Cross-Dressing Woman To Be Jailed For Having Sex With 15-Year-Old Girl

A judge ordered a woman who disguises herself as a man to serve 27 months in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Franklin County Superior Court Judge Dennis Yule said Tuesday the case had more to do with Christy Wheatley’s “predatory nature” than her sexual identity issues.

“That is something you have at this point been unwilling or unable to focus upon,” Yule told the defendant.

Wheatley’s defense attorney, Rem Ryals, argued for the low end of the standard sentencing range - 21 months - and said his client would be best served by a sex change.

Wheatley, 20, has described herself as a man trapped in a woman’s body and uses the name Christopher Bryan Wheatley. She also takes male hormones and has grown a beard.

She pleaded guilty in March to third-degree rape of a child. Prosecutors said Wheatley fooled a 15-year-old girl into thinking she was a man.

The victim told Pasco police she didn’t realize Wheatley was using a sexual device until they’d had sex twice.

Yule advised Wheatley to take advantage of any sex-offender treatment programs that might be available in prison. The judge said she would be sent to a women’s institution.

Wheatley also faces a third-degree child molestation charge in Benton County involving another 15-year-old girl. She has pleaded innocent to that charge.