EXCLUSIVE: Transgender Pedophile Backed by ACLU Suing Indiana Prison Officials for Tax-Payer Funded Surgeries

A trans-identified male serving a 27-year sentence for the incestuous rape of his young sister is suing the Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections in an attempt to overturn a state ban on using taxpayer funding to provide transsexual medical procedures to convicted criminals – and, presumably, to ultimately secure a transfer to a female prison. Wayne Allison, 43, has adopted the name “Astrid,” and his case is receiving the support of theAmerican Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

In December 2013, Allison, of Bloomington, Indiana, was charged with five counts of child molestation and one count of incest. Allison, who was 30-years-old at the time, preyed upon his younger sister, who was 11-years-old. According to an affidavit provided to Reduxx by the Monroe Court, Allison raped his sister both vaginally and anally on several occasions during the period between July and November 2013.

In addition to repeatedly raping the girl, he groomed her by showing her pornography.

From court records detailing the case against Allison.

Now, Allison has begun calling himself “Astrid” and has recently secured the legal representation of the ACLU of Indiana in a lawsuit against the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC).

In April 2024, Allison filed a formal complaint against the IDOC signaling his intent to challenge the constitutionality of a recently-implemented state law banning public funds being spent on “gender-affirming” surgeries for inmates.

On April 1 2022, the IDOC established formal procedures for diagnosing gender dysphoria and evaluating prisoners for “gender-affirming surgeries” utilizing Standards of Care published by lobby group the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Indiana state DOC Health Care Services Directive, titled “Health Services for Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients,” provided medical pathways for inmates to receive psychotherapy, exogenous hormones, and the euphemistically name “gender-affirming” surgeries.

Governor Eric Holcomb signed HEA-1569 into law, which explicitly bans the IDOC from authorizing the use of state funds, state resources, or federal funds to facilitate what the statute defines as “sexual reassignment surgery” for incarcerated offenders. The ban went into effect on July 1, 2023.

“Astrid Allison, also known as Wayne Allison, is an adult transgender female prisoner confined in a male institution [New Castle Correctional Facility] within the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC). She is diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has been receiving female hormones and a hormone to suppress her testosterone for more than three years,” reads the complaint, filed in April 2024. “Although the hormones have helped to lessen the debilitating symptoms of gender dysphoria, surgery is necessary to relieve her continuing symptoms of serious depression and anxiety.”

Allison states that he had one interview with a psychologist in February 2023 before the process of securing a recommendation for genital surgery was halted. He argues that a castration surgery to invert his penile tissue is a “medical necessity” and that denying cosmetic surgery for his genitals violates the Eighth Amendment, which protects inmates from “cruel and unusual punishment”.

The legal complaint cites standards devised by the for-profit organization the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the lobby group known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Reduxx has repeatedly exposed the APA, which sells their manuals to medical professionals, as having involved academics who advocated favorably for, or sympathized with, pedophilia. Similarly, WPATH devised its latest Standards of Care while gathering the opinions of anonymous men involved in a pedophilic castration fetish forum.

Despite having raped his 11-year-old sister when he was 30, Allison claims to have been “female” since he was a child.

“Although plaintiff’s birth-assigned sex is male, she has identified as female since she was 10,” reads the complaint. “The misalignment of her gender identity with her birth-assigned sex has caused her, and continues to cause her, enormous depression, anxiety, and distress. Her penis and testicles absolutely disgust her. She cannot go to the bathroom without thinking of castrating herself.”

Wayne Allison as seen in an inmate file photo provided to Reduxx by the Indiana Department of Corrections.

Allison claims that he “did not come out to the world as a woman” until 2017, when he told a mental health professional at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility that he was a “woman.” He began requesting castrating surgery in 2019. In 2020 Allison was diagnosed with gender dysphoria while in the DOC and in January of 2021, he was prescribed estrogen and spironolactone, an anti-androgen hormone that suppresses testosterone.

