From The Marshell Project:
A federal judge heard arguments Thursday over whether the government can withhold gender-affirming care from people incarcerated by the Bureau of Prisons while a lawsuit against the Trump administration proceeds.
District Judge Royce Lamberth, who sits in Washington, D.C., must consider whether to temporarily stop the prison system from implementing an executive order from President Donald Trump. The order, which Trump signed shortly after his inauguration in January, directed the prisons to stop providing hormone therapy for people being treated for gender dysphoria, as had been the practice for years.
Trump’s executive order prohibited federal spending for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” The lawsuit, filed in March, argued that Trump’s order is unconstitutional because it “mandates an across-the-board ban on such gender-affirming health care for individuals in BOP custody, regardless of the impact on their health.” The suit was brought by the ACLU and the Transgender Law Center on behalf of one trans woman and two trans men, but the lawyers asked the judge to make the case a class action suit representing anyone in federal prison affected by the executive order. Continue reading >>>
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