DOJ’s creative solution to transgender prison case would move male inmates into specialized unit

Published July 21, 2026 5:00am ET



The Justice Department intends to move all of the biological male inmates currently housed at women’s prisons across the country into a specialized unit, resolving the men’s lawsuit claiming that they would be at a heightened risk of rape while imprisoned among other men.

Government attorneys on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Prisons have filed a notice of anticipated transfer informing the court in Jane Doe v. Blanche that officials intend to transfer the transgender litigants, all biological men who identify as women, to “a secure, segregated” wing within Federal Medical Center-Carswell, a Texas women’s prison.

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