A federal judge temporarily halted the transfer of a transgender inmate to a men’s prison under President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting gender-related accommodations in federal facilities, according to the inmate’s legal counsel.
U.S. District Judge George O’Toole in Boston issued a temporary restraining order on Sunday, barring federal prison officials from relocating the inmate, known in court filings as Marie Moe, Reuters reported.
A spokeswoman for the group GLAD Law, the group that brought the case, said the order “requires them to keep our client in general population in a women’s facility and to maintain her medical care,” according to a statement to the outlet.
The case marked the first legal challenge to Trump’s Jan. 20 order targeting “gender ideology extremism.” The judge has also ordered the case to be partially sealed from public…
