[image: Maine transgender prisoner]
*Trump vowed to slash funding for Maine’s Department of Corrections. Another transgender inmate in Maine filed a complaint against the DOC for not doing enough to facilitate his gender transition treatments.** (Maine DOC/Getty Images)*
*FIRST ON FOX:* A Trump administration official confirmed Thursday that states failing to comply with federal orders to house inmates based on their biological sex can expect “imminent changes” – and Maine <www.foxnews.com/media/trump-admin-pulls-funding-maine-allowing-men-identifying-women-jailed-females> “will not be the last” state to have prison funds slashed.
While the Trump administration <www.foxnews.com/video/topics/person/donald-trump>’s decision to pull federal funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections due to a transgender inmate being housed in a women’s facility is not an isolated case, similar situations involving transgender inmates in female facilities have occurred across the country.
In addition to Maine, California, New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and Washington state allow transgender people to be housed in jail and prison facilities that align with their gender identity. Most provide transgender treatments on the taxpayer dime <www.foxnews.com/category/us/economy/taxes>or through other sources of state funding, though it may vary from prison to prison. Following a consent decree, Colorado is the only state to have housing facilities specific for transgender people.
The official, who declined to be identified, explained that while much of prison funding is handled at the state level, states still must comply with their own versions of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which is often modeled after federal standards. As federal changes to those regulations are expected, current PREA guidelines discourage housing inmates in isolation. That, the spokesperson said, has led some states to feel obligated to house transgender women in female facilities, even if they might prefer to create separate spaces.
“I think that that’s a state call. But, right now, states are really not encouraged to make that call,” the official said. “They’re encouraged to put those men with women. So, I think some states will just put these men dressed as women, with the men. Some of them will put them in some sort of separate space. I have no opinion on which is better.”
Prior to Trump’s executive order prohibiting trans procedures and treatments in federal prisons, federal funding was allotted to some Bureau of Prisons facilities to cover cosmetic procedures and treatments that were considered “gender-affirming” for incarcerated men – but not provided to women – such as laser hair removal and other feminine procedures. Guidelines for such services were first earmarked under the Obama administration’s second term, and California <www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california> was the first state to establish policies granting transgender surgeries to state prison inmates in 2017.
*Trump vowed to slash funding for Maine’s Department of Corrections. Another transgender inmate in Maine filed a complaint against the DOC for not doing enough to facilitate his gender transition treatments.** (Maine DOC/Getty Images)*
*FIRST ON FOX:* A Trump administration official confirmed Thursday that states failing to comply with federal orders to house inmates based on their biological sex can expect “imminent changes” – and Maine <www.foxnews.com/media/trump-admin-pulls-funding-maine-allowing-men-identifying-women-jailed-females> “will not be the last” state to have prison funds slashed.
While the Trump administration <www.foxnews.com/video/topics/person/donald-trump>’s decision to pull federal funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections due to a transgender inmate being housed in a women’s facility is not an isolated case, similar situations involving transgender inmates in female facilities have occurred across the country.
In addition to Maine, California, New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and Washington state allow transgender people to be housed in jail and prison facilities that align with their gender identity. Most provide transgender treatments on the taxpayer dime <www.foxnews.com/category/us/economy/taxes>or through other sources of state funding, though it may vary from prison to prison. Following a consent decree, Colorado is the only state to have housing facilities specific for transgender people.
The official, who declined to be identified, explained that while much of prison funding is handled at the state level, states still must comply with their own versions of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which is often modeled after federal standards. As federal changes to those regulations are expected, current PREA guidelines discourage housing inmates in isolation. That, the spokesperson said, has led some states to feel obligated to house transgender women in female facilities, even if they might prefer to create separate spaces.
“I think that that’s a state call. But, right now, states are really not encouraged to make that call,” the official said. “They’re encouraged to put those men with women. So, I think some states will just put these men dressed as women, with the men. Some of them will put them in some sort of separate space. I have no opinion on which is better.”
Prior to Trump’s executive order prohibiting trans procedures and treatments in federal prisons, federal funding was allotted to some Bureau of Prisons facilities to cover cosmetic procedures and treatments that were considered “gender-affirming” for incarcerated men – but not provided to women – such as laser hair removal and other feminine procedures. Guidelines for such services were first earmarked under the Obama administration’s second term, and California <www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california> was the first state to establish policies granting transgender surgeries to state prison inmates in 2017.
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