A violent male convict who was transferred to a women’s prison after claiming to be transgender has reportedly impregnated a female inmate at the Alicante Cumplimiento Penitentiary Center in the Fontcalent region of Spain.
As first reported by Okdiario, the incident involved an unnamed male inmate who is said to be of Bulgarian nationality. The inmate was originally detained in the men’s ward of the Alicante prison for repeated violent criminal convictions, including kidnapping and robbery.
While incarcerated, he began using a feminine name, one which is reported to have been adopted from a popular Spanish singer, and declared that he identified as a woman. He did not undergo surgery, and is not known to be on any hormone regimen whatsoever.
Despite this, his request for a transfer into the women’s ward was approved by prison officials.
While in the women’s wing of the facility, he declared that he felt like a “lesbian” and began an intimate relationship with a female inmate.
Sources from within the prison told the press that the male transfer was being permitted to shower with female inmates.
“They all showered together: the biological women with the transsexuals and had sex in the showers,” one anonymous source said.
The issue of sexual activity in the women’s showers became such a problem that management intervened and instituted shifts in an attempt to prevent further intimate relations from taking place. but one woman reportedly became pregnant as a result. The woman has chosen to carry the pregnancy to term, and is no longer at the Alicante facility.
After prison officials become aware of the pregnancy, the man was removed from the facility.
Okdiario contacted prison authorities, who declined to comment on the basis that the issue was “a personal matter.” According to figures provided to the outlet by the government, at present, there are 79 known trans-identifying individuals in Spanish prisons, excluding Catalonia and the Basque Country.
Spain has recently become the subject of international controversy after introducing new legislation surrounding gender identity and “non-discrimination.”
On February 16, the government passed a controversial law that enshrined gender self-identification as a right, and allowed for citizens over the age of 16 to change their legal sex markers on official documents with extreme ease.
The Trans Law, or Ley Trans, was ardently opposed by women’s rights campaigners and became the subject of significant social debate in the nation. While proponents attached the issue to a broader civil rights campaign for the rights of same-sex attracted individuals, critics of the Trans Law pointed to the conflict presented by sex self-identification and women’s rights to single-sex services and facilities.
The gender self-identification measure has not yet been applied to prison policies and is still under review by the Ministry of the Interior. In March, The Objective reported that the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions was considering implementing sex self-identification into a 2006 guidance titled the Prison Integration of Transsexual Persons.
“Since this [Trans] law began to be processed, we were already warned that the differentiating fact of prisons had to be taken into account. The Penitentiary Law is one of the few, if not the only one, that segregates by sex and this is something that has not been taken into account,” an unnamed source told Okdiario.
“The instruction states that, regardless of whether there has been a registry change or not, when a person perceives themself to be of a different sex than what their physical attributes indicate, they must undergo a psychological study to see what ward they are assigned to, even if they have not initiated the process of sex change, whether he is undergoing hormone treatment or not. But with the [Trans] Law, this instruction has been dropped,” explained the source, who is well acquainted with the regulation.
The male inmate in question reportedly had not undergone a psychological assessment prior to being transferred to the female estate, despite this process remaining a requirement under the 2006 policy.
Though relatively recently adopted, the Trans Law is apparently emboldening male predators. In July, Reduxx reported that a sadistic man who bludgeoned his cousin to death before sexually desecrating her corpse has recently requested transfer to a women’s prison. Lorena Robaina, formerly known as Jonathan de Jesús, is currently serving 38 years in prison for the sick crime.
Robaina declared a transgender identity almost immediately after the trial commenced and attempted to use his gender identity as a mitigating factor in an effort to have certain charges dropped. In hopes of peeling 15 years off of the potential sentence, Robaina’s lawyers began to argue that there was no sexual motivation to the crime because Robaina was a woman who was sexually attracted to men.
Just 12 days after the Trans Law was passed, the director of the prison Robaina is being held at signed an internal order requiring staff use Robaina’s new “feminine” name when addressing him. It was also decreed that Robaina be provided a private cell and private searches. According to Okdiario, the Department of the Interior has stated Robaina will be allowed to move to a women’s prison after he develops “a more feminine phenotype.”
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