- As California’s female inmates pay the price for the state’s “inclusive” policy, the Biden administration is pushing a similar agenda at the federal level.
- In January 2022, the Department of Justice revived an Obama-era policy that encouraged prison officials to consider the “health and safety” of transgender prisoners when determining where to sentence them.
- California Democrats used the same “health and safety” standard when they passed SB 132 in 2020. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) signed the bill into law that same year, officially allowing male prisoners to enter women’s prisons.
