'Scared' and 'traumatized': Walz's support for trans women in Minnesota women's prison 'endangering' inmates

She added: "They do sexually suggestive things to them, and it's making them all very uncomfortable."

Nathan Charles Johnson, Bradley Richard Sirvio, Sean Windingland and Elijah Thomas Berryman are currently serving sentences in the women's facility for felony charges. 

According to DOC records, Sirvio is serving a life sentence for homicide, Windingland is serving 24 years for criminal sexual conduct, Berryman is serving a 26-year sentence also for criminal sexual conduct, and Johnson, charged with aiding and abetting a burglary, is set to be released in February 2025.

Warmbo - a self-professed Christian who says she is now sober and studying to be a psychologist - said she has written several letters to her local representatives in Congress and to the Biden-Harris administration about the added "endangerment" incarcerated women now face living in close quarters with biological males. 

In addition to Warmbo, Fox News Digital spoke with an inmate currently in prison who spoke on condition that her name be withheld from publication.

The inmate detailed how the prisoners are often too intimidated to speak out about encounters with the trans women, fearing administrative repercussions and having their privileges revoked. She also told Fox News Digital the trans women get their own rooms, while the other prisoners are placed two to a cell.

All the prisoners virtually share the same open living spaces, including the showers. The inmate told Fox News Digital in a phone call that graphic instances of sexual harassment occur in the facility, though Fox News Digital could not independently confirm.

"It's just going to be a huge mess I see for Minnesota because of Tim Walz and his agenda on this," Warmbo said.

Beckmann was reportedly "blindsided" leading up to her 10th anniversary working at the facility, when inmate Sirvio and Craig Lusk - who goes by the name Christina - arrived.

According to the DOC's policy guidance issued to staff in April, trans inmates are granted certain privileges.

"Incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary may request a single-cell assignment," and they must be "given the opportunity to shower separately in a manner so as to prevent viewing by other incarcerated people."

"Facility staff must provide incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary state-issued undergarments consistent with their gender identity including any combination of those items up to the allowable limit if requested," the document also states. 

When it comes to security checks, "pat and unclothed body searches of incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary must be done in accordance with the gender of the facility in which they are assigned," meaning if a trans inmate is housed in a male facility, the search should be conducted by male staff. If they are in a female facility, the search should be conducted by female staff.

"The department provides incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary with appropriate gender-related mental health and medical services throughout their incarceration. The DOC provides medical care in accordance with WPATH standards of care," the memo noted.

As of Jan. 31, Lusk was released from state custody and placed under supervision. The settlement reached in this case involved a total of $495,000 distributed among three parties. Lusk received $245,903.72, Gender Justice was allocated $198,000 and Robins Kaplan LLP received $51,096.28 for legal fees.

Minnesota is now among 11 states and the District of Columbia that allow transgender inmates to transfer to prison facilities that match their gender identity and not their biological sex. Walz has been an advocate during his time as governor for trans rights.

Neither the Minnesota Department of Corrections, Gov. Walz's office, nor the Harris-Walz campaign responded to Fox News Digital's inquiry by press deadline.