A violent male criminal in Indiana has begun identifying as transgender and has filed a lawsuit against a Department of Corrections (IDOC) official claiming that a refusal to provide him with feminizing hormones and genital surgery amounts to a violation of his civil rights. Gregory Taylor, who now uses the name Starlene, has multiple convictions for violent behavior and is serving a 20-year sentence for the forcible confinement and assault of his girlfriend.
During the evening of December 11, 2013, Taylor and his girlfriend, Amber Deford, were smoking synthetic marijuana when Taylor began to become aggressive and threatened to burn down the house. Frightened, Deford attempted to leave the residence. However, Taylor announced that Deford “was going no where” and grabbed her legs. He then began consuming large amounts of prescription pills “like an animal,” according to court documents.
Concerned that Taylor may have overdosed, Deford suggested calling for medical assistance. He then began beating her legs until she handed over her phone to him. Taylor then began throwing bullets at a space heater and doused toilet paper with a household cleaner, telling Deford that it was “extremely flammable.” He threw the toilet paper into the space heater.
Worried about her safety, Deford concealed Taylor’s knife under an air mattress. Upon noticing that his knife had gone missing, Taylor held Deford down on the bed and held a second knife to her throat.
Attempting to de-escalate the situation, Dedford convinced Taylor to release her so she could retrieve more drugs. Taylor walked Deford to the door, warning her that she must be back in half an hour or he would “burn down the house.”
Deford walked to an acquaintance’s home and contacted police. Taylor was arrested, and a blood analysis later revealed that Taylor had ingested methamphetamine and benzodiazepines. Officers testified that they had photographed bruises on Deford’s legs and had recovered a knife from Taylor’s person. He was charged with, and convicted him of, criminal confinement. Taylor was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, with a possible parole release in 2030.
At the time of conviction, Taylor had seven prior felony convictions, including battery and burglary, and three misdemeanor convictions. He had probation revoked on five occasions, and was on parole at the time he committed the crime.
As of June, Taylor is confined to the Indiana State Prion (ISP), a men’s facility. However, he has recently begun claiming to be transgender in what appears to be an attempt to secure a transfer to a women’s facility.
In a recent lawsuit filed September 22, Taylor claims to be transgender and argues that the DOC has not provided him with “medical treatment”, thereby violating his Eighth Amendment right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
In a supplementary filing processed by the court on October 20, Taylor cites an IDOC policy implemented in April 2022. The Health Care Services Directive (HCSD) 2.17A defines “gender” as “The male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior. The HCSD allows for convicted male criminals to be transferred into women’s prisons, and states, “Transgender and intersex offenders may not be assigned to gender-specific facilities based solely on their external genital anatomy.”
The HCSD policy mandates that an incarcerated individual who claims to identify as transgender must be referred for a mental health evaluation, which “will assist with housing assignments to provide the safest and most secure environments for the patient”.
The majority of the supplementary filing, at over a hundred pages, are selected sections of the most recent Standards of Care document published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Three of the six chapters included as supporting evidence for Taylor’s demands for hormones and genital surgery are titled: “Adolescents,” “Children,” and “Eunuchs”.
In a handwritten complaint written March 28, Taylor bizarrely wrote, “Why does [sic] staff at this facility make assumptions about my sexuality and automatically deem them [sic] unhealthy or deny my transgender experience and expression and then try and justify it by pathologizing it as something to be treated with medications or treatment… Asking me questions does not qualify as ‘medical care’ for gender dysphoria.” Taylor claimed this situation was making him “extremely suicidal”.
On June 2, Taylor was contacted by the Indiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), noting that a previous attempt at correspondence had been returned to their office.
The letter, from Legal Director Kenneth Falk, is addressed to “transgender persons who have contacted us in the past”.
The memorandum discusses the HCSD 2.17A, “Health Services for Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults”, which states that the DOC must provide hormones and surgery to patients who claim a transgender status “when medically necessary”.
Governor Eric Holcomb signed HEA-1569 into law, which explicitly bans the IDOC from authorizing the use of state funds, state resources, or federal funds to facilitate what the statute defines as “sexual reassignment surgery” for incarcerated offenders. The ban went into effect on July 1, 2023, and effectively rescinded HCSD 2.17A.
“I do not want to alarm you as it is possible that hormonal care will continue as it has in the past. However, if the care is being terminated or limited in a way that adversely affects you, we believe that litigation may be appropriate,” said Falk. “It seems to us that terminating medically necessary hormones would be an 8th Amendment violation, although we would of course need to review your specific circumstances.”
“However, before we could consider filing any litigation for prisoners being injured, the prisoners would have to fully exhaust all available grievances,” Falk advised. “Therefore, if your care is being terminated or disrupted and you wish to consider filing litigation to address this, you need to immediately file a grievance. I have set out below a summary of the DOC grievance procedure and what a prisoner may do if you do not receive timely responses to your grievances or appeals.”
Further detailed and step-by-step directions were continued in the letter, though this portion has not been fully included in the filing.
The letter also references “a deposition in our case on behalf of two prisoners that challenges the Indiana law that prohibits gender affirming surgery.” The two prisoners being represented by the Indiana ACLU are both men who have abused children. Cory Wallace, who calls himself Nikki Wallace, brutally physically abused his 4-month-old son, resulting in the infant’s death. Wayne Allison, who has adopted the name “Astrid,” raped his 11 year-old sister both vaginally and anally on several occasions. The ACLU has combined the cases of Wallace and Allison in their legal filings.
