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Supreme Court Upholds Transgender Inmate Medical Care Rights
The Supreme Court declined to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce new medical restrictions for transgender inmates, leaving a lower court's block on the policy in place.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration must continue providing gender-affirming care to inmates in federal prisons. This decision upholds a lower court's injunction against restrictions that would halt surgeries, hormone treatments, and social accommodations for transgender individuals in custody.
The policy was challenged after an executive order from President Trump sought to restrict gender-affirming care for federal inmates. Advocates argue that denying medically necessary healthcare, including gender-affirming care, to incarcerated individuals violates their fundamental constitutional rights.