A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a Bureau of Prisons policy designed to phase out taxpayer-funded hormone treatments and other transgender accommodations for federal inmates, ruling that prison officials likely violated federal administrative law when adopting the policy.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a new preliminary injunction in Kingdom v. Trump, preventing the Bureau of Prisons from enforcing its recent February policy changes and ordering officials to continue providing transgender-identifying inmates with drugs and social accommodations under policies that existed before President Donald Trump’s executive order, which informed the prison policy. The court stayed that policy while litigation continues, ordering prison officials to maintain the status quo while litigation proceeds.The ruling came the same day a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the Justice Department’s request to pause a separate order renewing an earlier injunction in the case, a decision that was quickly overtaken when, roughly two hours later, Lamberth issued his updated preliminary injunction that for now governs the dispute. The appeals court said the Trump administration was likely to succeed in defending its policy as legal and that Lamberth had likely overstepped his authority by blocking it the first time.