The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a legal battle over transgender inmate healthcare, rejecting the Trump administration’s request to halt hormone treatments and surgeries for prisoners currently receiving them. The decision maintains a lower court’s injunction blocking a Bureau of Prisons policy that would have restricted ongoing medical care for transgender inmates. Two conservative justices dissented, signaling potential future divisions on the issue. The ruling leaves in place a legal dispute over whether the policy violates inmates’ rights to continued medical treatment.
The Supreme Court refused the Trump administration’s bid to stop providing transgender inmates hormone treatments and certain surgeries on Wednesday, declining to lift a lower judge’s block over the dissents of two conservative justices. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy would taper treatments for inmates currently receiving them, and officials would also need to stop providing...
