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A new interim director has been tapped to lead the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) as president Donald Trump It looks like they’re going to crack down on transgender prisoners in facilities that don’t match their biological sex.
William W. Lothrop was named the new director of the BOP after Colette Peters resigned on Inauguration Day. It’s unclear when the Trump administration will name someone to fill the role permanently.
“As we face current challenges, including staff shortages and operational issues, I am committed to working alongside you to find real solutions that strengthen our facilities,” Lothrop said in a statement. “We will continue to cooperate with our Law enforcement partners and stakeholders to maintain robust programming and support services for inmates. “
Trump signs executive order stating there are only “two sexes.” (Getty Images)
On his first day in office, Trump announced a temporary freeze on federal hiring and reversed the former president Joe Biden’s Ban on private prisons. His executive order, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” defines gender strictly as male or female, based on biological characteristics, and mandates that federal agencies adopt this definition in their policies and practices.
The order states that individuals should be housed in federal prisons based on their biological sex, not their gender identity, which will apply to the 2,300 transgender inmates currently housed in federal prisons across the U.S. It also halts federal funding for transgender procedures and treatment of prisoners.
“The Attorney General shall ensure that the Bureau of Prisons revises its policies regarding medical care in accordance with this order and ensure that no federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex “, Reading order.
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During the Biden administration, several US states allowed transgender inmates to be housed in facilities that align with their gender identity. (Getty Images)
During the Biden administration, several US states implemented policies that allowed transgender inmates to be housed in facilities that align with their gender identity. In 2021, California became the first state to pass a policy allowing transgender inmates to apply for housing based on their gender identity. Since then, the state has seen a significant increase in such requests, with 234% increase in the population of transgender prisoners.
In January 2022, New York State revised its policies to allow transgender individuals to choose their prison placement. And Colorado made it to legal settlement Targeting biological males in women’s facilities last year, which was part of a case involving 400 transgender women.
Fox News Digital previously reported multiple cases of male inmates, serving sentences for sexual assault, murder and other violent crimes, in federal prisons being transferred to women’s facilities. Many of them have received taxpayer-funded medical procedures for medical gender transitions.
Lothrop, who was previously the deputy director of the BOP, replaces Peterswho was appointed in 2022 by Attorney General Merrick Garland and billed himself as a reform-minded outsider tasked with rebuilding an agency plagued for years by understaffing, widespread corruption, misconduct and abuse.
In January 2022, New York State revised its policies to allow transgender individuals to choose their prison placement. (Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images)
The agency has nearly 36,000 employees and is responsible for more than 155,000 federal prisoners. The director of the BOP is not subject to Senate confirmation, under the Legal News Act 360. During her tenure, Peters appeared before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees and spoke about the challenges the BOP faced, but she had trouble getting results.
During the tail end of Trump’s campaign, he pledged to dismantle leftist gender ideology and ran a successful ad campaign attacking his opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris, for her role in initiating sex reassignment procedures for incarcerated people in California.
“Kamala is for them/themPresident Trump is for you,” said the narrator of a Trump campaign ad.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House and the BOP for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
