Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Breaking News: Court Allows Trans Prisoner To Receive Treatment For Them.

CBS News
By Melissa Quinn
October 21, 2026


The Supreme Court on Wednesday left intact a lower court decision that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new Bureau of Prisons policy that would end certain medical interventions for transgender inmates.

In an unsigned, one-line order, the high court rejected an emergency appeal from the Justice Department asking it to freeze the district court order and revive the new rules. The policy would cut off surgical and hormone therapy treatments, as well as social accommodations, for inmates who have been or will be diagnosed with gender dysphoria. 

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas said they would have allowed the Trump administration to enforce the change.

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