Vicious Transgender Child Rapist / Murderer Demands Sex Change, Freedom: Synthia China Blast

Utica, New York, US – Latin Kings gang member Synthia China Blast (born Luis Morales) held captive, repeatedly raped and brutally tortured Ebony Nicole Williams, a 13-year-old girl from Harlem, according to prosecutors.

Discovering that little Ebony was still alive after Blast had stabbed her repeatedly, fellow gang member Carlos Franco broke the child’s neck. The two men were so brutal that their acts of torture nearly decapitated the girl.

While he was dressed in a skirt, 22-year-old Blast carried and disposed of his young victim’s mutilated body in a Bronx underpass, and set her body on fire.

Blast and Franco bragged about the crime to friends. According to acquaintances, the two Latino men were openly anti-black, and had targeted the child for sexual torture and murder not only because of her sex, but her skin color, as well.

Amused, Blast and co-defendant Franco laughed, smirked and grinned in court throughout the trial, upsetting the victim’s mother.

“The suffering that this poor child went through is beyond belief and puts this crime in the category of monstrous and barbarous,” Bronx Prosecutor William Hrabsky declared.

The two men were convicted of the 1993 crime, and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Blast Demands Feminizing Hormones & Surgery

In 1999, Blast was granted for his gender transition a prescription for low-level hormones. Dissatisfied, Blast sued the New York Department of Corrections for stronger hormones and gender-affirming surgery. Out of frustration with how long his petition for hormones was pending, Blast attempted to castrate his own genitalia in 2003.

The DOC [Department of Corrections] needs to finish what it started. … Pump somebody with hormones for five years and then you deny me a sex change? If that’s not ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ then I don’t know what is.

—Synthia China Blast,
New Yorker

Blast Brags of Sexual Exploits with Killers

Blast had sex with the most notorious murderers and rapists in the New York prison system, and took great pride in this accomplishment:

It seems that my only attractions are to society’s sickest and most twisted lowlifes. I’m actually hoping to be incarcerated with the Son of Sam so I can sleep with him while awaiting my sex-change outcome in the courts.

—Synthia China Blast,
New Yorker

Blast ultimately entered an exclusive relationship with fellow inmate Eddie Seda, a convicted serial killer who had the goal of murdering one woman for each sign of the Zodiac as homage to his hero, the Zodiac Killer of California. Blast often describes how he lovingly took the 35-year-old serial killer’s virginity.

I met my friend, lover and infamous husband…the NYC Zodiac Serial Killer. My sweet serial killer is a lady’s man now. Only if I was [sic] a real woman I could bring about little future serial killers to terrorize NYC like my husband did. How [New Yorkers] would of [sic] loathed the Zodiac Children.

—Synthia China Blast,
New York Daily News

Trans Rights Activists Fight to Free Blast

Blast has written letters to newspapers over the years, complaining that prison is unpleasant, and describing himself as a “political prisoner.”

In 2014, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a legal aid society serving “transgender and non-binary” people, took up Blast’s cause. The organization brought onboard Laverne Cox, a male web television star who identifies as a trans woman, with the aim of drawing public attention to Blast’s interests.

Many third-wave feminist and liberal publications, including Jezebel, Huffington Post and Buzzfeed, have jumped on the bandwagon and continue to support and provide a platform to the effort to free the rapist, torturer and killer of a vulnerable adolescent girl.

Public backlash and a petition for Cox to be fired from his role on the web drama Orange is the New Black compelled Cox to publicly retract his support for Blast. “I believe that Laverne’s decision was not only hypocritical, but it was self-serving,” Blast moaned in a Jezebel interview.

Blast remains in prison. He refuses to admit to rape, torture and murder, claiming that he only assisted his gang brothers after the fact by disposing of the body and cleaning up the crime scene.

Instead, Blast holds jurors solely responsible for his incarceration. “I was a kid when I came to prison,” he told Jezebel. “I stand convicted because 12 jurors wanted to convict me.”