๐ ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ โ๐ก๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐โ
Rivers had been in a county jail until the sentencing, but was sent to the Central California Womenโs Facility in Chowchilla, a beneficiary of a California law which took effect in 2021, allowing prisoners to request that their gender identity decides where they are held.
Activists, however, told The Post that they believed Riversโ crime had been a โhate crime against women,โ making sending Rivers to an all-womenโs prison potentially dangerous.
Rivers shot Charlotte Reed, 56, twice and stabbed her 40 times.
Rivers shot her wife, Patricia Wright, 57, in the back and left breast and stabbed her in the neck and shoulder, and fatally shot their 19-year-old son Benny, whom the couple had adopted from Africa.
After a neighbor heard gunshots and called the police, officers arrived at the home to find a blood-soaked Rivers, then 61, holding a can of gasoline, according to court papers.
Knives and ammo were found in her pockets, police said.
Rivers knew Reed from the all-female motorcycle club, the Deviants, of which both were members and where Rivers served as โenforcer.โ
โThere was something truly vile about the way this was carried out and his obvious hatred of her. My feeling from knowledge of the case is that he killed her because he couldnโt be her and he shouldnโt be in prison with other women.โ
The activists blame, in part, Californiaโs SB132, the โTransgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act,โ authored by State Sen. Scott Wiener, for enabling what they see as dangerous trans women to enter female-only prisons.
โI threw up when I heard that law,โ Amie Ichikawa, 41, who runs Women II Women, a support group for ex female prisoners as well as those currently incarcerated. โIt provides privilegesโฆthat no other prisoners in the state get.โ
According to Ichikawa, inmates who were born biological females are scared of trans inmates. โThey get very anxious when a [trans woman] gets processed in,โ she said. โEven when theyโre post-op, if they get mad they go right back to angry man mode.โ
Ichikawa also claims that the Wiener bill allows trans women inmates to pick and choose where they are housed within womenโs prisons, including choosing their own โbunkiesโ and cells.
Born David Warfield she was a suburban Sacramento teacher when she began hormone treatments and surgeries in 1999.
When she told school district officials about her plans, they placed her on administrative leave after a small group of parents complained and eventually fired her.
She sued and reached a $150,000 settlement which helped pay for her $50,000 sex reassignment surgery in 2000.
