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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow limit on care for trans inmates

Headline from UPI, from the development of Sep 28, 2026

Newest development Sep 29, 2026 · 2 reportsTrump begs Supreme Court to let feds withdraw medical care for trans prisoners: ‘A dangerous thing to do’

The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to ban inmates from receiving gender-affirming care.

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    Trump asks Supreme Court to allow limit on care for trans inmates

    Headline from UPI ·

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    Trump begs Supreme Court to let feds withdraw medical care for trans prisoners: ‘A dangerous thing to do’

    Headline from Advocate ·

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39 articles, oldest first.

  1. Just the News

    DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow policy ending medical treatments for transgender inmates (opens Just the News)

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    The judge overseeing a challenge to the policy, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, ordered the Trump administration to continue providing medical care to a class of transgender inmates. A gr

  2. The Hill

    Trump administration asks Supreme Court to OK transgender inmate policy (opens The Hill)

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    The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to lift a judge’s block on its policy restricting transgender inmates’ access to hormone treatments and gender-affirming surgeries. Under the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy, inmates currently receiving hormone treatments would be put on a ta…

  3. CBS News

    DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow policy ending medical care for transgender inmates (opens CBS News)

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    The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to revive for now a policy cutting off medical interventions and social accommodations for transgender inmates.

  4. KION Central Coast

    Trump asks Supreme Court to suspend transgender medical care in federal prisons (opens KION Central Coast)

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    By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to allow federal prison officials to deny certain types of medical care for transgender inmates, such as surgeries – putting another culture war issue on the high court’s burgeoning fast-track docke…

  5. The Daily Caller

    Trump Admin Asks SCOTUS To Uphold Trans Surgery Ban In Federal Prisoners (opens The Daily Caller)

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    The Daily Caller's feed description

    ‘Invalidating the true and biological category of ‘woman’ improperly transforms laws.’

  6. SCOTUSblog

    Trump administration asks justices to block lower court order on transgender inmate policy (opens SCOTUSblog)

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    The Trump administration on Monday morning asked the Supreme Court to block an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that bars the Federal Bureau of Prisons from enforcing a new policy on healthcare for transgender inmates.

  7. Courthouse News Service

    Trump taps SCOTUS in bid to block gender-affirming care for transgender inmates (opens Courthouse News Service)

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    The Trump administration said it shouldn’t have to provide evidence that gender-affirming healthcare led to security concerns, telling the justices that courts should defer to the experience and expertise of prison officials.

  8. Washington Examiner

    Trump asks Supreme Court to let him end transgender surgeries for prison inmates (opens Washington Examiner)

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    The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Monday to lift a lower court’s order barring a new regulation for federal prisons, which would stop providing inmates with transgender surgeries and procedures.

  9. MS Now

    Trump administration asks Supreme Court to approve ban on gender care in prison (opens MS Now)

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    It is the administration’s latest request for the justices to intervene early in litigation so that it can enforce a preferred policy.

  10. WKBN Youngstown

    Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow transgender medical care restrictions in prison (opens WKBN Youngstown)

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    The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let it enforce, for now, restrictions on gender-affirming care in federal prison.

  11. NOTUS

    Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Back Limits on Transgender Inmate Care (opens NOTUS)

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    The policy would bar surgeries, hormone therapy and social accommodations for inmates with gender dysphoria.

  12. Fox News

    DOJ pleads with Supreme Court to save ban on transgender treatments in federal prisons (opens Fox News)

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    The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy banning hormone therapy and accommodations for transgender inmates.

  13. WDIO Duluth

    Ticker- Trump Supreme Court gender-affirming (opens WDIO Duluth)

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    On Monday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let it enforce restrictions on gender-affirming care in federal prison.

  14. UPI

    Trump asks Supreme Court to allow limit on care for trans inmates (opens UPI)

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    The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to ban inmates from receiving gender-affirming care.

  15. Washington Blade

    Trump asks Supreme Court to allow restrictions on gender-affirming care in prisons (opens Washington Blade)

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    SCOTUS could further restrict rights of trans inmates

  16. American Greatness

    Trump Asks Supreme Court to Restore Restrictions on Transgender Inmate Treatments (opens American Greatness)

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    The government would not provide hormone therapy, surgeries or accommodations such as chest binders, wigs and breast padding. Source

  17. The Guardian

    Trump admin asks supreme court to allow gender-affirming care denial to transgender prisoners (opens The Guardian)

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    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 conti…

  18. The Daily Signal

    Trans Organization’s ‘Unreliable’ Standards Don’t Justify Prison Medical Interventions, DOJ Tells Supreme Court (opens The Daily Signal)

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    The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the Bureau of Prisons to restrict sex-rejecting procedures for federal inmates, citing an exhaustive BOP report rejecting the recommendations of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as “unreliable” and based on “insuf…

  19. Advocate

    Trump begs Supreme Court to let feds withdraw medical care for trans prisoners: ‘A dangerous thing to do’ (opens Advocate)

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    The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to let federal prisons withdraw gender-affirming treatment from transgender people in their custody, seeking to suspend protections for medical care that prison clinicians had previously prescribed. The emergency application in Trump v.

  20. Breitbart News

    Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Remove Transgender Exemptions in Prisons (opens Breitbart News)

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    The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to remove exemptions for transgender-identifying individuals serving time in prison.

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