Sarah Parshall Perry, Jay W. Richards, PhD
Prison rape is horrific in any case, but gender ideologues in Washington have found a way to make it more common—all in the name of fairness to men who “identify as women.”
The list of accusers grows by the day. Rose Doe—a former female inmate in Rikers Island women’s prison in New York—was groped and raped by a male prisoner in 2022. In her lawsuit against the New York Department of Corrections, she alleged that the perpetrator told his cellmate that he claimed to be “trans” just so he could gain access to women. The number of sex crimes leading to his incarceration ought to have been enough proof of what was likely to come.
Ms. Doe’s story is not unique. In 2020, Tomieika Johnson, who had been in an abusive marriage before her incarceration, was forced to live with a male serial rapist, Richard Masbruch, at the Central California Women’s Facility. When she pointed to increasing incidents in the prison against inmates, including rape, she was told to “give it a chance.” She believes that, in doing so, “California has re-abused me, re-traumatized me.”
More than 20 years ago, President George W. Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA, into law. Its goal was to eradicate prisoner rape. Just this week, a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Corey Booker, New Jersey Democrat, held a hearing to assess the state of sexual assault since the law passed.
But the hearing seems to have largely avoided this elephant in the room: the precipitous rise in the sexual assault of women prisoners forced to share confined spaces with men identifying as women—including men imprisoned for committing sexual assault.
The fights to preserve in law the natural distinctions between men and women have raged coast to coast for the better part of a decade. » Read More
https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/why-congress-facilitating-prison-rape-the-name-fairness