Trans inmate's lawsuit challenges Trump 'two-sexes' order cutting off tax money for gender therapy
Lawsuit claims federal trans prisoner will 'not be safe' under President Donald Trump's executive order
By Jamie Joseph Fox News
Published January 28, 2025 10:53am EST
A transgender inmate receiving taxpayer-funded medical treatments has launched the first lawsuit against the Trump administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that puts an end to medical transgender treatments for federal prisoners.
Trump's executive order, titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," prohibits federal funds from being "expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex." The order also declares there are only "two-sexes."
The unnamed inmate, who goes by "Maria Moe" in court documents and is represented by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lowenstein Sandler LLP, has been on medical hormones since they were a teenager and has not been housed in a men's facility since their conviction.
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