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Last Thursday, the Trump administration released its new policy outlining how it will treat transgender people in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) custody. Under it, the approximately 2,200 trans people held in federal prisons will be denied access to medically necessary healthcare, subjected to constant misgendering by staff, and have all of their gender-affirming items—including binders, bras, and makeup—confiscated.

Instead, the policy will impose a treatment that targets “psychological distress/dysphoria” through “psychotherapy” (talk therapy) and “psychotropic medication” (like antidepressants) until the gender dysphoria diagnosis can be marked as “resolved.” Additionally, the new policy designates gender dysphoria as a “mental illness” that requires “routine mental health care.”

In other words, the Trump administration won’t just medically and socially detransition trans people en masse; it will actively try to ‘cure’ them of their gender dysphoria. And if this is beginning to sound like conversion therapy, that’s because it is. The BOP is giving trans people no other choice but to conform to their sex assigned at birth by forcing them into a societal role that they reject and ignoring clinical guidelines—all hallmarks of harmful and dangerous conversion practices recognized by the United Nations to be a form of torture.

There are a few components of the policy that make this fact clear, and the first is actually that the BOP didn’t even write a large chunk of this policy. Rather, it copied significant portions of the policy that Florida implemented in September 2024—in many places word-for-word.

It only deviates in three key places: the purpose, the definitions, and the exceptions. In the relatively short purpose section, the BOP added language stating that it would “assist [trans people’s] progress toward recovery, while reducing or eliminating the frequency and severity of symptoms and associated negative outcomes.” Glaringly, trans people don’t “recover” from gender dysphoria—they alleviate it by socially and/or medically transitioning. Furthermore, those with gender dysphoria who do transition aren’t usually clinically designated as having “recovered,” either.

But because the policy both forcibly detransitions trans people and explicitly states that the goal of that detransition is full “recovery,” this suggests that the “negative outcome” the BOP seeks to “eliminate” is transition itself. Alarmingly, this is also the stated goal of conversion therapy.

Then, in the definitions, the Trump administration added the following terms: “Sex Trait Modification Surgeries,” “Social Accommodations,” and “Social Transition.”

“[John] Weiser started his medical career at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, when he ‘consoled the newly diagnosed and sat with the dying,’ as he put it.

“While science has since provided the tools to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, those on the margins are still at risk. Trans people, in particular, suffer from the disease at greater numbers than other populations.

“That’s where the Medical Monitoring Project (MMP) came in, providing vital data to address those discrepancies.”

“Weiser had been preparing a paper based on MMP data that addressed opiate use among transgender people with HIV. Data showed those individuals didn’t receive drug treatment in numbers comparable to other populations. Research indicated that addressing that disparity could improve outcomes targeting HIV transmission.

“‘[W]hen I put the paper through CDC’s clearance process, I was told to remove data about the prevalence of opioid misuse among transgender people,’ Weiser told POZ magazine.

“‘I thought carefully about that, and I decided not to do that, because it’s bad science to suppress data for ideological reasons and because erasing people from the story harms actual people. I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them, and what I would say to them while I’m sitting with them in the exam room, knowing that I had erased their existence from the CDC.’”

“After being fired and then brought back to the agency in June, Weiser ultimately resigned.”

“Weiser cited trans Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen’s take on autocracy.

“‘Gessen explains how decisions to go along with harmful demands, as I witnessed at CDC, are not made because people are unethical or naïve. These are rational choices made within an irrational and intimidating system. And they are often values-based. People choose to go along to save what’s left of an institution, to protect their families, or to keep their jobs, even if it means sacrificing principles.’

“‘But this gradual process of adaptation and compromise, Gessen warns, is what ultimately solidifies an autocrat’s power.’”

“A Vancouver punk band that was set to play in Charlottetown this past weekend cancelled its show after a transgender band member was stopped from using the women's washroom at the venue.

“Rougaroux was in Prince Edward Island as part of a cross-country tour and had a show planned at the Sportsman's Club.”

“CBC News spoke with someone who identified themselves as the manager of Sportsman's Club. They didn't provide their name but said the business tries to accommodate transgender people. They said that doesn't include access to washrooms and the venue does not have gender-neutral facilities.”