Donald Trump Sued By Transgender Inmate
Donald Trump over an executive order he signed on his first day back in office that rolls back protections for transgender people.The order said the federal government would recognize only two sexes—male or female—and calls for housing transgender women in men's prisons, and halting gender-affirming medical care.The complaint, filed on behalf of a plaintiff using the pseudonym Maria Moe, alleges the order violates Moe's constitutional and statutory rights and that if transferred to a men's facility, "she will be at an extremely high risk of harassment, abuse, violence, and sexual assault."It was first shared on social media platform Bluesky by Reuters' Mike Scarcella and later reported by Chris Geidner in his Law Dork newsletter.Newsweek has contacted the White House, Federal Bureau of Prisons and attorneys for the plaintiff for comment via email.Trump is already facing at least half a dozen lawsuits in response to executive orders he signed shortly after taking office on January 20, including one seeking to end birthright citizenship.But many more legal challenges are likely to be filed as federal agencies start working to carry out the president's directives.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Sunday, alleges that Trump's order includes a definition of "sex" that is "intentionally designed to discriminate against transgender people" and "preclude transgender people from being able to live in a sex different than their birth sex and to deny them equal treatment."As well as Trump, the lawsuit filed by attorneys with GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lowenstein Sandler LLP, also lists acting attorney general James McHenry III and William Lothrop, the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, as defendants.Moe, who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, has "lived as a woman and has taken hormones continuously since she was a teenager," the lawsuit says."She has always.
