Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to menā€™s facilities under Donald Trumpā€™s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the presidentā€™s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars.

Trumpā€™s day-one ā€œgender ideologyā€ order, one of several sweeping attacks on trans rights, said the attorney general ā€œshall ensure that males are not detained in womenā€™s prisons or housed in womenā€™s detention centersā€ and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody.

The executive order was quickly challenged in court. In three lawsuits filed on behalf of trans women housed in womenā€™s prisons, federal judges have ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) cannot withhold their medical treatment and was barred from moving them to menā€™s facilities. One judge said the plaintiffs had ā€œstraightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will followā€.

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    ignoring court ordersā€¦ well, thatā€™s it folks. unless a whole lotta spineless assholes grow a spine and 14th him, and those ā€œjust following ordersā€ the us constitution, and therefore the us government, is over.

    glossing over the sickening reality of this cruelty (because i frankly am too upset to form any sentence that isnā€™t 23 consecutive expletives), there is now zero incentive to comply with the feds if complying means death and torture. better to go down swinging than die after being raped in between psychologicql torture in solitary.