In 2016, Wallace was convicted of battery and negligence resulting in the death of his infant son, Jensen, and sentenced to 72 years in prison. The Delaware County Court heard that Wallace failed to seek medical treatment for the infant after the child suffered what proved to be fatal head injuries. After realizing the baby had died, Wallace set fire to the boy’s room in an attempt to cover up what he had done.
Judge Vorhees said for those who attended the trial, viewing images of the infant’s corpse was “totally surreal, an out-of-body experience … like watching the worst horror movie you could imagine.” The judge emphasized that in her 14 years on the bench, she had “never seen such horrible injuries inflicted on a child, let alone a baby.”
In 2023, Wallace began referring to himself as “Nikki” in legal and administrative records. In July of that year, Wallace filed a legal complaint demanding a hefty payout of $500,000 as compensation for not having been granted state-funded cosmetic surgeries.
Wallace is being represented by ACLU of Indiana attorneys Gavin Rose, Kenneth Falk, and Stevie Pactor, who are demanding that Wallace be provided with “sexual reassignment surgery,” and are seeking to overturn the state law banning public funds being spent on “gender-affirming” surgeries for inmates.
In April 2024, Allison filed a formal complaint against the IDOC signaling his intent to challenge the constitutionality of a recently-implemented state law banning public funds being spent on “gender-affirming” surgeries for inmates.
Allison was charged in December 2013 with five counts of child molestation and one count of incest. Allison, who was 30-years-old at the time, preyed upon his younger sister, who was 11-years-old. According to an affidavit provided to Reduxx by the Monroe Court, Allison raped his sister both vaginally and anally on several occasions during the period between July and November 2013.
In addition to repeatedly raping the girl, he groomed her by showing her pornography.
“Astrid Allison, also known as Wayne Allison, is an adult transgender female prisoner confined in a male institution [New Castle Correctional Facility] within the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC). She is diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has been receiving female hormones and a hormone to suppress her testosterone for more than three years,” reads the complaint, filed in April 2024. “Although the hormones have helped to lessen the debilitating symptoms of gender dysphoria, surgery is necessary to relieve her continuing symptoms of serious depression and anxiety.”
Allison states that he had one interview with a psychologist in February 2023 before the process of securing a recommendation for genital surgery was halted. He argues that a castration surgery to invert his penile tissue is a “medical necessity” and that denying cosmetic surgery for his genitals violates the Eighth Amendment, which protects inmates from “cruel and unusual punishment”.
The legal complaint cites standards devised by the for-profit organization the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the lobby group known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Reduxx has repeatedly exposed the APA, which sells their manuals to medical professionals, as having involved academics who advocated favorably for, or sympathized with, pedophilia. Similarly, WPATH devised its latest Standards of Care while gathering the opinions of anonymous men involved in a pedophilic castration fetish forum.
Despite having raped his 11-year-old sister when he was 30, Allison claims to have been “female” since he was a child.
In March 2025, a federal judge has ordered the Indiana Department of Corrections to arrange urgent “gender affirming surgery” for a trans-identified male convicted of murdering a baby. In a shocking decision, Judge Richard Young ruled that Autumn Cordellioné, born Jonathan Richardson, was suffering from “irreparable harm” from not having the various plastic surgeries he had requested, despite the fact that a psychiatrist testified that Richardson was not suffering from gender dysphoria.
Richardson was convicted in 2002 after his 11-month-old stepdaughter died in his care while her mother was at work. Having served less than half of his 55-year sentence, Richardson was quietly released 30 years early in late December of 2025.
As previously reported by Reduxx, in 2023, the ACLU of Indiana filed a legal complaint on behalf of the transgender baby killer claiming that the IDOC was subjecting him to “cruel and unusual punishment” by denying him the various plastic surgeries he had demanded. The 2023 ACLU lawsuit advocating for Richardson’s requested surgeries was successful the following year, when the United States District Court of Indiana ruled that Richardson had been subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” by being denied the various plastic surgeries he had demanded.
In the suit, ACLU lawyers refer to Richardson as an “adult transgender female prisoner confined in a male institution,” and complains that “the total ban on gender-affirming surgery violates [his] right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.”
Among a list of demands prepared by Richardson and presented as evidence in court was a document titled “Surgeries to Reach My Ideal Self.” The first item on the list, the court heard, was a “vagina,” followed by: breast implants, a brow lift, a brow reduction, a tummy tuck, gluteal implants (BBL), a uterus transplant, hair removal, and wigs.
The mother of the baby girl Richardson strangled to death opposed his legal bid to obtain surgery. Linda Thomas submitted a brief statement expressing her concern that his identity may be concealed from her when he is released from prison.
“On the day he murdered my child, I personally observed Plaintiff with a fresh bleeding tattoo of my child’s name on his arm while I was at the hospital that evening,” Thomas said. “I live in fear for myself and my children of the day [Richardson] is released from prison, which largely increases at the thought that [his] identity may be concealed upon release.”
ACLU attorneys under the leadership of Kenneth Falk attempted to have Thomas’ testimony dismissed as court evidence on the basis that “Ms. Cordellioné objected to the relevance of this declaration.”
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