A federal appeals court panel appeared skeptical Friday of the Trump administration ‘s bid to move biologically male inmates who identify as women to male prisons in accordance with a Day One executive order from the president.

The lawsuit was brought by a group of transgender prisoners, all biological males who identify as women, shortly after President Donald Trump issued his Jan. 20 order calling on the Bureau of Prisons to ensure biological male inmates were housed in male prisons. Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction earlier this year preventing the BOP from moving the group of anonymous prisoners to male facilities, an order the administration argued before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals

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