Egypt Daily News – Federal prisons received an order from US President Donald Trump to transfer transgender women to serve their sentences in men’s prisons. The New York Times reported that the document was part of a comprehensive executive order issued by Trump on his first day in office, which seeks to limit the state’s recognition of a person’s gender other than their sex at birth. Advocates for transgender rights and the rights of prisoners have criticized this order, saying It will put them in danger.
In 2018, during his first term as President of the United States, Trump banned transgender people in the army except in exceptional circumstances. The prohibition also affected people with sexual identity disorder, a condition related to transgender people where a person cannot completely accept his sexual condition.
The transgender people obtained the right of service in the US military in 2016 by order of President Barack Obama.
After his inauguration, this January, Trump reversed the law imposed by his predecessor Biden, stating that “sexual identity should not be an obstacle to military service and that the strength of the United States lies in its diversity.”
On January 20, 2025, Trump signed a decree that recognized only two biological sexes, male and female, and restored biological truth at the federal government level under a document called “Protecting Women from Gender Ideological Extremism and Restoring Full Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” At the state level, the following categories will be created: “woman,” “girl,” “man,” “boy,” “female,” and “male.”
Under this law, all agencies are required to use these categories only “when interpreting or applying laws, regulations, or guidelines, and in other official agency activities, documents, and communications.” Agency questionnaires should not include any questions about gender identity.
