A 6-foot-4 man beat-up a female inmate at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) earlier this month.
The brutal assault illustrates the dangerous incoherence of Washington’s Transgender Inmate Policy, which allows some prisoners to live in facilities consistent with their subjective “gender identity” rather than their biological sex.
Christopher Williams, a man who “identifies” as a woman, attacked a female WCCW inmate on August 7. He reportedly punched her in the face, knocked her down and kicked her repeatedly before several inmates dragged him away.
In an interview with America First Policy Institute (AFPI), the victim said the assault occurred in front of a female officer who was reportedly too scared to intervene.
Williams transferred to WCCW in late 2021 under the Transgender Inmate Policy, despite a long history of violence and sexual deviancy.
Williams began a 28-year sentence for first degree assault in 2010. He served almost nine years in a male prison before documents obtained by The Daily Caller suggest he began “identifying” as a woman in March 2019.
Later that year, a committee denied Williams’ first request to transfer to a women’s prison, citing his “level of past violence toward women.” He had pled guilty to the “third-degree assault with sexual motivation” of his nine-year-old sister in 2005.
By the time he entered WCCW, Williams had racked up more than 60 infractions, including for fighting, sexual harassment, assault, possession of sexually explicit material and “providing false information in a sexual misconduct investigation.”
Surprise, surprise: Just three months later, Williams reportedly assaulted his female cellmate.
Mozzy Clark alleges Williams menaced and repeatedly assaulted her in January and February 2022. In an ongoing lawsuit against Washington state, WDOC and WCCW, Clark claims she reported the escalating abuse several times.
According to Clark, prison staff did nothing — ostensibly to protect her from Williams’ wrath.
Her complaint reads, in part, “Defendants told Ms. Clark that if she complained it would be considered a hate crime and actively discouraged her from filing any complaints. In fact, ‘one officer’ told Ms. Clark that Williams had in the past violently retaliated against individual who complained about him.”
In a scathing letter to WCCW and WDOC, AFPI demands they revoke the policy that allowed Williams to infiltrate a women’s prison, writing: “[Washington’s Transgender Inmate Policy] recklessly and needlessly exposes female inmates to significant danger. While you have been alerted to those dangers on many occasions, this recent assault highlights your abject failure to protect the safety of female inmates.”
It continues: “By introducing biological males into facilities otherwise occupied exclusively by females, the Department of Corrections undoes … well-established safeguards and grants biological males an inherent and disproportionate advantage — physical, social and psychological — within a captive population unable to avoid them.”
The disturbing case of Christian Williams only proves the point.
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