Cruz Questions Biden Nominee Who Recommended Moving Transgender Rapist to Women’s Prison

‘Let me ask you something, the other women in that prison, do they have any rights?’ Mr. Cruz asked.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, on July 19, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees on Wednesday about why she recommended that a biologically male prisoner convicted of multiple sex crimes be transferred to an all-female prison.

The Republican lawmaker quizzed U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over her 2022 recommendation that July Justine Shelby—born a biological male named William McLain—be transferred to the women’s prison that same year.