Trump Asks Supreme Court to Suspend Transgender Medical Care in Federal Prisons
The Justice Department says the policy is needed to maintain institutional security and would bar surgeries, hormone therapy and social accommodations.
- On Monday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block a lower court order and allow the Federal Bureau of Prisons to enforce a policy restricting medical interventions and social accommodations for transgender inmates.
- Adopted in February 2026 to implement an executive order signed by President Trump, the policy prohibits transgender inmates from obtaining gender-transition surgeries, hormone therapy, and "social accommodations," such as wigs and padding.
- Ruling the policy was "reverse engineered" to satisfy the executive order, Senior District Judge Royce Lamberth blocked the rules; the Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals also declined to restore them earlier this month.
- Warning that the order "interferes with" prison administrators' "expert judgment," Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued the lower court is "substituting its own policy judgment for that of the agency."
- Vowing to fight the appeal, lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union and Transgender Law Center contest the case as it reaches the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court amid ongoing legal setbacks for LGBTQ Americans.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to suspend transgender medical care in federal prisons
By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to allow federal prison officials to deny certain types of medical care for transgender inmates, such as surgeries – putting another culture war issue on the high court’s burgeoning fast-track docket.The Bureau of Prisons policy that began early in
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