{"id":2615729,"date":"2026-06-18T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-halts-prison-policy-that-ended-transgender-inmate-hormone-treatments\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:25:23","slug":"judge-halts-prison-policy-that-ended-transgender-inmate-hormone-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-halts-prison-policy-that-ended-transgender-inmate-hormone-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge halts prison policy that ended transgender inmate hormone treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-halts-prison-policy-that-ended-transgender-inmate-hormone-treatments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2615729&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A federal judge, Royce Lamberth, has temporarily blocked the Trump governanceS policy that aimed to restrict taxpayer-funded hormone treatments and accommodations for transgender inmates in federal prisons. The judge ruled that prison officials likely violated federal administrative law when implementing this policy without proper procedures. The court has issued a preliminary injunction, allowing transgender inmates to continue receiving gender-appropriate treatments and accommodations as before, pending further legal proceedings. This decision coincided with an appeal by the justice Department, which sought to pause a previous court order, but it was ultimately overridden by Lamberth&#8217;s updated injunction.The case is part of broader legal efforts, including cases supported by the ACLU, to uphold policies that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >provide transgender inmates access<\/a> to necessary medical care, contrasting with the Trump-era directives that aimed to limit such treatments. The ruling emphasizes procedural correctness rather than addressing constitutional issues directly.Meanwhile, Lamberth is also overseeing a separate case blocking the transfer of transgender women to men&#8217;s facilities to prevent potential harm.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\">Trump administration<\/a> from enforcing a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bureau-of-prisons\/\">Bureau of Prisons<\/a> policy designed to phase out taxpayer-funded hormone treatments and other <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/transgender\/\">transgender<\/a> accommodations for federal inmates, ruling that prison officials likely violated federal administrative law when adopting the policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/69717615\/216\/kingdom-v-trump\/\">issued a new preliminary injunction<\/a> in <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4501043\/trans-inmates-ms-13-member-lawsuit-funded-procedures\/\">Kingdom v. Trump<\/a><\/em>, preventing the Bureau of Prisons from enforcing its <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bop.gov\/policy\/progstat\/5260_001.pdf\">recent February policy<\/a> changes and ordering officials to continue providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-policy-to-save-millions-previously-spent-on-transgender-procedures\/\" title=\"New ... to save millions previously spent on transgender procedures\">transgender-identifying inmates<\/a> with drugs and social accommodations under policies that existed before President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> executive order, which informed the prison policy. The court stayed that policy while litigation continues, ordering prison officials to maintain the status quo while litigation proceeds.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4613284\/trump-administration-details-materials-court-ordered-restore\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump administration details \u2018inappropriate\u2019 materials a court ordered it restore to historic sites<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4614349\/illegal-immigrants-charged-massachusetts-benefits-fraud\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Illegal immigrants among 15 charged in $1.4 million Massachusetts benefits fraud crackdown<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4613624\/bop-ghislaine-maxwell-prison-transfer\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>BOP defends Maxwell prison transfer after Democrats allege cushy conditions<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling came the same day a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"167\">Justice Department\u2019s<\/a> request <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278186\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278186.217.0.pdf\">to pause a separate order<\/a> renewing an earlier injunction in the case, a decision that was quickly overtaken when, roughly two hours later, Lamberth issued his updated preliminary injunction that for now governs the dispute. The appeals court said the Trump administration was likely to succeed in defending its policy as legal and that Lamberth had likely overstepped his authority by blocking it the first time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Kingdom<\/em> is one of several cases backed by the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/aclu\/\">American Civil Liberties Union<\/a> seeking to defend <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\">Biden administration<\/a>-era policies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/employee-at-usaid-contractor-celebrated-terrorist-attack-against-israeli-civilians\/\" title=\"Employee at USAID Contractor Celebrated Terrorist Attack Against Israeli Civilians\">allowed taxpayer funds<\/a> to be spent on inmates\u2019 hormone treatments, as well as a separate policy that allowed biological men to be housed in women\u2019s prison facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\">Day One executive order<\/a> directed federal agencies to stop spending taxpayer funds on procedures or drugs intended to help inmates \u201cconform\u201d to the opposite sex. In response, the Bureau of Prisons adopted a policy that complied with the executive order by barring hormone and drug regimens for new inmates, prohibiting transgender-related surgeries and accommodations, and requiring inmates already receiving hormones to be tapered off the drugs over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lamberth, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, emphasized that his decision was focused on whether the Bureau of Prisons followed the correct procedure in implementing its policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith this Opinion, the Court has no intention of wading into the culture war being waged against transgender individuals,\u201d Lamberth wrote, adding that the case turns on whether the Bureau of Prisons followed required administrative procedures when adopting the policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than deciding constitutional claims, Lamberth concluded the inmates were likely to succeed on their Administrative Procedure Act challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He found prison officials likely acted arbitrarily and capriciously \u201cin part, on the lack of reasoned explanation for the policy,\u201d and by failing to consider the bureau\u2019s own experience providing transgender-related drugs adequately.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Justice Department is likely to appeal his order, similar to the appeal that was decided by the D.C. Circuit earlier on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4612979\/ftc-sues-leading-transgender-medical-organization-misleading-parents\/\">FTC SUES LEADING TRANSGENDER MEDICAL ORGANIZATION FOR MISLEADING PARENTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling comes as Lamberth is also overseeing a separate challenge to the Trump administration\u2019s prison housing policy for transgender-identifying inmates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/glad-org-wpom.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260608_Doe-v-Blanche_PI-Order.pdf\">he blocked prison officials<\/a> from transferring 14 biological men who identify as women in federal custody to men\u2019s facilities, finding they were likely to succeed in their claims that the policy would expose them to a heightened risk of violence and other harms. That injunction remains in place while the litigation proceeds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge blocks Trump policy on inmate transgender treatments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2615730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iStock-1162535990-e1781808976947.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[81395,80604,36794,62705,35159],"class_list":["post-2615729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-hormone-treatment","tag-inmate-rights","tag-legal-ruling","tag-prison-policy","tag-transgender-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iStock-1162535990-e1781808976947.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615733,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615729\/revisions\/2615733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2615730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}