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Federal Prisons Must Keep Providing Hormone Therapy to Transgender Inmates, a Judge Says
- On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the Bureau of Prisons must maintain hormone therapy for transgender inmates across the country.
- The ruling followed a lawsuit by three transgender inmates who challenged President Trump's executive order disrupting their hormone treatment and accommodations.
- Judge Lamberth stated federal law prevents arbitrary denial of medication deemed appropriate by medical staff, and the plaintiffs have diagnoses of gender dysphoria causing severe distress.
- The Bureau of Prisons reportedly provides hormone therapy to over 600 inmates, but some experienced reduced or stopped treatment before restoration following legal action.
- The injunction bars enforcement of Trump’s order limiting federal support for gender-affirming care, ensuring continued medical treatment and signaling a judicial check on administration policy.
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US Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring the Federal Bureau of Prisons from implementing an executive order that would deny gender-affirming care to transgender inmates. The judge reasoned that enforcing the order could cause irreparable harm to the inmates by denying them medically necessary treatment. He found that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their claim that the executive order violated their consti…
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