Trans women ‘moved to men’s jail’ despite judge’s ruling against Trump’s order

Incarcerated transgender women have been moved to men’s jails despite a judge ruling to block a day-one order by Donald Trump, civil rights lawyers claim.

The move by Trump, according to a White House statement, is to “ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers.”

A new report in The Guardian includes comments from Whitney, a 31-year-old trans woman who was transferred from a women’s facility to a men’s prison this week. “I’m just continuing to be punished for existing,” she said, adding that she felt like a “pawn in others’ political games.”

Trump doubled-down on his gender ideology stance during his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, during which he said: “I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.”

The order declares that the country will only recognize two genders.

It also bans trans athletes from participating in school sports, highlighting the story of a young female volleyball player who allegedly suffered injuries from a trans athlete during a game.

“There are only two genders: male and female,” Trump said as Republicans cheered.

Trump’s executive order, which requires trans prisoners to be housed with their biological gender and prevent funding for gender-affirming treatment for incarcerated people, was swiftly challenged in court.

There have been at least three lawsuits filed on behalf of trans women in women’s prisons.

Judges have ruled in their favor that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons cannot stop prisoners from getting medical treatment and barred the agency from moving them to a men’s center.

A judge said that the plaintiffs had “straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow.”

Detention centers are required by law under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (Prea) to factor in the likelihood of sexual assault based on gender and sexuality when making housing assignments as the LGBTQ+ community is frequently subject to attacks.

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