WASHINGTON — The only fresh, solidly documented item worth putting on the bar tonight: the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let the Bureau of Prisons enforce restrictions on gender-affirming care for people in federal prison. The policy would halt surgeries, hormone treatment and some social accommodations while leaving mental-health therapy in place. Nothing says sober, individualized prison medicine quite like a national switchboard, huh?
Lower courts had blocked the policy from taking immediate effect. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the government to keep providing gender-affirming care such as hormone therapy while the case proceeds; a divided appeals-court panel left that order intact. The administration is now asking the high court to freeze Lamberth’s order.
The Bureau of Prisons said in 2025 that more than 600 people in its custody received hormone therapy. Lamberth wrote that the bureau does not dispute gender dysphoria can cause serious effects including depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. So the government’s latest pitch is, essentially, that the Supreme Court should let it try the policy first and sort out the consequences later — like ordering fried clams from a place with no fryer and hoping for the best.
This is not a final Supreme Court ruling. It is an emergency request over whether the administration can implement the restrictions while the underlying lawsuit continues.
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