Judge overrules Trump and tells prisons to keep giving trans inmates their meds in blockbuster decision
A judge has ruled the federal Bureau of Prisons must provide hormone therapy to transgender inmates after Donald Trump signed an executive order halting all treatments.
Trump issued the order within hours of his inauguration in January forcing the federal government to only recognize two genders – male and female – as well as, house transgender women in men’s prisons and not fund gender-affirming care.
BREAKING: Federal judge orders that hormone therapy and social accommodations be maintained for transgender people in federal prisons, blocking Trump admin policies.
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Several transgender prisoners sued the administration to have their treatments resumed.