Two courts issued temporary restraining orders preventing the transfer of male prisoners who identify as transgender women to male prisons. More will follow.
Part of President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) number 14168, entitled DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT includes explicit directions to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to ensure that “males are not detained in women’s prisons.” It also requires the BOP to revise its medical care policies so that federal funds aren’t spent “for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” Section 4(a) Transfer Provision and 4(c) Medication Provision.
This order comes in response to the growing trend of housing male prisoners in women’s prisons, regardless of their anatomy or risk level, simply because they claim to believe they are “women.” Incarcerated women across the country have already felt the cruel and devastating effects of these policies, including rape, being put at risk for pregnancy, harassment, silencing, and other violations of their Constitutional rights.
As directed, the BOP initiated the process of returning men to men’s prisons. Before the transfers were completed, the BOP held the men in segregated housing units (SHU) and two complaints were filed in which the prisoners argued, among other issues, that the EO is unconstitutional because it violates the provision against cruel or unusual punishment.
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