The Daily Citizen covers a mind-boggling scandal out of Washington, where violent male offenders have physically and psychologically harmed more than 50 female inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women.
This is cruel and unusual punishment.
Read more about WCCW:
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Pete Hegseth has fired Navy Commander Janelle Marra, who had been serving as “Deputy Medical Director for Transgender Healthcare” at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.
In announcing the move on Twitter, Secretary Hegseth’s communication was short and blunt, writing:
“Pronouns UPDATED: She/Her/Fired”
If you’re surprised that the United States military even had such a position, especially nearly nine months into the new Trump administration, you wouldn’t be alone.
“My passion for compassionate healthcare is reflected in my focus on women’s and LGBT + health ensuring inclusive and holistic care for all service members,” posted Commander Marra.
Big problem.
Back on January 27, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14183. It was titled, “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” and made clear that the Armed Forces is no place for radical social experimentation:
“The United States military has a clear mission: to protect the American people and our homeland as the world’s most lethal and effective fighting force. Success in this existential mission requires a singular focus on developing the requisite warrior ethos, and the pursuit of military excellence cannot be diluted to accommodate political agendas or other ideologies harmful to unit cohesion.”
“Recently, however, the Armed Forces have been afflicted with radical gender ideology to appease activists unconcerned with the requirements of military service like physical and mental health, selflessness, and unit cohesion. Longstanding Department of Defense (DoD) policy (DoD Instruction (DoDI) 6130.03) provides that it is the policy of the DoD to ensure that service members are “[f]ree of medical conditions or physical defects that may reasonably be expected to require excessive time lost from duty for necessary treatment or hospitalization.” As a result, many mental and physical health conditions are incompatible with active duty, from conditions that require substantial medication or medical treatment to bipolar and related disorders, eating disorders, suicidality, and prior psychiatric hospitalization.”
Not surprisingly, lawsuits quickly followed and lower court judges immediately pounced, initially halting the move. But by a 6-3 vote in May, the Supreme Court issued an unsigned order allowing the federal government to enforce the ban.
In issuing his ban on “trans” troops, President Trump was right.
“Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.”
Back in May, Secretary Hegseth posted, “We are leaving WOKENESS and WEAKNESS behind. No more pronouns, no more climate change obsessions, no more emergency vaccine mandates, no more DUDES IN DRESSES.”
And now, no more “Deputy Medical Director for Transgender Healthcare.”
Five armed British police officers arrested an Irish comedian Monday for “inciting violence” against “trans people” — with pro-women tweets he made months ago.
Graham Linehan “refuses to believe men can become women.” His staunch, often satirical, defense of biological reality makes him a frequent target of “trans” activists. The once successful screenwriter moved to the U.S. last year after the British entertainment industry reportedly blacklisted him as a “transphobe.”
British police nabbed Linehan at the Heathrow Airport Monday under “suspicion of inciting violence on X.” He spent time in a holding cell at Heathrow Police Station before an officer interviewed him about these three X posts:
The posts, which the comedian made in April, express negative opinions about “trans” activists with his characteristic comedic flair. Only one even remotely references violence.
Police treated them like a crime.
“[The officer] asked about each of the posts in turn, with the sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious like … oh, I don’t know — crime?” Linehan wrote in a scathing account of his experience.
When the officer zeroed in on his tweet about punching men who enter women’s spaces, Linehan said it was “a serious point made with a joke.”
“Men who enter women’s spaces are abusers, and they need to be challenged every time,” he maintained.
Linehan’s tweet would be protected under America’s First Amendment. Per the U.S. Supreme Court, “The public expression of ideas may not be prohibited because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers.” (Street v. New York, 1969).
But Britain’s Human Rights Act affords British citizens much flimsier protections. People can not only be prosecuted for inciting violence, but for uttering “hate speech” implicating a person’s “race, gender, sexuality and religion.”
What constitutes “hate speech,” you ask? Nobody knows.
Worse, the officer who interviewed Linehan for “inciting violence” apparently subscribes to radical gender ideology.
