Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Revive Ban on Transgender Treatments in Federal Prisons

The Trump administration on Sept. 28 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a nationwide injunction forcing the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to keep providing hormone treatments and related services to inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed the emergency application in Trump v. Kingdom that asks the justices to put on hold a federal district judge’s order that blocks a 2026 BOP policy that shuts down transgender surgeries, hormone treatments, and social accommodations such as makeup and wigs.

The federal government says the policy is necessary for prison security.

This is a developing story and will be updated.