Fri Jan 28, 2022 – 10:12 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration issued radical new transgender prison policies earlier this month, reversing Trump-era guidance and allowing male convicts who say they’re “transgender” to be housed with women, putting female inmates at increased risk of sexual assault.
On January 13, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) quietly updated its Transgender Offender Manual to restore Obama administration guidelines that recommended federal prisoners be housed according to “gender identity.”
The move reverses a subsequent Trump policy that required inmates in federal prisons to be placed based on their biological sex.
According to the new manual, the BOP will now determine whether to place prisoners to match their alleged “gender identities” on a case-by-case basis, without reference to anatomy.
“In deciding whether to assign a transgender or intersex inmate to a facility for male or female inmates … the agency shall consider on a case-by-case basis whether a placement would ensure the inmate’s health and safety, and whether the placement would present management or security problems,” the document states.
The manual also makes clear that gender-confused inmates’ wishes are to be given significant weight when deciding housing assignments.
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