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Sign at a Federal Correctional Institution (Dublin, California) — Photo: Jesstess87, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accountability|United States

Supreme Court denies Trump administration’s bid to enforce BOP’s 2026 gender-dysphoria prison policy while appeals continue

On 21 October 2026 the Supreme Court denied the Solicitor General’s emergency application (No. 26A416) to stay D.D.C. orders that bar the Bureau of Prisons from enforcing its February 2026 policy ending surgeries, general new hormone interventions and social accommodations for gender dysphoria. Justices Thomas and Alito would have granted the stay. The order gives no reasons and does not decide the merits; the lower-court block stays in place while the appeal continues.

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Gates of the Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem — Photo: M.O. Stevens, CC BY-SA 3.0

Accountability|United States

Ninth Circuit vacates Oregon order forcing transgender housing into women’s prisons

On 17 September 2026 a Ninth Circuit panel in S.D. v. Reese vacated a class-wide preliminary injunction that would have required Oregon to start housing assessments with a presumption of placing male inmates who identify as women into the state’s only women’s prison — and ordered the class decertified.

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Parliament House, Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh — Photo: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accountability|European Union

Scottish court: SPS transgender prison guidance unlawful after For Women Scotland

On 19 June 2026 Lady Ross held in [2026] CSOH 59 that Scottish Prison Service guidance allowing some biological men into the women’s estate misstated the law: statute requires sex-segregated prisons by biological sex, and applying the guidance sat outside ministers’ powers.

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