Supreme Court upholds pause on Trump's anti-trans prison policy. The court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration must continue providing gender-affirming care to inmates in federal prisons as litigation on efforts to change the policy continues.
The Supreme Court has previously allowed other policies for transgender people to move ahead, including restrictions on military service and passport sex markers. Trump's order called on the Bureau of Prisons to revise its medical care policies so that federal funds aren't spent 'for the purpose of conforming an inmate's appearance to that of the opposite sex.'
Attorneys for transgender inmates challenged the policy in court and U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered treatments to continue. The government has not detailed evidence of security problems linked to hormone therapy for transgender inmates over the 30 years it has been provided.
The conservative-majority Supreme Court has previously upheld state laws banning certain medical treatments for transgender youth, and restricting sports participation by transgender athletes in women's sports.