Posted on 03/20/2025 6:50:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Wednesday to transfer two transgender inmates—biological men who identify as women—back to federal women’s prisons.
This move comes after they were originally relocated to men’s facilities following President Donald Trump’s executive order that limited transgender protections in federal custody.
The decision, which conservatives are blasting as a blatant reversal of common-sense protections for female inmates, grants a preliminary injunction for the two individuals—identified as “Rachel” and “Ellen Doe,” ABC News reported.
Lamberth’s ruling mandates not only the immediate transfer of the two individuals but also compels the Bureau of Prisons to continue providing them with hormone therapy treatments for gender dysphoria.
The ruling follows complaints from the plaintiffs that they felt unsafe in male prisons, alleging threats of sexual assault and inappropriate searches by male officers.
“The fact that they have already been transferred and, allegedly, have been abused at their new facilities can only strengthen their claims of irreparable harm,” Lamberth wrote in his decision.
Under Trump’s policies, biological sex—not gender identity—determined where inmates were placed, helping to prevent cases where violent offenders or opportunistic criminals claimed transgender status to gain access to female-only spaces.
But with Lamberth’s order, those protections are being eroded, and the floodgates are opening once again for a dangerous precedent. The decision impacts at least 15 inmates who are currently covered under similar lawsuits.
Meanwhile, three other prisoners—one transgender woman housed in a men’s prison and two transgender men in women’s prisons—are also challenging Trump’s order, hoping to fully dismantle the remaining safeguards against gender-based prison transfers, according to ABC News.
There are reports of transgender women or individuals posing as transgender women raping female inmates in US prisons.
One significant case occurred at Logan Correctional Center in central Illinois on June 18, 2019, where a female inmate, referred to as Jane Doe, alleged she was raped by Janiah Monroe, a transgender inmate with male genitalia.
Doe claimed prison officials conducted a “sham investigation,” classifying the assault as consensual to avoid violating the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), and she faced punishment for reporting it.
In 2022, another case at Rikers Island involved a lawsuit claiming a man posing as a transgender woman raped a female prisoner, with allegations that jail staff ignored warnings about the individual’s true gender identity.
Tremaine Carroll, a transgender inmate, was charged with raping multiple female inmates in 2024. Carroll had been transferred to the women’s facility under California’s Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which allows inmates to be housed based on their gender identity. Following the allegations, Carroll was moved back to a men’s prison.
So why do we vote for Pres if UNELECTED judges run the country.
Looks like Judge Lamberth wanted the prize for the most insane ruling.
I don’t know who has the worst mental illness, the prisoners or the judge.
Just shut down the DC district and circuit.
Insanity rules among the robed tyrants.
We should NOT be forced to participate in the hallucinations of these clowns, the dysphoric inmates in our prison system.
If ya got an outie, yer a guy.
If ya got an innie, yer a gal.
Stop the silliness.
Is there anyone out there who doesn’t understand what is happening? We are close to allowing the judiciary to set limitations to its own power.
...because that's exactly like sending someone with Gender Dysphoria to a prison reserved for members of a sex they claim to be but aren't.
Put ‘em in solitary.
Transgenders in Federal Prison: 15.3% of Prisoners in Women’s Prison are Men, 0.5% of Prisoners in Men’s Prison are Women
Lamberth is a Reagan appointee.
This is silly. The entire notion of “trans women” is ludicrous and beneath any educated thinking. Hizzoner is obviously a deranged letter person who sympathizes with other deranged letter people. The only other option being he has such advanced TDS as to automatically go against anything Trump says or does.
That’s one explanation.
I believe the judge is doing it to be celebrated as the judge that poked Trump ‘s agenda in the eye
Gee, it would be a shame if someone tainted the medication used to provide such treatments. ;-)
Which just means , he’s old and senile. Time for him to retire
I think this is where this garbage started and grew legs:
“Joe Biden, asked Thursday evening during a town hall on ABC News by the mother of a transgender child how he’d reverse anti-LGBTQ policy during the Trump administration, was direct about in his plan: “I will flat out change the law.””
We are facing a coordinated assault on the Executive branch. Congress should exercise its authority to defund these courts, rather than squandering time on baseless impeachments.
Congress should exercise its authority to defund these courts, rather than squandering time on baseless impeachments....
Where are Speaker Johnson and Judicial Committee Chair Jim Jordan???
Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution grants Congress the power to establish “inferior courts” and I would think Congress has the power to end those courts.
Probably with just a majority vote,
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