Transgender inmates who have been moved from women’s prisons to all-men’s facilities after President Donald Trump mandated an executive order that required prisoners living in facilities that correspond to biological sex, have been sent back to women’s prisons after a judge issued a temporary injunction.
“This is the latest example of an activist judge trying to take power at the expense of Americans who voted overwhelmingly to elect President Trump,” a spokesman for the Justice Department (DOJ) told Fox News Digital in a statement Friday. “The Justice Department has vehemently defended President Trump’s enforcement actions, including executive orders for women on defense, and will continue to do so.”
Washington US District Judge Lois Lambers issued an injunction last week after two inmates identified as Rachel and Ellen Do in court documents were added as plaintiffs in lawsuits against the executive order with almost a dozen other inmates.
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US District Judge Lois Lambers of Washington has issued a preliminary injunction that would allow biologically male trans female prisoners to be sent back to federal women’s prisons. (Getty Images/Columbia District Court, USA)
“The fact that they have already been moved and reportedly abused in the new facility only strengthens allegations of irreparable harm,” Lamberth, a US District Court judge appointed by Reagan, wrote in the injunction.
Court documents also allege that since being transported to the men’s prison, “they were unable to access bras or women’s underwear,” while “while being exposed to “sexual harassment” in their new facility.
The Prison Bureau did not respond to requests for comment Friday.
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President Donald Trump’s move to place federal prisoners in prisons that correspond to their biological sex has come across court challenges. (Getty Images)
The original lawsuit alleges that if two new inmates were “inmates, all trans women” and were transferred to a man’s facility, the lawsuit would be at risk of “sexual harassment, assault and rape.”
The injunction adds to the long list of legal battles Trump DOJ faces over the presidential executive order. The first lawsuit against Trump’s “two gender” executive order came from a transgender inmate who received medical care, funded by taxpayer days after Trump signed the order in January.
The inmate, anonymously identified as Maria Mo, is represented by the Legal Advocates & Advocates of the advocacy group GLBTQ, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lowenstein Sandler LLP. Once Trump signed the executive order, Moe was transported to a man’s prison facility, with BOP records changing gender from “female” to “male,” the complaint said.
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At least 15 trans inmates are protected by orders that block or reverse the relocation, according to the Associated Press.
Lamberth has yet to rule on the lawsuit filed this month by three other inmates: a transgender woman in a male prison and two transgender men in a female prison.
Jamie Joseph is a US political reporter for Fox News Digital, covering transgender and cultural issues, the departments of education, health and welfare, and state legislative development.
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