Provisions in one of the first orders signed by Trump mandate that transgender women be housed in men's prisons by stripping protections for trans prisoners in the Prison Rape Elimination Act. The ...

By Shaila Dewan and Amy Harmon President Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.

A.D. Lewis, an attorney at the Prison Law Office, a nonprofit law firm that focuses on constitutional protections for trans people, estimates there are fewer than 10 trans women in federal women’s ...

Trump's order pushes for transgender women to be moved to men's prisons, but not for transgender men to be moved to women's prisons. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that prohibits biological males—who comprise 15% of inmates in federal women’s prisons—from being housed in female detention facilities. The ...

After three years of planning and retrofitting, the women’s prison at Vandalia is expected to open a nursery in February that can serve up to 14 mothers and their babies for 18 months at a time.

The order instructed the attorney general and the secretary of Homeland Security to “ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons” or immigration detention centers. It went on to ...

An incarcerated transgender woman sued the Trump administration Sunday, challenging an executive order that requires the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to house transgender inmates according to ...