WA Rep: Bill to protect women inmates, transgenders ‘going nowhere’

GOP State Representative Cindy Jacobsen (R-Puyallup) has co-authored a bill that proposes if someone’s been convicted of certain sex crimes against women, they cannot be housed in the general population of women.

“I just fear that we are so worried about being politically correct that we won’t take a hard logical look at things because this is not a politically correct issue to bring up, and I don’t want anybody to be unsafe,” Jacobsen said on The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.

“The bill has gone nowhere … because maybe it is a political hot potato,” Jacobsen explained.

Rantz points out that it is a transgender issue as well.

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