A federal court has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men’s facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump (article available here).
The temporary restraining order was issued by a federal judge in Boston while the incarcerated person’s case was sealed in what appeared to be the first lawsuit challenging an order Trump signed on Jan. 20, his first day back in office, targeting what he called “gender ideology extremism” (previous coverage available here).
Trump’s order directed the federal government to only recognize two, biologically distinct sexes, male and female; house transgender women in men’s prisons; and cease funding for any gender-affirming medical care for inmates.
The court order requires prison officials to keep her in the general population in a women’s facility and maintain her medical care.