The judge's ruling is the first to broadly block federal prison officials from carrying out Trump's executive order targeting “gender ideology."

The Bureau of Prisons must provide hormone treatment for inmates with gender dysphoria while a lawsuit proceeds, despite an executive order to the contrary, a federal judge ordered.

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.