Judge blocks Trump’s order forcing incarcerated transgender women to live in male facilities

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 Judge blocks Trump’s order forcing incarcerated transgender women to live in male facilities
by Zach Schonfeld - 02/04/25 7:54 PM ET

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.

Lamberth, an appointee of former President Reagan, said he was not reaching the plaintiffs’ other arguments that the order violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5127118-transgender-women-prison-housing-ruling/

[Smokin Joe]

So having biologically intact men running around in a women's facility doesn't violate the 8th Amendment?

[GtHawk]

So let him live in a woman’s prison, in isolation and never having contact with the women, not in the yard, not in the showers or anywhere else. You know, equal but separate….very very separate. Or better yet put all the supposed trans women in their own facility and they can party on being male lesbians.