Federal authorities have sought Supreme Court intervention to overturn lower court rulings blocking a policy restricting gender-affirming care for transgender inmates in federal prisons. The administration argues that certain treatments, including surgeries, hormone therapy, and social accommodations like clothing or hair modifications, should no longer be classified as medically necessary for gender dysphoria. Legal challenges remain unresolved in lower courts as the case escalates to the nation’s highest judicial body. The move marks a shift in federal prison healthcare policy amid ongoing litigation.
Trans inmates sued the administration over the policy and, so far, two lower courts have blocked implementationThe Trump administration asked the US supreme court, on Monday, to allow it to deny gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal prisons, while litigation over the matter continues in lower courts.In its latest emergency request to the high court, the solicitor general, D John Sauer, wrote that certain care, including sex-trait-modification surgeries, hormone therapy and social accommodations – such as undergarments, makeup, padding and wigs – “could no longer be justified as treatment for gender dysphoria”. Continue reading...
