US judge temporarily blocks transfer of incarcerated trans women to men’s prisons

Judge rules Trump's executive order discriminates against trans people and violates their constitutional rights

A US judge has temporarily blocked federal prisons from transferring transgender women to men's facilities and barring their access to hormone therapy, halting one of Donald Trump's executive orders seeking to erode trans rights behind bars.

A lawsuit filed last week by three incarcerated trans women challenged Trump's anti-trans order, which directed the US bureau of prisons to make sure males are not detained in women's prisons or housed in women's detention centers" and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody.