Attorney General Wilson applauds Trump order restoring safety in federal prisons, ends Obama-Biden era transgender procedures

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson today praised President Donald Trump’s Executive Order requiring federal prisons to house inmates based on their biological sex and ending years of taxpayer-funded transgender procedures for federal prisoners. 

“Prisons are for accountability and consequences, not to serve as playgrounds for leftist social experiments,” said Attorney General Wilson. “President Trump is doing what the radical left refuses to do: stand up for law and order, defend women, and reject the dangerous nonsense that’s turning our justice system into a joke. If you commit a crime, you don’t get to rewrite biology or demand special treatment. The American people are fed up, and this Executive Order puts a stop to the madness.” 

The Executive Order halts the use of taxpayer dollars for elective transgender procedures, including hormone therapies and surgeries for federal inmates. It also requires that biologically male inmates be housed in male-only facilities, addressing growing concerns over assaults, coercion, and privacy violations in women’s prisons. 

Earlier this month, Attorney General Wilson joined 24 other state attorneys general in a friend-of-the-court brief defending the administration’s authority to keep prisons safe and reject unproven, taxpayer-funded treatments. The brief emphasized the real danger of placing men in women’s housing and the lack of any constitutional right to gender-transition procedures behind bars. 

Wilson reaffirmed South Carolina’s commitment to working with national leaders to resist policies that undermine safety and public trust in institutions. 

“Enough is enough,” Wilson said. “We’re drawing the line. We won’t stand by while leftist ideology tramples basic biology, endangers women, and wastes taxpayer dollars.” 

You can read the full brief here.