Trump executive order restores single-sex prisons to federal system

Donald Trump took office with what he argues is a clear mandate to eliminate woke ideology from the federal government, including that related to gender theory and all that flows from it.

In furtherance of that mission, Trump took executive action last week to restore single-sex prisons, requiring male inmates identifying as women to be returned to facilities housing men, as Breitbart reports.

Single-sex prisons restored

The new Trump policy stems from an executive order titled, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” and it has far-reaching implications for the federal prison system.

Not only does the order force roughly 1,500 male prisoners currently identifying as women into buildings designated for me, but it also halts the provision of gender-affirming medical treatment and procedures for those within the federal prison system.

According to the language of the order, the administration believes that “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on woman but on the validity of the entire American system.”

As such, the president explained that his administration “will defend women's rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male,” a position that has significant ramifications, including in the realm of prisons.

Reactions pour in

Not surprisingly, Trump's order prompted a range of reactions that range from elation to anger.

According to the Women's Liberation Front, a group known for its advocacy in support of single-sex prisons and in bringing awareness to the issue of female inmates subject to male violence, the executive order represents “a major victory.”

Taking an opposing point of view was Shannon Miller of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, who believes that the policy will cause transgender inmates to be raped and assaulted once moved into facilities that align with their biology.

Representatives from the ACLU suggest that the shift puts transgender inmates at a “severely heightened risk” of sexual assault and abuse by other incarcerated persons and staff, while Lamda Legal lamented that the Trump order “denies science and will make life immeasurably harder for intersex, nonbinary, and of course transgender people.”

However, given the overwhelming mandate Trump received at the ballot box in November, the policy brought forward by the aforementioned executive order appears to be in line with the wishes of the electorate, and it is emblematic of what the president means when he says, “promises made, promises kept.”