Supreme Court blocks Trump restrictions on transgender prisoners
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L’essentiel
The US Supreme Court rejected the Donald Trump administration’s appeal to impose restrictions on transgender people held in federal prisons. The challenge concerns, among other things, the transfer of transgender female prisoners and access to hormone treatments, AFP reports.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Donald Trump’s administration seeking to impose a more restrictive policy on transgender people held in federal prisons, AFP reports. The unexplained decision keeps in place a block on a policy that would, among other things, remove access to hormone treatments and gender transition surgery.
A federal judge had already suspended the transfer of transgender female prisoners to men’s facilities in 2025, and later blocked the policy adopted by the federal prison administration in 2026. The policy also provided for the removal of support measures, such as providing wigs or make-up.
The Supreme Court, made up of six conservative justices and three progressives, was opposed by Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, its two most conservative justices. The rejection of the appeal does not, however, amount to a ruling on the merits of the disputed policy, AFP notes.
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