Victim of a transgender-identified male-born man California convict Accused of raping inmates at a California women’s prison will be forced to monitor their pronoun use while describing the alleged attacks on the witness stand, according to a recent court order.
Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 52, identifies as a woman and must be referred to in court by “she/her” pronouns, according to a Madera County Court judge’s ruling. ABC30 reported.
Carroll faces two counts of forcible rape and one count of dissuading a witness from testifying.
“After his first cellmate became pregnant and was transferred to a (male-only) facility in Los Angeles, two more of his cellmates complained that he had raped them. That’s why we filed rape charges against this inmate,” Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno told ABC30.
Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 52, a violent offender incarcerated in California, was charged with rape in Madera County. Carroll, a transgender person, was placed in a women’s correctional facility upon request and was transferred to a men’s correctional facility following the rape charge. (CDCR)
Moreno believes Carroll abused California law SB 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, which allows transgender inmates to be placed in a facility consistent with their gender identity on a systematic rather than case-by-case basis.
“This is a person who is not a woman in every sense of the word,” Moreno told ABC30.
“There is no need for a psychological evaluation,” Moreno said of the 2021 bill. “This person does not need to take cross-sex hormones, they do not need to be registered for transgender surgery, they do not need to undergo a psychological evaluation regarding gender confusion, the mere statement is enough.”
The recent decision regarding Carroll’s pronouns impacts Moreno’s ability prosecute the caseshe said.
“That’s a particular problem in this case because it’s confusing for the jury. In California, rape is a crime that must be committed by a man,” Moreno said.
The Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla on December 5, 2008. (Tomas O’Valle/Fresno Bee File/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (Tomas O’Valle/Fresno Bee File/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Senior Assistant District Attorney Eric Dutemple told the outlet that the sentence was unfair to Carroll’s victims.
“It’s just absolutely crazy that a victim has to go on the stand and monitor his pronoun use when he’s trying to recite one of the scariest moments of his life,” Dutemple said.
“It’s just absolutely crazy that a victim has to go on the stand and police his pronoun use when he’s trying to recite one of the scariest moments of his life.”
CDCR wrote in a statement that it was unable to comment on pending litigation against inmates.
“CDCR reviews each transfer request under Senate Bill 132 to determine whether this step would pose a safety and management risk based on the individual’s case factors. Across our facilities, CDCR thoroughly investigates all allegations of sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, and sexual harassment in accordance with our zero-tolerance policy and the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act,” the statement to ABC 7 said.
Amie IchikawaFounder and CEO of Women II Women and a former inmate who has closely followed Carroll’s case, previously told Fox News Digital that until the passage of SB 132, there was no history of Carroll identifying as any type of LGBTQ+ person .
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Amie Ichikiwa spoke to Fox News Digital about her experience with a transgender inmate at a California facility. (Independent Women’s Forum)
“This is someone I have been keeping a close eye on because of his history, his background, his habitual manipulation, his frivolous lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit, and constantly filing complaints against everyone. I knew this would be a problem.” Ichikawa said.
“The committee that reviews these transfer requests cannot rely on a person’s criminal record, physical characteristics, sexual orientation, or anything similar,” she continued. “Anything that you think is a factor that should be taken into account before transferring someone to a women’s prison is not allowed and is considered discriminatory.”
In several complaints reported by Reduxx, Carroll uses the pronouns “he/him” to refer to himself and did not mention gender identity or sexuality until 2021, three months after the Democratic-controlled California legislature passed SB 132.
This is what court documents show Carroll’s crime story began in 1988 with a charge of aggravated theft of property and possession of a firearm by a minor when he was 15 years old.
State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat, greets the crowd during the 53rd annual San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration on June 25, 2023. Wiener sponsored SB 132, which would allow transgender inmates to be housed in their preferred men’s or women’s facility. (Getty Images)
In 1990, Carroll was charged as an adult with three counts of kidnapping for ransom, two counts of robbery and three counts of “forcible oral copulation,” according to records. However, some of the charges were dismissed on a technicality and the case ended in a jury verdict and a mistrial. Instead of being tried again, Carroll pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping and was sentenced to ten years and eight months in prison.
Carroll’s third punishment under California’s three-strikes law came in 1998, when he was the getaway driver in a jewelry store robbery, which resulted in a sentence of 25 years to life in prison as a three-strikes offender. While he was awaiting trial in 1999, sheriff’s deputies, acting on a tip from a confidential informant, discovered he was in possession of a metal wire shaft. He received an additional four years to run consecutive to his 25-year-to-life sentence.
In prison, Carroll committed various serious violations of the rules between 2001 and 2015. His crimes included fighting with other inmates, refusing to obey orders, drug possession, filing a false report against a peace officer and “conduct likely to result in violence,” court records say. He also filed various complaints of racial discrimination and sexual misconduct by CDCR employees.
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“Tremaine has a long history of filing lawsuits against the department, countless lawsuits. He constantly writes inmate complaints about anyone and everyone he can have a negative influence on,” Ichikawa said.
In a 2022 editorial for San Francisco Bay View, a “national black newspaper,” Carroll again claimed to have been the victim of discrimination and sexual misconduct by CDCR employees.
The next year, Carroll was interviewed by MindSiteNews for an article in which he was described as “an incarcerated transgender woman who was instrumental in several prison lawsuits.” Carroll told the interviewer he “never felt the need” to outwardly identify as anything or “to wear lipstick or wear tight clothes or try to change my voice” because it would “put me in a box.” .
Fox News Digital’s Christopher Pandolfo and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report
