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From Fox News: A federal judge in the District of Columbia Monday issued a temporary restraining order halting the Trump administration’s plans to move transgender inmates to facilities corresponding to their biological sex.
“[P]ending further Order of this Court, Defendants shall maintain and continue the plaintiff’s housing status and medical care as they existed immediately prior to January 20, 2025,” wrote Royce C. Lamberth, a Reagan-appointed U.S. district court judge.
Lamberth noted a “likelihood of success on the merits of the plaintiffs’ Eighth Amendment claim” but said the court “still takes no position” on other claims made in a lawsuit filed last week. The Eighth Amendment bars “cruel and unusual” punishment of prisoners.
The lawsuit filed Friday, Jane Doe v. Pamela Bondi, alleges that President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” signed in January, “targets transgender individuals and attempts to strip them of established legal protections.”
The lawsuit was filed by a group of biological male inmates, all who say they identify as female and claim they will be at risk of “sexual harassment, assault, and rape” if they are transferred to the men’s prison.
The group does not use their real names in the lawsuit, only identifying themselves as Jane Doe, Mary Doe, Sara Doe, Emily Doe, Zoe Doe, Tori Doe, Olivia Doe, Susan Doe, Lois Doe, Sophia Doe, Sally Doe and Wendy Doe.
In one bizarre statement, the lawsuit claims that Sara Doe (a biological male) “may be forced to shower in full view of men who are incarcerated, and her breasts and female genitalia will be exposed.”
In an unusual twist, the judge who has put a temporary block on the Trump administration’s plans to move the biological male inmates to a men’s facility, Royce C. Lamberth, 81, is a Republican who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
JUST IN:
US District Judge Royce Lamberth just BLOCKED President Trump’s executive order that would have removed biological men from women’s prisons.
Lamberth is a Republican. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on March 19, 1987, to the seat on the United States… pic.twitter.com/cu2Z19Lt2T
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) February 24, 2025
The order also expands a previously granted preliminary injunction to cover nine new plaintiffs who joined the case.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) February 24, 2025
Federal judge halts planned move of trans inmates to facilities for their biological sex https://t.co/tFe7iRaiW2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 24, 2025
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