The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may not enforce parts of a sweeping executive order President Trump signed on his first day back in office instructing it to cease treatment for transgender inmates’ gender dysphoria, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked the BOP from enforcing Trump’s order while a legal challenge against it continues.

The Jan. 20 order, which proclaims the U.S. recognizes only two sexes, male and female, and broadly prohibits federal spending on “gender ideology,” tasks Attorney General Pam Bondi with barring the BOP from expending funds “for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”

It directs Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to ensure “that males are not detained in........

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