Trump admin asks supreme court to allow gender-affirming care denial to transgender prisoners

Trans inmates sued the administration over the policy and, so far, two lower courts have blocked implementation

The Trump administration asked the US supreme court, on Monday, to allow it to deny gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal prisons, while litigation over the matter continues in lower courts.

In its latest emergency request to the high court, 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”.