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.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    To the self-described trans person all over these threads last year shitting on Harris: We Told You So.

    Remember this when your in-group starts shitting on the midterm candidates and voting in general.

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      15 hours ago

      I still can’t grasp this. No, Kamala was not my ideal candidate. No, I didn’t agree with her on everything.

      But in the US two party POS system, why would anyone think voting for the very much lesser of two evils is bad? It’s insanity to just hand the reigns of America over to a terrorist organization. Jesus fucking christ.

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      18 hours ago

      But they might try to negotiate with israel for a ceasefire instead of immediately nuking tel aviv. (Nevermind the Rs bloodlust in “developing” gaza)