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Trump orders the rehousing of transgender women in US prisons to male facilities, ends gender-related medical treatments for inmates

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fbe8e0e58a9f311e7e3c20e1397e66ed" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Trump has barred housing transgender women in US prisons for female inmates<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-36e2031241bdb8d6da3adde8fcb30abb" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Directs the transfer of female trans inmates to all male facilities <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4498b1f324901b69389ac13b04d07457" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Executive order also ends federal funded gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-65b5f25dd6e14d0539503540c5493371" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Trump&&num;8217&semi;s executive order is meant to limit government recognition of an individual’s gender to their sex at birth&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-52ff8d336ec6768f9002d0aea3e69f65" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Order reverses Obama era guideline that inmates be housed according to their chosen gender identify <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;US-Federal-Bureau-Of-Prisons-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-474203"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"> <strong>Trump ordered federal prisons to house female trans inmates in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition&period; There are about 1&comma;500 federal prisoners who are transgender women&comma; according to the Bureau of Prisons<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As the slew of undocumented immigrants grappled with an internal memo by the Trump administration giving ICE officials the power to quickly deport migrants who were allowed under Biden-era programs&comma; according to In an executive order&comma; the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison&period; <br>President Trump ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition&period;<br>The move was part of a wide-ranging <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;whitehouse&period;gov&sol;presidential-actions&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">executive order<&sol;a> issued by Mr&period; Trump on his first day in office meant to limit government recognition of an individual’s gender to their sex at birth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Donald-Trump-24&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-474218" style&equals;"width&colon;839px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Wide-ranging executive order issued by President Trump on his first day in office is meant to restrict govt&period; recognition of an individual’s gender to their sex at birth<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a wide spread order lauded by the Women’s Liberation Front&comma; &lbrack;WLF&rsqb;&comma; which defines women based on sex at birth and advocates single-sex prisons&comma; called the directive &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a major victory&comma;” the directive on prisoners also applies to immigration detainees setting far reaching restrictions on extant housing and health care for transgender prisoners&period;<br>WLF is challenging a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cdcr&period;ca&period;gov&sol;prea&sol;sb-132-faqs&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">California law<&sol;a> that allows prisoners to request housing that aligns with their gender identity on the basis that the law violates the constitutional rights of female inmates who are not transgender&comma; including the Eighth Amendment right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment&period;<br>Echoing the argument Trump castigates &&num;8216&semi;efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity&comma; safety and well-being&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Transgender-inmates-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-474228"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Trans inmates who identify as women would have to relive the fears of assault and harassment after they are rehoused in all male facilities&comma; as required by the new executive order<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Aliceville-Womens-Federal-Prison-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-474232"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Facilities like the Federal Correctional Institute for Women in Aliceville&comma; Alabama&comma; will have to transfer trans inmates to all male federal penitentiaries<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Advocates for transgender rights criticized the order&comma; saying it would put them in danger &colon; &&num;8216&semi;There will be rapes and physical assaults because of this policy&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Shannon Minter&comma; legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights&comma; which has represented transgender prisoners&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s also terrible for prison officials&comma; who right now have the authority to use discretion about what makes the most sense for the safety and security of the facility&period;”<br>On that side of the argument&comma; federal courts in past rulings have maintained that prison systems are required to protect vulnerable prisoners&comma; including the right to access requisite medical care such as hormone therapies to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nytimes&period;com&sol;2020&sol;05&sol;21&sol;us&sol;supreme-court-surgery-transgender-inmate&period;html">prisoners diagnosed with gender dysphoria<&sol;a>&comma; the distress associated with a mismatch between one’s body and gender identity&period;<br>In one notable 2022 ruling&comma; a federal district judge in Illinois <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;aclu-il&period;org&sol;en&sol;press-releases&sol;landmark-settlement-federal-bureau-prisons-agrees-provide-first-ever-gender-affirming" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">ordered <&sol;a>the US Bureau Of Prisons to provide gender-transition surgery for a transgender inmate after finding that denying the procedure was most likely a violation of the Eighth Amendment&comma; which also guarantees the right to necessary medical care&period;<br>Trump’s executive order&comma; titled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government&comma;” appears to require the rehousing only of transgender women&comma; not transgender men&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Donald-Trump-23&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-474216" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Donald Trump’s executive order&comma; titled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government&comma;” appears to require the rehousing of transgender women only&comma; not transgender men<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>While Transgender people make up less than 1 percent of adults in the United States&comma; according to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bop&period;gov&sol;about&sol;statistics&sol;statistics&lowbar;inmate&lowbar;gender&period;jsp" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Bureau of Prisons<&sol;a>&comma; 1&comma;500 federal prisoners are transgender women&comma; representing 15 percent of women in prison&comma; while there are 750 transgender men out of about 144&comma;000 male prisoners&period;<br>The Supreme Court acknowledged the vulnerability of transgender inmates decades ago in the 1994 when a transgender woman&comma; Dee Farmer&comma; said she had been raped while housed with men&comma; the court held that the government has a duty to protect prisoners from violence&period;<br>At the end of the Obama administration&comma; the Bureau of Prisons released <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bop&period;gov&sol;policy&sol;progstat&sol;5200&period;04&period;pdf" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">new guidelines<&sol;a> requiring that transgender prisoners be housed according to their gender identity &&num;8211&semi; in most cases&period; The new executive order calls for those regulations to be amended &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;as necessary&period;”<br>In President Trump’s first term&comma; it was revised to institute inmate housing according to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;biological sex&comma;” except in rare cases&period; However&comma; the Biden administration restored the Obama guidelines&period; <br>The new executive order requires all gender-transition medical care to cease&comma; as it states that federal funds should not be spent &&num;8216&semi;for any medical procedure&comma; treatment&comma; or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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