A judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring an incarcerated transgender woman to men’s facility . Same with denying her access to gender-affirming care after an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge George O’Toole issued the temporary restraining order Sunday while the case was sealed.
At a hearing in Boston on Thursday, O’Toole confirmed from the bench that the inmate, identified in court filings by the pseudonym Maria Moe, is back in the general population after prison officials moved her to a “special housing unit” and receiving her hormone therapy, her lawyers said.
O’Toole, an appointee of former President Clinton, ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) not to change from that position until he decides whether to issue a longer injunction
U.S. District Judge George O’Toole issued the temporary restraining order Sunday while the case was sealed.
At a hearing in Boston on Thursday, O’Toole confirmed from the bench that the inmate, identified in court filings by the pseudonym Maria Moe, is back in the general population after prison officials moved her to a “special housing unit” and receiving her hormone therapy, her lawyers said.
O’Toole, an appointee of former President Clinton, ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) not to change from that position until he decides whether to issue a longer injunction