Female inmates in Washington state have filed a major lawsuit against the Department of Corrections after a six-foot-four, biologically intact male convicted child sex offender named Christopher Williams was transferred into their women’s prison — where he allegedly groped, threatened, and violently assaulted them. The lawsuit was filed on April 27 by the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, Inc. and plaintiff Faith Booher-Smith against the Washington DOC and Secretary Tim Lang.

They put a violent male sex offender in a women’s prison and are shocked — SHOCKED — that the women didn’t feel “included.”

According to the Daily Wire, Williams requested a transfer to the Washington Corrections Center for Women back in the summer of 2021. And here’s the kicker — a Housing Assignment Review committee actually denied the request in November 2019, and an August 2021 recommendation document explicitly warned against the move. The document stated that “due to Williams’ serious infraction history and the most recent conviction where Williams assaulted and inflicted serious life-threatening injuries to a female victim, would not recommend placement at WCCW.”

So they had it in writing. The system flagged it. People whose literal job is assessing risk said: don’t do this. And then in fall 2021, Washington DOC did it anyway.

The lawsuit paints a nightmare. Williams allegedly “masturbated in front of her, groped her while she slept, and repeatedly threatened her with rape,” according to the complaint filed on behalf of former cellmate Mozzy Clark. Faith Booher-Smith was allegedly assaulted in August 2025, suffering facial bruising, a laceration in her mouth, and swelling to her jaw and eye.

These aren’t abstract policy concerns. These are real women with real injuries inflicted by a man the state decided to cage them with.

Leigh Ann O’Neill, the America First Policy Institute attorney representing the plaintiffs, laid it out plainly: “Washington’s housing policy subjects women to cruel and unusual punishment by disregarding the biological differences that justify sex-separated facilities in the first place.” O’Neill added, “Women are uniquely exposed to risks — including the possibility of pregnancy — that male inmates do not face. That disparity underscores a fundamental violation of the women’s equal protection rights.”

Cruel and unusual punishment. That’s the legal argument. And it’s hard to argue with when the state knowingly locked women in cells with a convicted child rapist because he checked the right identity box.

The lawsuit also highlights a jaw-dropping stat: over 50% of males in federal prisons who self-identified as transgender between May 2024 and January 2025 were sex offenders. More than half. Let that number marinate. The policy designed to protect a vulnerable population has become a superhighway for predators to access female victims.

The complaint notes that “nothing in the Policy even prohibits a male who is sexually attracted to females — let alone a male convicted of raping females — from ultimately sharing an unsupervised cell with a female inmate, so long as he claims to ‘identify’ as a woman.” That’s not a loophole. That’s the front door, wide open, with a welcome mat.

Washington’s DOC published its first transgender housing policy in February 2020, then expanded its gender ideology policies in October 2023 — going so far as providing inmates cross-sex clothing, surgery, and sex-change medical interventions as part of a settlement with Disability Rights Washington. Williams’ earned release date isn’t until 2038. That means over a decade more of the state housing a violent male predator with women — unless this lawsuit stops it.

Former prison superintendent Eric Jackson, who oversaw the male facility where Williams was previously housed, is named in the case background. The people who knew Williams was dangerous are on the record. The warnings were documented. The state ignored all of it in the name of ideology.

“I am proud to support this action on behalf of the female inmates,” O’Neill said.

Someone has to. Because the state of Washington sure wasn’t going to protect them. It took a lawsuit to say what every sane person already knew: biology isn’t bigotry, and locking women in a cage with a male sex offender isn’t progressive. It’s criminal.