Hundreds of transgender federal prisoners are living in fear after a ’roundup’ that will send them packing to men’s lockups following a day-one executive order from President Donald Trump.
Now lawyers are desperately trying to find a way to fight the order, saying the prisoners will have ‘a target on their backs’ as they move in with hardened male inmates.
‘It’s going to be incredibly dangerous,’ attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen told DailyMail.com.
Meltzer-Cohen represents Donna Langan, a transgender woman who underwent a sex change in federal prison. She is serving a life sentence for bank robbery as a member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Republican Army.
Meltzer-Cohen said she fears there would be a ‘bloodbath’ if her client and other trans inmates are forced into male prisons.
The order declared that the government will only recognize two sexes – male and female. This means all ‘intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females’ will be determined by sex rather than gender identity.
DailyMail.com viewed an email from a federal public defender in Massachusetts that was sent to colleagues nationally.
It stated that one of her clients imprisoned in Minnesota, a transgender woman, was among those rounded up and is ‘terrified’ of what will happen when they’re sent to male prisons.
Donna Langan, convicted neo-Nazi bank robber underwent a sex change in federal prison.
Her lawyer fears there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if trans inmates if they are moved to male prisons.
Donald Trump ‘s day one executive order has transgender Minnesota inmates being rounded up and sent packing back to men’s prisons.
The order declared that the government will only recognize two sexes – male and female.
This means all ‘intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females’ will be determined by sex rather than gender identity.
Public defender Sandra Gant said her office was notified of the change in policy by the federal Bureau of Prisons Tuesday morning by the trans inmate’s family and asked other public defenders to share information for a legal fight.
“Our office represents a trans client who, for the entirety of her pretrial detention & BOP custody, has been in a women’s facility,” Gant wrote in the alert sent Tuesday afternoon.
“Her family reached out in a panic – as of this morning, she, along with others at FCI Waseca, have been segregated and told that they are being processed out to a transfer center and then to a men’s prison. She is terrified,” Gant explained.
“Has anyone prepared to litigate this, or have any insights/advice on challenging this? Or any contacts with ACLU, etc., who might be litigating this?” Gant asked.
Trump signed orders Monday rolling back protections for transgender people, ruling that the two ‘immutable sexes’ are ‘not changeable’ and that federal prisons along with shelters for migrants and rape victims are to be segregated by sex.
Federal money will also no longer be used to fund ‘transition services’.
The president also demanded officials use the term ‘sex’ rather than ‘gender.’
Federal agencies were urged to end funding to promote ‘gender ideology’ and protect against ‘gender extremism’ – representing major policy shifts from the Biden and Obama administrations.
