Justice Department Takes Steps to Protect Transgender Prisoners

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Justice Department Takes Steps to Protect Transgender Prisoners

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/doj-trans-inmate-guidelines

Mother Jones/—By Brandon Ellington Patterson| Fri Mar. 25, 2016 4:03 PM EDT

"Amid several proposals in Republican-controlled statehouses to limit protections for transgender residents came a glimmer of hope from the federal government on Thursday. The Department of Justice issued new regulations clarifying guidelines it set in 2012 for the treatment of transgender inmates in prisons. The 2012 guidelines required prison and jail staff to consider inmates' gender identity when deciding where to place transgender inmates, but many prisons continue to follow state rules that assign inmates housing according to their genitalia, the Guardian US reports."