Political ideology and pressure from the trans community has created an absolute hurricane of chaos and danger for women’s prisons. But perhaps a little sanity is returning to the situation.

I say “perhaps” advisedly. There are two instances this week where sanity made a comeback, but only by slim margins – and not without complaints from trans activists. Let’s start with an obvious fact – men claiming to be women should not be in women’s prisons. Period. But in this politically fearful environment, it is happening. But these are not “fully transitioned” people we are talking about. Nope, these are fully intact males, claiming they are trans women, who are suing to be placed in women’s prisons.

Anyone with even a modicum of common sense should be able to see the incoming problem. Sadly, there seems to be a limited supply of common sense in the judicial system these days. Take the case of Bryan “Amber” Kim in Washington state. Kim is a convicted murderer, for the record.

According to the Spokesman-Review, Kim was convicted in 2008 on two counts of aggravated first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing father Richard Kim, and bludgeoning and strangling mother, Terri Kim in their Mount Spokane home in 2006. After the murders, Kim attempted to clean the crime scene and conceal the parents’ bodies. The following day Kim went shopping and used the father’s debit card to withdraw $1,000, according to the Daily Mail.

Note that the murders took place in 2006. There is no record of when Kim decided he was a trans woman, but when Governor Jay Inslee changed the Department of Corrections rules to allow transgender inmates to serve time in women’s prisons, Kim apparently transferred.

Kim was originally housed at a men’s facility but was transferred to a women’s facility in Purdy, Wash. in February 2021 under the state Department of Correction’s gender-inclusion policy, which was approved by Washington’s Democratic Governor Jay Inslee. The policy allows male convicts to be admitted to the female facility if their gender-dysphoria diagnosis is accepted by an administrative panel.

We do not know who made the diagnosis of gender dysphoria for Kim, but we do know that he is still a fully intact male. Which is why what happened next should hardly be shocking.

On March 14, a corrections officer at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), discovered 35-year-old Bryan Kim, who goes by Amber FayeFox Kim, having sexual intercourse with 25-year-old Sincer-A Marie Nerton, according to an incident reported obtained by National Review.

In the late afternoon in the Medium security unit (MSU) at WCCW, nicknamed “Purdy,” the prison guard looked into a cell during a routine check and saw Kim “laying on the floor completely nude from the waist down with their cellmate Nerton Sincer-A on top of them also nude from the waist down actively having sex,” the report said.

“I/I [Incarcerated Individual] Kim’s hands were on I/I Nerton’s buttox in a spread open position while I/I Kim’s erect penis was penetrating I/I Nerton’s Vagina,” the report added. “This is against MSU rules and policy. WAC-504-Engaging in a sex act with another person within the facility that is not otherwise included in these rules, except in an approved extended family visit.”

The incident was counted as an infraction with a hearing expected to follow.

“Technically, there is no consensual sex between the incarcerated,” a Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) employee, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution, told National Review.

However, “Washington has been mitigating the sanctions on offenders involved,” he said. “If both offenders call it consensual, then they seem to be getting into less trouble.”
The Washington DOC claims that consensual, non-coerced sexual activity between individuals under its jurisdiction does not violate the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a federal law enacted in 2003.

Caroline Downey, who covered this story in National Review, had many other documented cases in Washington state to bring up that the Department of Corrections would rather avoid talking about.

In December 2021, after Kim’s transfer, National Review reported that multiple male inmates who identified as women had sexually exploited female residents. A former female inmate of many years, who chose to remain anonymous, described witnessing and hearing of multiple episodes of sexual assault by convicted transgender felons. The woman herself also said she was sexually assaulted by a transgender inmate.

One transgender-identifying male inmate named Jonathan, who went by “Jazzy,” was accused of sexual assault in multiple complaints filed with prison staff by female inmates, the former inmate said. In one case, a female inmate woke up in bed to find Jazzy with an obvious erection “touching her all over.” At the time, Purdy denied having any complaints on file like those described by the inmate.

Former Purdy prison guard Scott Fleming told National Review in 2021 that a fellow officer had relayed an incident in which transgender-identifying male inmate Princess Zoee Marie Andromeda Love, formerly Hobby Bingham, was found in bed with a developmentally disabled female inmate, both naked. The woman, Heather Lee Ann Trent, was a victim of sexual assault and had been housed in the prison’s mental-health unit. Fleming said Trent was mentally challenged and had the disposition of a “little girl.”

In Kim’s case, the Washington state DOC decided that they had to act. Mostly because the story was an embarrassment to the DOC.

The Department of Corrections relocated male felon Bryan Kim, who goes by Amber FayeFox Kim, from Purdy women’s prison to Monroe Correctional Facility. The DOC cited “ongoing safety concerns” as the reason for his removal.

— Caroline Downey (@carolinedowney_) July 3, 2024

But now Kim is protesting his move with a “hunger strike.” And he is getting complimentary coverage by local extreme left media.

Calling this burying the lead is being generous. This Stranger headline is actually misleading. A dude(fully functioning plumbing) was caught having sex with a female inmate. That’s why they kicked him out. He’s now with other men where he belongs. https://t.co/i60xzEKl6Y pic.twitter.com/vWXz3zI54z

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) July 10, 2024

Will the “hunger strike” convince the DOC to move him back? Or the complaints from trans activists? I sincerely hope not, but this is Washington state we are talking about.

However, in an additional move for sanity, the Senate Judiciary Committee actually rejected the nomination of one Judge Sarah Netburn, who had no problem letting trans inmates move into women’s facilities. She was absolutely grilled by Senator Ted Cruz during her confirmation hearing regarding a case where a child rapist claimed he was a trans woman, and then got moved to a women’s prison via her recommendation back in May. Cruz’s closing statement just before the vote on her nomination yesterday is just straight fire – along with the revelation that this same inmate, also a fully intact male, was exposing himself to female inmates at the women’s prison.

And in a rare win, the Senate Judiciary Committee actually voted down Judge Netburn’s nomination. It was a party line vote, with ONE Democrat voting against her to join the Republicans.

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) voted with Republicans on Thursday to block the nomination of Judge Sarah Netburn, who garnered significant controversy after ruling a transgender woman convicted of sex crimes should be transferred to a federal women’s prison.

It marked a rare instance of a Democrat breaking with the majority to bottle up one of President Biden’s judicial nominees in committee.

Netburn came under sharp criticism from Republican senators after she told Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, that she didn’t know whether it is possible to determine a person’s sex by analyzing their chromosomes.

When asked about determining sex by chromosomal analysis, the nominee told Graham, “I have never studied biology and therefore I am unqualified to answer this question.”

Carl Tobias, the Williams Chair in Law at the University of Richmond Law School, said Ossoff’s vote is the only “no” vote cast against a judicial nominee by Democratic senator on the Judiciary Committee since Biden became president.

It’s worth noting that Georgia, despite two Democrat senators at the moment, is currently swinging toward Trump in the polls. Ossoff is clearly thinking about his political future.

Asked why Ossoff voted no, a spokesperson for the senator in a statement said he applies “rigorous and independent judgment on behalf of his constituents.” Netburn and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Two wins for sanity against the trans movement hardly seems like a lot, but we should take the wins where we can get them. The small wins begin to add up eventually, and if we can begin to demand common sense in the name of women’s rights and safety in the corrections system, that would be a giant step forward in getting us back to “normal,” instead of having a system where political ideology is allowed to manipulate the courts.

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