A male “transgender” inmate who allegedly sexually assaulted his female cellmate had a long history of violent behavior and serious infractions before Washington state correction officials transferred him to a women’s prison, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In December 2024, Mozzy Clark filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) alleging she was forced to share a cell with Christopher Scott Williams, whom the lawsuit describes as a “6 foot, 4 inch biological male who was known to be a violent, convicted sexual predator,” at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW).

Williams, who still uses a male name, was transferred from a male prison to a women’s prison in 2021, after he began identifying as female. The Washington DOC has a policy that allows inmates to be transferred to a prison that matches their gender identity — how they feel about their sex — rather than their biology.

Williams was convicted of first degree assault and has an earned release date of 2038, according to the Washington DOC.

The DCNF submitted a public records request asking for documentation of reports that Williams had violated correctional facility rules while in prison. The Washington DOC provided the DCNF with Williams’ 98-page prison infraction summary. The summary lists Williams’ infraction reports, the seriousness of the allegation, the outcome of the hearing addressing the allegations and any sanctions imposed for violating prison rules.

The document, which refers to Williams as “female,” spans more than a decade and reveals Williams had a long history of violence and serious violations in male prisons before being transferred to WCCW. The list of serious infractions includes fighting with another inmate, sexual harassment, possessing explicit materials, damaging property and providing false information during an investigation of sexual misconduct. The infractions lead to punishments such as being confined to his cell for days, according to public records.

The DCNF was unable to reach Williams for comment and it appears that he is currently without legal representation.

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In July 2011, Williams was sanctioned for sexual harassment and possession of sexually explicit material. He incurred the same infractions in February 2022, the timeframe of Mozzy Clark’s allegations, after his transfer to a women’s prison, according to the infraction summary.

Williams’ final violation in male prison occurred in May 2021, when he was given a sanction of being confined to his cell for 20 days for tampering with a security device. By December 2021, Williams had been transferred to the women’s prison and earned his first infraction there, an unauthorized absence from a required appointment, according to the summary document.

The lawsuit describes how in January and February of 2022, Clark was terrorized by her “fully intact” male cellmate, alleging Williams repeatedly sexually harassed her in the prison cell they shared, said depraved things to her while she showered and sexually assaulted her multiple times, according to the lawsuit.

Clark alleges Williams harassed her with sex toys, stating in that lawsuit that “[a]t night, Mr. Williams would take out various sex toys kept in his cell, and talk at length about how he wanted to use them on Ms. Clark.” The lawsuits notes Williams had a “large bag of sex toys” which was confiscated by prison officials in February 2022.

In February 2022, Williams incurred three serious infractions which included possession of sexuality explicit materials, for which Williams was confined to his cell for 10 days. Williams was also accused of sexual harassment but was cleared of that accusation, according to the summary document.

According to the lawsuit, prison officials regularly ignored or minimized Clark’s reports of the harassment. It wasn’t until Clark filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) complaint against Williams that he was finally removed from her cell, states the lawsuit.  

“Even from an outside perspective, the only logical conclusion here is that Mozzy’s complaints were trivialized because the state was more concerned with perpetuating its woke policies than protecting the rights and safety of the women in its custody,” David Pivtorak, Clark’s lawyer, told the DCNF. “It appears that they cared more about prioritizing the feelings of male predators claiming to be the opposite sex than the foreseeable risk of violence to the women who were forced into a confined space with them against their will.”

The Washington DOC told the DCNF that allegations of sexual harassment are a “paramount concern” which are taken very seriously. It also made it clear that its prison housing policies and cellmate assignments are made according to state and federal law.

“State and federal law prescribe where offenders are to be housed. Inside, most have a cellmate, unless placed in temporary administrative segregation or assigned to higher security levels based on a Custody Review Score,” a representative for the Washington DOC told the DCNF.

“We do not improvise our standards of treatment and care. We are an arm of the justice system. We carry out the law, and we also follow it,” said the Washington DOC representative.

Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor, recently stated the Trump administration is committed to protecting female inmates by keeping males out of female prisons.

“We are also making clear in our prison system, male prisoners will not be allowed into women’s prisons. The Biden administration promoted prison rape by putting men into female prisons. That is obviously insane, cruel and unacceptable,” stated Miller. “This administration will not allow that.”

