Bearded trans inmate is removed from California women’s prison after ‘raping female cellmate’

A transgender inmate has been removed from a women’s prison in California after being charged with rape.

Tremaine Deon Carroll, 51, has been transferred to a men’s prison as he faces two counts of rape and one count of “preventing a witness from testifying,” as first reported by the feminist news site Reduxx.

One of Carroll’s alleged victims, Jane Doe, says she was attacked and raped in the shower at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, about 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.

The criminal complaint also mentions a second, unnamed alleged victim.

Carroll is now at Valley State Prison, a men’s prison in Delano.

DailyMail.com previously spoke to Jane Doe, who says she was the victim of a “fully penetrative” attack in the shower in January 2024 by her new cellmate, Carroll.

The alleged attack has left her with paralyzing trauma and unable to shower for days. Basic hygiene is now a ‘trigger’ that brings back the horror of her ordeal.

Jane Doe, in her thirties and just over five feet tall, was serving a short sentence for a burglary.

Sources close to her case say that after asking prison authorities to change her cell, she chose to live with two female inmates and a self-identified transgender inmate, Carroll.

As a juvenile, Carroll was charged with robbery and possession of a firearm in 1988 and 1989, according to court documents.

In 1990, Carroll was arrested as an adult for involvement in the kidnapping, robbery and assault at gunpoint of two women.

One of Carroll’s alleged victims says she was assaulted and raped in the shower at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, about 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.

Jane Doe says she was raped in the showers of the Central California Women’s Facility. By showering she now relives the horror of the attack

Carroll was charged with three counts of “oral copulation,” forcing a victim to perform oral sex, although these charges were eventually dropped.

Carroll pleaded guilty to just two counts of kidnapping and was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison.

After his release, Carroll – then 25 years old – offended again in 1998 and was arrested and convicted of robbing a jewelry store.

This crime triggered California’s “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law, which imposes further penalties on offenders with three serious convictions.

Carroll was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years to life and has been incarcerated ever since.

Carroll is now at Valley State Prison, a men’s prison in Delano

CCWF’s sprawling complex in Chowchilla has been dogged for years by claims of sexual violence in its cells

Now, at 51 years old, 6 feet tall and about 200 pounds, Carroll is physically imposing.

In mugshot photos, Carroll sports thick black and gray stumbling blocks and identifies herself as a trans woman, although she has not undergone sex reassignment surgery.

Jane Doe claims that Carroll began showing sexual interest in her immediately after moving cells.

Carroll allegedly left her flirty notes. On the second day in the room, she claimed that Carroll propositioned her.

Jane Doe said she rejected all advances.

But less than 24 hours later, she claimed Carroll attacked her while she was alone in the prison shower and raped her.

Sources told DailyMail.com that Jane Doe was then hospitalized and, in a humiliating manner, held in arm and leg chains while she was subjected to a pelvic exam.

After her release from hospital, she was separated from the prison population, searched and treated as if she were the predator, because Carroll had claimed – reprehensibly – that she was the rapist instead.

Carroll is now charged with two rapes: the alleged attack on Rebecca and another unrelated attack on an unidentified person around the same time.

Carroll is also accused of attempting to intimidate a witness to one of the attacks.

CCWF inmates and staff celebrated a “day of action” for trans prisoners in January.

California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed the transgender prison bill into law in September 2020.

Women’s rights advocates say these allegations are a wake-up call for California’s prison system, which has transferred more than 44 biological male inmates to all-female prisons since 2021.

Nearly 200 transfer applications are still being assessed.

According to a lawsuit filed by the Women’s Liberation Front (Wolf), a liberal feminist advocacy group, CCWF installed condom vending machines after the law was passed.

That is not a requirement for male inmates to transfer to women-only facilities in California.

On September 29, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act to allow incarcerated transgender, non-binary, and intersex people to petition to be housed in a “way that is consistent with their gender identity’.

To request a transfer, prisoners only need to declare their identity – and obtain permission from prison authorities.

In August 2021, Carroll was transferred to CCWF after numerous complaints, including claims of harassment by other inmates and allegedly being the victim of more than 30 sexual assaults.

Once inside CCWF, Carroll became something of a “poster child” for the state’s transgender prisoner programs.

Writing for an obscure news website in 2022, Carroll described herself as a “trans woman” with a “girly heart and a confused mind.”