An imprisoned member of the violent gang MS-13 is suing the federal government, claiming he is being discriminated against because officials have refused to recognize him as a woman.
Oscar Contreras Aguilar, serving a 21-year sentence for kidnapping and murdering a 14-year-old, filed the lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the Bureau of Prisons. According to a report by Reduxx, Contreras Aguilar was known within MS-13 under the alias “Atrevido” and was arrested in 2017 in connection with the 2016 murders of a 17-year-old and a 14-year-old.
In his complaints, Contreras Aguilar alleged that “transgender women prisoners in men’s prisons” are subjected to “harsher, more degrading treatment than their cisgender counterparts.”
Contreras Aguilar did not begin identifying as a female until 2024, after filing multiple complaints alleging that members of MS-13 and other gangs had attempted to kill him in prison. The convicted murderer filed a civil complaint in 2022 against US Attorney General Merrick Garland, which states he had been working as an FBI informant in 2016 and 2017, and that his 21-year sentence was the result of a plea agreement.
“While in the community, [Contreras Aguilar] was working with the Suffolk County Police Department and the Long Island Gang Task Force of the FBI in New York as an informant,” the complaint read.
Just months after his complaint was dismissed, he began identifying as a transgender woman, stating in his most recent filing that he had started taking feminizing hormones and referring to himself as “Fendi G. Skyy.”
Contreras Aguilar’s lawsuit against the President is seeking a temporary restraining order to prohibit the Bureau of Prisons from employing male prison guards to strip search him. It also seeks to prevent an executive order from being implemented that would ban male convicts from being transferred to women’s prisons.
Additionally, Contreras Aguilar is requesting “female cosmetic items, such as lip gloss, make up, lipstick, hair dye, bras, [and] panties,” and continued access to feminizing hormones. He argued that being denied such things puts him “at increased risk of serious harm or death by suicide.”
