Trump DoJ 'immediately' suspends prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, according to leaked memo

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : State and local regulations that go beyond federal laws would also continue to apply.
51% : It claimed that the DoJ memo actually allows facility operators or corrections agencies "to continue following the regulation or, if they choose, to ignore it", letting the federal government "to implement the President's policy" while allowing local authorities to "determine how best to meet the needs" of trans prisoners.
48% : One of those regulations requires facilities to train their staff on how to search trans and intersex people "respectfully" and "in the least intrusive manner possible".
40% : "Until these updates are finalized, and further guidance is provided, effective immediately, applicable federal and non-federal correctional facilities shall not be held to subsections of the PREA Standards that may conflict with [Trump's order]," the memo reads.
38% : 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.
30% : Gregg said these changes were intended as a stopgap solution while the Trump administration edits the regulations to comply with Donald Trump's January executive order declaring that trans people should always and only be treated as their birth sex under U.S. law.
20% : Telling auditors just to ignore the risks queer people face is as explicit an endorsement of their abuse as you can get." Passed unanimously by Congress in 2003, PREA is implemented via federal regulations that were updated in 2012 by the Obama administration to include specific protections for LGBT+ people.

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