Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸TRANS INMATE SUES OVER TRUMP’S ANTI-LGBTQ+ PRISON ORDER
Maria Moe, a transgender woman in federal custody, has filed a lawsuit against Trump’s executive order mandating only 2 biological sexes be recognized and housing transgender women in men’s prisons.
The suit claims this order breaches her Fifth Amendment due process rights by discriminating based on sex and violates the Eighth Amendment by placing her at risk of “extremely high risk of harassment, abuse, violence, and sexual assault” in a men’s facility.
The lawsuit also claims the order violates the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by cutting off her access to gender-affirming care, which she’s had since adolescence for her gender dysphoria.
Lambda Legal, an organization that supports transgender rights said in response to the order:
“Their appalling approach denies science and will make life immeasurably harder for intersex, nonbinary, and of course transgender people.”
The lawsuit, one of the first legal challenges to Trump’s transgender policy, seeks to maintain Moe’s current housing and medical treatment.
