DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow transgender inmate treatment restrictions

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday to lift lower-court blocks on a Bureau of Prisons policy that halts new hormone treatments, surgeries and social accommodations like binders or wigs for transgender inmates. Inmates already on hormones would be tapered off. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the policy prioritizes mental-health treatment over what he called medically disputed interventions. Lower courts had blocked the policy's enforcement.