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U.S. rolls back protections for transgender prison inmates
Reuters ^ | May 12, 2018 12:34 PM | Maria Caspani

Posted on 05/12/2018 12:02:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The Trump administration has rolled back protections for transgender prison inmates introduced under former President Barack Obama after some prisoners challenged the policies in court.

An inmate’s biological sex will now be used to make the initial decision as to where transgender prisoners are housed, instead of the gender to which they identify, according to a change in guidelines announced on Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

The move, decried by transgender rights advocates, comes after four women held at a Texas detention center filed a federal lawsuit. The inmates argued that the previous prison guidelines, introduced in January 2017 just days before Obama left office, put them at greater risk of rape because they might have to share facilities with transgender women.

Under President Donald Trump, the Justice Department said in August that it would evaluate the issues in the lawsuit. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; inmates; obamalegacy; prisons; transgender
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1 posted on 05/12/2018 12:02:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
protections??? feh... they want equal they got it
2 posted on 05/12/2018 12:06:21 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hussein was nuts.


3 posted on 05/12/2018 12:06:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

What other obama regulations are still in effect ? I thought that at this stage they are all gone


4 posted on 05/12/2018 12:09:36 PM PDT by Lee25
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To: BenLurkin

Yup.
An American hating lunatic.


5 posted on 05/12/2018 12:09:58 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Olog-hai
biological sex. It's sex. Also, get rid of the term biological mother. It's mother. The natural, original word is just fine. I will not use made up terms.
6 posted on 05/12/2018 12:18:26 PM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama 8 years of Muslims , Gay and Drive Jobs Away


7 posted on 05/12/2018 12:20:46 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: I want the USA back

I thought the term “biological mother” arose in cases of adoption, and where the adopted child sought out the birth mother?


8 posted on 05/12/2018 12:22:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

I applaud the Trump administration for prioritizing the safety of women. Perhaps the men could be given a separate facility.


9 posted on 05/12/2018 12:30:44 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: Olog-hai

Part of the Divorce scene too.


10 posted on 05/12/2018 12:31:20 PM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: Olog-hai
An inmate’s biological sex will now be used to make the initial decision as to where transgender prisoners are housed, instead of the gender to which they identify...

As it has been for hundreds of years.

God bless President Trump as he seeks to undo the the illogical changes made by nobama and the libs.

11 posted on 05/12/2018 12:35:38 PM PDT by upchuck ("In America we don't worship government, we worship GOD" ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: Olog-hai

I had no idea Obama-nation decreed fake women would be imprisoned with real honest to G-d women. Glad they sued.


12 posted on 05/12/2018 12:43:27 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Chode

So...lemme see.

I am a biological male, I identify as a lesbian, you’re going to put me in a women’s prison?

Since you’re in jail, you don’t get to identify as anything other than a convict.


13 posted on 05/12/2018 12:56:12 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Olog-hai
You mean President Trump won't let rapists "self identify" as females to be allowed to serve their time in women's prisons?

How unfair.

14 posted on 05/12/2018 12:58:57 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Olog-hai

This first, then All the other OBama issued “” Protections!


15 posted on 05/12/2018 1:02:42 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Olog-hai

Thank you.


16 posted on 05/12/2018 1:09:35 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Ouderkirk

Under PREA, the inmates are housed according to their physical “attributes”. A female who is claiming to be a male and is transitioning, is housed in a female facility, but general in an administrative segregation unit.


17 posted on 05/12/2018 1:12:09 PM PDT by Glennb51
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To: butlerweave

Jail is not work
The inmates already turn same sex folks into whores
Forget putting opposite sex folks together
It would be complete utter chaos
A couple boys in with the girls
Or worse. A couple girls with the males
Thank goodness we have adults back in charge
Hussein was out to create as much chaos as possible


18 posted on 05/12/2018 1:24:28 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: I want the USA back

“Dad, I just found out I’m pregnant.
But don’t worry. I don’t think it’s mine.”


19 posted on 05/12/2018 1:27:13 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: I want the USA back

No, a stepmother is a nonbiological mother.


20 posted on 05/12/2018 1:28:15 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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