The issue of men who believe they are “transgender” infiltrating women’s prisons has grown in recent years, and a new study is showing that more and more male sex offenders believe they are “transgender.”
Last August, Townhall reported how a male prisoner named Demi Minor in New Jersey, who said he identified as a woman, ended up impregnating two female inmates at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. In an interview with the New York Post, Minor's former foster mother, Dr. Wanda Broach-Butts, said that she believes Minor is a "psychopath" and used transgenderism as a "ploy" to get locked up among females.
In November, a biological male who identifies as transgender reportedly groomed and impregnated a 14-year-old girl in the United Kingdom. The man, David Orton, who was 25 at the time of sentencing, will face nine and half years in jail after he was found guilty of penetrative sexual activity with a child.
Earlier this year, another biological man in the United Kingdom who identified as a transgender woman was found guilty of raping two women, which Townhall also covered. Afterwards, reports broke that the convicted rapist, who goes by "Isla Bryson," would be housed in a women's jail while awaiting sentencing. Bryson's estranged wife, Shonna Graham, 31, told Daily Mail that Bryson was "bulls***ing" officials about being transgender to get "an easier life in prison." Bryson previously went by "Adam Graham." Following backlash from the public, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that Bryson would be removed from the women's prison. And now, there will be a "pause" until further notice on placing transgender prisoners with a history of violence against women in women's prisons.
According to Daily Mail, men in the United Kingdom who have been jailed for sex offenses are twice as likely to identify as “transgender women” than any other type of prisoner. This figure was pulled from the HM Prison and Probation Offender Equalities Annual Report. The report also suggested that men may be faking their new identities to move to women’s prisons.
“The finding, made through interviews with male inmates in prison for sex crimes, was revealed in unpublished research commissioned by the Ministry of Justice, which was seen by prison magazine Inside Time,” Daily Mail noted.
“Well over 90 percent of transgender women in custody are held in men's prisons and they receive the same treatment as male prisoners,” a spokesperson from the Ministry of Justice reportedly said.
Sarah Frith, the lead researcher of the study, told Inside Time that “there was a theme in the findings related to participants having to prove their authenticity to others, but also questioning how genuine or fake other transgender prisoners were.”
“Participants described how the fakers were a threat both to the reputation of prisoners who were transitioning gender, but also a threat to the limited resources that were available to them in custody,” Frith added.
One participant in the study reportedly said that “jealousy of a female partner's femininity was a factor in motivating their sexual offence.”
