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The Trump administration has taken swift action to address the controversial issue of housing biological male inmates who identify as women in federal women’s detention facilities.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning biological males from being placed in women’s federal prisons and prohibiting federal funding for gender transition procedures. The order mandates that inmates be housed according to their biological sex, not their gender identity. 

The directive follows data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) revealing that 1,538 of the 10,047 inmates in women’s federal facilities—about 15 percent—are biological males, according to the Daily Caller.

“The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers,” the order stated. It added that federal funds cannot be used for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”

The directive was part of the executive order Trump signed on his first day in office, which declared that the federal government officially recognizes that there are only two sexes. The order was intended to defend women from “gender ideology extremism.” The move has been praised by advocacy groups, including the Independent Women’s Forum, which called the order a step toward ending the “utter unfairness of allowing men into women’s spaces.”

The policy change comes amid rising concerns over incidents involving biological male inmates housed in women’s facilities. Reports have surfaced of male inmates committing assaults in such settings. In one recent case, a former inmate of a women’s prison in Washington filed a lawsuit alleging she was sexually assaulted after being placed in a cell with a 6-foot-4 biological male convicted of child molestation. The inmate claimed she endured months of threats, harassment, and sexual violence.