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The bureau of jails is moving forward with a plan to take transgender prisoners out of jails that align with their gender identity and are in features to suit their sex at birth. According to federal prisoners, this step may be in the beginning of next week and is a source familiar with this policy, which spoke with the NPR on the condition of anonymity for fear of vengeance.
This would mean that transgender women are currently placed in women’s facilities, will be taken to men’s facilities, and vice versa. It is expected that the tricks will affect the trans prisoners, even if they have received any kind of gender infection surgery.
This is a step that has been estimated by many people with serious concern Trans and legal communities signed an executive order since President Trump Pushed the bop to make such a trick.
This step is already being challenged
trial A dozen transgender female prisoners filed late Friday night, trying to block the BoP from transferring the transfers of the Federal Jail System.
“If transferred, these people, some of whom are after surgery, will be at an incredibly high risk of the attack,” Kara Jansen said, the lawyer who represents the lawyer.
Trump’s Executive Order – stated that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, men and women – “provides no space for personal fixation or discretion, does nothing for further safety and safety. , And these continue to move people and continue to harm them directly with the hatred and cruelty to the population, “he said to the NPR in an email.
The BOP has not answered questions from NPR. The agency has not publicly informed about its new policy available, nor has it announced publicly planned tricks.
The plaintiff, using pseudo -names with their places named in the trial, are currently placed in the features of women, but slated to be transferred.
The trial said that after weeks, it was warned that they would be moved adjacent to, women were told on Thursday that they were officially to be transferred to a male jail, where their hormones were to be transferred to a male jail. Treatment will be cut. On Friday, women were removed from the general population of their jail into a separate residence.
Women are afraid of sexual harassment and other abuses that if they were to be transferred, the lawsuit calls, because some women were beaten up when the first men were kept in the features.
For years, the BOP implemented an individual assessment to determine the suitable habitat for each transgender prisoner, taking into account the compliance with the Federal Jail Rape Eradication Act (Prea) with the safety and safety of a person.
This process was until Trump’s executive order was signed on 20 January. As it belongs to trans prisoners, the order was successfully challenged in the court in two cases, where the prisoners filed a lawsuit to block the new rules. In one of those cases, for example, on 4 February, a federal judge temporarily shifted three transgender female plaintiffs to men’s convenience. However, those regime only protected the nominees in the suit, not within the federal jail system, the rest of the transpirations.
It is not clear how many people the BOP expects to move forward overall. Previous data The BOP website indicated that there are 1,529 transgender women and 744 transgender men in custody. It is also not clear how many people have been kept in jails according to their gender identity at present. The agency’s website has since removed its references to its trans population.
Jails asked to present for tricks
As the BOP expects to follow with its plans as next week, conference calls with prison officials, jail psychologists and others across the country have been held several times in the last few days, familiar with the agency’s plans The source said.
The source told NPR that the BOP was expecting a trial, and to block the tricks for a potential court order, but was intended to proceed with the plan anyway. Officers of individual jails will not start shaking people until they move beyond the BOP, the source said, and it is not clear when it will happen. According to the source, bureau attacks, sexual violence and potential risks of suicides are well aware of concerns, raised by the authorities.
Efforts are being made in at least one jail to prepare special housing units for trans prisoners To prevent misconduct and attack, the source said, and each individual is generally considered at the safety level-for example, take a prisoner in low-protection gel only in another low-protection federal facility Will go
Aj Diciesare, a transgender person who is currently placed in a female jail is not expected to move because his convenience matches his prescribed sex at birth. But he told NPR that he was afraid of what these efforts to target trans prisoners do for him and others. He has been taking hormones for years and said that he is worried that he will be removed soon.
“This is just not a physical return. It’s mental anguish,” he said, explaining how he has felt when he has been removed from the drug.
He has tried to get a definite reply from the jail authorities what is happening next, but he did not hear anything. “It is creating pain,” he said.
He said that he has spoken to Trans women in his jail and saw fear on his face as he was told that the BOP plans to transfer them to male facilities next week. Two women were talked about, it is believed that they had to pass through the gender-confirmation process including surgery. They are still in the list to be transferred.
“I think we have broken the laws. However, we are still humans. We are still people,” said dishisare.
Lauren McGugugi from Kut/The Texas News Room contributed to this report.
