Facility-level revocation of transgender safety measures across the ICE detention network
- Date
- Actor
- ICE and contracted detention facilities
- Agency
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- Type
- Institutional compliance
Summary
Reporting in January 2026 documented that, implementing the 2025 NDS and contract changes, multiple ICE detention centers had formally revoked transgender safety measures and halted transgender-related medical care — facilities identified include Bluebonnet Detention Facility and El Valle Detention Facility (Texas), Eloy Detention Center (Arizona), Torrance County Detention Facility (New Mexico), and Folkston ICE Processing Center (Georgia). The American Prospect reported that ICE's revisions deleted the transgender-specific rape- and sexual-abuse-prevention protections that had implemented DHS's PREA framework for these detainees; transgender women are held in male facilities based on sex assigned at birth without individualized placement review.
Status
In effect; no injunction reaches ICE detention placements. Because ICE stopped publishing transgender custody data (see 2025-02-04 item), the population affected cannot be independently quantified.
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