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Supreme Court blocks Trump administration from ending transgender medical care for prisoners

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from denying some gender-transition medical treatments for transgender inmates at federal prisons. The unsigned order from the court comes after the Bureau of Prisons adopted new policies that would have prohibited transgender inmates from receiving the care.

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