USA | Transgender woman sues Trump over transfer to men's prison
USA | Transgender woman sues Trump over transfer to men's prison
A transgender woman inmate serving her sentence in a women's federal prison sued the Trump administration on Sunday, arguing that Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's recent executive order narrowly defining sex violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, is "motivated by di...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/30921075
A transgender woman inmate serving her sentence in a women's federal prison sued the Trump administration on Sunday, arguing that Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's recent executive order narrowly defining sex violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, is "motivated by discriminatory animus" toward trans people, and forces "dangerous transfers to men's facilities."
Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.280082/gov.uscourts.mad.280082.1.0.pdf
And it's not like it's easy for a trans woman to get into a woman's prison anyway. The vast majority of trans women were already held in male prisons. This order affects mostly people who have all their legal documents changed, have been on hormones for years, and have had surgery. You're talking about people that if you met them on the street, you would assume they were cis women. Hell, you would suspect they were cis women if you saw them on a nude beach. Before this executive order, you pretty much had to be that far in transition before you would be allowed to serve your time in a women's prison.
Also, hormones for trans people aren't just about psychological well being. If you're post-bottom surgery, your body doesn't produce sex hormones anymore. A post-op trans women needs to take estrogen, not just for her own psychological well being, but for basic metabolic functioning. Being without sex hormones causes all sorts of medical problems, such as rapid early onset osteoporosis.
The BOP is telling trans women, "because of my religion, we're going to melt your bones."
your body doesn’t produce sex hormones anymore.
The fact that I've had to have this conversation with doctors...
No I'm not trying to "DIY Hormones" or trick you, I'll literally die without more estradial
In a men's prison, Maria Moe will also be at high risk of worsening gender dysphoria, which can lead to serious physical and mental health conditions including severe depression and suicidality
It takes a true fucking savage to know this and concluding "that's not my problem, let them commit suicide"
On the bright side, they're as stupid as they are evil and egotistical. If Trump had just back channeled this and let wardens do this on a case by case basis the prison litigation "reform" act Clinton signed into law would've pretty much guaranteed it would be numerous years and countless opportunities for staff retaliation before any of these people could get a claim into Federal court, but by involving himself he probably just blew up that whole scheme.
Thanks for that perspective. Small wins, I suppose.
Michael Knowles let the plan slip a while ago: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-extremists-at-cpac-laid-bare-hatred-at-root-of-vile-legislation-targeting-trans-people
The only correct response is to make a trans only prison. /s
What in concentration’
Not that I think it's the best solution, since the best solution would be to accept trans women as women and trans men as men, but they would probably get a hell of a lot less mistreatment.
Why do we even have men's prisons if we're all legally female now?