Why Biological Men Are Entering Women’s Prisons Across America: Libby Emmons Interview

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Biological men are transferring into female prisons across America by claiming themselves to be women—a situation arising as a result of the Biden administration trying to “change the definition of woman,” according to Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial.

In an April 15 interview with Jan Jekielek on the “American Thought Leaders” program, Emmons pointed out that there are male prisoners who decide they’re women after being locked up and then seek entry into 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.” Many of the men who are put in female prisons “are violent, and many of these men have committed crimes against women.”

There are multiple benefits for men wanting to enter women’s prisons. “They find themselves then surrounded by women in prisons that are remarkably less secure and locked down than the male prisons are.”

Even though women’s prison might technically be “maximum security,” it differs massively from men’s, Emmons pointed out. “A women’s maximum security prison is more like a man’s medium security prison. You get a lot more benefits and freedoms, such as they are, than you would in a male prison.”

Emmons blamed the Biden administration and “changes in law and in the definition of words” for the situation. “President Biden has been working really hard with his team to change the definition of woman to be anyone who identifies as a woman,” she said.

“Then, he is using this definition and tasking every single federal agency to use this new definition of women as they introduce and implement their policies.”

“[Biden] put out a couple of executive orders about this, saying, ‘Department of Agriculture, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, I need you to use this new definition of woman. Reassess all of your policies and programs, and make sure that you’re not being biased against men who say that they’re women. Use this new definition.’”

Emmons warned that by conflating biological sex and gender identity and changing the definitions, all laws that exist to protect women are being rewritten, and the structure of society itself is being changed.

“Federal prisons have been tasked with making sure that they are not transphobic by allowing men who identify as women into women’s federal prisons. They’re working on that,” she said.

New Jersey and California

In New Jersey prisons, men are given access to women’s prisons “simply by saying that they are female,” she said. A man, whose trans name was Demi Minor, impregnated two women while in a female prison, was removed, and is trying to get his way back in, Emmons said.

The dynamic in women’s prisons changes when a man is introduced, she stated. In the Central California Women’s Correctional Facility, “an eight-woman prison cell will be cleared” so that a man can be housed there, Emmons said while citing a prison inmate.

Emmons criticized “The Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act “ signed into law in California in 2020 by Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom. Authored by California State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, it allows men who identify as female to be housed in women’s prisons.

“As soon as it was signed into law, inmates in male correctional facilities petitioned to be moved into women’s correctional facilities, 261 trans-identified inmates. Of these, there were hardly any trans men,” Emmons said.

“And the trans men’s petitions to be moved into the male prisons were denied, clearly for their own safety. Yet, no one had any concern about the women who were going to be impacted by the men transferring in.”

Emmons pointed out that the issue is not just limited to the United States alone but also in other Western nations like Australia, New Zealand, England, and Scotland. “In England, they decided to create separate sections for trans inmates because they were finding that there was trouble.”

California Prison Situation

In a January interview with EpochTV’s California Insider, 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. “This is very callous and brazen psychological warfare that is occurring right in our own state, being fully funded by taxpayers’ dollars.”

Since Newsom signed the bill in 2020, Ichikawa claims to have received more phone calls, letters, and emails from incarcerated women who express fear about their safety, STDs, and pregnancy.

Women’s cells in California house eight inmates. This has led to concerns among some female prisoners that they might end up getting housed with a man who identifies as a female and has a history of rape.

According to a March 4 post on Twitter by advocacy Women Are Real: “Beginning in [January] 2021, California allowed incarcerated men to be housed in women’s prisons and gave men a right to insist their bodies be searched by female staff (regardless of whether female staff felt comfortable with this).

“The requests of these men could not be denied based on physical anatomy—such as intact genitalia or crimes committed by these men—as long as at least one woman at the facility had also committed a similar crime. (For example: if a woman who had killed her abusive husband was housed at a facility, then a male mass murderer of women could not be denied on the basis of his crime.)”