The Trump administration moved quickly to dismantle protections for trans, nonbinary, and intersex people through one of the first of a flurry of Executive Orders issued right after the inauguration. While these attacks on transgender communities aren't shocking to anyone who know Project 2025 1/ - ThreadSky

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The Trump administration moved quickly to dismantle protections for trans, nonbinary, and intersex people through one of the first of a flurry of Executive Orders issued right after the inauguration. While these attacks on transgender communities aren't shocking to anyone who know Project 2025 1/

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carmen.advancementproject.org•33 days ago

they signal the start of an attempt to erase an entire community. This particularly abhorrent EO ordered the Bureau of Prisons to house people based on their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity. 2/

carmen.advancementproject.org•33 days ago

For the approximately 2000 currently incarcerated trans folk in federal facilities, this felt like another blow to their safety. This EO places transgender and gender non-confirming communities in direct harm, criminalizes gender expression, 3/

carmen.advancementproject.org•33 days ago

and disregards the dignity and rights of transgender individuals.

Immediately after the EO announcement, a transgender woman incarcerated in a federal prison sued this administration and late last week a Mass. judge temporarily blocked prison officials from transferring her to a male prison. 4/

carmen.advancementproject.org•33 days ago

And just last week, another lawsuit was filed with more to come.

But these are short term strategies. Reports are unfolding of trans women being removed from the general population and slated to be moved to men’s facilities. 5/

carmen.advancementproject.org•33 days ago

Trans men are being placed in solitary confinement while prison officials struggle to interpret the EO’s reductive, baseless, and narrow definition of sex. 6/

carmen.advancementproject.org•33 days ago

Incarcerated trans people, particularly Black trans women, are at a higher risk of physical and sexual abuse than other populations. According to the Marshall Project, 37% of incarcerated trans people report being sexually assaulted in prison, compared to 3% of the general prison population. 7/

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