The Trump administration on Sept. 28 asked the Supreme Court to let the federal Bureau of Prisons enforce a policy that ends hormone therapy, surgeries, and certain social accommodations for transgender inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The emergency application seeks to pause a lower-court order that has kept that care in place while a class-action lawsuit continues, CBS News reported.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles emergency applications from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, ordered the inmates' attorneys to respond by 4 p.m. EDT on Oct. 8, according to the Supreme Court docket for Trump v. Kingdom. Roberts can act on the request alone or refer it to the full court.
