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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow transgender medical care restrictions in prison

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Whitehurst, L. (2026, September 28). Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow transgender medical care restrictions in prison. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-transgender-medical-care-restrictions-in-prison/article_f69d77f5-71d9-5406-8cc7-aab1fb7618cb.html

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The Trump administration has requested the Supreme Court to permit enforcement of its new regulations that restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender individuals in federal prisons, following injunctions by lower courts. This move follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, which sparked legal challenges and resulted in temporary court orders preventing the policy from taking effect immediately.

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The Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court to enforce restrictions on gender-affirming medical care for transgender individuals in federal prisons. This move follows lower court rulings that blocked immediate implementation of a policy initiated by an executive order from President Donald Trump. The administration argues that such healthcare measures threaten "institutional security" within correctional facilities, despite legal challenges asserting the rights of incarcerated people to receive gender-affirming treatment.

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🔮 Lawyers for the couple had urged the court to reject the request, questioning what an intervention would do for medical decision-making at an already chaotic time.

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🔮 In the filing, Solicitor General John Sauer said: “Ballots have already begun to be mailed in North Carolina, and more States will begin the mailing process as the injunction remains in place — including Alabama on September 9 and at least five States the week of September 13.”

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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. asserted

it → ask → prison

The emergency appeal comes after lower courts blocked officials from immediately carrying out the policy adopted after an executive order from President Donald Trump. asserted

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