‘Practical reality’: Trump admin dismisses concerns about violence against transgender women in men’s prisons because ‘vast majority’ are already in all-male lockups

Donald Trump speaks into a microphone.

President Donald Trump gives remarks during an event celebrating the 2024 Stanley Cup Champion the Florida Panthers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, February 3, 2025 (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images).

The upcoming transfer of transgender inmates to prisons that correspond with their biological sex is a relatively minor issue and no cause for alarm, the Trump administration said in a new court filing.

In a late Monday response submitted with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Department of Justice offered a variety of reasons to try and stop three transgender women from obtaining a court-ordered pause on the controversial new policy.

The three Doe inmates sued the federal government on Jan. 30, in response to a Jan. 20, executive order signed by President Donald Trump which purports to defend women from “gender ideology extremism” and restore “biological truth” through the transfers and by barring inmates from accessing medical care for gender dysphoria.

In their redacted complaint, the plaintiffs offer highly specific details about their own personal narratives and experiences as both transgender individuals and as inmates.

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