The Latest: White House claims victory in a showdown with Colombia over taking deported migrants
The Latest: White House claims victory in a showdown with Colombia over taking deported migrants
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The White House is claiming victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime U.S. partner.
Here's the latest:. Incarcerated transgender woman challenges Trump’s order on gender. A transgender woman has sued President Trump and the head of the federal prison system over a plan to move her to a men’s prison. The lawsuit was filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Boston and is among the first court challenges related to the executive order Trump signed on his first day in office stating that the federal government would recognize only two sexes: male and female. The order defines them as being based on the reproductive cells present at conception and says they can’t change.
The plaintiff says she was moved from the general population at a women’s prison in Massachusetts to an isolated unit in Massachusetts the day after Trump signed the order, and that she was told she would be moved to a men’s facility. By Saturday, she says, the federal Bureau of Prisons changed her gender marker on publicly available prison records from female to male.
The plaintiff says she’s been on hormones since she was a teenager and has never been in a men’s prison. She says she would be at high risk there of harassment, abuse, violence and sexual assault. She also says she could be harmed if officials stop providing her with hormone treatment.
