Transgender Inmate Challenges Trump’s Anti-LGBT Order

A transgender woman serving in a federal prison has filed a lawsuit arguing that President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. government to recognize only two, unchangeable sexes and requiring inmates like her to be housed in men’s prisons violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law.

In a lawsuit filed on Sunday in Boston federal court, the inmate, who is being represented by lawyers at rights groups including GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, took aim at an order Trump signed on his first day back in office on Jan. 20 targeting what he called “gender ideology extremism.”

Read more at Reuters.