Trump asks Supreme Court to let him end transgender surgeries for inmates

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Monday to lift a lower court’s order barring a new regulation for federal prisons, which would stop providing inmates with transgender surgeries and procedures.

The Department of Justice filed an emergency petition to the justices after a federal district court blocked a February 2026 policy from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which ended transgender surgeries as part of treatment for inmates suffering from gender dysphoria, while keeping mental health treatment options available. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued the high court should halt the lower court’s block, saying the policy was lawfully enacted under the BOP’s rulemaking authority.