The Washington-Federal Judge agreed on Tuesday to temporarily prevent prison officials from transferring three transgender women to men to men's facilities, and to terminate their opportunities for hormone treatment according to the administrative order signed by President Donald Trump.
Royce Lamberth, a US court judge in Washington, DC, approved prisoners' requirements for temporary restrictions. A few hours after the hearing, he issued a written ruling. The plaintiff's lawyer argued that Trump's orders were discriminated against cross -gender and infringed their constitutional rights.
The judge presided over a lawsuit on behalf of three transgender women. The women were the first day he returned to the White House before Trump signed the order on January 20.
On January 26, a federal judge in Boston issued a restrictions in a separate challenge to the same administrative order. The order is limited to a transsexual woman in a women's prison.
Trump's order asked the Federal Prison to ensure that "men are not detained in women's prisons." It also requires the bureau to modify its medical policy in order to "make the appearance of prisoners consistent with the appearance of the opposite sex" rather than spend federal funds. "
John Robinson, a lawyer of the Ministry of Justice, said prison officials decided to put prisoners in the "extensive place".
The plaintiff's lawyer believes that moving women to men's prisons will endanger their security and cause them psychological damage.
Trump's orders will destroy the plaintiff's opportunity to be irritable and irritable hormonal therapy. This is a problem that a person may feel, because the gender and gender identity they specify are not matched. Medical status is related to depression and suicide ideas.
Lanberg pointed out that there are only about 16 cross -gender women in women's prisons, including three plaintiffs sued in Washington. The conclusion that the judge concluded was: "It is small to see the public interest of the plaintiff immediately moved to the male facilities."
Senior judge Lanberg wrote: "In addition, the balance of stocks and public interests is beneficial to the plaintiff."
The plaintiff in the court's document was determined by a pseudonym and a lawyer's representative of the National Lobby Rights Center of San Francisco and the GLBTQ legal advocate and defender headquarters headquartered in Boston.
The plaintiff was placed in the women's unit for several months or years, until January, when they were evacuated from the ordinary people of women's prisons and wasolated from other transmitted women to wait to transfer to men's facilities.
Jennifer Levi, a lawyer of Grad, told the judge: "In view of the serious risks of violence and sexual assault in these people's facilities, they are afraid of these transfers."
The plaintiff's lawyer argued that Trump's order violated his customer's constitutional rights for equal protection of law and got rid of cruel and unusual punishments.
Li Wei said: "It is impossible to ensure the security of these women outside the women's prison. We just ask the court to maintain the status quo."
Robinson said the plaintiff has not been served by any medical services since the signing of Trusti. He added that the prison bureau has not decided where to move them.
Robinson said: "I don't want to stand out before explaining this administrative order."