A transgender killer who was convicted of murdering a baby has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over the alleged “transphobic” attacks he’s suffered in prison.
Jonathan C. Richardson, who goes by Autumn Cordellioné, is imprisoned in Indiana after he was convicted of reckless homicide of a baby.
He is serving a 55-year prison sentence for murdering an 11-month-old stepchild.
Richardson is now suing Trump over alleged sexual assaults caused by the president’s “transphobic” and “extremist rhetoric,” court documents filed on April 1 show.
He claims in the handwritten complaint that Trump’s “extremist rhetoric and transphobic hate speech” has “emboldened the Defendants and the assailants that brutally assaulted and raped plaintiff, not once, but multiple times, to act on their hate and prejudices, constituting the cause in action and his liability in this case.
“Therefore, President Trump was negligent due to his alleged knowledge that others may act on his words,” Richardson claims.
Richardson also claims the alleged assaults came after being transferred from New Castle Correctional Facility (NCN) to Westville Correctional Facility (WCA), an all-male prison.
At NCN, he was being “housed in protective custody.”
The Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) has not confirmed whether the transfer was due to Trump’s executive order mandating federal prisoners be housed in units according to their biological sex.
Responding to the lawsuit, a White House spokesperson said:
“President Trump has vowed to defend biological women from gender ideology extremism and restore biological truth to the Federal government.”
The inmate is seeking $3.5 million in compensatory damages from Trump.
The other defendants in the case include prison employees and 12 other “gang-affiliated inmates,” who allegedly “stabbed” and sexually assaulted the inmate over a four-day period in January.
“Trump’s president now, and we won’t even get in trouble for f—–g you trannies up, we’re patriots and even if you tell on us, Trump will pardon us and probably give us a medal,” Richardson claimed one of the offenders said, according to the complaint.
Richardson further alleged that the unit team manager and case manager also said similar things during the alleged assaults.
“I’ve seen your case on the news, and I personally don’t think U.S. taxpayers should have to pay for your surgery,” the case manager allegedly said.
The lawsuit alleges that the offenders had violated Richardson’s Eighth Amendment rights and committed gross negligence under Indiana tort law.
As Slay News previously reported, Richardson’s years-long legal battle began in August 2023, when, with support from the ACLU, he sued the Indiana Department of Corrections over a state law that bans taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for inmates.
Doctors in Indiana are refusing to perform “gender‐affirming surgery” on the dangerous prison inmate.
Since then, Richardson has filed several complaints, including a civil lawsuit against the prison chaplain for allegedly prohibiting the wearing of a hijab outside of immediate bedquarters.
Richardson, a white male, claims to be a “Muslim transgender woman.”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has been defending the state’s law and submitted a brief in January to a court of appeals defending Indiana’s law barring sex-change operations for inmates.
The attorney general argued that the Eighth Amendment doesn’t require the state “to provide experimental treatments generally, and it certainly doesn’t here, when multiple doctors have said this inmate is a poor candidate for surgery,” a spokesperson said.
In March, Judge Richard Young, a Clinton appointee, ordered the IDOC to arrange sex reassignment surgery for Richardson at the “earliest opportunity.”
Meanwhile, states failing to comply with federal orders to house inmates based on their biological sex can now expect “imminent changes” and funding cuts.
Trump’s orders also bar federal funds from being used for sex reassignment surgeries for inmates.
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