Supreme Court Blocks Trump Transgender-Inmate Care Limits

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy barring gender-affirming medical care for transgender people in federal prisons, leaving the Bureau of Prisons’ earlier rules in effect while litigation continues. The order did not decide whether the restriction is lawful; Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented, and the administration says it will keep pursuing an appeal. Separately, a federal appeals court ruled that Arlington and Fairfax County school boards may continue challenging the Education Department’s finding that their transgender-student facility policies violate Title IX; the ruling addressed where the cases can proceed, not the policies’ legality. In North Dakota, the state Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to a law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for minors, after a lower-court judge upheld the law.