Trump Administration Takes Battle Over Trans Care for Inmates to SCOTUS
The White House is asking the high court to let them block gender-affirming care behind bars, and it’s getting pretty messy.
The Trump administration just filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, trying to stop trans inmates from accessing gender-affirming care. They want to override a lower court that already called their policy arbitrary and blocked it.
Basically, the administration thinks they have the right to nix medical treatments for inmates, arguing the Bureau of Prisons made a scientific call to ditch these procedures. But a federal judge already flagged that the policy looks more like a political favor to Donald Trump than a legitimate medical decision. The core of this fight is whether the government can ignore established medical standards just because they don't like who they're treating.
It’s a massive test of how much weight an executive order carries when it crashes head-first into healthcare rights inside the prison system.
Source: UPI
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