The Left has spent years demanding "criminal justice reform," claiming our current system is broken, abusive, racist, and unsalvageable. While I disagree with them, I can't help but notice there's a very easy opportunity for them to address one major injustice in the system: the abuse of female inmates at the hands of "trans identifying" men.
This is the fourth story I've written since joining Townhall, each about women incarcerated in blue states who are forced to share prison cells and facilities with mentally ill, often violent and sexually abusive men. Why? Simply because those men say they're women, and — for Democrats, at least — that's proof enough.
In Minnesota, advocates of female inmates shared letters from them. Here's what one anonymous inmate wrote:
"Two more men just got here. One is Nathan Jones...word is more are coming. This is very disturbing. Us women who earned single cells are being kicked out of our cells so the men who are coming can be put in them. We are all so frustrated and don't know what to do. Nathan Jones isn't trying to appear as a woman at all. He did tell someone he identifies just as a bisexual man. I don't know how true they are, but there are a lot of rumors about him speaking about selling his sperm. I don't know why they are making this a co-ed prison. There are no longer women's prisons in Minnesota."
In Illinois, a "trans identifying man" serving a 22-year sentence for strangling his mother and assaulting her corpse told authorities he felt "unsafe" in the men's prison (gee, I wonder why). Because of his identity, he was moved to the mother and baby unit of a women's prison.
And in Massachusetts, an inmate said she and other women are afraid to speak out, lest they face repercussions:
"Many of us here are afraid to speak out due to the repercussions from the transgender population," the woman's letter said. "Most of the male inmates housed at MCI-Framingham still have intact male genitalia; two out of the ten have had surgery."
Women gathering all over the state of California to raise awareness of men being housed in women’s prisons. Women are assaulted, impregnated & terrified.
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) February 9, 2026
There’s an upcoming trial!@latimes this truck is right outside your building! You have NEVER covered this story. Why? pic.twitter.com/apBemLhfAw
One of those inmates is Tremaine Carroll, who spent more than two decades in the men's prison. He's now standing trial for raping two female inmates.
Look at Carroll's picture.
California put Tremaine Carroll in a women’s prison after 22 years in the men’s.
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) February 5, 2026
He is now standing trial for the rape of 2 female inmates. The trial has been delayed to due the prison system failing to transport Carroll to the courthouse. (multiple times!)
Where is the media? pic.twitter.com/ngQK71y4DR
No one, not one single Leftist, believes that's a woman.
Here are some more of the men housed with women:
Shawn Merle Gustafson, Pedophile
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) April 23, 2023
Shawn molested little boys, ages 6 and 8. He was convicted of forced oral copulation with both boys.https://t.co/LapR3p4brh pic.twitter.com/Ct5Zv75EOP
Jason Michael Hann, Child Murderer
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) April 23, 2023
Jason killed his two children, a baby boy and girl. A third baby was taken into custody when police found him. The baby was severely injured.https://t.co/gqE1ZPQ9je pic.twitter.com/Z1CmLSjNvM
Richard Masbruch, Rapist & Torturer
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) April 23, 2023
Richard committed sadistic sexual torture against women. He held a mother and daughter at gunpoint in their own home, torturing them with electric shocks, raping the daughter with his penis and his hands both vaginally and anally.… pic.twitter.com/6mGvAjOlwL
Kao Siew Saetern, Pedophile
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) April 23, 2023
Kao sexually abused a female family member under the age of 14 including sexual penetration with a foreign object.https://t.co/z3TNG18SSd pic.twitter.com/1yZ7Ajtwcc
Where are the Democrats? Where is Gavin Newsom, who trips over himself to get in front of a microphone to protect "reproductive rights" but can't be bothered to help women imprisoned in his state? Where are the national Democrats, who have spent the better part of this year whining about how the SAVE Act will disenfranchise women voters? Women are being assaulted and raped in prison; they're being punished for being victims or for speaking out, and I don't hear a word from AOC, Ilhan Omar, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, or Hakeem Jeffries.
Instead, they seem to agree with the ACLU that these mentally ill, violent, abusive men magically have some "right" to access a women's prison because they "identify" as women. Perhaps the only way Democrats will learn is if they're subject to massive class-action lawsuits by these women. All it took for the medical community to backpedal on mutilating children in the name of the trans agenda was watching two of their own have to fork over $2 million to a detransitioner named Fox Varian.
I am a proponent of law and order. If these women were arrested, tried, and found guilty for whatever crime(s) they committed, they should have to face those consequences. But they still have rights, and being free from rape, assault, and abuse by men while behind bars is at the top of the limited list of rights those women should be able to enjoy.
