Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to restrict some medical treatments for transgender inmates

TL;DR

The Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal from the Justice Department seeking to enforce a new Bureau of Prisons policy.
The policy would have ended surgical and hormone therapy treatments, as well as social accommodations, for transgender inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
A district court and an appeals court had previously blocked the policy.
The Trump administration argued the policy was necessary for 'institutional security'.
Lawyers for the inmates stated the Bureau of Prisons has provided such treatments since 1992 and the new policy would affect nearly 1,000 inmates.

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