A federal judge is concerned that the Trump administration has violated a court order by transferring several incarcerated transgender women to a segregated prison unit. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., didn’t rule from the bench Wednesday on the inmates’ request to return them to general population at women’s prisons and block more transfers into the segregated unit. But the judge said it appears that the government has violated his previous order “on its face." Eight transgender women are currently segregated in the same unit at a prison in Texas. All are plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging an executive order that President Donald Trump signed last year.

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Alice Rufo, Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans, second left, Aurore Bergé, Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination, third left, Emmanuel Gregoire Paris mayor, center, and Yonathan Arfi, President of CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France), third right, attend the ceremony marking the 84th anniversary of the 1942 Vel d'Hiv police roundup, the largest roundup of Jews in France during World War II, and paying tribute to the Righteous Among the Nations of France in Paris, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)