Per Linehan:
There’s nothing semantic about conceding people can be born in the wrong bodies. That single statement implies sex can not only be changed but is ultimately meaningless — two claims that defy natural law.
Ironically, the U.K is actively divorcing itself from such sentiments. In April, just days before Linehan posted the tweets that got him arrested, the U.K.’s Supreme Court defined “woman” as an adult female. The head of the U.K.’s Equality and Human Rights Commission subsequently announced men would no longer be allowed in women’s bathrooms, hospital wards and sports teams.
The decision should vindicate and embolden people, like Lineham, who speak biological truth and champion women. Instead, we’re left marveling at the U.K.’s failure to protect free speech.
Vice President J.D. Vance cautioned Europe against this exact scenario in a powerful speech at the Munich Security Conference in February.
“The threat I worry about most, vis a vis Europe, is not Russia or China or an external actor,” the vice president emphasized. “It’s the threat from within — the retreat of Europe from its fundamental values.”
He specifically exhorted Europe not to abandon free speech in favor of censorship — particularly on social media.
But here we are.
The vice president correctly recognizes Europe as a bellwether for America and the West. Though America’s free speech protections are more robust, our country is far from immune to government censorship and anti-speech laws.
Free speech protections are crucial, not only to a free society, but a flourishing Christian community. Anti-speech laws — like those preventing prayer, even silent prayer, outside abortion clinics — often target believers sharing Jesus Christ’s love, grace and truth with the world.
It is incumbent upon citizens and believers, then, to uncover and oppose violations of free speech, domestic and abroad.
President Ronald Reagan said it best in his first inaugural address:
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Male prisoners have physically or psychologically harmed more than 50 female inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), multiple organizations report.
Washington’s Transgender Inmate Policy allows prisoners to be housed in facilities consistent with their subjective “gender identity,” rather than their biological sex.
At least three biological men have been housed in WCCW under this dangerous policy, according to research and interviews conducted by the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) and the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), 44 women had filed formal complaints against these male prisoners as of March 2025.
Seven more women had either informally complained or kept quiet for fear of retaliation.
Of the formal complaints:
One of the women forced to live with a male inmate claimed the prison punished her for speaking up; she allegedly spent 30 days in solitary confinement.
AFPI has confronted the Washington Department of Corrections over these findings multiple times, including once last month after Christopher Williams, a 6-foot-4 man, brutally attacked a female inmate in WCCW.
The department’s answer remains the same: It only grants inmates’ requests to move to opposite-gender facilities after “lengthy and intense scrutiny [by] a multidisciplinary committee.”
Let’s look at the three prisoners that passed this rigorous approval process to shack up at WCCW.
Bryan “Amber” Kim is incarcerated for murdering his parents. He spent time in WCCW sometime before March 2025, when he was transferred back to a male facility after having “consensual” sex with a female inmate at WCCW.
Prisoners cannot legally consent to sexual activity. Under U.S. law, Kim’s actions constitute rape.
The Washington Court of Appeals denied Kim’s petition to transfer back to WCCW on July 8.
Nathan Gonanin, who goes by “Nonnie Lotusflower,” is incarcerated for strangling a 17-year-old girl to death. He was transferred back to a male facility from WCCW on July 14, 2025.
Prior to his transfer, WCCW had placed Gonanin in solitary confinement. The Washington Department of Corrections had assessed he posed an “unmitigated threat to the safety of other incarcerated individuals’ within WCCW.”
According to FAIR, Gonanin was moved to solitary confinement after sexually assaulting at least one female inmate at WCCW.
Christopher Williams is a convicted sex offender incarcerated for first degree assault. His first request to transfer to WCCW was (rightly) denied in 2019 for his “level of past violence toward women.”
Williams allegedly menaced and sexually assaulted his cellmate, Mozzy Clark, just three months after he transferred to WCCW in late 2021. Last month, he brutally beat a female inmate, reportedly punching and kicking her until other inmates dragged him away.
As of September 2, he remains incarcerated at WCCW.
