The Department of Justice (DOJ) said on March 26 that it will investigate prison housing policies in California and Maine, looking into whether putting transgender inmates in women’s facilities violates the constitutional rights of female prisoners.
The DOJ cited “allegations of sexual assaults, rape, voyeurism and a pervasive climate of sexual intimidation due to the presence of males in the women’s prison.”
“Keeping men out of women’s prisons is not only common sense—it’s a matter of safety and constitutional rights,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. “The Trump Administration will not stand by if governors are facilitating the abuse of biological women under the guise of inclusion.”…