Female Prisoners in Mississippi Won’t Have to Worry About Male Prisoners In Their Spaces Anymore

Men pretending to be women are free to live out their sexual fetishes, but they’re not free to invade women’s privacy and undermine their safety. They have no right to use women-only spaces.

Mississippi lawmakers agree. They sent a bill to Governor Tate Reeves that protects vulnerable women in prisons. Male prisoners are barred from entering their restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters. The law also provides remedies if institutions and individuals violate women’s rights.

“States have a duty to protect the privacy, safety, and dignity of women,” said Sara Beth Nolan, an attorney at Alliance Defending Freedom. “Letting men intrude into women’s spaces is an invasion of privacy, a threat to their safety, and a denial of the real biological differences between the two sexes.”