We've been covering the transgender social contagion that's been sweeping the nation for quite a while now, with a particular emphasis on the effects it can have on children and public school systems. But there's another aspect of this topic that doesn't receive quite as much attention. That would be the issue with women's prisons, particularly in the United States. Several states, including California, have approved the practice of transferring male prisoners posing as women to women's prisons. This frequently ends badly for the actual women who are locked up there and leads to trauma even for those who don't wind up being physically assaulted. The Independent Women's Forum (IWF) has put together a report and a documentary highlighting the plight of these women. They feature one woman going by the pseudonym Evelyn Valiente who was serving a long stretch in Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) when transgender prisoners began arriving there. They describe the experience of the women as Cruel and Unusual Punishment.

As a victim of sexual assault, Evelyn Valiente* is particularly sensitive to the presence of abusive and aggressive men. But under SB132, a California law that opened women’s prisons to male offenders who identify as “transgender women,” Valiente had no choice but to share her living space with dangerous male predators. 

The policy was implemented with no regard for Valiente’s safety or past traumas. 

“It’s like constant high alert,” she said, describing the feeling of being trapped. “I don’t know if I can handle more [of them] coming in here. That was the constant stress, like, ‘Oh my gosh, we got to get out of here. We got to get out of here. How are we going to get out of here?’ Because this is not stopping, and they’re going to keep bringing more.”

That report was put into a brief video documentary from the IWF, which you can view below.

It's worth pointing out that Evelyn Valiente was no angel. She was in CCWF serving a twenty-year stretch for murder after firing shots through a neighbor's window. But that doesn't mean that we can't still have some empathy for her and support her right to be kept safe from predatory males while behind bars, even if they are wearing women's clothing.

The descriptions she provides are depressing, to say the least. She describes being stalked and threatened by one male inmate repeatedly. He even attempted to extort blackmail money out of her. Another male inmate "entered into a relationship" with another female inmate and they soon kept everyone awake, arguing, screaming, and kicking doors. That same male physically attacked Valiente's roommate. These stories are similar to the ones we've heard coming out of nearly every women's prison where trans inmates have been accepted and some of them are even more harrowing.

It's not just hard on the prisoners. As National Review reports, it's traumatizing for the female guards as well. This is also taking place in California, and female guards report being traumatized after being forced to perform strip searches on male inmates dressed as women.

Female prison guards in California have been traumatized after being forced to perform naked strip searches on male felons under the state department of corrections’ gender-inclusion rules.

For decades, the department prohibited female officers from conducting unclothed strip searches on male inmates except in emergency circumstances, such as when a same-sex officer is not available or if the male inmate is at risk of harming themselves or others.

Now, “Incarcerated individuals who are transgender, non-binary, or intersex must be searched according to the gender designation of the institution where they are housed or based on the individual’s search preference.”

You never have to look very far in California to find something bad going on as a result of all of the government's terrible policy decisions. The problems showing up there in the schools because of their acceptance and support for all of this trans madness have long since gotten out of hand. And now it's infecting the women's prisons as well. Gavin Newsom supports these policies wholeheartedly. Perhaps someone at a press conference should ask him one simple question. If all of these prisoners are being recognized by the state as being "women," how is that so many of them wind up impregnating or sexually assaulting actual female prisoners? And what about the rights of those prisoners? Are they somehow less than those of the trans population?