Biden trans policies 'promoted prison rape' and amounted to 'child abuse,' Miller says in blistering critique

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White House's Stephen Miller declares end to DEI 'strangulation'

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller vowed that President Donald Trump's administration will bring an end to DEI "strangulation."

Former President Joe Biden's transgender policies increased "prison rape" and "child abuse," according to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. 

President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders that recognize male and female as the only two sexes and require transgender women born as biological males in federal prisons to be housed in male facilities. 

"The Biden administration promoted prison rape by putting men into female prisons," Miller said. "That is obviously insane, cruel, and unacceptable. … This administration will not allow that."

Trump's executive order says that federal agencies will take "appropriate action to ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or for men, boys, or males) are designated by sex and not identity."

The order also demands a stop to any gender-transition medical treatments for inmates. 

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks during a press briefing at the White House on May 1, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Specifically, it says that the Justice Department "shall ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex."

Meanwhile, a Trump administration official told Fox News Digital in April that states failing to follow the executive order could brace themselves for federal funding cuts. 

The remarks came after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Trump administration would rescind federal funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections after it permitted a biological man who identifies as a woman to remain in a women's prison facility. 

"We pulled all nonessential funding from the Department of Corrections in Maine because they were allowing a man in a woman's prison, a giant 6-foot-1, 245-pound guy who committed a double murder with a knife, stabbed his parents to death and the family dog, and, he identified as a woman," Bondi said in an interview with "Fox & Friends" in April. "So, they were letting him be housed in a female prison? No longer. We will pull your funding. We will protect women in prison."

Miller also said that the Trump administration’s Justice Department is seeking to crack down on fighting "child abuse" in public school systems with state and local law enforcement stemming from teachers who support children identifying with a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth — especially behind parents' backs. 

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Thursday, May 1, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

"It is child abuse to change a child's gender, particularly if you do not inform the parents otherwise, if a five-year-old or a six-year-old goes to school, or a seven-year-old goes to school, and the teacher tries to turn the boy into a girl, or the girl into a boy, that is child abuse, and this administration is treating that as child abuse and is a gross violation of parental rights," Miller said. 

Likewise, Miller emphasized that the Trump administration is seeking to keep biological men out of women’s sports. 

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Trump signed an executive order in February barring those assigned as male at birth from competing in women’s sports, titled, "No Men in Women's Sports." The order bans those assigned male at birth from using women’s restrooms and orders the Department of Education to spearhead investigations into cases of possible violations.

"This administration ending the Biden administration's policy and the Democrat party's policy of allowing men into women's sports, men into women's spaces," Miller said. "We are using every single legal and financial tool we have at President Trump's direction to make it clear that schools and universities are and will lose federal funds … if you allow men to invade women's sports and women's spaces, and this applies to our whole K-12 system."

A spokesperson for Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

Fox News’ Jamie Joseph and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.