What do you do with two male pedophiles who claim that they are women? According to liberal gender ideology, and the state government of New Jersey, you put them in a women’s prison because even child abusers must have their gender identities “affirmed,” even if it endangers female inmates.

Marina Volz (formerly Matthew Volz) and Ashley Romero (formerly Adam Romero) are two men who sexually abused Volz’s seven-year-old daughter and filmed videos of the abuse. Both of them pleaded guilty to counts of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.

More specifically, according to investigators, Volz, Romero, and another male accomplice ran a “pornography production studio specializing in amateur, BDSM and taboo fetish content.” Police seized 30 computers, digital storage devices, and cameras, along with firearms and cocaine.

That “taboo fetish content” included pedophilia, as police found “several sexually-explicit photos and videos of the 7-year old victim.” Volz and Romero were both sentenced to at least 25 years in prison.

Not just any prison, though. Both were placed in the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. Sure, they may both be men who are dangerous sexual predators, but we wouldn’t want to deny their dignity as “transgender women,” would we?

And in fact, they are not the only men in this New Jersey women’s prison. There are at least ten men in this “facility for women.” You may even remember that this is the same prison where, last year, a man convicted of murder impregnated two female inmates. At this point, it is very clearly not a women’s prison at all. The state of New Jersey is running a co-ed prison and housing male murderers and sex predators alongside female inmates, all because the men claim they are women.

The messages here from the state of New Jersey are clear. The most abhorrent men convicted of heinous crimes can simply claim they are women and be housed alongside female inmates. The safety of women does not matter. Neither does the reality that men are not women. All that matters is that you do not hurt the feelings of the convicted male murderers or pedophiles who have decided to claim that they are women.