How does a man end up in a women's prison in California? Thanks to progressives in the state legislature, all it takes is for the man to declare himself a woman. Three years ago, Democrats enacted Senate Bill 132, also known as "The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act." As one prosecutor explains, the law requires no medical transition, no psychological evaluation, and no other medical assessment. 

What happens when this law gets put into effect in prisons? Pretty much what everyone would expect. Tremaine Carroll impregnated one fellow inmate after declaring himself a woman and then allegedly raped two other female inmates in prison. He faces trial now for those sexual assaults, but the Madera County judge ruled that everyone has to use Carroll's preferred "she/her" pronouns -- including his victims.

Why? Because, the judge explained, Carroll "deserves dignity." Uh-huh.

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First off, this is legally incoherent, as prosecutor Sally Moreno explains:

In March DA Sally Moreno, charged Carroll for rape allegedly committed while incarcerated at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.

"After his first cellmate became pregnant and was moved to Los Angeles, two other cellmates of his had complained that he had raped them, so we have filed rape charges against this inmate," said Moreno.

Moreno says the ruling regarding pronouns impacts her ability to prosecute the case.

"This is a particular issue in this case because it's confusing to the jury. In California, rape is a crime that has to be accomplished by a man," said Moreno.

And yes, as Moreno's supervisor told reporters, that order includes Carroll's alleged rape victims:

Supervising Deputy District Attorney Eric Dutemple says it's also unfair to the victims.

"Its just absolutely insane that a victim would have to get on the stand and police their pronoun usage when trying to recite one of the scariest times of their lives," said Dutemple.

So it confuses the jurors and humiliates the victims, but at least the alleged rapist gets to have "dignity" by having everyone cooperate in his delusions. And that assumes that Carroll made his declaration in good faith, not as a means to target vulnerable women in state custody for serial sexual assaults. Got it. 

Now we have women who face a justice system that rejects the very basis of their complaint. We have prosecutors who have to overcome arbitrary language barriers to argue what takes place in rape. Prisons now lock violent men with women on the basis of the man's feelings without any regard to the obvious risks and dignity of the women in their custody. We have a judge more interested in dignity than in truth, in large part constrained and somewhat motivated by a state legislature more interested in virtual signaling than reality. 

Forget dignity, and maybe even put off justice for a moment; where in this system is truth? The word verdict descends from the Anglo-Norman term veir, which meant "true," added to dit, which meant "spoken" or "said." A verdict is therefore a pronouncement of truth, at least aspirationally, which this judge wants to produce in an environment of laughable falsity. This court, and this state, have warped biological reality to avoid truth or justice in order to participate in a psychological fad for the clicks. It's almost definitionally insane. 

There's a price to pay for that embrace of delusion, as Zachary Faria argued yesterday, and it's high time that Democrats start paying it rather than the women they victimize through it. Senate Bill 132 was not the product of a fringe movement, but a bill backed by the party's establishment, starting at the very top:

All of this lies squarely at the feet of California Democrats, who passed the bill after it was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed the bill, and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation boasted that “No one deserves to be treated disrespectfully because of their gender identity or expression” and that “it is our sworn duty to protect people from sexual assault and violence.” Instead, Newsom, state Democrats, and the CDCR have all made it easier for men to victimize women in women’s prisons, all in service of transgender ideology.

The incoherent idea that a man can be a woman just by saying so makes women less safe in sports, changing areas, shelters, and prisons that are all meant to be for women only. California Democrats, including Newsom, are actively making women less safe by helping male criminals such as Carroll manipulate the law and protecting them from the consequences by indulging the fantasy that men can become women.

They don't limit their betrayal to just female prisoners, either. Democrats have rushed to put female athletes of all ages at risk, watered down important discrimination protections by eroding the definition of woman, and seem intent on erasing women altogether from the law. That project encompasses the entirety of the Democrat Party, and not just in California, either. California voters may not rebel against Democrats meaningfully for a while, but voters in the rest of the country can certainly take note of their radical and insane policies, and the outcomes those produce. And perhaps they already have.