Female inmate allegedly pummeled by transgender prisoner sues Washington state

An inmate is challenging Washington state’s policy allowing biological males to be housed in female prisons based on gender identity, saying she was beaten up by a convicted child sex offender who identifies as female. The America First Policy Institute sued on behalf of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, which opposes gender ideology, and Faith Booher-Smith, 28, a prisoner at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor. Booher-Smith said she was attacked in the cafeteria by transgender inmate Christopher Scott Williams. “For apparently no reason known to Ms. Booher-Smith, Williams approached her silently from behind and struck her on the side of her face with his fist, then grabbed her hair and threw her to the ground before kicking her repeatedly with such force that she sustained visible injuries, including, facial bruising, a laceration in her mouth, and swelling to her jaw and eye,” said the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. An elderly female guard witnessed the attack last Aug. 7, but “froze” and “screamed in fear for her safety” instead of intervening, according to the filing. “Williams is a six-foot-four, ’biologically intact’ male and convicted child sex offender