The class-action lawsuit brought against the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) demanding to house all trans-identified male inmates in women’s prisons was brought by a pedophile, a rapist, and a domestic abuser who murdered his girlfriend, Reduxx can reveal. At the end of April, a federal judge ordered the ODOC to reassess its policies and house trans-identified males on the basis of their “gender identity” in a sweeping injunction.
The initial complaint, filed in September 2025 on behalf of men identified only as “S.D.” and “J.F.”, alleges that housing males who claim a transgender status in men’s prisons violates their constitutional rights. S.D. and J.F. v. Mike Rees, et al. argued that when the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) chooses not to transfer trans-identified males into women’s prisons, the authorities are subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment and sex-based discrimination, citing the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Currently, the ODOC reserves the right to deny trans-identified males transfers to female prisons. In particular, decisions whether to house a transgender inmate in a male or female facility must be made on a “case-by-case basis whether a placement would ensure the inmate’s health and safety, and whether the placement would present management or security problems.” The suit also seeks “mandatory staff training” and “immediate protective measure for all transgender inmates who report abuse.”
Bizarrely, the sex-based discrimination claim argues that the ODOC violates trans-identified male inmates’ rights by housing the criminals based “solely on the basis of their genitalia.” The complaint states that 90% of male inmates who claim a female gender identity are not transferred to the prisons of their choice “without genuine consideration of gender identity or safety” for violent male convicts. Housing inmates according to their sex, the suit argues, is a practice “widely condemned by medical and correctional authorities, including the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).”
Inmates S.D. and J.F. both allege sexual abuse while incarcerated in a men’s prison, as well as “transphobic harassment,” such as correctional officers “misgendering” them by using masculine pronouns, and “deadnaming,” or calling them by their given names. S.D. reports that he has been accused of “lying” or “misusing the grievance process” when filing complaints of sexual abuse.
While the identities of the inmates included in the suit were anonymized in the court ruling, Reduxx has now confirmed the identity of three of the men involved.
Inmate “J.F.” is Jessica Anne Marie Foust, previously known as John Jay Chapman. He has been designated as a “vulnerable” inmate by the ODOC, and asserts that he is “a legal female.”
In 2008, Chapman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping a developmentally disabled woman who resided at an adult foster home in Gresham, Oregon, managed by his mother. While incarcerated, Chapman was convicted on four counts of assaulting a correctional officer. Three years later, in 2015, he began to identify as transgender.
Prior to joining the class-action lawsuit, Chapman had attempted to sue the Oregon Department of Corrections for mistreatment. In 2023, Chapman brought a lawsuit against the Department for “cruel and unusual punishment” pertaining to the brightness of the lightbulbs used in his cell during sleep hours. The suit was ultimately dismissed earlier this year after a court found that the lighting was the equivalent of residential nightlights and required for basic security, and did not constitute a violation of his Eighth Amendment rights.
The class action suit also includes the experiences of inmates identified as “Z.Z.” and “L.B.” Reduxx can identify Z.Z. and L.B. as “Zera Lola Zombie” and “Lillithia Moon Blood-Gaia.”
Zombie, born Daniel Lee Smith, is a violent trans-identified male who is classified as a “female” inmate in the Oregon inmate directory and is housed in women’s prison Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF). He is serving a 35-year sentence for charges including the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Samantha Brown. In 2014, Brown was beaten to death, her corpse left in the trailer home she and Zombie shared. While the motive for the crime was never made clear, Brown was survived by four young children.
Zombie began identifying as transgender in 2020 and started a hormone regimen around that time. He has since changed his name and gender marker on legal documents, and has routinely filed lawsuits against the ODOC claiming discrimination on the basis of his “gender identity.”
Zombie first filed a lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in 2021 alleging he had suffered discrimination on the basis of his gender identity. Amongst the grievances, Zombie claimed he had been subjected to “ongoing harassment” by staff and fellow inmates while incarcerated at male institutions. When housed at the Two Rivers Correctional Facility for male inmates, he has claimed he has been branded a “liar” and a “troublemaker” by staff, seemingly for submitting continuous complaints about his housing, cellmates, treatment, and other day-to-day factors he deemed unsatisfactory.
