# @pinknews on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMOZNe9Jb1I
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32964609-pinknews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-17T22:01:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

The Trump administration has reversed longstanding federal policies that protected transgender people in immigration detention, eliminating recognition of their gender identity and specialized care requirements.

Under new rules stemming from Trump's January executive order on "biological truth," ICE now classifies transgender detainees strictly by their seggs assigned at birth and has dismantled the comprehensive 2015 Transgender Care Memorandum that previously governed housing, medical care, and protection protocols.

The policy shift removes requirements for individualized detention plans, specialized committees, respectful treatment, and data collection on transgender detainees, despite a congressional mandate to track this vulnerable population.

The changes affect detention facilities nationwide and have significant implications for private prison corporations contracted by ICE. Internal documents show that as recently as last year, 12 detention centers across multiple states included explicit transgender care provisions in their contracts, but these protections are being systematically eliminated as contracts are updated.

Department of Homeland Security officials have described internal resistance to the policy changes, with some staff attempting to delay implementation, but advocates warn that the bureaucratic erasure goes beyond paperwork to impact the real safety and lives of some of the most vulnerable people in U.S. custody. The rollback represents part of a broader effort to erase transgender identities from federal policy and public recognition.

#trumpadministration #donaldtrump #iceraid #transrights #immigration #lgbtqia

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transrights, iceraid, lgbtqia, donaldtrump, trumpadministration, immigration

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