{"id":"5362dad7-26eb-4763-a5d9-455644ffa961","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-supreme-court-washington-ronald-reagan-prisons-b3070867.html","domain":"independent.co.uk","outlet":{"name":"The Independent","country":"GB","cred":3,"lean":-1,"curated":true},"title":"Supreme Court rebuffs Trump administration restrictions on medical care for transgender inmates","plainHeadline":"Supreme Court rejects immediate enforcement of transgender inmate medical care restrictions","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["Supreme Court refused to allow immediate enforcement of Trump administration's medical restrictions for transgender inmates.","A lower-court block on the policy remains in place, upheld by a divided appeals court panel.","Policy would halt surgeries, taper hormone therapy, and end social accommodations for inmates.","About 600 inmates were receiving hormone therapy in 2025, per court records.","Justices Alito and Thomas would have allowed enforcement; others blocked it, citing safety concerns."],"topics":["Politics","Health"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-10-21T15:31:03.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-10-21T16:22:41.662Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/c8af88e4-0d93-4de4-afe4-ce9eee88998c","storyId":"c8af88e4-0d93-4de4-afe4-ce9eee88998c","image":"https://static.independent.co.uk/2026/10/19/16/DOGE_Records_9_518.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2","author":"Lindsay Whitehurst","dek":"The Supreme Court has rejected a Trump administration appeal seeking to immediately enforce medical care restrictions for transgender people in prison"}