In his 2021 suit, Zombie argued that the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) had violated his rights by housing him in a men’s prison, and by placing him in a cell “with a known sexual predator” serving a sentence for “violence against women.” He stated he was “deliberately and maliciously” misgendered by correctional officers during his time in a male prison. The suit also claimed that Zombie “is a female person who was previously regarded as being a male person.”
Following the launch of his suit, Zombie was briefly transferred to the Coffee Creek Women’s Correctional Facility, but was quickly moved back to the male estate just weeks later for unknown reasons.
In 2023, Zombie received a “vulnerable” designation by an Oregon Court, entitling him to special protections and privileges.
In an amended complaint filed in December 2023, Zombie makes bizarre allegations regarding an incident when he refused to be strip searched by male correctional officers. Upon his refusal and repeated requests to have a female officer conduct the strip search, Zombie says he was placed into segregation, where he urinated on himself and told an officer, “I have small breasts, I can’t bear the thought of showing these men my breasts and my booty.”
The complaint describes Zombie being taken to the strip search area “in only her bra and urine-saturated underwear… on full display,” and states that Zombie was “crying and kept repeating, ‘Please don’t judge my body.’”
Bizarrely, the amended complaint also alleges that the strip search was uniquely difficult for Zombie because his genitals had retracted inside of his body – something that is not known to be a side effect of the ingestion of feminine hormones by men.
In 2026, Zombie was transferred back to women’s prison CCCF and awarded a payout of $295,000 as a result of a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging the Oregon Department of Corrections had violated his rights by housing him in a men’s prison.
“Lillithia Moon Blood-gaia”, identified in the suit as “L.B.”, was previously known as Nova June Gaia and Joseph Daniel Neilson. Gaia is a convicted pedophile who was first arrested in 2018 at a property in Portland, Oregon after being reported for sexually assaulting a child he was babysitting. The exact nature of the relationship between Gaia and the victim is being withheld by Reduxx for the purposes of protecting the child’s identity and safety.
On September 3, 2018, Gaia was watching over two children, a girl and a boy, at a home in Clackamas County. According to the police report obtained by Reduxx, while taking the girl to the bathroom, Gaia licked the girl’s genitals. Later on that same day, Gaia fondled the girl’s vagina.
The girl would eventually disclose the abuse and Gaia was visited by police less than two weeks later. During questioning, Gaia asserted that he had accidentally molested the child while playing with her.
Bizarrely, Gaia claimed that the girl’s pants and underwear had fallen off while they were “play-fighting,” and that he had touched his fingers and mouth to her genitals repeatedly by “accident.”
When placed in custody, Gaia’s legal sex was male and he had a full beard. But despite there being no indication Gaia identified as transgender prior to his arrest, in July of 2019, while awaiting sentencing, Gaia submitted an inquiry to his jail asking when he would be transferred to Coffee Creek — Oregon’s only women’s prison.
Gaia would ultimately be convicted on 6 counts related to the sexual abuse of the girl, and was convicted on one count of felony Sodomy and one count of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison, and, according to the Oregon offender directory, his earliest possible release date is in 2043.
In the recent lawsuit, Gaia claims he and the other men “endured repeated sexual abuse, physical assaults, psychological torment, and retaliation simply for existing as trans women in men’s prisons.” He additionally alleges he was “verbally harassed and sexually threatened by prisoners and staff” while housed at male facility Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI).
As a result of the lawsuit, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke issued a preliminary injunction blocking the placement of trans-identified males in men’s facilities and ordered the Oregon Department of Corrections to conduct individualized assessments for all trans-identified males in custody.
“It is undisputed in the record before the Court that this default presumption, and their overwhelming placement in men’s prisons, has exposed transgender women inmates to a high risk of violence and sexual assault,” Clarke wrote in his ruling. “The undisputed facts additionally show that ODOC has systemically failed to appropriately address this exposure.”
reduxx
