Trump executive order bans biological males from female prison facilities, transfer of male inmates to begin soon

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WASHINGTON, DC - Among a slew of executive orders signed last week by President Donald Trump, at least one (among many others) is long overdue. On Monday, Trump signed an executive order barring biological males from occupying inmates in women’s federal detention facilities. Currently, biological males account for a staggering 15% of inmates in federal facilities, The Daily Caller News Foundation reports. 

Aside from mandating biological males and biological females to be housed according to their biological sex, the order also prohibits using federal funds for gender transition procedures, drugs, and treatments. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 1,538 out of 10,047 inmates housed in female facilities are biological males. 

“The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers,” the order reads. “It also says that no federal funds will be spent on “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” 

In addition, the order reversed a previous policy that allowed biological males into “single-sex” domestic abuse shelters for women while mandating that government-issued identification reflect the bearer’s biological sex, meaning that the marker “X” is no longer permitted. 

Among those celebrating Trump’s actions was the Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group, which said the order ended the “utter unfairness of allowing men into women’s spaces.” 

As expected, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called the order “a plan to erase transgender people’s existence under the law.” 

Some groups are already planning on suing against the executive order, including Lambda Legal, arguing it is unconstitutional and violates existing law. 

Numerous Republicans have spoken out against the policy of allowing biological males into women’s facilities, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). He slammed Magistrate Sarah Netburn for allowing a biological male, who was also a convicted child rapist, into a women’s facility in May, saying that Netbur was “willing to subjugate the rights of individuals to satisfy your political ideology.” 

Netburn was nominated by Joe Biden for a judicial appointment, however during her hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was revealed that Nebburn went against a Bureau of Prisons recommendation and allowed a male convicted of child molestation of a nine-year-old boy, the rape of a 17-year-old girls, and distributing pornography containing graphic images of adults raping children, to be housed in a federal women’s detention facility because he “identified” as a woman. 

There are numerous cases of males posing as females who have been housed in female facilities and have committed sexual assault on female inmates. 

In one case, a biological male at Rikers Island in New York City was convicted in 2022 of raping a female inmate while housed in the female prison wing. A similar case occurred in 2024 where a biological male, housed in a female facility in California, was convicted of raping a female in the showers of the prison. 

The Daily Caller News Foundation said it is unknown when the transfer of biological male inmates from female facilities will begin.