Trump Admin Ends Transgender Surgery Funding in Federal Prisons
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Trump Administration Halts Funding for Transgender Inmates Surgeries, Sparks Controversy
The Trump administration has ended federal funding for gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies for transgender inmates in federal prisons, projecting savings of nearly two million dollars for taxpayers. This move reverses Biden-era rules that covered those treatments, which cost about one million six hundred fifty thousand dollars annually. The shift has drawn criticism from civil rights and LGBTQ advocates, who argue that it is harmful and part of wider attacks on transgender rights. Inmates currently on hormones can follow supervised taper plans to ease off safely, and free items for social transitioning are cut, though inmates can still buy them through commissaries. A federal lawsuit has paused parts of the new rules, but it does not force funding for surgeries. Officials say the savings will support essential care for the whole prison population while addressing safety in facilities.
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