Supreme Court Keeps Block on Transgender Inmate Medical-Care Restrictions
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to immediately enforce restrictions on medical care and accommodations for transgender people in federal custody, leaving a lower-court order in place while a legal challenge proceeds.
The Bureau of Prisons policy, adopted following an executive order from President Donald Trump, would halt gender-transition surgeries, taper hormone treatments for inmates already receiving them and end accommodations such as makeup and wigs. Mental health services would remain available.
Three transgender people incarcerated in federal facilities in New Jersey, Florida and Minnesota brought a proposed class-action lawsuit challenging the policy. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Bureau of Prisons to continue providing treatment, citing the potential effects of untreated gender dysphoria, including depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. A divided appeals court panel declined to lift his order.
The administration argued that the treatments could no longer be justified and raised security concerns. Lawyers for the inmates said the government had not identified security problems tied to hormone therapy during roughly three decades in which federal prisons have provided it. Court records said about 600 inmates were receiving hormone therapy in 2025.
The Supreme Court’s order did not resolve the underlying lawsuit. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have allowed the administration’s policy to take effect.
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