‘Transsexual’ rape suspect transferred from California women’s prison to men’s prison – Law Officer

CALIFORNIA – A transgender-identifying male inmate at a women’s prison in California was transferred to a men’s prison facility after being accused of raping a female inmate.

The alleged offender was identified as 51-year-old Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, who was incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and subsequently transferred to Kern Valley State Prison about two hours away. Carroll was charged with two counts of rape and witness tampering, the Post Millennial reported.

One of Carroll’s alleged victims, Jane Doe, said she was attacked and raped by Carroll in a prison shower. Doe was serving time in prison for burglary, according to the Daily Mail.

Sources familiar with the case said Doe asked prison officials to change her cell. Doe chose a room with two female inmates and Carroll.

However, when the two became cellmates, according to Doe, Carroll began to show sexual interest and allegedly left the woman flirtatious letters and propositioned her on the second day of living together.

Doe said she rejected Carroll’s advances, but a day later Carroll attacked and raped her while she was alone in the shower, the Daily Mail reported.

Kern State Prison, where Carroll was transferred, is a men’s prison.

Carroll has a long and violent criminal history dating back to the late 1980s.

Women’s rights activists said Carroll, who is publicly promoting her support of California’s SB 132 law, is a textbook example of why the law harms incarcerated women, Fox News Digital reported. The law allows transgender inmates to be housed in a facility that matches their gender identity, regardless of their biological anatomy.

“Before SB 132, biological male prisoners were allowed to be housed in women’s prisons on a case-by-case basis. But not if they hadn’t had surgery, and it was always very individualized. What the law, what SB 132 did, is it took away all of those protections,” said Lauren Bone, legal director of the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF).

“(SB 132) took away the ability to do individual case assessments. It made discrimination based on anatomy and things like hormones illegal,” Bone said. “You don’t have to identify as a woman anymore. You can identify as nonbinary or many other things. The result is that 50 men are housed there. Hundreds more are on a waiting list whose applications are still being processed. Almost all of them have penises.”

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