transgender prison inmates hormone therapy.

A judge says the federal Bureau of Prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to a disruption in medical treatment. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington said Tuesday a federal law prohibits prison officials from arbitrarily depriving inmates of medications the bureau’s own medical staff deems appropriate. The judge says the transgender inmates who sued to block Trump’s order are trying to lessen the anguish caused by their gender dysphoria. The Republican president’s order required the bureau to revise its medical care policies so federal funds aren’t spent for “conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”