Federal Medical Center Carswell is a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, that is notorious for human rights abuses. Because it is a medical facility, the prison holds more trans people than average due to providing hormone treatments.

Last night, we received word from Ángel (she/her) that she has not been able to access her testosterone for about a month. As a result of Trump’s executive order this week, police came to the prison and took about ~20 trans women away with zero warning, most likely to be sent to a men’s prison. The women were sobbing in fear and physically assaulted as they were dragged away. This happened yesterday (Jan. 24) around 3 p.m. and resulted in a prison-wide lockdown for about 3-4 hours.

Ángel was also told yesterday that they would be coming for the transmasculine people today (Jan. 25) to be sent to ad-seg (separation from general population) while “Trump decides what to do with them.”

“You should have seen the evil looks of triumph as they escorted the trans women out of here… They just took them crying. The rumor is they’re all getting sent to men’s prisons. There’s talk about us transmascs getting sent to ad-seg until ‘Trump finds a place for us.’ They’ve refused to give me my testosterone shots everytime I’ve asked.”

“A guard that tells me a lot of info did mention that ICE was told that they have 90 days to do all their deportations — ‘Worst Go First’ is what the news was saying — so a lot of us immigrants are freaking the fuck out about what the fuck we’re supposed to do. Everyone’s getting torn from their families. I had so many of my friends (most of us in here are immigrants) just shocked to hell about what happened.“

Ángel was initially told that she would be deported at her release on April 1 — but if what the guard said is true, this could be a lot sooner. She is not fighting the deportation case and will sign over the right to any court proceedings so that she can return to Chile and regain freedom as quickly as possible.

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