Transgender Inmates

The rights of male prisoners who declare their “gender identity” is now female has raised new problems for those managing prisons. California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut have laws that allow transgender inmates to request transfer to prisons that match their sexual preferences. This results in male prisoners being transferred to women’s prisons simply by declaring that they are now women.

The California prison system has received 261 applications from intersex, non-binary, and transgender inmates to transfer to different prisons. In addition to transgender men requesting transfer to women’s prisons, transgender women have reportedly suffered sexual violence in men’s prisons. In California, a third of those seeking transfer are registered sex offenders. Female prisoners in Washington state and Pennsylvania have filed lawsuits against prisons allowing sexual harassment by transgender felons.

We see huge collateral damage from allowing a change in God’s design for males and females. The United States makes a significant effort to protect the rights of all citizens, but conflict results when the rights of trans citizens violate the rights of non-trans citizens. This problem goes beyond transgender inmates in prisons.

Government-sanctioned immorality has also affected college students who cannot have a dorm free of members of the opposite birth gender. Female high school girls cannot have a bathroom or locker room free of males who have gained admission to these facilities simply by claiming to be women. Competitive athletics has a growing number of trans females who are born males and are reducing the rights of girls to have success as athletes.

The aggressive action of the LGBTQ movement in America has moved the government to allow all of these abuses. We can’t ignore God’s design of male and female bodies without the kind of abuse we are seeing. Christ would have us treat those with gender problems with love, kindness, respect, and attention to their needs, but blind acceptance of all claimed transgender desires means others will suffer the loss of their rights.

— John N. Clayton © 2024
References: National Review and The Week for Sept 6/13, 2024, page 12.