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- Sep 9, 2021
A tale of two trannies, in two countries, in prison. The first:
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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order that truncated transgender protections.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington issued a preliminary injunction after the women were added as plaintiffs in ongoing litigation over the impact of Trump’s executive order on transgender women in federal prisons.
Lamberth ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to “immediately transfer” the two women – identified in court papers by the pseudonyms Rachel and Ellen Doe – back to women’s facilities and said the agency must continue to provide them with hormone therapy treatment for gender dysphoria.
The women said in court papers that they were living in constant fear of sexual assault and other violence after being moved to male prisons. Male inmates repeatedly propositioned them for sex and male officers subjected them strip searches without female officers present, they said.
“The fact that they have already been transferred and, allegedly, have been abused at their new facilities can only strengthen their claims of irreparable harm,” Lamberth wrote.
A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson declined to comment.
The preliminary injunction is the latest in a series of rulings thwarting the agency’s efforts to comply with the executive order, which calls for housing transgender women in men’s prisons, and for halting gender-affirming medical care.
Lamberth, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, previously blocked the bureau from transferring a dozen other transgender women inmates to men’s prisons.
In a ruling last month, he order that their “housing status and medical care” remain as they were prior Inauguration Day, when the president signed the executive order. Separately, in January, a federal judge in Boston halted the transfer of another transgender women’s to a men’s prison.
At the time, Rachel and Ellen Doe were not plaintiffs to any lawsuit challenging Trump’s executive order and were not covered by Lamberth’s initial rulings.
The poor things, fearing rape and abuse by males! Surely this is all based on a misunderstanding - transwomen aren't a threat to anyone!In a court filing last month, a Trump administration official said that as of Feb. 20, there were 22 transgender women housed in federal women’s facilities. That’s about 1% of the nearly 2,200 transgender inmates the agency said it has in its custody.
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It gets worse:Reduxx has learned that a sadistic killer who is serving a life sentence for brutally raping and torturing a 13 year-old girl was transferred in to a women’s prison in Canada before being removed to an unknown detention center. While incarcerated at Grand Valley Institution (GVI) in Ontario, Michael Williams, who identifies as transgender and calls himself Bunny Autumn Colasimone, immediately began threatening female inmates and had to be removed within days as a result.
Heather Mason, an advocate for the rights of incarcerated women, learned about the situation after she was contacted by female inmates currently housed at GVI. Mason is a founding member of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights, a non-partisan coalition of women working to advocate for single-sex spaces and sex-based rights. She also sits on the board of directors for Strength in Sisterhood (SIS), a group of women who have survived prison and are working to end female incarceration. Mason has been a vocal advocate against the transfer of men to women’s institutions.
Female inmates at GVI told Mason that Williams arrived at the women’s facility on March 6, having been transferred from maximum-security Millhaven Penitentiary for male offenders.
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In 2005, Williams was a participant in the horrific abduction, gang rape and murder of 13 year-old Nina Courtepatte. Williams, who was 17 at the time, was among a group of three adults and two teens who picked Courtepatte out of a crowd at Edmonton Mall in a deliberate plot to rape her. His accomplices: Michael Briscoe, Joseph Laboucan, Stephanie Rosa Bird, and Williams’ girlfriend, an underage teen known only as “Buffy.”
Just put 'em in with the women. Nothing bad can happen, right? Rape by other males is horrible; shove the male rapists in with the women so they can feel safer instead.On April 3, 2005, the group lured Courtepatte away from the mall by promising to take her to a rave. Instead, they drove her to a golf course where Buffy testified that ringleader Laboucan had told the two girls, “You get a choice: whichever of you kills the other gets to live.”
Laboucan then proceeded to rape the young girl, after which Briscoe held her down as Williams raped her. Williams, who was nicknamed “Pyro,” then attempted to light the girl’s body on fire.
Stephanie Bird, formerly Briscoe’s girlfriend, testified that she was made to hold Courtepatte down while Williams beat the girl’s genitals with a sledgehammer. Laboucan then joined in on brutalizing Courtepatte, choking her with a wrench and stabbing her. She succumbed to her injuries, and her body was found the next day on a fairway.