I Can't Believe This Sh...

The disgust! This is sick! The adjectives elude me that they can sink so low!

DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards

December 4, 2025

NPR Heard on All Things Considered

By Jaclyn Diaz

The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR.

This population is uniquely vulnerable to attacks while incarcerated, data shows, and advocates say the change will put such people in even more danger.

The memo explains that DOJ is in the process of revising federal standards related to the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in order to align with President Trump's executive order on "gender ideology extremism." The Jan. 20 executive order asserts that the United States recognizes only two sexes: male and female.

These people hate us so much that they are willing to let us get raped in jail!

The standards designed to protect inmates from sexual violence were developed after years of bipartisan work. They were created in response to overwhelming data, anecdotal evidence and a landmark Human Rights Watch report that showed sexual violence was, and continues to be, a serious problem behind bars.

It almost sounds like that they are gleeful of the dangers for the LGBTQ+ community this will create, Newsmax reports that,

Linda McFarlane, executive director of Just Detention International, a group that for years has pushed for stronger federal oversight of prison sexual abuse prevention, claimed the change "will immediately put people in danger."

"It's going to make people less safe," she told NPR. "And when facilities are less safe for the most vulnerable and marginalized, they're less safe for everybody."

Trump & Company know this and they don't care!

The NPR article says that there were,

The most recent data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that in 2020, correctional administrators reported 36,264 allegations of sexual victimization in prisons, jails and other adult correctional facilities. The allegations included incidents of sexual violence, harassment and misconduct carried out by inmates against other inmates and by staff members against inmates. The report said 2,351 of those allegations — a rate of 1.2 incidents per 1,000 inmates — were substantiated after investigation.

And that was when the policy was in place, can you imagine what it will be like without monitoring?

But because PREA has been in place for more than 20 years and the prevalence of sexual abuse within the prison system is well-known, James said, "I believe and trust" that facilities "will do what is best for the incarcerated population."

Yeah, right! Anyone want to by a bridge for sale?