“With the hormones she has developed breasts and her body fat has changed to contour her body like a birth-assigned female,” Allison claims. “She has attempted to live as a female to the greatest extent possible as she is in a male prison. She wear a bra and women’s underwear. She wears lipstick that she is able to purchase on commissary. She wears makeup… Every morning she gets up and wants to die because of her gender dysphoria.”

Allison’s legal claim, which seeks to overturn the statewide ban on taxpayer-funded transsexual surgeries, is being supported by the ACLU of Indiana, and by the legal team which includes Kenneth J. Falk, Gavin M. Rose, and Stevie J. Pactor. The ACLU and its associated foundation hold combined total assets of roughly $962 million to over $1.1 billion.

In October 2025, the ACLU filed a motion to consolidate the convicted pedophile’s sex discrimination claim with another legal claim filed by a man who brutally physically abused his 4-month-old son, resulting in the infant’s death. Cory Wallace was convicted of battery and negligence resulting in the death of his infant son, Jensen, and sentenced to 72 years in prison.

In 2023, Wallace teamed up with the ACLU to challenge the statute prohibiting the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) from utilizing state or federal resources to facilitate or fund surgical gender-reassignment procedures for inmates.

Both men, Allison and Wallace, are being held at the same prison, the New Castle Correctional Facility.

For the first time in the United States, the state Indiana Department of Corrections is making a legal argument which challenges the medical authority of WPATH. In a response, legal counsel for the DOC has stated that prison officials “deny the appropriateness” of the two criminals’ diagnoses of gender dysphoria. The DOC also “denies that sexual reassignment surgery is necessary to relieve Plaintiffs of the serious depression and anxiety that accompanies their gender dysphoria.”

As previously revealed by Reduxx, another trans-identified male convicted of the grisly murder of an infant in the state of Indiana was represented by the ACLU in a legal claim to various cosmetic “gender-affirming” surgeries. recently released on parole a full 30 years early.

Jonathan Richardson, who now uses the name Autumn Cordellioné, was convicted in 2002 after his 11-month-old stepdaughter died in his care while her mother was at work. Having served less than half of his 55-year sentence, Richardson was quietly released in late December of 2025.

In 2023, the ACLU of Indiana – and the same attorneys who are currently representing Wallace and Allison – filed a legal complaint on behalf of Richardson claiming that the IDOC was subjecting him to “cruel and unusual punishment” by denying him the various plastic surgeries he had demanded.

In the suit, ACLU lawyers refer to Richardson as an “adult transgender female prisoner confined in a male institution,” and complains that “the total ban on gender-affirming surgery violates [his] right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.”

Among a list of demands prepared by Richardson and presented as evidence in court was a document titled “Surgeries to Reach My Ideal Self.” The first item on the list, the court heard, was a “vagina,” followed by: breast implants, a brow lift, a brow reduction, a tummy tuck, gluteal implants (BBL), a uterus transplant, hair removal, and wigs.

During his deposition, Richardson told the legal counsel for the IDOC, Alex Carlisle, that in 2018, he had been informed about gender identity by another male inmate at CIF who went by the name of “Pearl.” According to Richardson, Pearl had brought in pamphlets from California state prisons that explained the concept of “gender identity” and introduced to him, for the first time, the idea of taking feminizing hormones.

According to social media posts made by Richardson, the two trans-identified males who were both convicted of killing infants – Richardson and Wallace – are in a romantic relationship.

“I can’t sleep because I miss my trans significant other,” Richardson states in a video he posted to Instagram. “I call her my wife, but we’re not legally married. Her name’s Nikki, she’s beautiful. We spent so much time in the cell holding each other,” Richardson says, referring to Wallace.

In the video Richardson explains how he met Wallace after having been previously in a sexual relationship with the president of the Sureños, also known as the Sur 13 gang. Referring to Wallace with feminine pronouns, Richardson says, “She ended up moving in to the cell with me… The first night she moved in, I was like, ‘Want me to suck your d**k?’”

Richardson has made multiple images using AI generators, including images which imagine himself and Wallace with two young sons. Both men have tattoos bearing the names of the infants they killed.

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