“The Emperor has no clothes.” These are the words that went through my mind the first time my client, Mozzy Clark, recounted the abuse she endured at the hands of a man she was forced to share a cell with at the Washington Corrections Center for Women . Washington, like some other blue states across the country, created policies to allow male convicts who claim they are transgender to be housed in women’s prisons—in some cases based on nothing more than the individual’s self-declared gender identity.
Under these policies, a man can be convicted of the most heinous, violent crimes imaginable—rape, torture, murder—and will still be allowed to serve his time in a women’s prison. Without surgery. Without cross-gender hormones. Without so much as a psychological evaluation…