As the Globe predicted, Democrats killed Senator Shannon Grove’s good bill to require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to secure women’s prisons from predatory transgenders claiming to be women for the transfer to a less secure prison.

Grove’s SB 311 would establish a secure facility at each women’s prison to house transgender women only, and prohibit an incarcerated individual convicted of a a sex offense, except for biological women at birth, from being housed at a women’s prison.

Tuesday, Senator Grove’s SB 311 was heard late in the day in the Senate Public Safety Committee. We were treated to a peek inside the committee’s position on SB 311 early in the day when Committee Chairman Assemblyman Jesse Arreguín (D-Berkeley) made a snide comment during testimony on SB 337 by Sen. Caroline Menjivar (she/her/ella) (D-Van Nuys) about Grove’s bill: “this is a real bill that provides real solutions, unlike other bills we are taking up today,” Arreguín said.

There were two other bills heard Tuesday that go after the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee abuses in women’s prisons. But by the time the committee heard Senator Grove’s bill, they were unwilling to acknowledge that trans women (biological men), who request to transfer to women’s prisons, are putting female inmates in harms way. Women are abused, assaulted, raped, impregnated and given STDs in prison, Sen. Grove said.