AUSTIN — A inmate currently housed in a North Texas prison could become the first transgender person to receive gender-affirming surgery while in federal...
The reversal was part of settlement negotiations after a group of non-transgender women incarcerated at FMC Carswell, backed by a conservative legal organization,As of last fall, President Joe Biden’s administration had not updated the Trump-era policies for transgender inmates but was reviewing them.
Inmates housed in state-run jails and prisons are not subject to the same rules as federal inmates. While they too can receive hormone therapy while in custody, the state of Texas requires prisoners to be housed in facilities according to the “physical anatomy.” If the state prisons department determines a transgender inmate cannot be housed safely with other inmates, they may be housed individually, an agency spokesman said.
As of September 2021, there were 1,608 transgender inmates out of a population of about 120,000 people in all state-run jails and prisons.. Lauren is an investigative reporter based in Austin where she focuses on government accountability, criminal justice and LGBTQ issues. Before joining the investigative team, she covered Texas politics for The News and Houston Chronicle, and Louisiana politics for The New Orleans Times-Picayune. She loves cats and comic books and cooks a mean steak.
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