A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the enforcement of President Donald Trump 's executive order barring the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from providing hormone therapy and gender-affirming care to transgender inmates.

Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email on Tuesday.

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U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration must continue providing hormone therapy and accommodations to transgender inmates.

The plaintiffs in the case challenged Trump's January 20 executive order targeting "gender ideology," which directed the BOP to stop providing "any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate's appearance to that of the opposite sex."

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