Incarcerated Transgender Women and the Sinking Blade of Institutionalized Transphobia

On March 26, 2026, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will be investigating prisons in California and Maine to determine whether housing transgender women in women’s prisons violates the Constitution. According to the DOJ, there are concerns that prisons that house transgender women violate cisgender women’s constitutional rights, such as the First Amendment, […]