Donald Trump orders the transfer of transgender prisoners to prisons for men

As one of the first measures that President Trump took in his return to the White House, there is the order to federal prisons of host transgender women in prisons for men, In addition to stopping medical treatments related to gender transition in the United States. On the day of his possession as president of the country, he said that during his government only the sex assigned at birth will be recognized.

The Executive Order, entitled Defending women from the extremism of gender ideology and restoring biological truth to the federal government He says that “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, security and well -being.” The order to transfer transgender women to male prisons It also applies to immigration facilities.

There are about 1,500 transgender women in federal prisons in the North American country, they constitute 15 % of jailed women. The Research Center of the University of California, Williams Institute, has indicated that transgender people represent 1% of adults in the United States, but who face disproportionate effects of the criminal justice system, for discrimination, family and society rejection, as well as economic difficulties.

The executive order also prohibits the use of federal funds to perform medical treatments that are related to sex reallocation, whether hormonal treatments or surgical procedures. Which could be risky for the lives of people who have a hormonal process and cannot interrupt it spontaneously.

“This is also detrimental to prison officials, who now lose the ability to make decisions based on the security and specific needs of each case,” said Miner. Other legal experts have affirmed that the decision could face judicial challenges, Because United States prison systems are obliged to protect prisoners in vulnerable situations.

Groups for the defense of LGBTIQ+ rights prepare demands against the new order, while appealing the Farmer V. Brennan case, where the Supreme Court of the United States had recognized the vulnerability of transgender people in 1994.