One of the women sued the Trump administration, alleging the order violates her constitutional rights and puts her “at an extremely high risk of harassment, abuse, violence, and sexual assault.”

Trans people in federal custody are already feeling immediate impacts of the order, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter says.

The executive order, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” and signed on Trump’s first day in office, directs the federal government to recognize only two, biologically distinct sexes, male and female.

With Trump proclaiming the U.S. will recognize two sexes, male and female, there are a host of implications for trans and nonbinary people.

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.

The lawsuit alleges the plaintiff "will be at an extremely high risk of harassment, abuse, violence, and sexual assault" if transferred.

An incarcerated transgender woman is suing Donald Trump over an executive order that would forcibly move trans women like her into men’s facilities, exposing her to an “extremely high risk of harassment,

An incarcerated transgender woman sued the Trump administration Sunday, challenging an executive order that requires the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to house transgender inmates according to their sex at birth and prevents prisoners from accessing gender-affirming medical care.