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The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to let the federal Bureau of Prisons enforce a policy ending medical interventions and social accommodations for transgender inmates while legal challenges continue, CBS News reported.
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Shop NowUnder the policy, issued in February, the bureau would keep providing mental health services to inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria but would not provide surgeries, hormone therapy, or accommodations such as chest binders, wigs or breast padding.
The bureau said the policy was independent of an executive order President Trump signed at the start of his second term barring federal funds for such treatments.
A group of inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria sued last year.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth blocked the rules in June, ruling in part that the policy was “reverse engineered” to implement the executive order, and last month continued that block.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to restore the policy while the appeal proceeds.
In the emergency request, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the bureau had determined the policy was “necessary to maintain institutional security.”
He accused the district court of “substituting its own policy judgment for that of the agency.”
The justices will now decide whether the policy can take effect.
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