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Trump Admin Rolls Back Protections for Transgender Prisoners

HeadlineMay 14, 2018

Back in the United States, in an attack on the rights of transgender prisoners, the Trump administration has rolled back rules that allow prisoners to use facilities that match their gender identity. BuzzFeed News reports the Bureau of Prisons will now use a prisoner’s assigned sex at birth to determine where prisoners will be housed, reversing Obama-era efforts to protect transgender prisoners from sexual assault and abuse.

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