Trump admin ‘immediately’ stops enforcing LGBT+ prison rape protections: report
www.the-independent.com
The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The U.S. Department of Justice will “immediately” stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.

In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.

Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 hours ago

      I don’t agree with that strategy either, but she didn’t carry enough votes to have made the difference anyway…

    • fedupwithbureaucracy@lemmy.world
      53·
      15 hours ago

      According to the electoral college, every state either voted 100% for trump or harris. So no one voted for Jil Stein. And if you’re in a red state, NO ONE VOTED FOR HARRIS EITHER, and vice versa. Stop purposely being stupid of this fact.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        71·
        17 hours ago

        Voting for a candidate that can’t win is worse than not voting. Third-parties actively harmed the process and used resources that could have been spent preventing this bullshit.

        We live in a 2-party system. If you aren’t happy with the Dems, make that displeasure known in the primaries, then vote against the fascists in the general election no matter what. It’s not that fucking complicated.

      • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        15 hours ago

        I’ll blame both. Tossing away a vote on a guaranteed loser candidate is the exact same as stepping aside and allowing fascism free rein.

        People vote 3rd party to be able to smugly claim they voted while pretending to not be part of what caused the issue.

        I’ll say it clearly so it’s easier understood:

        WHERE YOU ASSUMED YOU WERE BEING ASKED TO VOTE DEMOCRAT- YOU WERE BEING ASKED TO VOTE AGAINST FASCISM.

        I seriously don’t know how this was so difficult that over 4 million people couldn’t figure it out

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      35·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, to al the assholes who decided not to vote for a progressive

      We could’ve had West abolish prisons

      • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        15 hours ago

        Fucking hilarious! Hey, real quick, what’s West been up to since November?

        Remember when we tried to tell you that he and all the rest of the party dividers would disappear post-election?

        Yeah. Maybe you’ll listen next time. That dude didn’t give a shit. He’s paid to split the vote and that’s what he does.

          • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            12 hours ago

            Yeah, the difference is, none of us that were voting for her ever claimed or believed that she was going to change the world-

            -instead, we just thought she’d play spoiler to the one person that would bring us fascism.

            Those 3rd party clowns were supposed to usher in a new world of perfection and bliss according to all the kids crying about things like…. “aBoLiSh pRiSoNs!” LMAO!

            -Instead, all they did was play spoiler to the one person that could have stopped fascism….