Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration's Bid to Enforce New Medical Restrictions for Transgender Federal Inmates

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Published: 2026-10-22
Category: us
Source: Sentinel Colorado

The Supreme Court has refused to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce new medical restrictions for transgender people in federal prisons, leaving a lower-court block on the policy in place. The policy, adopted after an executive order from President Donald Trump, sought to halt hormonal treatments and surgeries within the federal prison system. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the brief, unreasoned order.

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