Transgender inmates challenge gender-affirming care ban in federal prisons
President Donald Trump's executive order barring the Federal Bureau of Prisons from providing incarcerated people with gender-affirming medical treatments or accommodations is unconstitutional, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit.
Kingdom et al. v. Trump et al., No. 25-cv-691, complaint filed, 2025 WL 776307 (D.D.C. Mar. 7, 2025).
In a complaint filed March 7 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, three transgender individuals serving sentences in federal prison say Trump's Jan. 20 executive order runs afoul of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
The plaintiffs seek to represent a class of at least 2,000 transgender individuals currently incarcerated in federal prisons who have lost or will lose access to gender-affirming care.
