{"id":59892,"date":"2025-01-24T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59892"},"modified":"2025-01-24T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:50:43","slug":"trump-bans-transgender-women-from-federal-womens-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/24\/trump-bans-transgender-women-from-federal-womens-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Bans Transgender Women from Federal Women\u2019s Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On January 24, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring transgender women from placement in federal women\u2019s prisons and suspending gender-transition-related medical treatments for federal inmates, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The directive aligns with Trump\u2019s broader agenda to define gender based solely on biological sex at birth.<\/p>\n<p>It also affects transgender immigration detainees, expanding restrictions under his administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Liberation Front, an advocate for single-sex prisons, praised the decision as a \u201cmajor victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group opposes laws allowing transgender inmates to request housing based on gender identity, citing concerns over non-transgender women\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, however, warn of dire consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, cautioned that the policy could expose transgender inmates to heightened risks of violence and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Legal experts predict challenges to the order, citing past rulings mandating prisons to safeguard vulnerable inmates and provide necessary medical care, such as hormone therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 1,500 transgender women, representing 15% of the federal female inmate population, are affected by this policy.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates have vowed to contest the executive order, labeling it an infringement on transgender rights and safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal On January 24, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring transgender women from placement in federal women\u2019s prisons and suspending gender-transition-related medical treatments for federal inmates, according to The New York Times. The directive aligns with Trump\u2019s broader agenda to define gender based solely on biological sex at birth. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59894,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59892\/revisions\/59894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}