Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration Effort to Restrict Gender-Transition Treatments for Federal Inmates
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an effort by the Trump administration to restrict medical treatment for transgender-identifying inmates in federal prison.
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The Court issued a brief order rejecting the administration’s emergency application seeking to block a lower court injunction against the policy, which would impact some 1,000 transgender-identifying inmates.
The brief order said only that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have granted the application.
The policy would have allowed to Bureau of Prisons to grant transgender-identifying inmates access only to mental health services and medications like antidepressants.
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