The Trump administration asked the US supreme court, on Monday, to allow it to deny gender-affirming care to transgender people in federal prisons, while litigation over the matter continues in lower courts.
In its latest emergency request to the high court, the solicitor general, D John Sauer, wrote that certain care, including sex-trait-modification surgeries, hormone therapy and social accommodations – such as undergarments, makeup, padding and wigs – “could no longer be justified as treatment for gender dysphoria”.