Williams still resides in the women’s prison, according to the Washington DOC.

“With so many seeking to erase transgender people sometimes in the most brutal ways possible it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.” – Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith https://t.co/CW23ucLMex

— Disability Rights WA (@disrightswa) November 20, 2020

“Eradication Of ‘Female’ As A Legal Category”

Clark’s lawsuit claims the “cruel and unusual punishment of sexual violence” allegedly inflicted upon her in prison was a result of Washington DOC policies.

The Washington DOC published its first transgender policy in February 2020, which allows inmates to be housed according to feelings about their sex, which activists call “gender identity,” rather than their biology.

Policies allowing men to transfer into women’s prison based on their feelings about their sex paves the way for the eradication of “female” as a legal category, Pivtorak explained to the DCNF.

“Taking this to its logical conclusion really means the complete erasure not only of women’s private spaces but the annihilation of ‘female’ as a discernible legal and biological category entirely,” said Pivtorak.

Washington DOC significantly expanded its gender ideology policies in October 2023 when Disability Rights Washington (DRW), a federally-funded nonprofit, announced it had successfully negotiated a settlement with the Washington DOC.

The activist group claimed Washington DOC had violated the rights of disabled transgender inmates by failing to provide them access to medical sex-change procedures and “gender affirming” mental healthcare, according to a press release.

The groundbreaking settlement required Washington DOC to provide inmates with cross-sex surgery, hire additional staff to provide sex-change medical interventions and provide additional gender ideology training for staff. In 2024, the Washington DOC published a toolkit to help gender confused inmates obtain cross-sex hormones, genital surgery and housing.

The DCNF obtained a public records document showing the Washington State DOC spent over $600,000 on transgender medical procedures from 2022 to 2024, with a sharp year-to-year increase. Washington state taxpayers footed the bill for $92,225 of transgender medical interventions in 2022, $203,651 in 2023 and $310,785 in 2024.

The transgender inmate medical claims paid for by the state included anesthesia for genital surgery, anesthesia for the amputation of a penis and silicone breast implants.

The settlement requires Washington DOC to designate a “gender-affirming mental health specialist” at each of the state’s eleven major prisons. It also requires DOC to contract with a “gender-affirming mental health community consultant,” described as “a community expert in gender-affirming mental health care,” and hire a “gender-affirming medical specialist” to provide transgender medical interventions to patients at any “Department facility in person or via telehealth services.”

The Washington DOC has a job post for a “gender affirming medical specialist”, stating they will be expected to coordinate “medical care provided to transgender and gender diverse incarcerated individuals statewide, both in person and through telehealth.” The job comes with an annual salary range of $198,648 to $267,228, 25 paid vacation days a year and a requirement to become certified by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). 

The Washington DOC told the DCNF its agreement with DRW “prescribed new standards for gender-affirming care” for the many sex-change interventions that meet the “standards of medical necessity” for inmates who are insured through the state’s version of Medicaid, Apple Health.

“[Department of Corrections] is a medical provider. We intend to be a high-caliber one,” a representative for the Washington DOC told the DCNF.

“State and federal law govern the services we offer, and our professional staff offer them to the highest standard. It improves the lives of incarcerated individuals to receive comprehensive care, and it serves them to be treated in accordance with the law.”

DRW, which had been in negotiations over the settlement with Washington DOC since 2019, was given $1,500,000 to cover legal fees and costs incurred during the settlement negotiations. It was also given $300,000 annually to ensure the Washington DOC complied with the settlement terms, while the agreement is in effect.

DRW, which has received more than $37 million in federal funds since 1996, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, states on its website that federal funding makes up “a significant portion” of its overall funding.

DRW did not provide the DCNF with a comment regarding the settlement, but did tell the DCNF it did not use federal dollars to fund its work on the Washington DOC settlement.

It’s received multiple grants from the U.S. Department of Education, including a $370,000 grant under the Biden administration which was used to publish a guide instructing transgender Washington DOC inmates on how to legally change their name as part of their “Trans in Prison Justice Project.”

Public records obtained by the DCNF show Washington DOC has been holding monthly “GA” meetings with staff from jails throughout the state, where they discussed how to better provide inmates with “gender affirming services.”

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