US Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring the Federal Bureau of Prisons from implementing an executive order that would deny gender-affirming care to transgender inmates. The judge reasoned that enforcing the order could cause irreparable harm to the inmates by denying them medically necessary treatment. He found that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their claim that the executive order violated their constitutional rights.

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14168 in January, ordering federal agencies to stop using federal funds for gender-affirming treatments. Since the Bureau of Prisons is a federal agency, this order also called for transgender women to be housed in men’s prisons.

Together, the Transgender Law Center and the American

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