A New Jersey woman incarcerated at a state women’s correctional facility alleges a male transfer who identifies as female assaulted her after several instances of sexual harassment.

Shakira Reed, an inmate at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, told Reduxx in an exclusive report that a trans-identifying male named Jermain Gibson allegedly repeatedly punched Reed in the head, resulting in a broken nose and two black eyes in a scene that witnesses described left “blood everywhere.”

“I was attacked because I didn’t want to have sex with him,” Reed told Reduxx.

Prison authorities transferred Reed to Hunterdon Medical Center, where she received medical care before returning to the correctional facility’s on-site hospital unit. Following the assault, authorities punished both Gibson and Reed in holding cells in a 90-day “lockup” away from other inmates.

Reed said the assault occurred after weeks of sexual harassment from Gibson, including the inmate exposing himself to her as she walked past his cell. She reported the incident to authorities but said Gibson was not punished.

An anonymous female inmate told Reduxx that she witnessed Gibson sexually assaulting Reed.

“I lived on the wing with both of them. Gibson continuously harassed Reed and would often speak in his man voice because he thought it was funny when he was asked not to because it had made the women uncomfortable,” she said, according to the outlet.

“During the days leading up to the actual incident, he kept egging her on. When it actually took place, I could hear it. I didn’t see it, but it was so loud we heard them down the wing, and this took place in the rec room. We could hear Shakira yelling, ‘Stop hitting me!'”

“The recent events here are just unimaginable, and honestly, if I wasn’t living them, I wouldn’t even believe them. People need to know what this has been like for us because no one has ever come to ask us how we feel about them being here. This is misogyny within misogyny.”

Gibson, who is serving a mandatory minimum term of five years in connection with robbery charges, is one of over two dozen men who identify as female that have been transferred into the women’s correctional facility, Reduxx reported.

Multiple women have provided testimony to the outlet detailing ongoing sexual harassment and other related experiences by the male transfers at the women’s only prison.

Last year, another male inmate who identifies as a woman reportedly impregnated two females being held at the women’s only prison.

The double pregnancy occurred less than a year after the state began adopting new radical gender theory practices in its prison system, including placing inmates in the facility based on their gender identification.

Dan Sperrazza, New Jersey’s Department of Correction’s external affairs executive director, told NJ.com last year that “consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person” likely led to the two becoming pregnant.

In 2021, the state of New Jersey began enforcing radical gender theory in its correctional system. The change occurred after the state was sued by an anonymous prisoner who was being kept in men’s prisons despite identifying as a female.

Tim Meads contributed to this report.

In yet another report underscoring the health struggles of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the lawmaker appeared flummoxed by Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over the Senate.

A source told The New York Times that last year Feinstein looked confused when Harris showed up to be a tie-breaking vote, which is one of the powers of the vice president enshrined in the Constitution, and Feinstein asked colleagues, “What is she doing here?” The upper chamber’s website shows Harris, in her role as president of the Senate, has cast 29 tie-breaking votes over a period of more than two years.

At 89, Feinstein is the Senate’s oldest member — and in recent years, some colleagues had begun to raise concerns about her mental fitness and ability to do the job she has had for decades. That scrutiny has intensified after she made a comeback to the Senate in a wheelchair this month, ending a months-long absence during which the lawmaker was receiving treatment and recovering from the shingles.

“Even though I’ve made significant progress and was able to return to Washington, I’m still experiencing some side effects from the shingles virus,” Feinstein said at the time. “My doctors have advised me to work a lighter schedule as I return to the Senate. I’m hopeful those issues will subside as I continue to recover.”

Less than two weeks ago, shortly after Feinstein apparently failed to recall that she had been absent from Capitol Hill for several weeks when a reporter asked about her return, the senator’s office confirmed that Feinstein had more health complications stemming from the shingles than previously known. The complications included Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which affects facial nerves and can lead to facial paralysis, and encephalitis, a condition in which there is inflammation of the brain, per the Mayo Clinic.

“While the encephalitis resolved itself shortly after she was released from the hospital in March, she continues to have complications from Ramsay Hunt syndrome,” a spokesperson for Feinstein said.

In another report underscoring the touchy situation with Feinstein, this one from the Los Angeles Times, staff photographer Kent Nishimura shared that Feinstein’s staff “often form a human barrier” between her and members of the media. The journalist also noted that the Capitol Police and the Senate sergeant-at-arms have taken steps to restrict press access to the senator.

Citing “safety reasons,” Feinstein spokesman Adam Russell said photographers and reporters had been asked to give the senator “space, particularly when entering and exiting her vehicle,” but he denied that Feinstein’s team had asked photographers not take photographs of Feinstein in her wheelchair.

Feinstein announced in February she would not seek re-election in 2024. Three prominent House Democrats — Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee — have announced campaigns to replace Feinstein in the Senate.

But some of Feinstein’s fellow Democrats have called on her to step down before her term is up. That includes Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), though he recently told POLITICO he will give the “situation the benefit of the doubt” and is “hopeful” that Feinstein will be able to fulfill her duties.