One of President Trump’s recently signed executive orders has raised questions about the future of transgender women in prison.
On his first day in office this week, Trump signed an executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” along with several others.
The order claims that people who seek to “erase the biological reality of gender fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.
With this in mind, Trump’s controversial order was created to “defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize that women are biologically female and men are biologically male.
There are several key parts of the order, one of which is that the Trump administration will only accept that there are two sexes – male and female.
“These genders are not mutable and are grounded in fundamental and undeniable reality,” it adds.
Because of this, transgender women who are still considered male (according to Trump’s new executive order) can no longer be housed in women’s prisons.