Trump admin ‘immediately’ stops enforcing LGBT+ prison rape protections: report
www.the-independent.com
The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The U.S. Department of Justice will “immediately” stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.

In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.

Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 天前

    Okay I’m game. What’s the plan? Or where are we meeting? Because its going take rebellion to fight against these fascist. No voting it away. Oh and we must plan it without using our phones or social media since they track everything.

    Opps guess already failed that by asking the above questions. And no way can we organize a rebellion or protest that doesn’t have to be first announced on social media. Like those No Kings Protest. Bet everyone who attended now on a list somewhere and when ready ICE will round us all up. Remember they are using the nazi playbook. And one of them is to round up undesirables and people who are against them.

    With the Supreme Court about rule against birthright citizenship it is just another stepping stone until they can round up citizens and put us in camps. If we allow it get to that point it will be to late to fight back and win.

    • pieland@piefed.socialBanned from communityEnglish
      7·
      2 天前

      If you put the same energy you put into that defeatist attitude and writing that comment into problem-solving and bravery, maybe we’d have a solution.

      I’ve tried to organize multiple things myself, the only issue I’ve had is no one ever actually does anything. Because Americans only like to complain and not actually do anything.

      You aren’t scared enough.

      I’m LGBT, severely disabled, the child of an immigrant if we’re really bringing that birthright stuff up, pretty radically left and have been TOO vocal about it, and probably on a list, and I don’t even know if I’ll be alive 1, 5, or 10 years from now. I don’t have much left to lose. Apparently most people do, or else they’d feel compelled to act.