Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to menās facilities under Donald Trumpās executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the presidentās policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars.
Trumpās day-one āgender ideologyā order, one of several sweeping attacks on trans rights, said the attorney general āshall ensure that males are not detained in womenās prisons or housed in womenās detention centersā and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody.
The executive order was quickly challenged in court. In three lawsuits filed on behalf of trans women housed in womenās prisons, federal judges have ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) cannot withhold their medical treatment and was barred from moving them to menās facilities. One judge said the plaintiffs had āstraightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will followā.
This is the most devastating thing that could have happened to those women. Courts are gone. This will end when someone steps up and puts Trump and his stooges down like the rabid dogs they are.