President Donald Trump is wasting little time implementing his transphobic executive orders within days of his return to the White House — particularly his broad order denying recognition of non-binary individuals and transgender individuals across the federal government.
The Trump administration banned gender-affirming care for incarcerated individuals in federal prisons and ordered those prisons to house individuals by their gender assigned at birth, effectively barring transgender and non-binary individuals from being housed in accordance with their gender identity. The policy extends to individuals in immigration detention, according to the New York Times, which reported on the prison policy on Jan. 23. There are around 1,500 transgender incarcerated individuals in the Bureau of Prisons, according to the New York Times.
