该新职位将负责监管全州监狱系统内跨性别、双性人及非二元性取向囚犯的需求与安全
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发布于 2026年9月2日 美国东部时间晚上8:00 | 更新于 2026年9月2日 美国东部时间晚上8:17
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俄勒冈州惩教局（DOC）上月聘用了一名性别确认护理协调员，该职位年薪为7.8万至11.5万美元。
根据招聘启事，该职位的职责包括监督一项“管理和监控被羁押的跨性别、双性人及非二元性取向成年囚犯的需求与安全风险”的项目。该职位还将牵头一个多学科团队，专注于满足这些囚犯的个性化需求。
该职位设立之际，俄勒冈州惩教局预计2026年将面临5500万美元的预算赤字。这一举措延续了俄勒冈州州长蒂娜·科特克推动的性别相关倡议，科特克长期以来一直是跨性别群体的支持者，目前正寻求连任第二任期。
这一职位也凸显了针对跨性别囚犯的后勤保障难题。
被关押在俄勒冈州女子监狱的男性杀人犯在性虐待诉讼中获得高额和解赔偿
2022年11月2日，俄勒冈州波特兰，民主党州长候选人蒂娜·科特克在投票箱前投票前与媒体交流。（马蒂厄·刘易斯-罗兰/盖蒂图片社）
在2023年对俄勒冈州唯一的女子监狱咖啡溪惩教中心进行评估后，科特克表示，她的政府将寻求方法解决报告中指出的顺性别和跨性别囚犯获得医疗护理延迟的问题。
“跨性别囚犯被拒绝或延迟获得必要的护理，包括激素替代疗法。这给部分囚犯带来了严重的生理和心理健康问题，包括性别焦虑，”报告写道。
报告中举了一个例子，一名咖啡溪监狱的跨性别囚犯称，她继续服用激素阻断剂的请求未得到任何回应。
“我之前在县里开药，到这里后就拿不到了……我提交了好几次申请，但他们一直把我推来推去。现在我已经来月经两次了，这太可怕又丢人了，”这名生物女性囚犯说道。
科特克承诺解决报告中提出的问题。
“在全国范围内，被监禁女性的需求未得到系统性满足的背景下，我决心直面这些问题，”科特克在一份新闻稿中表示。
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咖啡溪惩教中心是俄勒冈州惩教局运营的女子监狱和囚犯收押中心，位于俄勒冈州威尔逊维尔，1991年启用。（凯利·乔丹/《州报》）
“GIPA的报告读起来令人警醒。俄勒冈州的惩教系统有责任确保监禁环境能带来尽可能好的公共安全结果，并为囚犯成功重返社会做好准备。”
作为应对措施的一部分，她的办公室成立了惩教部门性别响应实践咨询小组。
该小组随后建议对负责囚犯住房、医疗和行为护理决策的工作人员进行培训，以满足跨性别、非二元性取向及性别多元囚犯的需求。
该小组并未专门提议设立性别确认护理协调员这一职位。
该职位与参议院第1120号法案中拟设立的职位类似，该法案最终未能通过。除其他条款外，该法案原本将设立一个职位，负责“协调各部门工作人员和被羁押成年囚犯的相关工作，并开展培训，以落实支持跨性别、非二元性取向或性别多元成年囚犯的最佳实践”。
此次聘用与科特克要求各机构削减开支的指令相悖。2025年，华盛顿特区的共和党人通过了唐纳德·特朗普总统的“宏大美好法案”中的减税政策，俄勒冈州的税收状况也随之改变。
该州的税法借鉴了联邦政府使用的诸多应纳税收入定义。当这些定义缩窄后，俄勒冈州的税收收入也随之减少，根据州政府报告，该州普通基金出现了3.737亿美元的负结余。
“这并非我们此前的计划，但却是我们必须应对的局面。我要求你们竭尽所能节省纳税人的钱。这一挑战并非俄勒冈州独有，但我们的应对方式将与众不同。我们的韧性、团队合作和决心曾帮助我们度过难关，未来也将如此，”科特克在写给各州部门负责人的信中写道。
与其他部门一样，惩教局也受到了影响，预计将出现5500万美元的预算赤字。为解决这一问题，该部门被要求放缓运营开支、准备削减运营成本，并暂停非必要的州外出行。
即便如此，科特克仍将跨性别医疗护理列为优先事项，大力倡导由政府主导扩大跨性别医疗程序的可及性，称其属于“医疗保健”范畴。
“我想明确一点：性别确认护理就是医疗保健。就是这样，没有其他解释，”科特克在2023年立法机构通过生殖与性别确认护理法案后的法案签署仪式上说道。
她还驳斥了特朗普政府限制为向未成年人提供跨性别医疗程序的医院提供联邦资助的企图。
特朗普指示医保和医疗补助服务中心主任穆罕默德·奥兹终止 Medicaid 为未成年人提供性别转换治疗 funding
科特克告诉记者，她在周日的行政命令发布前直接与特朗普总统通了电话，敦促他不要派遣军队。（克莱尔·拉什/美联社）
“特朗普政府不能修改规则，限制为向年轻人提供性别确认护理的医院和医生的资助。性别确认护理得到了主要医学组织的认可，在帮助年轻人忠于自我、保持安全、健康和获得支持方面发挥着重要作用，”科特克在一份视频声明中说道。
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The Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) hired a gender-affirming care coordinator last month, and the job will pay between $78,000 and $115,000 annually.
