Transgender inmates are challenging prison placements and restrictions they say put them at risk, while the Trump administration pressures states over housing policies.

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went to a ...

One of President Trump's first executive orders impacts transgender inmates incarcerated in federal facilities. It's just one in a series of... Dee Farmer knows all too well what could happen when a ...

Oregon has agreed to a $295,000 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by an incarcerated transgender woman who was subjected to abuse while housed in a state men’s prison. Zera Lola ...

I am the ONLY female being held in a male prison here in New Jersey all because I am transgender,” Gia Valentina told ...

As federal lawsuits challenge President Trump's executive order impacting trans inmates, the Bureau of Prisons is putting a stop to new policies... 'Everything is changing every minute': New prison ...

There were 90 transgender women in federal prison as of October 2025 — 73 were housed in men’s prisons, 17 in women's ...

Judge Lady Ross said sex segregation in prisons must be based on biological sex, based on a Supreme Court ruling last year.

A new book chronicling the lives of nine transgender women across the country who have been incarcerated comes amid historic progress for such prisoners. The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of ...

The court heard oral arguments in the case of Amber Kim, a transgender woman who accused the Department of Corrections of violating protections against cruel punishment by sending her to a men's ...