NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Transgender alleged cyberstalker McKenzie McClure was ordered by a federal district court judge on Monday to be temporarily released to a residential mental health facility rather than stay in federal custody.
McClure’s representation proposed the plan to temporarily release her in a Monday hearing in a Nashville courtroom. The prosecution agreed with the plan after negotiating several conditions for McClure’s release and initially preferring that she remain in federal custody. McClure’s charges were not discussed in the hearing.
The judge ordered McClure to be transported to the facility the same day.
During the hearing, the defense, the prosecution, and the judge all referred to McClure using “he/him” pronouns and addressed her as “Mr. McClure.”
McClure, a woman who identifies as a man and also goes by “Kalvin,” was arrested by federal agents on April 29 and charged with cyberstalking after leaving a disconcerting voicemail to Christ Presbyterian Academy (CPA) in Nashville, a private Christian school McClure attended from 1999 to 2004. The voicemail caused CPA to close the next day.
Additionally, McClure publicly threatened Governor Bill Lee reportedly the same day he visited CPA. She also claimed Tennessee First Lady Maria Lee was McClure’s fourth-grade teacher.
The facility McClure is ordered to be released to, Pasadena Villa in Sevierville, Tennessee, appears to promote radical gender ideology and social justice, as evidenced by a “pride progress” flag displayed on its website.
“I’m impressed by the Pasadena Villa program,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Alistair Newbern said in the hearing. “I think it looks like one of the best possible residential programs that could be available that’s much more intensive than what is generally available to defendants in this court.”
Newbern’s order also contained several conditions for McClure’s release to the facility, including that facility personnel must confirm McClure’s presence at the facility every 15 minutes and that she must not leave without the court’s approval. However, Pasadena Villa Admissions Coordinator Sabina Shakoor testified during the hearing that the facility’s personnel do not force patients to stay on its grounds.
Pasadena Villa is required to notify law enforcement in the event that McClure leaves the facility without the court’s permission. While there, she will not have any internet access or be allowed to contact anyone associated with CPA or its affiliated church Christ Presbyterian Church.
Neither the facility nor the judge established a time period for McClure’s release, though Shakoor said that patients on average stay from 30 to 45 days.
Before her ordered release, McClure was in federal custody in solitary confinement, though the Middle District of Tennessee U.S. Attorney’s Office would not reveal to The Tennessee Star whether McClure was detained in a male or female prison.
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Matthew Giffin is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Matthew on X/Twitter.
Photo “McKenzie McClure” by McKenzie McClure and “Federal Courthouse, Nashville” by Matthew Giffin.
this is what happens when mental illness is celebrated in a society
So long as we continue to participate in the delusions of these type of mental defectives none of us will be safe. They need serious psychological treatment. Sending her to a facility that reaffirms her psychotic behavior and admittedly is unwilling to comply with the judges order for release further encourages the type of behavior she has already engaged in that landed her in federal custody. Stop letting idiots like those running Pasadena Villa put the rest of us at risk.
Give someone with mental problems some freedom and what do you think is going to happen?
Pasadena is liable for what happens when she hurts someone.
15 minute checks? sure
Don’t use the internet? Ya, sure.
Don’t leave the facility when staff lets you leave, Um, okay, I’ll buy that.
Soon we will be reading about the next chapter.