At the end of April a judge in Oregon ordered the state' Department of Corrections (ODOC) to adjust the way it segregates inmates. Prior to the judge's ruling, the decision was made on a case by case basis, however most trans-women wound up housed in male prisons. The judge ordered ODOC to reverse the presumption in these cases so that more trans-women would wind up housed in women's facilities.
Two prisoners sued the state, alleging it failed to protect transgender women from sexual and physical violence by housing them in men’s prisons where they faced dangerous and degrading conditions. They sued on behalf of a class of current and future transgender women prisoners.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke said his preliminary injunction ordering individual assessments for all transgender women in custody isn’t nearly as sweeping as it may appear because he’s requiring corrections officials to follow the same practice that they say they already use.
But he noted that despite the evaluations, more than 90% of transgender women in Oregon’s prison system are housed in men’s prisons.
The current system, he said, appears to begin with a presumption that transgender women should generally be housed in men’s prisons, with rare exceptions.
Instead, he ruled, the presumption should be that transgender women will be housed according to their gender identity.
The reason the judge issued this injunction while the case is still ongoing is because he was concerned that trans-women prisoners would be subject to violence in a male prison. The lawyers for the state pointed out that moving people with male genitals to a women's prison would also potentially expose women to sexual violence.
“ODOC has an important government objective in reducing potential sexual victimization by convicted and potential sexual predators at intake who may not be sincere in their asserted gender identity,” they argued.
Not mentioned in any of the court documents or in stories about the outcome were the identities of the trans-women who'd filed the lawsuit. Instead they were solely identified by initials. But the site Reduxx reports it was able to identify the plaintiffs in the case and their prison record calls into question the wisdom of the judge's decision.
The initial complaint, filed in September 2025 on behalf of men identified only as “S.D.” and “J.F.”, alleges that housing males who claim a transgender status in men’s prisons violates their constitutional rights...
Inmate “J.F.” is Jessica Anne Marie Foust, previously known as John Jay Chapman. He has been designated as a “vulnerable” inmate by the ODOC, and asserts that he is “a legal female.”
In 2008, Chapman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping a developmentally disabled woman who resided at an adult foster home in Gresham, Oregon, managed by his mother. While incarcerated, Chapman was convicted on four counts of assaulting a correctional officer. Three years later, in 2015, he began to identify as transgender...
The class action suit also includes the experiences of inmates identified as “Z.Z.” and “L.B.” Reduxx can identify Z.Z. and L.B. as “Zera Lola Zombie” and “Lillithia Moon Blood-Gaia.”
Zombie, born Daniel Lee Smith, is a violent trans-identified male who is classified as a “female” inmate in the Oregon inmate directory and is housed in women’s prison Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF). He is serving a 35-year sentence for charges including the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Samantha Brown. In 2014, Brown was beaten to death, her corpse left in the trailer home she and Zombie shared.
As for L.B., who also joined the lawsuit. Reduxx identifies him as “Lillithia Moon Blood-gaia.” L.B. is in prison for molesting a female child he was babysitting. In other words, he's a pedophile who was convicted and sentenced to 24 years. At the time he was arrested his name was Daniel and he had a full beard, but while awaiting sentencing he requested to be housed in a female prison on the grounds he was trans. He has since received breast implants, also on the order of an Oregon judge.
So there you have it. A convicted rapist, a murderer and a pedophile are paving the way for themselves and other convicts like them to serve out their sentences in a women's prison. These are literally the last people who should be anywhere near a women's prison but clearly the judge in Oregon doesn't agree.
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