EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Trans-Identified Male Killer Removed From Women’s Prison After Sexual Interactions With Female Inmate, Sues To Be Moved Back

A trans-identified male convicted of murdering his own parents who was moved out of a Washington State women’s prison and placed in a men’s facility after he was caught having sexual relations with a female inmate is now suing the Department of Corrections on the basis of “cruel and unusual punishment.”

On June 21, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) removed Bryan Kim, who uses the name Amber FayeFox Kim, and transferred him out of the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), instead placing him in detention at Monroe Correctional Facility, a men’s prison. Kim had been detained at the women’s facility for three and a half years, but was transferred out due to “safety concerns” after he reportedly had been observed having prohibited sexual interactions with a female inmate at WCCW.

Kim, 35, has previously been described by a psychiatrist as suffering from antisocial personality disorder and having “no conscience.” According to The National Review, a prison guard witnessed Kim and his 25-year-old cellmate, Sincer-A Marie Nerton, “actively having sex” on the floor of the cell. The guard, who chose to remain anonymous when speaking with the outlet, filed a report in March detailing a firsthand account.

“Kim’s hands were on Nerton’s buttox [sic] in a spread open position while Kim’s erect penis was penetrating Nerton’s vagina,” the report read. “This is against MSU rules and policy. WAC-504-Engaging in a sex act with another person within the facility that is not otherwise included in these rules, except in an approved extended family visit.”

Now, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington has announced their legal support for Kim in a bid to have him transferred back into a women’s prison while arguing that incarceration at a men’s detention center places him “at imminent risk of harm.” A press release issued by the ACLU on December 17 argues that the placement of Kim in Monroe, a prison for men, is “unconstitutional” and an example of transphobia.

“Ms. Kim has lived at the WCCW since 2021,” reads the ACLU statement issued by Attorney Adrien Leavitt, which refers to Kim with feminine pronouns. “On March 14, 2024, Ms. Kim and her cellmate, a cisgender woman, were caught having consensual sexual contact and were each found guilty of a 504 infraction for violating rules around sexual contact.”

The press release continued: “In its filing, the ACLU of Washington argues that the transfer violates Article I, Section 14 of the Washington Constitution, which prohibits cruel punishment … Transfer to a men’s prison exposes Ms. Kim to an imminent danger of violence, sexual assault, and harassment.”

An affidavit filed December 17 by the ACLU on Kim’s behalf contains testimony from the convicted killer. “I read the encyclopedia off and on for years. When I reached the letter ‘T,’ I found a word for the secret of me, ‘transsexual.’ I was in middle school,” Kim states.

“Throughout middle and high school, I went by the name ‘Kim.’ Although my friends and peers thought they were just calling me ‘Kim’ because it was my last name, I loved being called a female name and it helped me emotionally as I struggled with gender dysphoria,” he continues.

When Kim was incarcerated at the age of 18, he claims that he became “the target of constant bullying due to being effeminate” and other inmates perceiving him as being homosexual.

“I survived two attempted sexual assaults at Walla Walla. Each time, I was able to physically defend myself and ward off the attacks. I know that, had I not fought back, I would have been raped. I feel that I was targeted for these attempted sexual assaults because of my effeminate appearance.”

While incarcerated among the male prison population, Kim alleges that he “was heckled, cat-called, hit-on, objectified, sexualized, and stalked by men,” and that he received “a nearly constant stream of notes from other inmates” propositioning him for “anonymous sex in the showers.”

Kim says that he “became involved in a coalition supporting transgender prisoners” which assisted him in legally changing his name from Bryan to Amber Fayefox, adding, “My name change was used as a template for other incarcerated transgender people who wanted to change their names.”

Bizarrely, Kim adds his rationale for choosing the feminine name ‘Amber,’ saying, “I chose the name Amber because it is one of few precious stones that was once part of a living being; it preserves the past within it and yet is electrically alive. I was also draw to the name Amber because, in Greek mythology, the name Amber is equivalent to the name of the Greek goddess Electra… The name Amber reflects my true identity.”

The convicted murderer also claims that his 2021 transfer to the female prison estate was “a massive improvement” because he could “truly live and be seen as a woman.”

While held at WCCW, Kim began receiving electrolysis for facial hair removal on the taxpayer’s dime, and was placed on a waitlist for genital surgery. Kim claims he received genital surgery “shortly after” he was transferred back to a men’s prison after having engaged in sexual interactions with a female inmate at WCCW.

After Kim was transferred out of women’s prison WCCW at the end of June, The Huffington Post reported sympathetically on the case while referring to Kim with feminine pronouns and condemning the “transphobic rationale” that had seen Kim placed in a male correctional facility for fifteen years.

