Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to menā€™s facilities under Donald Trumpā€™s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the presidentā€™s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars.

Trumpā€™s day-one ā€œgender ideologyā€ order, one of several sweeping attacks on trans rights, said the attorney general ā€œshall ensure that males are not detained in womenā€™s prisons or housed in womenā€™s 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 womenā€™s prisons, federal judges have ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) cannot withhold their medical treatment and was barred from moving them to menā€™s facilities. One judge said the plaintiffs had ā€œstraightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will followā€.

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    2 days ago

    The US have more people incarcerated than China and the US has one of if not the largest recidivism rates in the world.

    I mean in American prisons, they place poor prisoners in four point restrains and urinate on them. I bet it is going to happen more frequently to the unfortunate trans women.