JK Rowling blasts Washington state lawmaker for claiming she’s proud of facilitating housing male sex offender in women’s prison

On Thursday, State Rep Darya Farivar was asked during a forum of 46th District legislators about the lawsuit from the former female prisoner forced to share a cell with a 6’4” male who allegedly sexually assaulted her. Farivar went on to say that one of the things she is most proud of is making sure "that things like sensitive images are not released through our public records act." She touted the change that was made in prisons to prevent images taken through full body scans from not ending up subject to public records requests.

Author JK Rowling shared the clip and wrote, “You think you've heard the last word in callous, self-serving, reality-defying luxury beliefs, but then a female legislator responds to a question about a male sexual assault by saying how proud she is of the measures taken to make sure the sex offender's feelings aren't hurt.”

In the lawsuit, plaintiff Mozzy Clark-Sanchez alleged that the staff of the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) placed her in a cell with a biological male inmate who was transferred from a men's prison after he "claimed to identify as a woman." The lawsuit names 35-year-old Christopher Williams, a 6'4" convicted pedophile serving a 28.5-year prison sentence for brutally assaulting his former girlfriend, who was previously convicted of child rape and is alleged to have subjected Clark-Sanchez to repeated harassment and sexual abuse, according to court records.

Clark-Sanchez, who is a survivor of child rape and previously said she was "raped by my uncle, and my mom used to sell me to pay for drugs," alleged Williams would frequently and graphically describe sexual acts he wanted to do to her and would fondle her as she slept. Clark-Sanchez claimed in the suit that she would wake up to find Williams' hands on her genitals, breasts, and legs.

According to the suit, on at least one occasion, a prison guard caught Williams in the act and rather than remove him from the cell, ordered Williams back to his bunk. Clark-Sanchez claimed that Williams even brought a strap-on dildo into the cell and asked her to use it on him. He is also accused of repeatedly leering at female inmates while they showered. Williams was transferred from a men’s prison to WCCW after changing his gender identity to female under the Washington Department of Corrections' gender-inclusion policies, which were implemented in 2020 by Democrat Governor Jay Inslee.

He has a violent criminal past including first-degree child molestation, failing to register as a sex offender, and is serving 342 months for a domestic violence incident in which he was found guilty of first-degree assault for attacking his girlfriend with a pipe, repeatedly striking her in the head.

The suit claims that corrections officials were cognizant of Williams' previous behavior, including sexual misconduct with another female cellmate, but ignored her concerns and neglected to take the necessary measures to safeguard Clark-Sanchez.

Over the weekend, Farivar was asked about the lawsuit during a public forum of district lawmakers. She bragged about her work on behalf of the trans community and said that she worked to guarantee that “trans women who are incarcerated had what they needed to navigate safely through our prison system,” adding that she was “proud of the work that we did there.”

She added, “One of the bills that I worked on was actually to make sure that things like sensitive images are not released to our Public Records Act. One of the things that we found out in our work with trans women was that, um, you know those big body scanners you go to at the airport and walk through them to stand up with your arms up? Um, the prisons have similar ones, but that are much more high-tech. So they don't have to do invasive cavity searches. But they take pictures of naked bodies. And that was subject to our Public Reference Act. So we went in and we made that change to protect not just trans women, but all people who were having to go through that to make sure that their naked bodies did not end up in a public records disclosure somewhere.”

Farivar continued, “I'm proud of the work that we did there… we are always going to stand up for folks who are incarcerated, who are dealing with all sorts of different horrible situations. We continue to do that. We continue to work on that in the Community Safety Committee, and I find it important to state that we'll always stand with LGBTQ community.”

She received a loud ovation from the crowd of mostly Democrat attendees.

A woman can be heard off-camera asking, “That's it? Nothing about women being assaulted?”

The clip went viral on social media. Journalist Michael Schellenberger commented, “Incredible. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t watched the video.”

Farivar, who is Iranian, was also taken to task for claiming to stand up for the LGBTQ community but advocating for Hamas terrorists against Israel, which has the largest LGBTQ community in the Middle East contrasted with Palestinian terrorists and the Iranian regime who execute people for identifying as LGBTQ.