For today’s piece, we received permission from Diana Alastair to post her clear, cogent X thread on the disgrace that is men in women’s prisons. Follow her on X at @sappholives83.
How is anyone supposed to reason with people like this? 94 percent of incarcerated women are survivors of physical or sexual abuse. They want nothing more than to do their time and go home—and now they’re being locked in cells with violent male sex offenders to be raped. To claim that these deeply traumatized women are more of a threat to fully intact male criminals—whom they are now forced to shower, change, and sleep next to—than vice versa reveals a depth of delusion that is absolutely astounding.
I don’t know if @AHelikitty actually believes his ridiculous claim, but the fact that he even feels comfortable making it shows just how insane the people who support these men have become. The men being placed in women’s prisons are dangerous, violent criminals who are up to seven times more likely to be sex offenders than the normal male prison population. In Canada, for example, 88 percent of male trans inmates have a sex offense on their record—and these offenses carry no weight when it comes time to decide where to house them.
Convicted trans people in California must be given the cellmate of their choice by state law; in practice, this means that convicted male rapists get to choose which woman they get locked up with every night. In one instance, a 5-foot-3-inch woman whose male cellmate raped her was herself accused of rape by her 6-foot-2-inch, 300-pound male assailant and treated like she was the guilty party by prison staff. She was put in isolation and interrogated; she was facing charges—and then her rapist attacked a second woman. He is now in protective custody—but still in a women’s facility, and still allowed limited contact with female inmates.
Women in these facilities report widespread bullying and abuse over everything from commissary items to who sits where during meals. In states like California, men do not even have to be on hormones to be placed in a women’s prison, much less to have had their penises removed. These male inmates blatantly tell women that they see themselves as men and that they have no intention of maintaining a trans identity after release. None of that matters to the men who sign the transfer papers, of course.
Even the guards have been sexually assaulted and harassed by these men. Trans ID’d male inmates demand to be searched by female guards, whom they then sexually harass by making explicit comments and displaying their visible arousal during the search process. The problem was so widespread that California has had to institute a mandatory bodycam policy for all body searches to protect their female employees. It’s too bad they don’t feel the same level of concern for the women in custody, for whose safety they are at least equally responsible.
To place a man’s “gender identity” over the actual physical safety of incarcerated women is not only madness; it is deeply and unforgivably evil.
The situation inside these women’s prisons is a humanitarian disaster. Locking female prisoners up with men has been an internationally recognized human rights violation for over a century: it is explicitly forbidden under international law and in treaties to which the United States and every other Western nation are signatory. It is, without any doubt, cruel and unusual punishment to lock a woman in a cell with a male criminal; to force her to strip and shower next to him as he plays with himself and makes explicit comments; to require her to contend with him for every scrap of comfort she can find; to subject her to his abusive demands, both sexual and material; and to give her neither help nor support when she comes to report that he has raped her. The placement of male inmates in women’s prisons must stop, and every man returned to the men’s facility whence he came. To place a man’s “gender identity” over the actual physical safety of incarcerated women is not only madness; it is deeply and unforgivably evil.
There is absolutely no reason for these men to be placed in women’s prisons. Protective custody is available in men’s prisons; it is where all other at-risk male inmates are housed. Snitches and dirty cops are in even more danger than men who pose as women; why are we not putting them in women’s prisons, if safety is the issue? Because it’s not the issue. These men are being given access to victims in order to please the people in charge who are shoving genderism down our throats. They don’t truly care about “trans” inmates; it’s symbolic, a victory over women, another breach in the wall that keeps us safe and protects our rights, another transgressive incursion they can think about when they jerk off. The rape and abuse that female inmates are enduring is not an unfortunate side effect: it is the purpose behind the entire program. This is one more warning shot across the bow for all women. Don’t think for a moment that a reason can’t be found to lock any one of us up, even in a democracy—and these days, there’s no guarantee that you won’t end up in a cell with a man. This is a threat hanging over all of our heads, and we must fight it together.
We cannot forget our sisters who are incarcerated with these men. Whatever crimes they have committed are irrelevant in this moment. No matter how richly they may deserve to be behind bars, none of them deserves to be locked up with men or forced to live with sexual abuse, harassment, and intimidation. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, and for women, it often does: the all-female atmosphere can be healing for many of them, and the recidivism rate is far lower for women than it is for men. Women’s prisons are also less violent, and as a result, the regimen is much more relaxed than in men’s facilities—but it is not set up to handle the sort of violent men who are being transferred in. As a result, lockdowns have become increasingly common, meaning women are locked in with male cellmates for 23 hours a day. In some cases, women are assigned as cellmates to especially violent men as a way to placate them and gain their compliance. Attacks have become more frequent; there have been dozens of rapes in California alone, including rapes of female staff members, because policy is that these men are women who can be left alone with female employees. Women have been impregnated, infected with STDs, and even contracted HIV. In California, @GavinNewsom has had the women’s prisons stocked with condoms—yay, a way for rapists to avoid leaving DNA evidence!
Same-sex incarceration is a basic human right. For countries like the US and Canada to have thrown that long-established belief into the fire shows, perhaps more than anything else, just how disposable women are becoming in Western society.
A FEW RELEVANT STATS
As of Aug 2023:
1,295 men are housed in women’s prisons in the United States.
47% of those have a history of a sexual offense.
50% of trans identifying men in federal prison have a history of sex abuse.
Source: Women’s Declaration USA
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Thank you!
Do you have the number of how many men in general in prisons have a history of sexual offense? I don't know how to interpret whether they are overrepresented in the transfers to women prisons on top of everything else awful you are reporting....(I had the impression they were but don't have the numbers and wondered if you did).