The judiciary’s disdain for the American public continues to rear its head.
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order banning “gender affirming care” for prison inmates. The case was brought by three plaintiffs, all of whom are inmates who identify as the opposite sex.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth agreed with the plaintiffs’ complaints, requiring the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to resume providing hormone injections and “social accommodations” for transgender identified inmates. Examples of the so-called accommodations granted to Alishea Kingdom, who court documents describe as a “transgender woman who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2016,” include “women’s undergarments and cosmetics.”
The implications of this ruling are so perverse that it boggles the mind. Your taxpayer dollars were appropriated towards purchasing women’s underwear for a convicted male criminal. Given Lamberth’s ruling, they’ll continue to be used to such effect. (RELATED: America’s Worst Supreme Court Justice Can’t Stand Colleagues’ Latest Decision)
Trump’s executive order, issued January 20, 2025, mandated the attorney general ensure that BOP “revises its policies concerning medical care to be consistent with this order” such that “no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”
Lamberth apparently knows better. His decision agrees with the plaintiffs’ claim that Trump’s executive order is “arbitrary and capricious because they provide no reasoned explanation for the denial of gender-affirming care, treat gender dysphoria different than other medical conditions with no justification, and fail to adequately take stock of the sudden reversal in agency policy from before the Executive Order was issued.”
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Of course, the “reasoned explanation” for the executive order is right there in plain text: “Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women…This is wrong.”
Men cannot become women. Women cannot become men. So-called “treatments” for gender dysphoria seek to remedy patients’ bodily distress by changing their appearance and internal chemistry to resemble the opposite sex more closely.
Lamberth doesn’t see it that way. He claims the executive order’s stated logic “has little, if anything, to do with the agency’s decision to discontinue inmates’ gender-affirming care.” He argues plaintiffs’ motivations for injecting exogenous hormones like estrogen are “largely personal” and that “plaintiffs do not seem interested in propagating any particular ‘ideology.’” But the very assertion of a “transgender” as a legitimate category is obviously ideological. It assumes “gender” is distinct from “sex.” It assumes gender is mutable.
Lamberth is apparently comfortable forcing these assumptions on the public – at their expense.
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This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
