Posted on 02/06/2025 11:13:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A judge this week temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order, which mandated that transgender inmates who identify as women be housed in male prisons and that the government cease funding their access to hormone therapy.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington granted the temporary restraining order at the request of three anonymous transgender inmates who filed a lawsuit against Trump’s executive action.
Lamberth found the three would likely succeed in arguing the order violates the Eighth Amendment’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
Trump’s Jan. 20 order, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” requires the attorney general and the Homeland Security secretary to ensure that “males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers.”
The order states that the attorney general must ensure the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) revises its medical care policies so that federal funds aren’t spent on “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” It also states that it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes only: male and female.
“These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” the order states.
Lamberth said that the plaintiffs in the Washington case presented evidence, including various government reports and regulations, recognizing that transgender inmates are at “a significantly elevated risk of physical and sexual violence relative to other inmates” when housed in a facility corresponding to their biological sex, the judge wrote in his ruling.
The plaintiffs also claim that being in a male prison alone will exacerbate the symptoms of their gender dysphoria.
The inmates also presented evidence from a physician explaining that having no access to medications to treat gender dysphoria could cause “numerous and severe symptoms,” Lamberth wrote.
“It is, of course, possible that further briefing of the constitutional issues at the center of this dispute, or factual discovery, will eventually yield a different outcome,” Lamberth concluded.
“But the plaintiffs, through their largely undisputed factual allegations and proffered affidavits, have met their burden to show a likelihood of success on the merits.”
Lamberth declined to reach a verdict regarding the inmates’ other arguments that the order violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has defended the order by arguing that it has broad authority to make decisions regarding the placement of inmates and an interest in protecting inmates’ privacy and security.
Lamberth dismissed that claim, however, writing in his order that public interest in seeing the plaintiffs relocated immediately to male facilities is “slight at best.”
Lamberth’s order comes after a federal judge in Boston last week blocked prison officials from transferring a biologically male inmate who identifies as a woman to a men’s facility. In that case, the ruling only applied to the specific inmate who had challenged Trump’s executive order.
In contrast, Tuesday’s ruling in Washington applies to all 16 transgender inmates identifying as women currently housed in federal women’s prisons.
About 2,230 transgender inmates are housed in federal custodial facilities and halfway houses across the United States, according to the DOJ. About two-thirds of them, 1,506, are biological males who identify as females; the majority of whom are housed in men’s prisons.
The Epoch Times has contacted the DOJ and the Bureau of Prisons for comment.
Another Feral Stooge in a Black Robe sticks it to the American people.
We knew this would happen.
how many are going to drown in their sorrows and give up ALREADY?
Wow.
It will all be overcome and there is SO MUCH they can’t stop.
And Trump installed a lot of judges too including THREE SC justices.
Hang tight all.
Jail the perverted judge.
Ignore the order (Obama and Biden often did).
Once the word gets out among the Gen-pops that they are also child molesters.....there will be fewer of them.
Meanwhile....a good time will be had by all.
Expected. No surprise.
Run it up the ladder.
You know that’s not how it works so why say it? There will be a legal process and hopefully will result in the right outcome.
There are prisons for males, and there are prison for females.
Now there is a need for a prison for ‘others’.
Move the 3 to another prison outside of this pigs district. Then move them to men’s prison.
Republican, appointed by Pres. Reagan.
If they’ve had gender reassignment surgery, I don’t have a problem with them going to female prisons, but if not, they’re just looking for an easier ride, literally and figuratively.
These democrats are busy with all their lawsuits...
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Trump’s supporters/MAGA is BIG and was heard on election day now they need to be heard again thru phone messages, emails (politicians do read them), commenting in their social media posts on Facebook, Twitter (X). The MAGA numbers can be overwhelming. No matter what the issue, let your Reps know where you stand.
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“the majority of whom are housed in men’s prisons”
So what’s the problem?
So, the judge ignored the safety concerns of female inmates???
How quickly can this order be appealed???
Ridiculous.
“Cruel and unusual punishment,” by ALL contextual interpretation, used to mean having your entrails torn out and shown to you while you were still living, or prolonged and deliberately applied painful torture.
Now it means “discomfort.”
Start mandating that men get the bottom surgery before they go into a woman’s prison, this crap will stop quickly.
Then they have to be isolated in a particular cellblock where the lopad**ktomies don’t mingle with the true women
yes
they can go to a woman’s prison
but they have to leave their peepee at the gate
no weapons allowed
They aren't going to be let loose in general population. They will be in protected custody. And what about cruel and unusual punishment of the women who are being raped and molested by these "trans women"????
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