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Supreme Court won't revive Trump transgender inmate policy

The Bureau of Prisons has about one thousand transgender inmates in federal custody, and a judge ordered care to continue in June; the justices left that order standing.

On air: Vera Bullock and Chip Darnell on The Midday Show
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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHere is the latest.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Supreme Court today refused to let the Trump administration stop hormone treatments and certain surgeries for transgender federal inmates, leaving a lower judge's block in place.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe vote was apparently seven to two, with Justices Thomas and Alito dissenting.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe one-sentence order gave no reasons, and the Bureau of Prisons says it was providing hormone therapy to more than six hundred inmates in twenty twenty-five.

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