The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is banning the use of preferred pronouns, stopping special pat-down procedures and rejecting underwear requests from transgender prisoners.

A small change in a judge’s order appears to have led the Trump administration to start arrangements to transfer more than a dozen transgender women.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different thing from another.”

FORT WORTH, TX – NPR News is reporting President Trump’s new Bureau of Prisons policy has been put on hold by the courts – the policy sanctioned transgender women in federal prisons to turn in any female-identifying items (i.e. clothing, women’s razors, hair care, and other commissary items).