Trump asks Supreme Court for restrictions on gender-affirming care in prisons

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow restrictions on gender-affirming care in prisons

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/09/28/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-restrictions-on-gender-affirming-care-in-prisons/ 🔗

Joe Reberkenny (28 Sep 2026)

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow its policy limiting gender-affirming treatment for federal inmates to take effect while a legal challenge plays out in court.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the government to continue providing gender-affirming care, such as hormone therapy, which had become policy nearly a decade ago for inmates who were transitioning.

The Trump administration argues in its application that its policy restricting transgender rights was properly adopted and that the judge overstepped, posing nationwide "security and prison-administrative concerns."

If allowed, the policy would halt surgeries, hormones and social accommodations such as wigs while allowing mental health therapy to continue as the legality of the policy reversal is litigated.

The government also argues in the application that the Bureau of Prisons had "determined that sex-trait-modification surgeries, hormone interventions in general, and social accommodations could no longer be justified as treatment for gender dysphoria."

American Civil Liberties Union attorneys for the inmates said the policy is "a direct threat to the well-being of transgender people in federal custody and an open violation of their fundamental rights," and said withholding necessary gender-affirming healthcare constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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@Sarah B

[Jillian-TG]

The amount of focus the Trump administration wastes on combatting trans topics is staggering. To his credit - he's found a soft target that resonates with his base of voters and it keeps them thoroughly distracted from bigger issues and failures.

[Lori Dee ✅]

The Trump administration argues in its application that its policy restricting transgender rights was properly adopted

Actually, no. No, it wasn't. The policy is based on a false declaration made via Executive Order that defies medical and biological facts. Additionally, the motivation for issuing such an order is clearly to serve as a basis for discriminatory government action. It serves no other purpose, and that makes it an illegal order.

The government also argues in the application that the Bureau of Prisons had "determined that sex-trait-modification surgeries, hormone interventions in general, and social accommodations could no longer be justified as treatment for gender dysphoria."

Again, the policy follows a discriminatory government order instead of known, well-supported medical and biological facts. The effects of that policy only affect one small class of people, and that makes it discriminatory (and illegal) on its face.