LEADERSHIP NEWS
United States President Donald Trump has ordered federal prisons to transfer inmates who are transgender women to men’s facilities and stop medical treatments related to gender transition.
LEADERSHIP recalls that the move was part of a wide-ranging executive order issued by Trump on his first day in office meant to limit government recognition of an individual’s gender to their sex at birth.
The directive on prisoners also applies to immigration detainees and is among the more concrete parts of the order.
Trump set some restrictions on housing and health care for transgender prisoners in his previous term, but the new order was more far-reaching.
The Women’s Liberation Front, which defines women based on sex at birth and advocates single-sex prisons, called the directive “a major victory…
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