Male Prisoners Are Abusing Incarcerated Women in Massachusetts. The Manhattan Institute’s City Journal explains:
Just west of Boston, the state’s MCI–Framingham facility houses at least 11 trans-identified men, including serial rapists, wife-murderers, and child molesters, whose presence imposes degrading and dangerous conditions on female inmates.
Charles Horton, a level-three sex offender, was sentenced in 2000 to one year of house arrest for raping a minor. In 2019, he was convicted of repeatedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old at gunpoint. He is now serving a 25- to 35-year sentence at MCI–Framingham as “Charlise.”
Wayne “Veronica” Raymond, classified as a “sexually dangerous person,” spent 24 years at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for sex offenders and was denied parole six times for failing to demonstrate rehabilitative progress. Records describe a manipulative personality and persistent “deviant fantasies,” noting that he has “only recently begun admitting to [his] sexually abusive behaviors.”
Kenneth Hunt, now “Katheena Soneeya,” was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering two women, including his own cousin, whom he raped with a broom handle and stabbed more than 40 times. Women incarcerated with Hunt describe him as a “pervert”; multiple inmates have accused him of sexual assault and harassment in statements they provided us.
Female prisoners are forced to share intimate spaces, including communal showers, with these men—only a few of the predatory offenders transferred to MCI–Framingham under the 2018 Criminal Justice Reform Act, which does not require even a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
A pedophile rapist was placed in a women’s prison in Washington State after claiming to be transgender. Half of the transgender female inmates in the Wisconsin prison system have been convicted of at least one count of sexual abuse or assault, according to data obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.
A New Jersey prison inmate says she was battered by a biologically male transgender inmate after she repeatedly refused his sexual advances. Inmate Shakira Reed says she was assaulted by Jermaine Gibson, who identifies as transgender and uses the name Cyntara, and was repeatedly sexually harassed by Gibson prior to the assault. Another biological male transferred to the women’s prison impregnated two women in the prison. According to women at the prison, Demetrius ‘Demi’ Minor had been seeking to have sex with female inmates as soon as he transferred into the prison.
There are hundreds of transgender sexual predators who could end up preying on women in women’s prisons under similar policies. For example, Karen White is a double rapist who was previously convicted of indecent assault and gross indecency with a child. White was later housed in a women’s prison where White sexually assaulted the female inmates.
As we noted in 2022,
In 2021, a transgender inmate raped a female prisoner while in the women’s section of a New York City jail. The New York Post reported that the transgender inmate — who was housed in the female section of the facility — approached a 33-year-old female inmate in the bathroom, after the victim had just finished showering. The transgender inmate then held the victim down by the neck and raped her. Similarly, a British transgender inmate sexually assaulted a woman, and sexually molested other female inmates, over a three-month period….The Glinner Update provides a copious list of transgender sex offenders, illustrating that there are transgender “women” who pose a risk to women if allowed to use female-only spaces, given their commission of sex crimes before, and in some cases after, their gender transition.
For example, Xena Grandichelli, formerly known as Jeffrey Willsea, was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse and aggravated second-degree sexual abuse (eleven counts in total) for sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl. Grandichelli began claiming to be transgender while incarcerated. After being released Grandicelli became a much-lauded trans activist and volunteered for AVP, the ‘largest anti-LGBTQ violence organization’ in the United Kingdom.
Kristen Lukess, formerly known as Mark Turton, was convicted of two counts of raping an underage child. While incarcerated he began ‘identifying as female’ and changed his name to Kristen Lukess. Based on his new identity, he was able to to live with a woman and her 11-year-old child.
In 1978 Patrick Trimble kidnapped two nine-year-old girls, tying them up and forcing them into his vehicle. He drove them to a rural area and forced each child to perform an indecent act on him before penetrating one of the little girls with his finger and with his genitals. He was convicted of kidnapping, sodomy, rape and sexual abuse in the first degree.
In prison he routinely tortured, sexually assaulted and prostituted his vulnerable cell mate, Jerry James Everett, who was awaiting trial for stealing a car. According to a 1982 court document, Trimble forced Everett to have both oral and anal sex with him and humiliated him in various ways for the entertainment of other prisoners. Trimble also pimped Everett to other inmates for sex and regularly tortured him, making deep gashes in his flesh and placing lit matches between his toes.
In 2015 Trimble began identifying as trans and using the name Patricia a few years later. Trimble has become a vocal trans activist and has written extensively about and lobbied for prison reform. Trimble is now described as “a transgender feminist, activist, and advocate for the incarcerated LGBTQ community.”
A transgender inmate in Minnesota will receive a taxpayer-funded vaginoplasty and $495,000 in a legal settlement between the inmate and the left-wing Minnesota Attorney General’s office.
Society often paid for transgender people’s sex change surgeries, which sometimes cost over $200,000, because government healthcare regulations often required insurers to cover sex changes and gender-reassignment surgery.
But sex-change surgeries are frequently a bad investment, because they often have life-threatening complications. “The truth about transgender surgery” is that “Just 16% of gender dysphoria patients go through with the operation, but up to half suffer life-threatening complications,” reports the London Daily Mail. “Up to half of trans men and women suffer post-op issues or pain so severe they need medical attention or additional surgery months later….Patients are often left with infections, pain and difficulty using the toilet or having sex post-surgery….the Women’s College Hospital (WCH) in Ontario, Canada, earlier this year found that more than half of trans women who had ‘bottom’ surgery were in so much pain years later they needed medical attention.”
Even transgender people who demand to receive sex-change surgery admit that the results are often not great. A transgender activist conceded that in a New York Times op-ed, “My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy.” As Andrea Long Chu wrote in that op-ed:
Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to.
