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The following is a list of trans women who are seeking sex reassignment surgery, have been granted sex reassignment surgery and trans women who have been placed in women’s prisons. There will be some overlap between lists. Not all trans women who have been placed in women’s prisons have undergone sex reassignment surgery. Therefore, the categories interested in relocation, pre-op, post-op and granted sex reassignment surgery, but awaiting placement have been used.
Seeking or granted sex reassignment surgery:
James Randall Smith – kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Convicted-Rapist-Sues-NJ-Prisons-Over-Sex-Change-Surgery-101804328.htm
Luis Morales/Synthia China-Blast – rape and murder of a teen girl: http://genderidentitywatch.com/2014/08/24/synthia-china-blast-srlp-lavernecox-usa/
Wolfgang “Beate” Schmidt – serial rapist and murderer: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/schmidt-wolfgang.htm & http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/weltgeschehen/article118105840/Der-Serienkiller-darf-sich-ein-bisschen-frei-bewegen.html
Rodney Quine/Shiloh Quine – murder, kidnapping and robbery: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-inmate-transgender-20150810-story.html
Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy/Michelle-Lael Norsworthy – murder: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3187713/Governor-weighs-parole-transgender-California-inmate.html
Steve “Nikkas” Alamillo – murder: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/20/local/la-me-prisons-transgender-20110420
Lyralisa Stevens – killing a San Bernardino County woman with a shotgun in a dispute over clothes: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/06/06/convicted-murderer-wants-california-to-pay-for-sex-change/
Noel Crompton/Maddison Hall – murder of a 28 year old hitchhiker, charged with rape after he was moved to a women’s facility: http://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hall-maddison.htm
Michelle Kosilek – killed his wife by nearly decapitating her with a piano wire: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/judge-orders-sex-change-massachusetts-murder-convict-article-1.1151596
Dillon Andrew Shadle/Riley Nicole Shadle – sexual assault of a child: https://archive.is/ugUWA
Peter Laing/Paris Green – beat, tortured and murdered a man, moved to another women’s prison after having sexual relations with female inmates: https://genderidentitywatch.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/54-years-for-trio-who-tortured-victim-to-death-the-scotsman.pdf
Vance Egglestone/Shauna Taylor – serial rapist: http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/03/14/8744921-sun.html
James Elliot Wolfe/Jessica Elaine Wolfe – child rapist: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=20030623&id=Eh4vAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h9sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1419,6081889&hl=en
Mark Brooks/Jessica Brooks – murder: https://genderidentitywatch.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/court_s-insult-to-victim_s-mom-_-new-york-post.pdf
Paul Deyner – serial killer: http://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/denyer-paul.htm
John Pilley/Jane Anne Pilley – kidnapping and attempted murder: http://genderidentitywatch.com/2014/09/14/john-pilley-uk/
David Cross/Kelly Denise Richards – armed robbery: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/armed-robber-has-sex-change-1.1110904
Matthew “Maxine” Richardson – murder of a prostitute that mocked him: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pictured-murderer-who-went-prison-1728468
Geoffrey Ian Websdale/Michelle Websdale – murder: http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/744924/victims-shocked-as-sex-change-killer-granted-parole/
Patrick Hagan – assault: https://archive.is/1Wu9k
Mark van N – murder and mutilation: http://www.nltimes.nl/2014/10/24/dentist-killed-wife-wants-sex-change/
Robert Floyd Brown Jr/Alicia Jade Brown – producing, possessing, and transporting pornography of 10-15 year old boys: http://www.wtvy.com/news/headlines/6777352.html
Stuart Kelly/Katelyn Findlay – robbery and assault, registered sex offender: http://www.irvinetimes.com/news/13744480._High_risk__sex_offender_locked_up/
Melissa Cae – repeated stabbed a 16 year old boy: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/transsexual-soldier-melissa-cae-jailed-3138872
Maikobi Shawn Burks/Mia Kobi-Burks – murder: http://genderidentitywatch.com/2013/12/09/maikobi-shawn-burks-v-elgin-mental-health-center-usa/
Rodney S. White Jr – child sexual offender: http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/article_0d133d68-32c9-5f47-ba8b-c27175254ae7.html
Alan Baker/Sarah Baker – kidnapped and tortured his step-mother’s brother, attempted to kill another inmate: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383992/Violent-inmate-Alan-Baker-given-10-000-sex-change-NHS.html
David Megarry Jr/Sandra Jo Batista – child rapist: http://web.archive.org/web/20121130115655/ & http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/news/x1128483352
