A trans-identified male sex offender was quietly transferred into a women’s prison in Minnesota, despite having been convicted of sexually abusing a girl under the age of 13 years old. Daniel Patrick Benz, 38, filed a civil rights complaint on February 27, 2023, which resulted in his transfer into Minnesota’s only women’s prison.
Benz legally changed his name to Danielle Marie Whitebird in June of 2023 after his petition was approved by the state of Minnesota. In addition to the name change, Benz also was supplied with a “replacement birth record” which declared his sex as female, despite not having undergone any surgeries, according to his own legal complaints.