US President, Donald Trump's Executive Order on his first day in office, mandating the transfer of transgender inmates to facilities aligned with their biological sex has sent fear down the spine of hundreds of transgender United States federal prisoners.
Lawyers have raised alarms about the potential dangers faced by transgender women who will now be moved to male prisons, warning of severe risks.
The executive order which stipulates that the federal government will only recognise two sexes- male and female have continued to trail reactions, as many expressed panic that it will be catastrophic to the inmates.
“It’s going to be incredibly dangerous,” attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen told DailyMail.com. Meltzer-Cohen, who represents Donna Langan—a transgender woman serving a life sentence for bank robbery expressed concern over the safety of her client and others, fearing a potential bloodbath.
According to DailyMail.com, a federal public defender in Massachusetts highlighted the plight of a transgender inmate in Minnesota. Sandra Gant, the defender, described how the inmate was abruptly informed of the transfer, leaving her “terrified.”
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