DOJ pleads with Supreme Court to save ban on transgender treatments in federal prisons

OK PUT YOUR DRINK DOWN FOR THIS ONE BECAUSE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS ABSOLUTELY LIVID THAT A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKED THEIR PRISON POLICY AND THEY JUST SPRINTED TO THE SUPREME COURT ON MONDAY BEGGING THEM TO ENFORCE A BAN ON HORMONE THERAPY AND SOCIAL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR TRANSGENDER INMATES IN FEDERAL PRISONS, WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE A GROUP OF INMATES SUED OVER AN EXECUTIVE ORDER FROM THE START OF TRUMP’S SECOND TERM AND DISTRICT JUDGE ROYCE LAMBERTH ACTUALLY ORDERED THE PRISONS TO KEEP PROVIDING CARE BECAUSE OFFICIALS FAILED TO EXPLAIN WHY GENDER DYSPHORIA SHOULD BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY, AND THEN THE D.C. CIRCUIT REFUSED TO INTERVENE, SO NOW SOLICITOR GENERAL D. JOHN SAUER IS ARGUING PRISON OFFICIALS DESERVE DOUBLE DEFERENCE TO MAINTAIN INTERNAL ORDER AND DISCIPLINE WHILE CALLING THE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL GUIDELINES FLAWED AND BIASED. ANYWAY YOU WILL SEE IT ON YOUR PHONE IN AN HOUR.

YOU ARE GOING TO THINK I AM MAKING THIS UP BUT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS THAT A REAGAN-APPOINTED DISTRICT JUDGE SHUT DOWN THEIR PRISON POLICY AND THEY ARE LEANING ON THE SUPREME COURT TO SAVE IT, WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE THE BUREAU OF PRISONS TRIED TO BAN SURGERIES, NEW HORMONE THERAPY, AND SOCIAL ITEMS LIKE BINDERS AND WIGS UNDER A SECOND-TERM TRUMP ORDER, BUT JUDGE ROYCE LAMBERTH ORDERED THEM TO KEEP PROVIDING CARE BECAUSE THEY NEVER EXPLAINED THE DIFFERENCE AND THE D.C. CIRCUIT WOULD NOT REVIVE IT EITHER, SO NOW SOLICITOR GENERAL D. JOHN SAUER IS ARGUING COURTS MUST GIVE PRISONS DOUBLE DEFERENCE TO MAINTAIN SECURITY WHILE CALLING WPATH GUIDELINES SCIENTIFICALLY FLAWED. ANYWAY I NEED A CIGARETTE AND I DO NOT SMOKE.

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to allow a federal prison policy banning hormone treatments and social accommodations for transgender inmates following lower court blocks.

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