Trans inmate in Indiana convicted of killing toddler stepchild sues Trump admin for alleged assaults (Getty Images/Indiana Department of Corrections/U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana.)
When reached for comment about the lawsuit, a White House spokesperson said: "President Trump has vowed to defend biological women from gender ideology extremism and restore biological truth to the Federal government."
The inmate is seeking $3.5 million in compensatory damages from Trump, alongside the other defendants, including prison employees and 12 other "gang affiliated inmates," who allegedly "stabbed" and sexually assaulted the inmate over a four-day period in January.
"Trump's president now, and we won’t even get in trouble for f-----g you trannies up, we’re patriots and even if you tell on us, Trump will pardon us and probably give us a medal," Cordellioné claimed one of the offenders said, according to the complaint.
Cordellioné further alleged the unit team manager and case manager also said similar things during the alleged assaults.
"I’ve seen your case on the news, and I personally don’t think us tax payers should have to pay for your surgery," the case manager allegedly said.
INDIANA JUDGE RULES PRISON MUST PROVIDE TRANSGENDER SURGERY FOR INMATE WHO KILLED BABY
President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has been defending the state's law and submitted a brief in January to a court of appeals defending Indiana’s law barring sex-change operations for inmates. The attorney general argued that the Eighth Amendment doesn’t require the state "to provide experimental treatments generally, and it certainly doesn’t here, when multiple doctors have said this inmate is a poor candidate for surgery," a spokesperson previously told Fox News Digital.
In March, Judge Richard Young, a Clinton appointee, ordered the IDOC to arrange sex reassignment surgery for Cordellioné at the "earliest opportunity."
Fox News Digital scooped earlier this month that states failing to comply with federal orders to house inmates based on their biological sex can expect "imminent changes" and funding cuts. Trump's orders also bar federal funds from being used for sex reassignment surgeries for inmates.
Jamie Joseph is a U.S. Politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering transgender and culture issues, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, and stateside legislative developments.
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