Despite Trump’s claims about “transgender operations on illegal aliens,” to date the BOP has only provided gender-affirming surgery to two trans women in its custody, in both cases under court order to do so. In federal and state prisons alike, trans people have never had a legislative path to health care. It happens through litigation, or not at all.

This was new information for me.

C is a good writer, I rarely enjoy reading an article like this as much as I did.