The Supreme Court on Oct. 21 declined to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce a policy that would have curtailed so-called “gender-affirming care” in federal prisons.
The decision took the form of an unsigned order in Trump v. Kingdom. The court did not explain its ruling. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the order but did not explain why.
The Trump administration on Sept. 28 asked the Supreme Court to pause a nationwide injunction forcing the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to keep providing hormone treatments and related services to inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed the emergency application that asked the justices to put on hold a federal district judge’s order that blocks a BOP policy that shuts down transgender surgeries, hormone treatments, and social accommodations such as makeup and wigs….