A federal inmate, pseudonym Maria Moe, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, contesting an executive order that mandates housing transgender women in men's prisons and ceasing gender-transition medical care for prisoners. The lawsuit, representing by advocacy groups and a private firm, seeks a restraining order against the new regulations, citing procedural failures and violations of the Fifth and Eighth Amendments. These changes reverse 2012 regulations requiring individualized assessments for inmates' housing based on sexual victimization risk, highlighting ongoing tensions between federal policies and transgender rights in the prison system.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, seeks a temporary restraining order to block the new regulations for all transgender prisoners.
The filing alleges that the administration failed to comply with federal laws governing how such regulations must be adopted.
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