by S.A. McCarthy at The Washington Stand
Federal judges have now spent at least four months imposing restrictions on President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda, blocking the duly-elected executive from following through on his campaign promises, despite his best efforts.
While much attention has centered on the numerous universal injunctions and temporary restraining orders (TROs) halting deportations and immigration reform, district court judges have also taken aim at the president’s actions to curtail the transgender agenda. Judges have restricted the president’s orders on protecting children from harmful gender transition procedures, scrubbing gender ideology propaganda from federal health agencies, and keeping transgender-identifying biological men from being incarcerated in women’s prisons.
On Tuesday, yet another district court judge targeted the Trump administration’s efforts to uphold biological reality, ordering the administration to continue using taxpayer dollars to fund prisoners’ gender transition procedures. Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday demanding that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) “restore and maintain access to” gender transition procedures — especially hormone drugs — for inmates in federal prisons who identify as transgender and were previously undergoing gender transition procedures.
In response to a day one executive order signed by the president prohibiting…
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