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Patriot Brief
Federal judge bars male inmates claiming transgender identity from female-only Texas prison housing.
Court cites religious freedom, bodily privacy, and constitutional violations against female inmates.
Ruling restricts male access to women’s showers, dorms, and intimate spaces.
This ruling shouldn’t be controversial — but only because common sense has been treated like contraband for years. A federal judge stepping in to stop male inmates from being housed with women isn’t radical. It’s corrective. What was radical was forcing incarcerated women to surrender bodily privacy, religious conviction, and basic safety to satisfy an ideological experiment.
The details here are damning. Female inmates were required to share showers, living spaces, and daily life with biological males — some convicted sex offenders — all under the banner of “gender identity.” That’s not compassion. That’s coercion. And when the state does it, it crosses into constitutional abuse.
Judge Fitzwater’s ruling restores a basic truth institutions were pretending not to see: sex matters. Privacy matters. And religious beliefs don’t evaporate because someone is behind bars.
Women shouldn’t have to endure humiliation or fear to accommodate policy trends cooked up by bureaucrats. This decision doesn’t discriminate — it protects. And frankly, it’s overdue.
From Western Journal:
A new federal ruling said that a Texas prison is not permitted to house male inmates who claim transgender identity with females.
United States District Judge Sidney Fitzwater of the Northern District of Texas sided against Federal Medical Center Carswell, a female-only prison in Fort Worth, in his issuance of a temporary restraining order.
The facility is not allowed to keep self-proclaimed transgender inmates alongside females in housing units.
The male inmates are also not permitted in showers, restrooms, changing areas, and dormitories used by females, according to a report from The Christian Post.
“Defendants are temporarily restrained from housing any male inmate within the general female population in any housing unit where either plaintiff is currently or will be housed,” Fitzwater wrote.
The male inmates must be reassigned “away from plaintiffs’ housing and privacy areas.”
They could also be housed in “a secure, segregated area.”
Fitzwater issued the decision after a lawsuit from inmates Rhonda Fleming and Miriam Crystal Herrera.
The complaint said that the two inmates had their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the United States Constitution disregarded by having self-proclaimed transgender inmates housed with them.
Fleming and Herrera both believe that “individuals cannot choose their gender; that men cannot become women; and men and women practice modesty norms that prohibit men and women exposing or viewing one another’s nudity outside of marriage.”
They argued that forcing them to stay with males represented cruel and unusual punishment, as well as a “violation of bodily privacy.”
The complaint recounted how females are forced to “encounter these men daily in communal settings” without any privacy.
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