03-06-2025
U.S. judge halts Trump ban on treatment for 1,000 transgender prisoners
A federal judge on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from withholding hormone treatment from more than 1,000 transgender inmates under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, after the U.S. Bureau of Prisons acknowledged it had continued providing such treatment to roughly 628 of the inmates.
In a 36-page-opinion, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington, D.C., granted class-action status to a lawsuit brought on behalf of an estimated 1,028 BOP inmates who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria, distress caused by a mismatch between their assigned gender and gender identity.