The job includes oversight of a program for “managing and monitoring needs and safety risks of transgender, intersex and non-binary adults in custody,” according to the listing. The position also chairs a multidisciplinary team focused on their individualized needs.
The role, which comes as the DOC is projected to have a $55 million deficit in 2026, continues gender-related initiatives spearheaded by Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a longtime champion of the trans community, as she pursues re-election to a second term.
It also highlights the logistical difficulties associated with trans prisoners.
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Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tina Kotek speaks with members of the media before casting her ballot at a ballot drop box Nov. 2, 2022, in Portland, Ore.(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)
After a 2023 review of Oregon’s only women-only prison, the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Kotek said her administration would look for ways to address what the report called delayed care for its cisgender and trans inmates.
“Transgender residents [are] being denied or delayed access to needed care, including hormone replacement therapy. This creates significant medical and mental health issues for some residents, including gender dysphoria,” the report stated.
The report included one example of a transgender resident at the Coffee Creek who said her request for continuing her hormone blocker treatment had gone unheeded.
“I had been accessing prescriptions at the county. I did not get it when I got here. … I sent several requests, but they kept bumping me to different places. Now I’ve gotten my period twice. It’s been terrorizing and humiliating,” the resident, a biological woman, said.
Kotek promised to address issues raised by the report.
“In the wake of national, systemic shortcomings in meeting the needs of women who are incarcerated, I am resolved to confront these issues head-on,” Kotek said in a press release.
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The Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison and prisoner intake center operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections, is located in Wilsonville, Ore. It opened in 1991.(Kelly Jordan/Statesman Journal)
“The GIPA report was sobering to read. It is incumbent on Oregon’s corrections system to ensure that the use of carceral settings yield the best possible public safety outcomes and sets people up for successful re-entry.”
As a part of the response, her office created the Advisory Panel on Gender Responsive Practices in Corrections.
In turn, the panel recommended training staff who make decisions about housing and medical and behavioral care for the needs of transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse inmates.
The panel did not specifically recommend the gender-affirming care coordinator position.
The role is similar to a position that would have been established through SB 1120, a failed bill. Among other provisions, that law would have created a role tasked to “provide coordination of efforts and training across staff and adults in custody on best practices for supporting transgender, nonbinary or gender-diverse adults in custody.”
The hire clashes with Kotek’s instruction to agencies to reduce spending. In 2025, when Republicans in Washington, D.C., passed tax cuts through President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” Oregon’s tax picture also changed.
The state’s tax code mirrors many of the definitions of taxable income used by the federal government. When those definitions shrank, so did Oregon’s revenue, leaving the state with a negative general fund balance of $373.7 million, according to state reports.
“This is not what we had planned for, but it is what we must do. I am asking you to leave no stone unturned to save tax-payer dollars. This challenge is not unique to Oregon, but how we respond will be. Our resilience, teamwork and determination have carried us through hard times before. They will again,” Kotek wrote in a letter to state department heads.
Like other departments, the DOC was also affected, reporting a projected $55 million deficit. To remedy this, the department was instructed to slow operational spending, prepare for operational cost reductions and suspend non-essential out-of-state travel.
Even so, Kotek has highlighted trans care as a priority, strongly advocating for a government-led approach to expanding access to trans procedures, calling them part of “health care.”
“I want to be very clear. Gender-affirming care is health care. Period, end of story,” Kotek said at a bill signing in 2023 after the legislature passed a reproductive and gender-affirming care package.
She has also pushed back against attempts from the Trump administration to limit federal funding for hospitals that provide transgender procedures to minors.
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“The Trump administration cannot change the rules and restrict funding to hospitals and doctors who provide gender-affirming care to young people. Gender-affirming care is recognized by major medical organizations and plays an important role in helping young people stay safe, healthy and supported for who they are,” Kotek said in a video release.
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Kotek’s office did not respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital about the new position and additional details about its duties.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.