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EXCLUSIVE: Serial Rapist Begins Claiming to be Transgender in Prison, Seeks Transfer to Female Facility and Transsexual Surgeries at Taxpayer Expense 25%
By Genevieve Gluck33%
7/30/2026, 7:42:49 AM
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A serial rapist serving a 167-year sentence for seven sexual assaults on women has begun claiming to be transgender while behind bars.
Aaron Michael Pernell, who now refers to himself as “Arya Milan” Pernell, has initiated a civil rights complaint demanding transsexual surgeries in a bid to obtain “a fully sexually functional female anatomy” before an eventual transfer to a women’s prison.
On December 13, 2009, Pernell, then a Specialist with the 82nd Airborne Division, broke into the home of Maria Durden, a military spouse residing on base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Pernell, who was intoxicated at the time, then raped Durden in front of her child.
After being detained in January 2010, Pernell told investigators that “Jason”, a voice inside his head, instructed him to attack women.
During questioning by Army CID agents, Pernell blamed his internal voice, saying : “I myself would not commit these crimes.
The voice in my head makes me do bad things.”
He consented to provide a DNA sample to law enforcement, which matched the biological evidence recovered from the crime scene.
That December, Pernell pleaded guilty during a general court-martial at Fort Bragg to rape and burglary.
Following his conviction, Pernell was sentenced to 50 years in prison, reduced in rank, and dishonorably discharged from the U.S.
Army.
However, after he was initially sentenced, DNA evidence connected him to a series of unsolved home break-ins and sexual assaults against women in the surrounding communities of Fayetteville and Hoke County, North Carolina, dating back to 2008.
Prior to the Fort Bragg assault, Pernell had been arrested by Fayetteville police in September, 2009, for burglarizing a home and assaulting its occupants with a pellet gun.
Following this incident, Pernell went on a sexual assault spree, and was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting three women in Cumberland County, and another three women in Hoke County.
During court proceedings, family members said that Pernell had returned from a 15-month deployment to Iraq in 2006 as a troubled man.
According to court records, Pernell legally changed his name to Arya Milan in 2020, and notified the Federal Bureau of Prisons in January 2021 while demanding that the judgement and commitment file in his case be updated to reflect his new identity.
Pernell also told the FBOP that he had been diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” in 2019 after having attempted self-castration.
Now, Pernell is demanding several taxpayer-funded surgeries that would ultimately allow him to secure a transfer to the female prison estate.
“ARYA has identified as transgender since 2016.
ARYA declared herself as transgender to FBOP staff in 2016 during her first year confined in the FBOP,” Pernell wrote in a legal complaint filed in February 2023.
“In September 2016 she was diagnosed by a psychologist as being male to female transgender.
In April of 2019 ARYA was diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
In August of 2019, ARYA began her medical transition by undergoing female hormone therapy.”
Pernell goes on to state that he has been provided with makeup and “female undergarments” and “lives as a female.”
Included in his submission are recent photographs of him in prison as evidence for his claim of being “female.”
Convicted serial rapist Pernell claims to have experienced “unwanted sexual attention” from other male inmates as a result of his appearance.
He also says he was “the victim of three separate Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) incidents” while he was incarcerated at FCI Fairton, in New Jersey.
After he was transferred to USP Marion in October 2021, Pernell says he was sexually harassed while he was attending the Sex Offender Treatment Program.
“After Transgender Executive Council (TEC) meetings on March 8, 2021 and April 14, 2021, an initial recommendation was made by the TEC finding ARYA appropriate for transfer to a low-security male facility in preparation for GCS [gender confirmation surgery] and eventual transfer to a female facility.
The TEC has provided that these transfers were part of the TEC’s requirements for GCS to be provided.
ARYA has consistently requested GCS before transfer to a female facility,” Pernell's complaint reads.
The serial rapist is demanding that the TEC “immediately arrange to have ARYA obtain gender confirmation surgeries to include: vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty, vulvaplsty, labiaplasty and any other surgeries that provide ARYA with a fully sexually functional female sex anatomy… ‘Fully sexually functional’ defined by appearance, realism and sensation… ARYA does request GCS procedures to be completed prior to movement to a female facility where post-operative care would be available.”
The lawsuit accuses the TEC of “deliberate indifference to a serious medical need” and “failure to protect from sexual abuse”.
He also accuses the TEC of discrimination, citing protocols established by lobby group the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization known to have collaborated with anonymous members of a pedophilic forum when creating their most recent guidelines.
There have been several cases, documented by Reduxx, of male inmates serving life sentences who have requested transsexual surgeries and a transfer to a women’s prison.
In some instances, dangerous convicts have also been released early, or not sent to prison at all, based on their self-declared “transgender” status.
In one recent example, a trans-identified male convicted of the grisly murder of an infant was released on parole a full 30 years early.
Jonathan Richardson, who now uses the name Autumn Cordellioné, was convicted in 2002 after his 11-month-old stepdaughter died in his care while her mother was at work.
Having served less than half of his 55-year sentence, Richardson was quietly released in late December of 2025.
Without an official statement from the DOC, it is unclear why Richardson was released early.
However, the decision may have been linked to an injunction granted in state court that required the IDOC to provide Richardson with taxpayer-funded cosmetic surgeries.
Releasing Richardson early may have been the IDOC’s strategy to avoid paying for the court-ordered cosmetic enhancements.
As previously reported by Reduxx, in 2023, the ACLU of Indiana filed a legal complaint on behalf of Richardson claiming that the IDOC was subjecting him to “cruel and unusual punishment” by denying him the various plastic surgeries he had demanded.
In the suit, ACLU lawyers referred to Richardson as an “adult transgender female prisoner confined in a male institution,” and complains that “the total ban on gender-affirming surgery violates [his] right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.”
Among a list of demands prepared by Richardson and presented as evidence in court was a document titled “Surgeries to Reach My Ideal Self.”
The first item on the list, the court heard, was a “vagina,” followed by: breast implants, a brow lift, a brow reduction, a tummy tuck, gluteal implants (BBL), a uterus transplant, hair removal, and wigs.
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