Federal judge says prisons must provide gender-affirming care for inmates
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Source: nbc news
About 2,230 transgender inmates are housed in federal custodial facilities and halfway houses, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
June 4, 2025, 8:13 AM CDT / Source: Reuters
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled the U.S. Bureau of Prisons must keep providing transgender inmates gender-affirming care, despite an executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office to halt funding for such care.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., allowed a group of more than 2,000 transgender inmates in federal prisons to pursue a lawsuit challenging the order as a class action. He ordered the Bureau of Prisons to provide them with hormone therapy and accommodations such as clothing and hair-removal devices while the lawsuit plays out.
The ruling does not require the bureau to provide surgical care related to gender transitions.
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The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents the inmates, said the ruling was “a critical reminder to the Trump administration that trans people, like all people, have constitutional rights that don’t simply disappear because the president has decided to wage an ideological battle.”
About 2,230 transgender inmates are housed in federal custodial facilities and halfway houses, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. About two-thirds of them, 1,506, are transgender women, most of whom are housed in men’s prisons....................
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The Trump WH is arguing in this case that there are only 2 genders and expects to prevail.
As to my own thoughts--I dont know why, but I was surprised to see
so many transgender persons in prison or halfway houses.
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