Some juvenile detention centers have continued to house male prisoners with females even after an executive order from President Donald trump was to put an end to that.

The reason is due to little known Obama era regulations that allow transgender boys to be incarcerated with young girls, The Daily Wire reported.

And those rules could even cause Republican states to comply or risk losing federal funding for the detention centers.

“Advocates tell The Daily Wire that Trump’s executive orders protecting women’s spaces may not automatically negate these rules. Unless amended, the federal code will continue to force youth prisons to consider housing transgender-identifying males alongside girls, raising serious concerns about their safety,” the report said.

“Kids in juvenile are extremely vulnerable, and to add mixed sex housing into it, that’s creating a totally unnecessary hurdle to have to jump over,” former California prisoner, Amie Ichikawa, who has become an advocate for keeping males out of female prisons, said. It’s setting them up for failure, and it’s just robbing them of any kind of normalcy or ability to focus on healing.”

Former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder crafted the regulations in May 2012 and they became law in  August of the same year.

The 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) does not mention transgender inmates but it is designed to have standards to lower the incidents of sexual assaults at detention centers.

“In deciding whether to assign a transgender or intersex resident to a facility for male or female residents, and in making other housing and programming assignments, the agency shall consider on a case-by-case basis whether a placement would ensure the resident’s health and safety, and whether the placement would present management or security problems,” it said.

Trump’s executive order was signed in January “to ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers.”

It amends federal code 115.41 which is related to “standards for adult prisons and jails.”

“That specific direction to consider amending that particular provision, it doesn’t mean that they also shouldn’t also amend the other relevant provisions,” Lauren Adams, an attorney for the Women’s Liberation Front, said. “We can’t let juvenile offenders be dropped out of the conversation.”

“That specific direction to consider amending that particular provision, it doesn’t mean that they also shouldn’t also amend the other relevant provisions,” the attorney said.

“We can’t let juvenile offenders be dropped out of the conversation,” she said.