"When President Donald Trump took office in January, one of his first executive orders declared that trans people in federal prisons would be moved back to facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth. These events were unsurprising to many incarcerated trans people, particularly in states like Florida, where trans people have already been coping with a binary-gender regime enforced by despotic leaders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott."
"Rayne Vylette is an activist and writer currently living behind bars in Florida and organizing with the Alyssa Rodriguez Center for Gender Justice (ARC). In 2023, Vylette joined Interrupting Criminalization's cohort of abolitionist journalists inside and outside of prison; during the period of the cohort, she was re-arrested by the state of Florida on a probation violation and put back in prison for 30 years."
An early executive order required trans people in federal prisons to be moved to facilities aligned with their sex assigned at birth, intensifying risks for incarcerated trans people. States like Florida and Texas maintain strict binary-gender regimes enforced by state leadership, producing harsher conditions for trans prisoners. Rayne Vylette organizes inside Florida prisons with the Alyssa Rodriguez Center for Gender Justice and joined an abolitionist journalism cohort. Vylette was re-arrested on a probation violation and returned to prison for 30 years. Incarcerated activists have staged events addressing censorship and have repeatedly reported rapidly deteriorating conditions for trans women in Florida prisons.
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