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Over Half of Male Prisoners Pretending to Be Female Are in for Sex Crimes: Wisconsin Corrections Data

Over 50 percent of male inmates who identify as transgender women held at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections have been convicted of sex crimes, according to a study from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project based on a public records request.
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Over Half of Male Prisoners Pretending to Be Female Are in for Sex Crimes: Wisconsin Corrections Data
The Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDOC), housing one of the nation's largest jails, is seen in Chicago, Ill., on April 9, 2020. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
By Tom Ozimek
9/1/2023Updated: 9/1/2023

Over 50 percent of male inmates who identify as women held at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections have been convicted of sex crimes, according to a study from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.

Prison records obtained by the Oversight Project (pdf) show that 81 of the 161 male inmates claiming to be transgender have been convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse.
But the actual number could be higher since the numbers don’t reflect all people with a sex offense conviction, only those convicted of sexual abuse or sexual assault. The figures also exclude people who had juvenile sex offense convictions.

‘Prison Is For Punishment’

While the data does not indicate how many males identifying as females had applied to be housed at a female-only facility, it does show that none of the transgender-identifying men had been charged with sexual assault or sexual abuse while in prison.
“Men belong with men and men only in prison,” Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project, told the Daily Signal.

“Putting sex offender men claiming to be women in cells with women is another reason the world laughs at America’s moral decline,“ Mr. Howell continued. ”Prison is for punishment, not degenerate sexual behavior.”

The Epoch Times has reached out to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections with a request for clarification on how many transgender-identifying males were housed in female facilities and what measures were in place to protect female inmates. No reply was received by the time of publication of this report.

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However, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections’ policy on transgender inmates (pdf) states that its institutions “shall provide appropriate treatment and accommodations for inmates who are transgender” or who meet the criteria for gender dysphoria or who have a medical intersex condition.

The policy also clarifies that facility housing assignments for such inmates are to be made on a “case-by-case basis, considering the inmate’s health and safety as well as potential programming, management and security concerns,” with an inmate’s own views on safety to be given “careful consideration.”

While some argue that accommodations for female-identifying male inmates are necessary for their protection, others say such individuals are mostly seeking less restrictive housing conditions during their incarceration.

While it’s not clear from the Wisconsin data how many transgender-identifying prisoners began their transition after being locked up, figures show that in Scotland, this number is over 60 percent.

The Scottish numbers also showed that seven female-identifying males were being allowed to serve their sentences in female prisons.

“A male does not have a human right to be put in a female prison. This is nonsense,” Marion Calder of the campaign group For Women Scotland told The Epoch Times in an earlier interview.

In one case that made headlines, Isla Bryson, a female-identifying male formerly known as Adam Graham, raped two women in Scotland before deciding to “transition” and identify as a woman.

The case sparked uproar after the convicted rapist was initially housed at an all-female prison before being moved to a male facility.
Convicted rapist Isla Bryson, 31, formerly known as Adam Graham, from Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, arrives at the High Court in Glasgow, on Jan. 23, 2023. (PA Media)
Convicted rapist Isla Bryson, 31, formerly known as Adam Graham, from Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, arrives at the High Court in Glasgow, on Jan. 23, 2023. PA Media

Why Males Are Entering Female Prisons

Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial, told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program in April that there is a growing number of incarcerated men pretending to be women and trying to enter women’s prisons.

“That happens a lot, as it turns out. I don’t think those men are doing anything other than trying to get a better housing situation for their time in lockup, really,” she said.

Many of the men who are put in female prisons “are violent, and many of these men have committed crimes against women,” she added.

Ms. Emmons said that there are many benefits for transgender-identifying men to be housed in female facilities.

“They find themselves then surrounded by women in prisons that are remarkably less secure and locked down than the male prisons are,” she said, adding that a women’s maximum security prison is “more like a man’s medium security prison,” a situation that gives men incarcerated there more freedoms.

Harming Female Prisoners

Amie Ichikawa, who runs a nonprofit for incarcerated women, said that California’s law allowing men identifying as women to be housed at female prisons is creating an environment of “total chaos emotionally” within the women’s prison system.
“It’s the worst human science project I’ve ever seen,” she said in a January interview with EpochTV’s California Insider.

“This is very callous and brazen psychological warfare that is occurring right in our own state, being fully funded by taxpayers’ dollars,” she added.

In 2020, the California State Legislature passed Senate Bill 132, The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, which was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The law allows prisoners who identify as transgender, non-binary, and intersex to request to be housed in facilities that are consistent with their gender identity, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Since Mr. Newsom signed the bill into law, Ms. Ichikawa said she has received more phone calls, letters, and emails from incarcerated women who express fear about their safety, sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy.

Jan Jekielek, Naveen Athrapully, and Patricia Devlin contributed to this report.
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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