A transgender rapist who started identifying as a woman after committing a sex attack has been complaining about the ‘hell’ of daily life in a male prison, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Lexi Secker sobbed after being sentenced to six and a half years behind bars last year for carrying out the sexual assault on a drunk friend.
Then called Alex, he lured her to woodland and raped her – and then claimed he was innocent and accused the victim of consenting. He continues to deny rape.
Secker was jailed last November and sent to HMP Ashfield, which houses around 400 male sex offenders.
But since then it appears that Secker has been griping about life behind bars, insisting that ‘placing genuine trans women in male prisons is not the solution’.
Secker claims to have been a victim of sexual assault, sexual harassment, transphobia, misogyny and also ‘having urine thrown over me’.
‘I have experienced misogyny and sexism… Things that have happened to me since I’ve come to prison have been worse than the crime I’m supposedly guilty of. Is this justice?’, the sex attacker wrote in a letter, adding that: ‘Injustice is an acceptable part of my sentence’.
Rapist Lexi Secker, 36, who began identifying as a woman after the attack, has been sentenced to six and a half years in a male prison and is complaining about life there
Secker, 36, a father-of-two, whose birth name was Alexander, lashed out in letters to a newspaper
Secker went on trial as a woman, but the judge and police recorded that he was male when he carried out the attack in a woodland in Blunsdon, Wiltshire two years ago.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, read out an impact statement in court where she said she had been left traumatised and feels ongoing ‘unbearable anxiety, shame and fear’.
The victim referred to her attacker in court as ‘Alex’ – not Lexi – but the prosecutor and defence lawyers addressed her as ‘Ms Secker’ during the trial.
But a police statement said that ‘at the time of the offence Secker was living as a man’ and the crime was ‘recorded as being committed by a male’.
Just like the case of Scottish trans rapist Isla Bryson, Secker’s crimes caused anger when revealed.
It later emerged that Secker is an vocal ‘anti-TERF’ activist who trolled JK Rowling for her views on gender identity, calling the author a ‘shallow, insecure pleb who mistook success for intelligence’.
A year ago Secker, 36, wept as the judge said he had ‘regard to how difficult a prison sentence in a male institution will be’.
And it appears that the convicted rapist agrees, apparently writing letters from behind bars about suffering ‘constant discrimination’ at HMP Ashfield.
Writing under the name Lexi S, Secker has been regularly sending letters to Inside Time, the newspaper for prisoners.
In a piece entitled ‘prison’s tougher if you’re trans’, published in October 2025, Secker says: ‘When I was sentenced, the judge told me that as a transgender woman in a men’s prison, I would face “additional difficulties”. I think about that a lot.
‘Here are just some of the “additional difficulties” I have faced: sexual assault, sexual harassment, transphobia, misogyny, having urine thrown over me, being threatened, being spat at, being unable to shower or use the toilets, being asked invasive and inappropriate questions, and having other prisoners expose themselves to me. Things that have happened to me since I’ve come to prison have been worse than the crime I’m supposedly guilty of. Is this justice’.
Secker took the victim to woodland ‘under the pretence of sobering up’ – and then raped her.
Secker insists that a male prison is not the right or safe place for a trans woman
Secker lured a friend to woodland and raped her when still identifying as a man in 2023
He claimed the incident was ‘consensual intercourse’ initiated by the victim – but was later convicted of rape.
Judge Jason Taylor KC said the victim was ‘significantly affected by alcohol’, adding: ‘I am sure you hatched a plan to be alone with her’.
He said: ‘You identified as a man and you were, on the evidence, clearly attracted to women.
‘You were not disinhibited at the time by your conditions. There is no evidence they were as present and compelling as they are now.’
JK Rowling had followed the case and at its conclusion wrote on X: ‘The important thing to remember is, he’s a total one off*, none of the other men arguing against women-only spaces are predators** and we won’t find out down the line there are more rapists hiding in plain sight.***
‘*He really isn’t.
‘**They totally are.
‘***We definitely will.’
Secker said Rowling was a ‘shallow, insecure pleb who mistook success for intelligence’
Rowling had followed the case and wrote about it afterwards on X
Wiltshire Police previously said Secker was living as a man when the attack took place, on April 23, 2023.
He was sent to prison for just under seven years after being convicted just before Christmas 2024, having denied rape.
Secker claims in a letter to Inside Times that the Government has refused requests to be moved away from a male jail.
‘I am genuinely concerned about the damage this experience has done to me. I don’t think I will ever be okay again’, the sex offender said.
Secker also wrote a letter to Inside Time in May, around eight months into a six-and-a-half year sentence.
It was entitled: ‘My fears, as a trans woman in prison’ – after the Supreme Court’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.
Secker wrote: ‘To be honest, I’m scared. I’ve only been in prison for a short while, but as a transgender woman I have already faced my fair share of difficulties. Now with the Supreme Court’s ruling that “sex” in the Equality Act refers to biological sex, I’m frightened for what fresh hell I may be about to uncover’.
The sex attacker said: ‘The Supreme Court claims that trans women are still protected from discrimination, but I’m already discriminated against constantly.
‘My body is, for lack of a better term, developed. So, while there are certain services and facilities that I, on paper, share with my male counterparts, in reality using them is distressing, uncomfortable, and even potentially dangerous’.
Secker claimed that ‘there are certain experiences that are unique to biological women that I can never understand’, but added: ‘I also have many we share’.
The 36-year-old said: ‘I have experienced misogyny and sexism. I have been patronised and objectified on the basis of my body and my gender.
‘Mostly what I fear is that I will continue not to belong, and that my life will be defined not by who I am, but by what happened to be between my legs when I was born. Of course, we must keep women safe. But placing genuine trans women in male prisons is not the solution’.
Readers of Inside Times have been scathing.
One wrote: ‘The fact that you are biologically a male, in a men only prison, telling anyone who will listen that you are really a woman has no bearing on your situation? How utterly absurd!
‘If you at least met your fellow prisoners halfway by admitting you were really looking for an unfair advantage they would maybe, just maybe see your point’.
Another said: ‘As the conviction was for a rape on a woman, it is a farcical joke to say we must protect women. You don’t fool me’.
But one supporter replied: ‘Your cruelty to this woman is vile. She is suffering additional punishments because of being trans, punishments which are not legislated and which would not be applied to a cis man or woman.’