Thomas Lamb – convicted rapist, murderer and kidnapper: http://nametheproblem.com/2013/12/28/thomas-lamb/
William Gray – murder: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/oct/07/justices-uphold-idaho-murder-conviction-life/
Craig Hudson/Kimberley Green – imprisoned, tortured and killed his wife, wrapped her body in a carpet and dumped it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530101/Killer-tortured-killed-wife-gets-legal-aid-fight-wear-wig-prison.html
Lamar McQueen – murder: http://genderidentitywatch.com/2015/07/24/mcqueen-v-brown-et-al-usa/
John “Johnny” Jacobson Jr/Skylar Deleon – armed burglary, murder of another inmate, tied a couple to the anchor of their yacht and threw them overboard alive, attempted to have father and cousin killed so they would be unable to testify: http://www.orangecoast.com/features/should-california-taxpayers-pay-for-a-killers-sex-change/
Philip Walker Rosati/Mia Rosati – murder: http://gaycitynews.nyc/trans-inmates-sex-reassignment-suit-revived/
Women’s prison (expressed interest in or already moved):
Tania Veilleux – sexually assaulting a young girl for 4 years: https://archive.is/CR0hK
Luis Morales/Synthia China-Blast – rape and murder of a teen girl: http://genderidentitywatch.com/2014/08/24/synthia-china-blast-srlp-lavernecox-usa/
David Wesley Birrell/Bella-Christina Birrell – murder: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/20/local/la-me-prisons-transgender-20110420
Michelle Kosilek – killed his wife by nearly decapitating her with a piano wire: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/judge-orders-sex-change-massachusetts-murder-convict-article-1.1151596
Christopher “Kitty” Grey – molested a child for 5 years: https://archive.is/M10UA
Phillip “Sabrina” Trujillo – stabbed a man, theft and robbery: https://archive.is/M10UA
Pre-op placement:
Cheyenne Lamson – privacy complaints due to pre-op status: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1586075/crosby-v-reynolds/
Noel Crompton/Maddison Hall – murder of a 28 year old hitchhiker, charged with rape after he was moved to a women’s facility: http://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hall-maddison.htm
Peter Laing/Paris Green – beat, tortured and murdered a man, moved to another women’s prison after having sexual relations with female inmates: https://genderidentitywatch.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/54-years-for-trio-who-tortured-victim-to-death-the-scotsman.pdf
Tara Hudson – assault: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34675778
Jaris Lovado/Bianca Sawyer – robbery, possession of stolen property and fraud: http://infotel.ca/newsitem/transgender-inmate-transferred-from-all-male-kamloops-jail-to-female-correctional-centre/it24742
Stuart Kelly/Katelyn Findlay – robbery and assault, registered sex offender: http://www.irvinetimes.com/news/13744480._High_risk__sex_offender_locked_up/
Richard Chaperon/Richard Kavanagh/Synthia Kavanagh – brutally murdered his ex roommate, a transsexual male prostitute, with a knife and hammer: http://www.pasan.org/Toolkits/Trans_Prisoners.pdf
Jade Follett – stabbed a man who stalked and threatened after they met through a dating website: http://genderidentitywatch.com/2015/08/28/jade-follett-no-pride-in-prisons-noprisonpride-new-zealand/
Post-op placement (includes prison transition and self-castration):
Peter Rogers/Debbie Vincent – ex-military animal rights extremist charged with intimidation, threats, placing car bombs, arson, disturbance of personal remains and theft of ashes: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10772486/Debbie-Vincent-Former-soldier-turned-animal-rights-extremist-jailed-for-six-years.html
Melissa Young – killed neighbor by stabbing him 29 times over rejecting a gift: https://archive.is/C3QK8
Robert Hilton/Rebecca Hilton – murder: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jailed-as-a-man-released-as-a-woman-robert-hilton-becomes-rebecca-hilton-in-prison-8496049.html
Richard Masbruch – serial rapist: https://archive.is/0MpQX#selection-1223.0-1223.16
Douglas Wakefield/Tai Pilley Wakefield – strangled his uncle, beat him with a hammer and stabbed him 48 times with a garden fork. While incarcerated, he strangled, stabbed, beat and killed an inmate, held prison officers hostage twice and attempted to kill one of them: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/293991/Sex-swap-lag-s-wedding-chop
Glenn Nelson/Leslie Ann Nelson – killed a police officer and investigator with an AK-47 assault rifle: http://www.njpen.com/20-years-after-leslie-nelson-shooting-haddon-heights-police-grieve-reflect-rededicate-themselves/
Granted surgery, awaiting placement:
Rodney Quine/Shiloh Quine – murder, kidnapping and robbery: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-inmate-transgender-20150810-story.html
David Cross/Kelly Denise Richards – armed robbery: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/armed-robber-has-sex-change-1.1110904
Alan Baker/Sarah Baker – kidnapped and tortured his step-mother’s brother, attempted to kill another inmate: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383992/Violent-inmate-Alan-Baker-given-10-000-sex-change-NHS.html