By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled the U.S. Bureau of Prisons must keep providing transgender inmates gender-affirming care, despite an executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office to halt funding for such care.

The judge's ruling is the first to broadly block federal prison officials from carrying out Trump's executive order targeting “gender ideology."

A judge says the federal Bureau of Prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to a disruption in medical treatment.