A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s administration from denying gender-affirming care to transgender inmates, dealing another blow to the president’s executive order targeting incarcerated trans people.
Ronald Reagan-appointed Judge Royce Lamberth, 81, said Trump’s policy isn’t based on any “reasoned” analysis, adding that “nothing in the thin record” from the government shows that the administration “consciously took stock of — much less studied — the potentially debilitating effects” of stripping trans people of their healthcare.
