The fight for women continues at the State Capitol in St. Paul, as female inmates in Minnesota are still being forced to share living spaces with violent, biological males. But now, radical legislation could make the situation even worse.
Rebecca Delahunt, director of public policy for Minnesota Family Council, joined Liz Collin on her podcast and talked about the latest developments.
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Delahunt has been speaking out about men being allowed in the prison for women at Shakopee, but she pointed out how yet another biological male, inmate Margot Lewis, was recently moved there.
Lewis was convicted of stabbing his former lover to death and hiding the body in the backseat of his car. Like other biological males in the women-only prison, sources confirmed that Lewis has male anatomy—and has been approved for strip searches by female staff only. A spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Corrections says this is all within policy.
🚨NEW: Another man has been moved to Minnesota’s-only women’s prison in Shakopee.
Margot Lewis was convicted of stabbing his former lover and concealing the body in the backseat of his car.
Dept of Corrections source:
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Delahunt pointed out how this is just one case. But as she explained in her testimony that she recently gave at the State Capitol, the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, if passed, would likely lead to more cases at Shakopee.
“I think a lot of Minnesotans are not aware of the fact that under the Gov. Walz administration, a 2023 Department of Corrections policy allows incarcerated persons to be housed in accordance with so-called gender identity, which is really just a rejection of sexed identity,” Delahunt said.
“Now we have many concerns with the so-called Equal Rights Amendment … if this were to pass, it would give much higher legal protection for these males to be housed at Shakopee,” she explained.
Along with how the amendment would enshrine transgenderism and abortion in the Minnesota Constitution, Delahunt also detailed some of the reasons for her concerns.
“I’ve been told that there have allegedly been a total of nine males housed at MCF-Shakopee that we know of … Some of them have been shipped out to other facilities,” she explained.
“One of the first was Craig Lusk, also known as Christina. He sued the Department of Corrections with his representation, Gender Justice, to get payment for his so-called gender-affirming care. And so I’ve seen different estimates of how much he won, somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 of Minnesota taxpayer dollars that allegedly went to his breast implant surgery,” Delahunt explained.
She also discussed other inmates, including “Bradley Richard Servio, he’s currently housed at MCF-Shakopee. He’s serving life for homicide.”
“And Elijah Thomas Berryman, who is serving time for criminal sexual conduct, is at MCF Shakopee. And I’ve heard from a couple women there he replays his crimes to himself in different voices in his cell and the women are forced to listen to this and listen to him replay his crime,” Delahunt added.
“We need more Minnesotans to be aware of what’s happening under the guise of protection of so-called gender identity because this is real life for these incarcerated women and we want to put pressure on Gov. Walz’s administration to change its policy. We want lawmakers to be held accountable for these kind of votes that put vulnerable populations at risk,” she said.
Even worse, however, there’s also legislation that would create statutory protection for changing sex on birth certificates and other vital records.
According to Delahunt, “Senate File 3018 and House File 2734 would allow a person to apply to a district court to change their sex on their vital record.”
“When I first became aware of this bill, I thought immediately of a story that I’d heard from decades ago where a boy underwent sex-rejecting procedures and he did not know that he was actually male until he was a teen. It caused great problems throughout his life, his short life. And I foresee potentially other concerning impacts,” Delahunt said.
“This is really the Wild West and I think there’s a lot of things that we can’t even foresee that could come from laws like this,” she added.
Another foreseeable problem involves the fact that Minnesota court records indicate that some criminals have used claims related to gender-affirming care to substantiate name changes on vital records.
If a judge approves the name change accordingly, then “apparently any criminal background would practically disappear without a court order,” Collin observed.
“There is another statute, 259.13 Minnesota statute,” Delahunt said, that “has an exemption protection stating that if failure to grant the name change would infringe on a constitutional right of the person, the court must grant the name change.”
“So if the ERA passes and it becomes a constitutional protection for gender identity, then we also have this other vital records law pass, could we have vital records of people with criminal backgrounds being changed left and right and there’s constitutional protection?” she added.
Liz Collin
Liz Collin is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter, news anchor, and producer who cares about Minnesota. She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of the Amazon best-selling book, They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd. Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.
Dr. JC Chaix
Dr. JC Chaix is an editor, educator, and an expert in media studies. He wrote and directed the Alpha News documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis” and “Minnesota v We the People.”
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