WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to a disruption in medical treatment, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

The federal Bureau of Prisons must continue to allow hormone therapy for transgender inmates, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The big picture: The decision temporarily bars the bureau from enforcing President Trump's executive order that prohibits gender-affirming care for transgender people in federal prisons.