Is Trump’s Gender Care Ban for Trans Prisoners Unconstitutional?

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.

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