The ACLU Makes Our Prisons Forget Everything They Know About Autogynephilia

By targeting vulnerable women

Jermaine Gibson, a man who identifies as a “transgender woman” named Cyntara, allegedly harassed and assaulted a female prisoner at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facilty For Women during April.

In an interview with Reduxx, inmate Shakira Reed says “I was attacked because I didn’t want to have sex with him.”

The brutal attack followed weeks of escalating harassment by Gibson and avoidance by Reed.

“I faked sick so I wouldn’t have to go to work, so I wouldn’t have to walk past him, so I wouldn’t have to hear him make remarks about my body,” Reed says. “I started wearing large clothing to cover my body because I was feeling so uncomfortable.”

“Gibson continuously harassed Reed and would often speak in his man voice because he thought it was funny when he was asked not to because it had made the women uncomfortable,” another inmate tells Reduxx.

Witnesses say that blood was “everywhere” after Gibson repeatedly punched Reed in the head. After being treated for her injuries, Reed was pu…