The entire issue surrounding “transgender” individuals and the ideology that has emerged alongside them presents two particularly troubling problems: The first is the inclusion of boys and men in girls’ and women’s sports teams, which is extremely unfair to the actual girls and women participating in those teams. The second is the equally misguided and more perilous practice of placing “transgender women” inmates—who are, in fact, men—into women’s prisons.
Some blue states continue to uphold this second practice. On Thursday, U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon sent an official letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom, notifying him of an investigation into one of the state’s correctional facilities regarding this sort of absurdity.
Here is the letter we sent to CA’s @CAgovernor et al. today: pic.twitter.com/dfoPGPgAVI
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) March 26, 2026
Dhillon’s letter begins:
I write to inform you that the United States Department of Justice is commencing an investigation into the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) and the California Institution for Women (CIW) operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). The Department will conduct this investigation under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc. This is official notice required by CRIPA.
The letter also laid out what the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division will be looking into:
During this investigation, the Department will determine whether California engages in a pattern or practice of violating the constitutional rights of female prisoners incarcerated at CCWF and CIW by housing and providing preferential treatment to biological male prisoners in these prisons, resulting in harm to such female prisoners. Specifically, the Department will investigate widely reported allegations of deprivation of female prisoners’ rights, including freedom of speech under the First Amendment, freedom to exercise religion under the First Amendment, protection from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment, and equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment.
There can’t be a punishment much more cruel and unusual than exposing women inmates to the very real risk of sexual assault by men pretending to be women, not that a single Democrat cares.
Assuming this is occurring in California women’s facilities, and I have strong suspicions it could be the case, there’s another question that warrants exploration: How many of these men are truly experiencing gender dysphoria? My inclination is that the answer is “few, if any.”
I won’t delve into the potential motivations of these men who may be exploiting the system, calculatingly and cynically, to gain entry into a women’s prison. You, the reader, can deduce their probable motivations independently, but none of the scenarios are agreeable. Similar to the men and boys advocating for participation on women’s and girls’ sports teams, these men are capitalizing on a societal trend to obtain an advantage they do not deserve, and the Democratic politicians involved in this matter remain quiet, as they are, frankly, intimidated by their far-left “woke” base.
AAG Dhillon isn’t buying into any of it. This investigation, hopefully, will initiate a reversal of this grotesque lunacy.
