REPORT: Judge blocks Trump’s order forcing incarcerated biological male transgenders to live in male facilities

February 5, 2025

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From The Hill: A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating that transgender women in federal prison be housed in male facilities and the government stop funding their gender-affirming care.

After a hearing in Washington, D.C., earlier in the day, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday evening requested by three anonymous transgender women inmates.

Lamberth found they were likely to succeed in their claims that Trump’s order violates the Eighth Amendment’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

“It is, of course, possible that further briefing of the constitutional issues at the center of this dispute, or factual discovery, will eventually yield a different outcome. But the plaintiffs, through their largely undisputed factual allegations and proffered affidavits, have met their burden to show a likelihood of success on the merits,” Lamberth wrote in his ruling.

The report notes that Judge Lamberth is an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan.

Trump’s executive order only required that biological men be removed from women’s prisons, but allows biological women who identify as men to remain in the men’s prison.

The New York Times reported last week that there are currently 1,500 federal prisoners who are transgender women (biological men who identify as women). A whopping 15% of all the inmates housed in women’s prisons are transgender (biological men.)