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The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy that would halt gender-affirming medical care and certain accommodations for transgender federal inmates.
The unsigned order left intact a lower-court injunction requiring the Bureau of Prisons to continue providing treatment for inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria while the case proceeds. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito indicated that they would have granted the administration’s request.
The injunction was issued by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth and later upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The administration had appealed after President Donald Trump issued an executive order concerning federal funding for treatment of transgender inmates.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents inmates in the case, said roughly 1,000 federal prisoners diagnosed with gender dysphoria could be affected, including about 800 receiving hormone therapy. The administration argued that the policy was justified by prison-management and security concerns.
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