‘Fear for Their Lives’: Trans Women Federal Prisoners Told They Will Be Housed With Men | After a minor change in a judge’s order, the Trump administration arranged to move over a dozen transgender women to men’s facilities
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> In 2022, after years of legal battles, Donna Langan became the first federal prisoner ever to receive gender confirmation surgery. Her listing in the Bureau of Prisons directory says “female.” Yet earlier this week, she was notified that the federal prison system was moving her to a men’s facility.
> For Langan, who has been incarcerated since 2016 at FMC-Carswell, a women’s prison in Texas, word of her imminent transfer was terrifying, said her attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen. “In the case of women being told that they are to be sent to a facility full of men, anybody would be reasonably in fear for their lives,” Meltzer-Cohen said.
> According to several sources familiar with the situation, more than a dozen other transgender women in federal prisons received word this week that they, too, would be moved to men’s facilities.
> Last month, President Trump issued an executive order that, among other provisions, barred trans women from being housed in women’s prisons. **After three trans prisoners sued, arguing that the order was discriminatory and cruel and unusual punishment, a judge prevented them from being moved, but the Bureau began making arrangements to transfer other transgender prisoners.**
> Iris Soliman’s daughter is one of the transgender women who learned she was slated to be moved to a men’s prison. “I’m worried about what’s going to happen to her,” Soliman said. “It’s humiliating. It’s devastating. They would destroy her. She’s really beautiful. She doesn’t look anything like a man … I’m sure she’ll be raped.”
> According to an internal list obtained by The Marshall Project, the Bureau of Prisons has housed 22 transgender women in federal women’s prisons and one transgender man in a men’s prison — fewer than 0.02% of federal prisoners. Yet this tiny group of people has been the subject of intense focus from Department of Justice officials since President Trump took office, according to several people familiar with discussions at the Bureau of Prisons.
!ping LGBT&BROKEN-WINDOWS
The GOP is going to milk the Tremaine Carroll scapegoat for all it’s worth, no matter how many people it hurts. I said as much when the story first came out. Just devastating
It’s frustrating that the issue of violence in American correctional facilities is accepted as inevitable rather than something quite avoidable. Don’t get me wrong, the actual theory and practicality of carceral reform is quite a rabbit hole but there are Western societies that manage to be way less grotesque and reap the holistic benefits of lower recidivism. I’ve volunteered enough in women’s institutions that I can say that it’s not a safe environment for *anyone.*
Regardless of where one stands, the existence of [V-coding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_the_United_States#V-coding) is absolutely a disgrace.The fact that “don’t drop the soap” is such a saturated joke is a disgrace. There’s some level of reasonable doubt that it’s a widespread phenomenon but I’ve witnessed enough casual cruelty in my state’s justice system to not dismiss it out of hand. Restitution, rehabilitation, and public satisfaction of justice should be the end, not sadism or submission.