An American judge on Tuesday prohibited the administration of President Donald Trump to transfer transgender women to men’s prisons and end their gender-confirmation care.
In a comprehensive judgment temporarily stopped the executive order that Trump, a Republican, signed his first day in the office on January 20, US District Judge Royce Lambert found that three to three south complaints were found in Washington. Was inconsistent in arguing the matter.
The decision marked the second time that a federal judge seeded with LGBTQ+ legal rights groups who sued to prevent the order of the US Jail Bureau from implementing the order.
The order of Lambartha applies to all 16 transgender women currently kept in federal women jails. It goes beyond the 26 January decision by a federal judge in Boston, which has prevented the jail authorities from transferring individual transgender women to men’s convenience.
A spokesman of the Department of Justice, who defended the Trump administration in the court refused to comment. The prisons of the jails did not immediately respond to the remarks request.
Three transgender women bringing the Washington case argued for women to attack wild facial violence and sexual attacks in men’s prisons, which is not subject to cruel and unusual punishment as a guarantee by UGTH amendment for the US Constitution. Will violate the rights.
Attorney John Robinson of the US Department of Justice had argued that the prison bureau had a widespread right to take a prisoner placement decision. He provoked Lamble, to wait for the agency to amend his policies before issuing any order to continue the continuity of medical treatment, to appoint Republican President Ronald Reagan.
In his judgment, Lambartha wrote that the government did not dispute the curses that stressed the transgender person in high risk of physical and sexual violence compared to other prisoners when they were kept in convenience in line with their biological sex.
Trump’s executive order directed the federal government to recognize only two, the biological Ellie makes sex, male and female; House transgender women in men’s jails; And stop searching for prisoners for any gender-confusion medical care.
Prior to Trump’s order, the Bureau of Jail Bureau was working under the guidelines adopted during the tenure of former Democratic President Joe Biden in 2022, which required jails to consider the “current gender expression” of jails, which required jails, When it was decided where they were decided.
During Trump’s first term, Biden’s policy was a reversal with earlier guidance.
On January 30, the lawsuit files, so argued that Trump’s executive orders discriminate against transgender people on the origin of sex in violation of the fifth amendment of the US Constitution.
According to the US Department of Justice, about 2.230 transgender prisoners are federal custodial features and houses in half the way. About two -thirds of them are 1.506, transgender women, most of which are kept in men’s jails.
