(CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to continue providing gender-affirming medication for transgender inmates in federal prisons, dealing the latest blow to a multipronged effort by the president to pull back federal support for transgender health care.

“All parties seem to agree that the named plaintiffs do, in fact, need hormone therapy,” US District Judge Royce Lamberth wrote.

The preliminary injunction from Lamberth means that officials within the Bureau of Prisons cannot enforce guidance the agency’s leadership issued earlier this year implementing President Donald Trump ’s order, which directed the agency to revise its policies to “ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming

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