Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Halt Hormone Therapy for 2,000 Trans Inmates
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 28
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Halt Hormone Therapy for 2,000 Trans Inmates
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 28
Summary
The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court on an emergency basis to let federal prisons stop providing some gender-transition treatments, including hormone therapy, to transgender inmates.
Three transgender prisoners sued on behalf of about 2,000 trans inmates after Trump signed an order barring such treatment and directing that trans women be housed in men’s facilities.
Lower courts have kept hormone therapy in place while the case proceeds, but Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices the injunction harms the government and blocks a policy prison officials say is needed for security.
The Supreme Court ordered the inmates’ lawyers to respond by Oct. 8, adding the prison dispute to a broader set of pending and recent cases over transgender rights.