ICE stopped reporting the number of transgender people in its custody beginning in February, shortly after President Donald Trump took office. The reporting change removed those figures from the agency's biweekly statistical report despite a 2021 requirement to disclose the numbers. ICE has also rolled back transgender health-care requirements in detention contracts and removed a 2015 memo governing treatment of transgender migrants authored by Thomas Homan from its website. An executive order requiring federal facilities to house people according to sex assigned at birth applies to federal immigration facilities. The missing data hampers oversight, obstructs assistance, and worsens safety risks in detention.
"The harms of anti-immigrant and anti-trans policies and the harms of detention that are worsening under this administration are just all being compounded, and at a time where we have even less access to just the most basic statistics," Smart said.
"A new strategy from Federalist Society lawyers at the DOJ uses \"false claims\" to target trans health care providers."
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