:43:52 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: TheDon
(A pair of women's rights groups is making waves in California with an eye-catching campaign to raise awareness about men being housed in women's prisons.)

TRUE EVEN IN PRISONS - NO "TRANSGENDERS" should be mixed in

There is NO SUCH THING as a "TRANSGENDER" HUMAN
ANYWHERE on the face of the Entire Earth 🌎🌏🌍




DEMOCRATS put MEN in WOMEN'S SPORTS.
DEMOCRATS put MEN in WOMEN'S SHOWERS.
DEMOCRATS put MEN in WOMEN'S BATHROOMS..
DEMOCRATS put MEN IN WOMEN'S LOCKER ROOMS.


Democrats are at
War with Reality,
Biology and
Almighty God


We are NOT the same



5 posted on 02/15/2026 4:55:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MacNaughton

🔝🔝🔝


6 posted on 02/15/2026 4:57:35 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: TheDon
"They" look nice.

7 posted on 02/15/2026 5:48:10 PM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: TheDon

Ca is just a madhouse while these women are doing this Newsome’s crazy wife is screaming about the Republican war on women.


8 posted on 02/15/2026 7:47:36 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: TheDon
Those women are just getting what they voted for, good and hard.

If they can't do the time, they shouldn't be doing the crime.

9 posted on 02/15/2026 8:36:24 PM PST by eldoradude (Think for yourself...)
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To: TheDon

This is what Californians wanted when they continued to elect their wackadoodle politicians. They don’t suddenly get to change the rules they put in place just because they didn’t think things through in the first place.


10 posted on 02/15/2026 8:44:09 PM PST by Prince of Space (I cannot hate the media enough!)
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To: eldoradude

That’s right.


11 posted on 02/15/2026 9:59:31 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: TheDon

12 posted on 02/16/2026 5:42:45 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: eldoradude

Even prisoners should not be raped.

And kiddy diddlers should be executed, not in prison.


13 posted on 02/16/2026 10:37:26 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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