Ex-prison guard says 'predatory' male detainees are 'camping at the mouth' to fake sex changes and be locked up with women

an ancient California Prison guard says 'predatory' male detainees are 'running the mocha' to fake sex changes and be locked up with women.

Hector Bravo Ferrel oversaw the transfers of biological men to women's enclosures and says they acted “like kids in a candy store.”

California's 2020 law allowing trans inmates to opt out of prisons equal to their own genre identity is “immoral” and “dangerous,” he says.

“Some of them are there for sex crimes,” says Ferrel, 39, in an interview with the Independent Women's Forum.

“This is unethical, this is immoral, this is dangerous.”

Male-to-female detainees in women's prisons are “like kids in a candy store,” she says.

Ferrel is one of the first prison guards to blow the whistle on how trans policies endanger women in custody.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did not respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.

State facilities hold about 1,983 trans and non-binary inmates out of a total prison population of 96,000.

Some 344 detainees in men's prisons have asked to be transferred to women's prisons.

Of them, 44 were approved and 59 were denied. Others are under review.

Only 15 inmates of women's prisons have requested transfers; three have been approved.

The department says it carefully reviews applications and only approves them when it is “certain to do so”.

As Ferrel explains it, the rails are off.

The Army veteran was a lieutenant at the Diego Richard J. Donovan High Security Correctional Facility for men in South San Diego.

California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom signed the transgender prison bill into law in September 2020.

When it went into effect in 2021, the “males” in the lockout started with the numbers who identified as women, he says.

The guards had to refer to them by their preferred pronouns, he says, when they should have been focusing on address violence.

Trans detainees could ask to be searched by female guards, he says.

An inmate at the Central California Women's Center in Chowchilla, where allegations of rape by a trans inmate caused alarm

Ferrel says some fakers pretended to be trans just to move into a women's lockup

“You have women looking at male body parts, and inmates are asking for it,” says Ferrel.

It was effectively a green light to “exploit their sexually predatory behaviors,” he adds.

“It got everyone signed up for this program,” he says.

“Inauthentic” trans detainees were gaming the system, he says.

“It was obvious,” he adds.

He says they were “campaigning hard” to move into a women's lockup.

During a transfer, he said the detainees were “excited” and “like kids in a candy store.”

In reality, they were “monsters” who were caged for heinous crimes, he adds.

After a transfer, male-to-female prisoners were a threat to the biological women with whom they shared a cell.

Many are still attracted to women and do not undergo surgery.

Cases of rape, sexual assault, harassment and unwanted pregnancies have been reported.

But “anytime an inmate tries to voice her grievances or her concerns about victimization, she will be retaliated against,” Ferrel says.

He was so upset by the changes that he quit his $157,000-a-year job in December 2022.

California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signs transgender prison bill into law in September 2020

Demi Minor, a trans woman imprisoned for murdering her adoptive father, impregnated two female inmates at a New Jersey women's prison in 2022, raising troubling questions about where trans inmates should reside.

Now he shares his experiences on social networks, known as That prison guard.

“If you're intentionally putting a predator among the prey, you know what's going to happen,” he says.

The Transgender Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and other groups say trans detainees are often victims of abuse and all deserve protection.

Letting them serve their sentences in prisons that match their gender identity makes them safer.

But women's rights groups are warning of rising incidents of rape and other horrors in what were once women-only cell blocks.

A former inmate at the women's prison at Rikers Island in January filed a lawsuit against New York City, saying he was a male-to-female trans predator. he raped her after entering the facility.

The Women's Liberation Front (WOLF), a feminist group, says about a third of California state's male-to-female trans prisoners were convicted of sex crimes.

These “men” should never be allowed inside a women's facility, WOLF says.

Female prisoners, they add, should never be forced into cells with biological men because they are too vulnerable: 84 percent experienced sexual violence on the outside, according to the Vera Institute of Justice, a research group.

They also point to a 2011 Swedish study, which found that male-to-female transitioners maintain a “male level of criminality,” meaning they are more likely to commit crimes, including violent crimes, than women, even after hormones.

The public is apparently against letting trans women into women's prisons. A poll commissioned by WOLF of 3,500 voters in March 2021 found that 48% opposed trans women sharing cells with native women, while 34% approved.