Former inmate and founder of a nonprofit to help women build sustainable lives after prison, Susan B. Weissman, who served five years at the Central California Women’s Facility, found that male inmates are being moved into female prisons, often with a female identity due to their lower violent behavior. She argues that these decisions should have been made without sacrificing the dignity of women in prison to an ideology. She also criticizes current Bureau of Prisons policies on transgender health care, which have been ignored for years by officials who prioritized the safety and dignity of male inmates rather than their own. Weissmann argues that President Trump's executive order barring taxpayer-funded gender surgeries in federal prisons signals a shift away from treating prisons as laboratories for social experimentation.