An unnamed transgender inmate, known as Maria Moe in court documents, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) over President Trump's executive order halting medical transgender treatments for federal prisoners. The executive order, titled 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,' prohibits federal funds from being used for medical procedures to alter an inmate's appearance to the opposite sex.
Moe, who has been on medical hormones since adolescence and has not been housed in a men's facility since conviction, was transferred to a men's prison following the order. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, argues that the order could lead to transgender women being unlawfully transferred to men's facilities and denied necessary healthcare, exposing them to harassment, abuse, and violence.
