Judge rules federal prisons must continue providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates

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3. The Bureau of Prisons said it has continued to provide hormone treatment to more than 600 federal inmates after Trump ex

The Bureau of Prisons said it has continued to provide hormone treatment to more than 600 federal inmates after Trump executive order.

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A federal judge on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from withholding hormone treatment from more than 1,000 transgender inmates under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, after the U.S. Bureau of Prisons acknowledged it had continued providing such treatment to roughly 628 of the inmates.

In a 36-page-opinion, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington, D.C., granted class-action status to a lawsuit brought on behalf of an estimated 1,028 BOP inmates who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria, distress caused by a mismatch between their assigned gender and gender identity.

Lamberth entered a preliminary injunction in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union that followed similar rulings in cases involving individual prisoners challenging Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order to “ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”

Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, previously barred the government from moving transgender women to men’s prison facilities under the order while litigation continues. Tuesday’s ruling ordered the government to maintain the status quo before Trump’s order by continuing hormone therapy to all current and future class members prescribed such medications and restoring accommodations such as clothing and undergarments and commissary items.......

The court said it was ruling against any blanket ban against hormone treatment, and not deciding whether all individual class members should receive it. The judge wrote, “Whether a uniform policy prohibiting people with a given medical condition from receiving a certain treatment for that condition violates the Eighth Amendment or the Administrative Procedure Act” is “amenable to judicial consideration without the Court wading into a thousand personalized medical assessments.”