Prisons Must Halt Implementing Trump’s Gender Ideology Order (1)

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is temporarily barred from implementing President Donald Trump’s gender ideology executive order, a federal judge said Tuesday.

The group of transgender inmates challenging the order is suffering irreparable harm and is likely to succeed on the merits of their claims that BOP’s actions violated the Administrative Procedure Act, Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in an order granting the inmates’ request for a preliminary injunction.

The judge also certified a class totaling at least 2,000 individuals in BOP custody who have gender dysphoria or who ...