Jessica Anne Marie Foust — born John Jay Chapman — was sentenced to 25 years in 2008 for raping a woman in Gresham, Oregon. Foust began identifying as transgender in 2015, seven years into that sentence. Now, thanks to a federal court ruling, Foust may be headed to Coffee Creek Correctional Facility — Oregon's women's prison.
The rapist didn't get there alone. Foust filed a class action lawsuit alongside a murderer.
The suit, originally filed in September 2025, names Foust and co-plaintiff Zera Lola Zombie — born Daniel Lee Smith — who is serving a 35-year sentence for the 2014 murder of Samantha Brown. A third plaintiff, Lillithia Moon Blood-Gaia, also formerly named Daniel, is serving 24 years for child molestation. These are the individuals whose housing preferences the state of Oregon has decided to accommodate.
In April 2026, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Oregon Department of Corrections to begin sorting inmates by their stated gender identity rather than biological sex. The ruling effectively means biological males convicted of violent crimes against women could be housed with female inmates — the very population their crimes targeted.
ODOC's own lawyers had argued against the move. State attorneys contended that "ODOC has an important government objective in reducing potential sexual victimization by convicted and potential sexual predators." The state was, in plain English, telling the court that housing convicted sex offenders with women creates an obvious danger to those women.
Judge Clarke was unmoved. His ruling noted that "more than 90% of transgender women in Oregon's prison system are housed in men's prisons," framing the current arrangement as the problem rather than the safeguard.
That 90% figure is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It's presented as evidence of systemic mistreatment. But consider what it actually describes: the state housing biological males in male facilities. That was standard corrections policy everywhere in America until roughly five minutes ago. Now it's grounds for a federal injunction.
The women at Coffee Creek didn't get a say in any of this. No one filed a lawsuit on their behalf. No federal judge issued an injunction protecting their right not to share a cellblock with a convicted rapist. Their safety concern — the one ODOC's own lawyers raised in court — was weighed against the housing preferences of three violent offenders and found insufficient.
This is the part where gender ideology stops being an abstract campus debate and becomes a concrete policy with identifiable victims. A rapist, a murderer, and a child molester walked into federal court and argued that their gender identity entitled them to be housed with women. The state said no, that creates a danger. A federal judge said the state was wrong.
The lawsuit is a class action, which means the ruling won't just apply to Foust, Zombie, and Blood-Gaia. It sets the framework for any male inmate in Oregon's system who claims a female gender identity. The injunction doesn't require a diagnosis. It doesn't require a history of transition. It requires a stated preference.
Samantha Brown was murdered in 2014. Her killer is now using the federal courts to gain access to a facility full of women. The state's own legal team said this was dangerous. The judge overruled them.
That's not a policy. That's a capitulation with a gavel.
