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A prominent trans activist has been sentenced for the 2016 triple homicide of a California lesbian couple and their son. Dana Rivers, born David Chester Warfield, has been handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Upon the announcement of Rivers’ sentencing today, women’s rights advocate Kara Dansky took to Twitter to celebrate the news, writing “for now, justice has prevailed.”

Dansky noted reports that the mood in the courtroom had been “intense and dramatic,” and that the judge had allegedly sent Rivers to San Quentin, a men’s prison, for processing.

But under current California law, Rivers will likely find his way into a women’s correctional institution due to his legal sex being “female.”

California has one of the most liberal gender self-identification policies in the country, something that has become a point of contention for women’s rights advocates.

Male inmates do not need to identify as transgender to request transfer, and can simply identify gender non-conforming, or non-binary.

Last year, Reduxx reported that a pedophile who had molested a 4-year-old girl had been moved to the California Institution for Women despite having been denied a gender and name change, and still legally being a male.