“The Biden administration spent nearly $1.5 million to produce ‘transgender programming curriculum’ for inmates held in the nation’s 122 federal prisons,” Robert Schmad at the Free Beacon reports. This programming includes helping inmates “manage identity concerns during incarceration” as well as helping them access hormone treatment after their release. Schmad rightly notes: “The Biden administration’s push for transgender accommodations in federal prisons comes amid a spike in sexual assaults committed by biologically male inmates in women’s prisons. Female prisoners have sued state governments, citing sexual assault concerns, in an attempt to keep male-to-female transgender inmates in men’s prisons.”
I can understand why people find transgender-identifying people sympathetic and think they should be given special treatment. But characters like Cristina Iglesias — a convicted terrorist who became the first inmate to receive federally funded sex reassignment — don’t exactly tug at the heartstrings. In fact, far more sympathetic are the female inmates increasingly at risk from violent male criminals now identifying as women. Perhaps the Biden administration should spend more of its time and money helping them.