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The Guidelines For Protection Of Transgender Prisoners Just Got Rewritten

Recently edited guidelines from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons no longer ask that an inmate's gender identity be considered when recommending a housing facility for them.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons released revisions to its Transgender Offender Manual on Friday. Notably, the rewritten manual gets rid of language asking that an inmate's gender identity, not the sex they were assigned at birth, be considered when recommending a housing facility for them.

The initial manual, dated Jan. 18, 2017, states: "The TEC [Transgender Executive Council] will recommend housing by gender identity when appropriate." In the revised version, which was approved by the Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Mark

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