The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse
The U.S. Department of Justice will “immediately” stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.
In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.
Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.
What do you suggest I, and American, do? I’m part of local antifascist and socialist organizations. I help support those most affected by the gestapo. I protest (and yes, I attended No Kings) and frequently write my local officials and representatives. Am I supposed to rise up in revolution? With what organization? How do we have any possible chance of defeating the US military, much less the Christian right who own almost all the weapons?
Genuinely, what else do I do. I feel like I’m doing everything I physically can to resist short of throwing my life away in what will be deemed a “terrorist attack” the next day, and yet constantly see people derisively commenting on the uselessness of American opposition short of a hopeless violent revolution. What would you have me do? Not protest? It’s one of the few ways that most citizens can resist, and the administration clearly fucking hates it.
Convince other people. You’re doing the right things but not enough of you are. You need more people in the cause.