"U.S. immigration officials on Monday announced that transgender detainees will now be able to be housed with the population that matches their own gender identity, a move aimed at better protecting a population more vulnerable to sex abuse while in detention.
...Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, the deputy assistant director for custody programs for ICE, said the guidelines give the agency’s employees the tools and resources to properly house, care, and protect transgender detainees.
“We want to give transgender detainees the chance to say
‘Hey I’m trans and this is my gender expression,
I want you to take that into account,” Lorenzen-Strait told BuzzFeed News.
Lorenzen-Strait, who will be the National LGBTI coordinator overseeing the changes, said ICE spent six months developing the guidelines and spoke with trans detainees at length about them.
He believes there are up to 75 transgender people in ICE custody, but the figure can’t be confirmed because the agency didn’t keep track of all trans detainees."
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