Jurisprudence

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It’s going to be another bad year for trans rights at the Supreme Court, and this time, it may cost lives. The justices will soon consider the case of Alishea Sophia Kingdom, a transgender woman who’s incarcerated in the federal prison system. In a statement filed in court , she explains that she knew from the age of 7 that she was a girl, and when she was incarcerated, the doctors at the Federal Bureau of Prisons diagnosed her with gender dysphoria and prescribed her hormone therapy. But on Jan. 26, 2025, less than a week after Donald Trump took office, BOP staff told her she couldn’t get hormones any more.…