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255 California prison inmates identify as transgender, nonbinary so they can be moved to women's prisons
Christian Post ^ | 04/10/2021 | Brandon Showalter

Posted on 04/10/2021 6:19:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

California has paved the way for male prison inmates to be transferred to women's prisons, which has raised concerns about the safety and welfare of both the female inmate population and female corrections officers.

Over 255 men who identify as either female or "nonbinary" have in recent months requested to be transferred to women's prisons on the basis of self-declared “gender identity,” according to multiple reports.

The onslaught of such requests was precipitated by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which requires the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to inquire of every individual to indicate their preferred pronouns, gender identity, and whether they identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex. The new law also requires that the department house prisoners in a “correctional facility designated for men or women based on the individual’s preference.”

Thus far, not a single “gender-based housing” transfer request has been denied. Of the 261 requests, all but six were requests from inmates to be transferred to the women’s facilities.

CDCR Deputy Press Secretary Terry Thornton said, “255 are from transgender women and nonbinary incarcerated people who are requesting to be housed in a female institution and six are from transgender men and nonbinary incarcerated people who are requesting to be housed in a male institution.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, many female inmates fear that men are filing requests to be transferred to women’s prisons based on false claims of gender identification. These concerns have seemed to slow down the process of transferring male inmates to women's prisons, the publication added.

Thornton said in an interview with the Times that “a person’s gender identity is self-reported and CDCR will evaluate any request submitted by an incarcerated person for gender-based housing.” She further explained that they've held discussions with the Inmate Advisory Council at Chowchilla and with trans-identified men at San Quentin State Prison concerning this issue in an effort to quell female inmates' fears.

For many female inmates and correctional staff, those fears still remain.

Speaking with Fox News' affiliate in Sacramento Wednesday, a corrections officer who went by the pseudonym of "Annie" said she believes she'll be fired if her identity is revealed for publicly expressing discomfort over the law’s requirement that she and other female officers perform strip searches involving trans-identifying male inmates.

“They’ve already said we will be written up. All the way up to termination,” Annie said.

“You’re ordered to go strip out this inmate in a secure room … it takes your power away,” she added. “Where’s the boundaries? Boundaries are gone.”

The news outlet obtained an internal email from the prison administration explaining that female employees who do not wish to “perform the strip out will be given a direct order by the supervisor to perform the strip out and if they still refuse that supervisor will author a memo and provide it to the facility captain in regards to insubordination.”

In a statement to The Christian Post on Thursday, the radical feminist group Women’s Liberation Front, which has been fighting against placing males in women’s prison facilities regardless of how they identify, said while they were glad to see public officials looking to correct their neglect to resolve the issue of sexual violence in men’s prisons, they're going about it the wrong way.

" ... it’s cruel and inhumane to try to solve this problem for only a small subset of at-risk men by deciding to have men’s prisons and then mixed-sex prisons. California’s women’s facilities are mainly low-security, open-plan dormitories, and they’re overcrowded already,” the feminist group said.

“Part of the problem is that the Prison Rape Elimination Act ties officials’ hands by saying they can’t create separate units or wings for prisoners on the basis of sexual identity or gender identity claims. It further requires collection of information about a prisoner’s risk as a target of violence, but not as a potential perpetrator of it, based on sex.”

“It made sense at the time because there was no serious consideration of ending women’s rights to female-only housing while in the custody of the state. But it means there’s a lot of data gathered to the effect of describing men as vulnerable to male sexual violence, and no framework for considering the relative vulnerability of women to male sexual violence, which the vast majority of incarcerated women had suffered already before their convictions.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; inmates; transgenderprison
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1 posted on 04/10/2021 6:19:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

California defying gravitational logic.


2 posted on 04/10/2021 6:22:51 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: SeekAndFind

what could go wrong? I would lay money on a bunch of pregnant women inmates in the near future.


3 posted on 04/10/2021 6:22:56 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: SeekAndFind

I hear Guantanamo has some extra space.


4 posted on 04/10/2021 6:23:47 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Require them to whack off their body parts that defines them as a man before sending them to the woman’s prison. None of this chemical castration, a nice razor will do.


5 posted on 04/10/2021 6:26:56 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: SeekAndFind

“Okay, but you gotta have the surgery”

I bet that makes a few of them change their mind. LOL.


6 posted on 04/10/2021 6:27:55 PM PDT by Bones75
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To: SeekAndFind

They won’t be afraid to bend over and pick up the soap in the shower in the women’s prison.


7 posted on 04/10/2021 6:33:19 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: SeekAndFind

A simple solution is to put all of those claiming to be transgendered into one prison and call it a Women’s correctional facility. Then it can be said that they obeyed the law and put them into the facility that which they identify. If they can change their identity then the facility can state that it identifies as being a female correction institution.


8 posted on 04/10/2021 6:35:18 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (Escaped CA, not going back except to visit a friend or two perhaps every two years. )
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To: SeekAndFind

It would be interesting to know how many of them were convicted of sex crimes against women.


9 posted on 04/10/2021 6:39:30 PM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy."--Walter Williams)
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To: Tallguy
255 homosexual convicts apply to move from the bottom to the top of the food chain.

#FromPreyToPredator


10 posted on 04/10/2021 6:49:38 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

party time at the women prisons - whoopee!!


11 posted on 04/10/2021 6:49:45 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: SeekAndFind

That is not going to end well.


12 posted on 04/10/2021 6:50:10 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I would predict a bunch of mutilated/dead trannies.


13 posted on 04/10/2021 6:50:47 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Any word on how many “transmen” have requested transfer from a women’s facility to a men’s?


14 posted on 04/10/2021 6:56:00 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Blurb2350

If you read more than the headline, you would know. But you are smarter than that, and don’t need to actually inform yourself since others will think for you.

SIX went the other way. Idiot. Call me boomer, I don’t care. At least I know how to read and think.


15 posted on 04/10/2021 7:16:59 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The left’s war on women continues.


16 posted on 04/11/2021 12:24:36 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: bagster
255 homosexual convicts apply to move from the bottom to the top of the food chain.

Somehow, I doubt these guys are gay.

17 posted on 04/11/2021 1:26:02 AM PDT by Gena Bukin (I'm a dude. Gena Bukin is the Russian Al Bundy. Google it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

255 chicks with d##’s to service the women in these institutions is what I see. I worked in a female jail with the very first chick with a d### was incarcerated many years ago. The people n charge did not know what to do with it, put it in a male jail or female jail. Needless to say she was very popular in both


18 posted on 04/11/2021 2:57:34 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

This is going to be lots of laughs and giggles!


19 posted on 04/11/2021 4:14:54 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: SeekAndFind

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=inmates


20 posted on 04/11/2021 6:26:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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