This Week in the Circuits: Transgender Inmates Fight Trump Executive Order

Aug. 30, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC

Welcome to This Week in the Circuits, a look at the most significant cases before federal appeals courts.

The Trump administration will defend its executive order enforcing the “biological reality of sex,” with the DC Circuit set to hear challenges to the transfer of transgender women to male prisons.

On Friday, the Justice Department will argue that preliminary injunctions blocking the executive order violate the Prison Litigation Reform Act and unlawfully protect over a dozen trans inmates who didn’t properly plead substantial harm under the Eighth Amendment. The executive order—signed by President Donald Trump on the day of ...

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