A trans-identified male serving a 53-year sentence for multiple domestic terrorism charges has launched a new lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons, alleging sex discrimination because he is now “female.” Emily Claire Hari, formerly known as Michael Hari, led a ragtag white supremacist militia known as the Patriot Freedom Fighters, later re-named to the White Rabbits.
Hari, along with the small group, began engaging in criminal activity in 2017 with the intention of carrying out acts of domestic terrorism. In August of that year, Hari’s group set an improvised incendiary device near the Imam’s office of the Dar-al Farooq Islamic Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of Hari’s associates, Micheal McWhorter, would later confirm the purpose of the attack was to “scare Muslims out of the United States.” No one was injured in the attack.
In November of 2017, Hari and his “soldiers” targeted the Women’s Health Practice in Champaign, Illinois, where they threw a pipe bomb into the building. The bomb did not detonate and was found by a receptionist of the clinic who called police to safely extract the device from the facility.
Hari and his militia would go on to engage in a series of petty crimes in an attempt to gather the funds to continue their operations, including robbing a Hispanic man and holding up two local Walmarts in Clarence, Illinois in December of 2017.
In early 2018, Hari and his ‘militia’ attempted to sabotage railroad tracks near Effingham, Illinois with a bomb. After the attack, the group sent ransom emails demanding $190,000 in cryptocurrency under threat they would damage the railway further.
Shortly after, Hari tried to frame another individual for the crimes, but the effort would only lead to Federal Investigators more easily tracking him and the members of his militia down.
Hari and his colleagues were ultimately arrested, and, in 2021, Hari was sentenced to 53 years for his role in the Dar al-Farooq bombing. He later received an additional 14 years in 2022 on a number of other charges related to his domestic terrorist activity and the attempted bombing of the women’s clinic. The 14 years is to be served concurrently with the 53-year sentence.
During his trial, it was revealed that Hari identified as a transgender “woman.” While leading the White Rabbit militia, he had been searching terms such as ‘sex change,’ ‘transgender surgery,’ and ‘post-op transgender’ on the internet. Hari allegedly planned on fleeing to Thailand to get ‘gender affirming’ surgeries.
Hari formally applied for transfer to a women’s prison in October of 2023, attempting to exhaust his internal remedies.
In an email exchange dated January 10, 2024, the Transgender Executive Council, which makes housing decisions for the Bureau of Prisons, re-affirmed his placement at the men’s facility and told Hari his case would be re-reviewed in November of 2024.
Newly-filed records now show that Hari was briefly placed in female classification under US Marshal custody at Sherburne County Jail in Minnesota and Livingston County Jail in Illinois before being moved back to male classification for reasons that are unclear. While incarcerated at USP Allenwood, a men’s prison, Hari managed to obtain a card permitting he only be pat-down by female officers.
In 2025, Hari’s first suit was dismissed due to an improper venue. Later on that same year, in November, Hari filed a new complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief alleging his constitutional rights had been violated.
Hari claims his fifth amendment equal protection rights and his eighth amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment are being violated by the Bureau of Prison’s refusal to return him to a women’s facility and arrange his “gender affirming” care.
“Ms. Hari is unsafe in any male prison due to her female sex characteristics,” Hari’s complaint reads. “[Denying] Ms. Hari classification as a female inmate in accordance with her legal female sex, placing her at risk of sexually abusive victimization and discriminating against her on the basis of her sex.”
Hari’s complaint points to a series of psychiatric and medical assessments he received following his 2018 incarceration including recommendations for hormone therapy, electrolysis hair removal, a vaginoplasty, breast implants, and access to feminine undergarments and clothing.
While Hari had begun feminizing hormones, his treatment was abruptly halted in January of 2025 after President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning the use of federal funds for “gender affirming care” in federal prisons.
Hari details this event in his complaint.
“In January of 2025, an announcement was posted on the FBOP electronics billboard announcing that President Trump’s Executive order 14168, titled with the Orwellian title; ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’ would be implemented by the FBOP … On March 15, 2025, at the FBOP Oklahoma City Transfer Center, Ms. Hari’s female undergarments were seized by staff in implementation of Trump’s Executive Order … and were not returned to her.”
Hari notes that he was then told by staff that “transgender no longer exists,” “there’s only two genders now,” and “this is Trump’s America.” He claims he was later sexually harassed by staff who quoted these lines to him.
Arguing that he has been “misclassified” as a male inmate, Hari points to the fact that he was legally able to change his sex and name, and a past physician report stating that he had “undergone ‘appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition to the new gender of female.'”
Hari’s complaint also details his claim that his eighth amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment have been violated because of the withdrawal of his “gender affirming” procedures and accommodations.
“… the denial of Ms. Hari’s gender confirmation surgery violates the Plaintiff’s 8th Amendment rights by violating the 8th Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment because it denies her necessary medical treatment for a serious medical condition, with deliberate indifference to serious risk of harm, as it is a blanket ban which takes no consideration of Ms. Hari’s individual circumstances, nor her suffering or the medical necessity of treatment.”
Hari, who is currently being housed at a men’s prison in Oregon, is seeking injunctive relief ordering the Bureau of Prisons to classify him as “female” and to provide him with surgical evaluations for his “gender confirmation” surgeries and for the removal of his “gender non-conforming” hair.
Hari’s demands and arguments echo those of another recent case brought by a trans-identified male inmate against the Bureau of Prisons, with the court ruling in the inmate’s favor.
As previously reported by Reduxx, the Bureau of Prisons was ordered to provide laser hair removal and other cosmetic services to a transgender pedophile currently incarcerated for sexually abusing his own 10-year-old son. Brian Buckingham, 47, changed his name to “Nani Love” and declared that he identified as “female” just before he was sentenced for the horrific crime.
Buckingham claimed that Bureau of Prisons had violated his eighth amendment rights and his rights under Section 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 by denying him access to “medically necessary care.” Buckingham described himself as a “transgender female” in the motion, and claimed that he was at risk of irreparable harm if the accommodations were not provided to him.
On September 18, 2025, United States Magistrate Judge David Christel filed a report determining that Buckingham was “likely to succeed” on the merits of his claims that his Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment had been violated.
A transgender inmate is seeking damages from the Bureau of Prisons, alleging officials failed to comply with a court order to provide him with laser hair removal.
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Brian "Nani Love" Buckingham was convicted of sexually assaulting his own 10-year-old son.https://t.co/QRofOS49yg
“Buckingham has presented evidence that she suffers from a serious medical need, gender dysphoria. She also has presented evidence that Defendants were aware of her need for the Consultations,” Judge Christel wrote, referring to Buckingham with feminine pronouns. “The evidence shows BOP healthcare providers at FDC SeaTac referred Buckingham for the Consultations, and then BOP healthcare providers at FCI Butner discontinued the requests for the Consultations without reason and summarily denied her request for the facial feminization consultation … The undisputed evidence shows the Consultations are medically necessary.”
Judge Christel then recommended Buckingham’s motion for a preliminary injunction be granted, and that an injunction ordering the Bureau of Prisons to provide him with the cosmetic consultations be issued. Explicitly included were those for laser hair removal, facial feminization surgery, and voice training.
United States District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez adopted Christel’s recommendations, and gave the Bureau of Prisons 30 days to comply with the mandatory injunction.
Buckingham has since filed additional action against the Bureau of Prisons, accusing them of noncompliance with the order and seeking damages.
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