WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down an appeal from President Trump and rejected his order to end hormone treatments and other gender-affirming care for transgender inmates in federal prisons.
The justices denied Trump’s appeal without comment, over dissents by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
The order leaves in a place a decision by a senior judge appointed by President Reagan who had blocked Trump’s new prison policy from taking effect.
The decision is a rare win for trans rights at the Supreme Court.
In June, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, said he would “not
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