DOJ urges SCOTUS to reinstate ban on transgender 'medical care' for prisoners

 

The administration of President Donald Trump is seeking intervention from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) after a district court stopped the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from implementing updated policies regarding prisoners with gender dysphoria.

In a Monday filing, the Trump administration, through the Department of Justice (DOJ), asked SCOTUS to block the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s ruling, asserting that it had improperly reviewed the case.

“Without meaningfully engaging with either BOP’s reasoning or the administrative record, the district court prohibited BOP from applying its 2026 policy to any inmate who is or will be diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” the filing stated.

As the case continues to play out in the lower court and the Supreme Court, the administration petitioned the higher court for a stay on the preliminary junction issued by District Judge Royce Lamberth, who found that the implementation of the policy is likely “unlawful” and to “cause irreparable harm.”

Following an executive order (EO) signed by President Donald Trump, the BOP developed a revised policy determining that “sex-trait-modification surgeries, hormone interventions in general, and social accommodations could no longer be justified as treatment for gender dysphoria,” according to the court document.

Per the filing, the bureau’s conclusion was based in part on the questionable reliability of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), whose recommendations the BOP had been relying on from the previous Biden administration. It also found that the alleged “benefits” of such care did not supersede other concerns.

“Second, those interventions raised security and prison-administration concerns that outweighed whatever limited benefits they had,” the document stated.

The BOP did, however, decide that mental health care would continue to be provided to address gender dysphoria, though the bureau “will no longer provide sex-trait-modification surgeries, hormone interventions in general, or social accommodations.”

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