A male prison inmate who claims to be female is suing the Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) in an attempt to overturn a state ban on the use of taxpayer funding for transgender procedures for convicted criminals. The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has taken up his case.
Wayne Allison, who now goes by the name “Astrid,” is serving a 27-year prison sentence for raping his 11-year-old sister multiple times in 2013. He was charged with five counts of child molestation and one count of incest.
According to an affidavit provided to Reduxx, which has extensively covered this and similar cases, Allison assaulted the girl repeatedly between July and November 2013.
Indiana law currently prohibits the use of state or federal funds to facilitate what the statute defines as “sexual reassignment surgery” for incarcerated offenders, according to Reduxx.
Allison’s April 2024 legal complaint – which uses female pronouns to describe him – claims that transgender surgery is required to alleviate his alleged mental suffering.
“Astrid Allison, also known as Wayne Allison, is an adult transgender female prisoner confined in a male institution (New Castle Correctional Facility) within the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC). She is diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has been receiving female hormones and a hormone to suppress her testosterone for more than three years,” the complaint noted. “Although the hormones have helped to lessen the debilitating symptoms of gender dysphoria, surgery is necessary to relieve her continuing symptoms of serious depression and anxiety.”
His legal filing argued that the mutilating surgery is a “medical necessity” and that denying it violates the Eighth Amendment, which protects inmates from “cruel and unusual punishment.”
“Although plaintiff’s birth-assigned sex is male, she has identified as female since she was 10,” the complaint further stated. “The misalignment of her gender identity with her birth-assigned sex has caused her, and continues to cause her, enormous depression, anxiety, and distress.”
“With the hormones she has developed breasts and her body fat has changed to contour her body like a birth-assigned female,” the legal filing noted. “She has attempted to live as a female to the greatest extent possible as she is in a male prison. She wears a bra and women’s underwear. She wears lipstick that she is able to purchase on commissary. She wears makeup … Every morning she gets up and wants to die because of her gender dysphoria.”
Last year, the ACLU moved to consolidate Allison’s “sex discrimination” case with that of another “transgender” convicted pedophile housed in the same prison, Cory Wallace, who brutally abused his four-month-old-son, Jensen, resulting in his death.
Wallace, who is serving a 72-year sentence, has been working with the ACLU since 2023 to challenge the IDOC’s ban on taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries.