Trump Admin Asks SCOTUS To Uphold Trans Surgery Ban In Federal Prisoners

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let the Bureau of Prisons resume a policy curbing transgender medical treatment for federal inmates, filing an emergency appeal after a lower court blocked its enforcement. The restrictions trace to President Donald Trump's January 2025 executive order, after which the Bureau of Prisons stopped offering transgender surgeries, hormone therapy and items such as chest binders, wigs, makeup and breast padding to inmates, according to Daily Caller.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth intervened in June, ordering the agency to keep those treatments available to transgender prisoners, which halted the administration's rollback. In its filing to the Supreme Court, the Justice Department defended the Bureau of Prisons' approach, arguing it reasonably prioritized mental-health treatment over what it called "medically disputed and unproven sex-rejecting interventions."

Trump's executive order had framed the policy change as pushback against efforts to replace the "immutable biological reality of sex" with a subjective sense of identity, contending that treating "woman" as anything but a fixed biological category erodes legal protections tied to sex. The dispute now before the Supreme Court centers on whether the federal government may restrict gender-related medical care for inmates in its custody while broader litigation over the underlying policy continues to play out in the courts.

Summarized by PolitiKool from Daily Caller’s reporting. Read the full story at Daily Caller →