According to the outlet, Kim requested to see documentation authorizing his transfer during the relocation process. When his requests were denied, he refused to continue walking. As a result, guards were left no other option than to restrain and forcibly relocate Kim, where he was also placed in solitary confinement as a disciplinary action for refusing the transfer.

Immediately following Kim’s transfer to Monroe, he began a hunger strike in protest. After 17 days, he discontinued the hunger strike because, according to Kim, he was told he would be denied state-funded genital surgeries if he did not comply.

In November 2023, The Huffington Post had also portrayed Kim in a compassionate light in an article on trans-identifying male inmates. In a 2022 psychiatrist report, Kim is quoted as saying that he was “no good at being a boy but not allowed to be a girl” during his childhood. Kim claimed that his parents had made multiple threats to kill him leading up to the murder, and that they had refused to let him move out.

“Kim fatally stabbed her father and killed her mother when she returned home,” read the Huffington Post article. “Kim, 18 at the time, was sentenced to die in prison. Her plans of coming out now seemed impossible.”

In 2008, at the age of 19, Kim was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his father, Richard Kim, and the bludgeoning and strangulation of his mother, Terri Kim reported The Spokesman-Review. The Kims were killed by their son at their home in Mount Spokane on December 5, 2006.

During his closing remarks at the trial, Chief Deputy Criminal Prosecutor Jack Driscoll told the jury Bryan Kim killed his parents because they had been charging him $1,000 for rent and were prepared to evict him from their home. “His parents had given him a deadline. They needed to die so he could have what he felt he was entitled go,” Driscoll told the jury.

Expert witness Dr. William Grant, of Eastern State Hospital, testified that he believed Kim had “no conscience” and diagnosed him as displaying symptoms of antisocial personality disorder, as evidenced in part by the violent outbursts which he had been prescribed medication to control.

The public defender’s expert, Dr. Michael Arambula, of San Antonio, argued that the medication had aggravated his condition and as such was not entirely responsible for the murders of his parents. Arambula said Kim suffered from depression at an unusually early age and hadn’t been properly treated.

Both psychiatrists agreed, however, that Kim was mentally ill. After brutally killing his parents, Kim attempted to clean up the crime scene, and had earlier that same day stolen his father’s debit card. Before the murders, Kim withdrew $1,000 from his father’s account and went shopping.

Last October, the Washington Department of Corrections reached a settlement with the nonprofit organization Disability Rights Washington that updated the prison system’s policies in regards to trans-identifying inmates.

“Patients with gender dysphoria will also be promptly evaluated for gender-affirming surgeries and procedures by a community expert in gender-affirming care and patients will have access to gender-affirming mental health care,” reads a press release announcing the decision.

According to the updated prison policy, an inmate’s “gender expression / transition status or gender identity … will be maintained as confidential and will only be disclosed within the Department on a need-to-know basis.” DOC Secretary Cheryl Strange hailed the “landmark agreement” as “a step in the right direction.”

Kim is not the first trans-identified male inmate caught having sexual contact with a female inmate at WCCW in recent years.

As previously exclusively reported by Reduxx, another trans-identified male transfer at WCCW sexually assaulted a female inmate in 2022. The woman, who was identified under the pseudonym “Mary,” came forward to tell Reduxx that violent sex offender Christopher Williams sexually abused her after he was moved into her cell.

The situation took a turn for the worse after Mary was prescribed sleeping medication to help with her anxiety at night.

“I’m not sure how many times he touched me because of my [meds]. But one day I came back to my cell from a work shift and he had two strap-on dildos and asked me to use them on him. I refused. That night, I was woken up to him touching me.”

While Kim’s transfer to the male estate is a first for the state of Washington, it is not an isolated case nationally. At least one other male inmate who has claimed to be a woman has been transferred out of a women’s prison – though unlike Kim, the decision was made to protect him, rather than to safeguard women.

Raequan ‘Rae’ Rollins was previously held at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCF) in New Jersey. In 2019 he was sentenced to four years in prison for a violent robbery incident, and after spending five months in a male facility, Rollins changed his legal gender marker to ‘female’ and was subsequently transferred to the Edna Mahan women’s estate in October of that year.

While detained at EMCF, Rollins assaulted several prison officers and sexually harassed female guards and inmates. Rollins would ultimately provoke one of the most violent prison riots at EMCF’s history in January of 2021, during which he was beaten, and six women were severely battered by guards.

After filing a lawsuit that year, Rollins was transferred out of the women’s prison for his safety and temporarily placed in the male estate at the New Jersey State Prison, before being transferred again to Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Muncy, a facility for adult female offenders.

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