'We do not exist anymore': New prison rules ban female clothing for trans women
Transgender women in federal prisons are being told to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair care, according to a new Bureau of Prisons policy obtained by NPR.
The new rules are being implemented after an executive order from President Trump called on the bureau to move trans women out of women's federal prisons and end gender affirming care. That order is facing at least two challenges in federal court and late Tuesday, a judge in Washington, D.C., in one of the cases temporarily blocked the removal of three transgender women from a women's prison.