The formal complaints uncovered by FAIR and AFPI square with Clark’s allegations.
Though she repeatedly reported Williams’ escalating harassment, Clark claims officers warned that filing a complaint against Williams could be considered a hate crime and that the 6-foot-4 man might harm her if she reported him.
Clark’s lawsuit also suggests formal complaints against male prisoners don’t begin to capture the pain and fear female inmates experience when housed with men. Though we know of only one complaint filed for voyeurism, Clark claims Williams watched women shower and use the bathroom so frequently that inmates called him the “shower shark.”
In its letter addressing Williams’ most recent assault, AFPI castigated WCCW and the Washington Department of Corrections for allowing men to remain incarcerated at WCCW while women were put in danger.
It concludes:
The Daily Citizen heartily agrees. Incarcerated women have the Constitutional right to safety and privacy. Washington state has a duty to uphold it.
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Worshipers at Annunciation Catholic Church in southwest Minneapolis gathered this weekend for Masses, the first since last week’s horrific attack that killed two children and injured 21.
Pastor Dennis Zehren told parishioners, “We watch for that light that will scatter every darkness, we watch for that light that will never fade, that will only grow stronger. We watch for that light of the world. That light of the world is Jesus Christ.”
Families at the church and parish school are mourning the deaths of the two children slaughtered, Fletcher Alexander Merkel, age 8, and Harper Lillian Moyski, age 10.
Jesse Merkel, Fletcher’s father, posted a heartbreaking message on social media.
“Yesterday, a coward decided to take our 8-year-old son, Fletcher, away from us. Because of their actions, we will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with him, and watch him grow into the wonderful young man he was on the path to becoming,” he wrote.
Harper’s parents, Michael Moyski and Jackie Flavin, described their daughter as “a bright, joyful, and deeply loved 10-year-old.”
Those interested in finding out what all happened last week have likely had to scan the internet to piece the puzzle together. That’s because while facts are fickle things, news coverage these days often includes fiction masquerading as truth.
Stories have referenced the murderer as Robin Westman, which was a legal name, but then they repeatedly referred to him as “her” or “she” when, in fact, Westman is male.
But the fiction didn’t start there.
Back in 2019, a district judge processed Westman’s request to change his name from “Robert” to “Robin” and noted the individual “identified as female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”
Individuals petitioning courts to recognize their new identities is all a charade and circus – but a tragic one with dire and increasingly deadly consequences.
Going along with mental illness, acknowledging a lie as something true, fanning a fictitious fantasy, is all a modern-day epidemic.
Reporters covering this story are understandably heartbroken digging into the details – but then go right along with the fundamental falsehoods that lie at the foundation of the story. They write things that just aren’t true. They refer to Westman as “she” or “her” simply because he said so.
Robert Westman has clearly been mentally ill for years – and yet in the interest of political correctness, officials have cooperated with and even enabled his delusion.
It seems from personal journal entries that, at some point, even Westman himself acknowledged what authorities and officials have been afraid to say themselves.
“I only keep [long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans,” Westman wrote. “I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself.”
In another journal entry, he wrote: “I don’t want to dress girly all the time but I guess sometimes I really like it. I know I am not a woman but I definitely don’t feel like a man.”
So much for the lie of so-called “gender-affirming care.”
Various media outlets have gone out of their way to question any motive for the attack, instead suggesting Westman showed hatred and disdain for everyone. They conveniently leave out evidence that he posted a video with Jesus in the bullseye of a target and obviously chose his own former Catholic school as the setting for his evil and final act.
But perhaps most telling is a journal entry where he writes, “I am not well. I am not right. I am a sad person, haunted by these thoughts that do not go away. I know this is wrong, but I can’t seem to stop myself. I am severely depressed and have been suicidal for years. Only recently have I lost all hope and decided to perform my final action against this world.”
Sexual confusion and delusion don’t always lead to a mass shooting, of course, but enabling and even celebrating what is an obvious lie benefits absolutely nobody and puts countless individuals and groups into grave and perilous danger.
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