The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

TheĀ U.S. Department of Justice will ā€œimmediatelyā€ stop enforcingĀ a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.

In a memoĀ obtained by the non-profit news outletĀ Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to ā€œimmediately pauseā€ all ā€œcompliance determinationsā€ for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to ā€œdisregardā€ them.

Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.

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    And the Project2025 agenda takes yet another step towards their dream goal of a theocratic dictatorship.

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      I keep hoping that the people will come to their senses at some point. But I suspect that this is just what America is. I’ve never in my lifetime been more ashamed to be an American.