Report: Female Inmates 'Traumatized' in Wake of Walz's Trans Prison Policy

Dan Hart : Oct 30, 2024
The Washington Stand

"They're in fear, and they're scared all the time, and they feel traumatized. Because [some of] these men are sex offenders, and a lot of the women in there have been abused or had sex offenses done against them." -Rebeca Warmbo, a former inmate of the Women's Correctional Facility in Shakopee

[WashingtonStand.com] A new report has revealed that female inmates at a women's prison in Minnesota say they have been "traumatized" and have experienced sexual harassment from gender-confused males who have been allowed into the prison. Records show that funding from the Minnesota Department of Education and the Department of Corrections under Governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz as well as a subsequent policy were used to transfer the males into the women's prison. (Image: Pexels)

Fox News reported Monday that Rebeca Warmbo, a former inmate of the Women's Correctional Facility in Shakopee, is in contact with multiple women inside the prison who say they are "scared" and "traumatized" by the males who identify as transgender that have been allowed in.

"They're in fear, and they're scared all the time, and they feel traumatized," Warmbo stated. "Because [some of] these men are sex offenders, and a lot of the women in there have been abused or had sex offenses done against them."

"They do sexually suggestive things to them, and it's making them all very uncomfortable," she added.

Currently, the Shakopee facility is housing four males, including two who are serving over two decades each for criminal sexual conduct.

One female inmate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, relayed that most prisoners are afraid to speak out about the abuses that the male inmates commit for fear of repercussions by the prison administration. She also told Fox News that "graphic instances of sexual harassment" occur at the facility, in which all prisoners must share open living spaces, including the showers.

The news comes in the wake of a report two weeks ago of the resignation of a veteran teacher at the Shakopee facility over the policy of allowing males into the women's prison. Alicia Beckmann described how her high school-equivalency classes were "tailored to female inmates, many of whom she said endured emotional and sexual abuse from their former male partners." But after a transgender-identifying male "threatened to fight security staff" during her class, she spoke with numerous female inmates who shared how they "retraumatized by the male arrivals to the facility."

The opening of the Shakopee women's prison to gender-confused males can be directly tied to the efforts of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's administration. A New York Post report in September detailed how Walz's office allocated $448,904 in taxpayer funds to the Saint Paul-based nonprofit Gender Justice, which filed a complaint with Minnesota's Department of Corrections (DOC) arguing that the DOC was discriminating against a male inmate named Christina Lusk by housing him "in a men's prison and denying access to sex-reassignment procedures including a vaginoplasty." Lusk won his legal challenge and was subsequently admitted into the Shakopee women's prison.

After Lusk's victory, the Walz administration then enacted a policy entitled "Management and Placement of Incarcerated People Who Are Transgender, Gender Diverse, Intersex, or Nonbinary," which allowed four more gender-confused males into the Shakopee facility, including the two previously mentioned sex offenders.

The sexual abuse of female prisoners at the hands of trans-identifying males has spread rapidly across the country over the last several years. Recently catalogued examples include:

• At Washington State's women's prison known as "Purdy," "Male inmate Jonathan, known as 'Jazzy,' was accused of sexual assault in multiple complaints filed by female inmates."
• Also at Purdy, "A mentally disabled female inmate was sexually abused by male inmate Hobby Bingham, who was incarcerated for raping a twelve-year-old girl and preferred to be called 'Princess Zoee Marie Andromeda Love.'"
• Again at Purdy, "Bryan Kim, a male felon convicted for murdering his parents, was caught having a prohibited sexual encounter with a female inmate."
• Further, "a male child molester currently being housed in Purdy has repeatedly sexually harassed a female inmate who is herself a victim of child rape," the victim told National Review's Caroline Downey.
• "In Pennsylvania, four female inmates at a women's prison filed a lawsuit in 2011 after being forced to share a jail cell with male inmate Jovanie Saldana, who allegedly sexually harassed and groped them."
• "In New York, a female former prisoner filed a lawsuit claiming she was groped and raped by a male inmate who posed as a woman."
• "In Illinois, a female inmate filed a lawsuit claiming to have been raped by a male inmate and further alleged that the state's Department of Corrections officials conducted a 'sham investigation' to cover up the incident."
• "[A] 51-year-old man who claimed to be a woman was transferred out of a women's facility in California this year after he faced two charges of forcible rape and another charge of "dissuading a witness from testifying."

Furthermore, as The Washington Stand has previously reported, a female inmate suffered serious injury and repeated sexual harassment at the hands of a trans-identifying male last year at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey. In addition, four other trans-identifying males who have committed violence against women are housed there.

In comments to TWS, Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, expressed grave concern over Walz's prison policy.

"Placing biological males in women's prisons is just another instance of Tim Walz favoring a woke agenda over the health and safety of women," she remarked. "How many women will be raped, assaulted, and retraumatized before Tim Walz recognizes that the safety of women matters? It is clear that Tim Walz does not care about truth, and he does not care about women. He is not fit to be vice president of the United States." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.