最高法院撤销跨性别囚犯案下级裁决 发回第十巡回依两项判例重审
华盛顿 — 美国最高法院 11 月 9 日（周一）发布命令清单，批准调卷、撤销联邦第十巡回上诉法院在 Griffith 诉 El Paso County 案中的裁决，把案件发回该院，依照最高法院近两年的两项跨性别议题判例重新审议。这起案件源于跨性别女子 Darlene Griffith 指控科罗拉多州 El Paso County 监狱在 2020 年候审关押期间侵犯其民权。
命令清单第 25-442 号条目以警长 Roybal 等人为申请人、Darlene Griffith 为被申请人，处置原文写明：调卷申请获准，判决撤销，案件发回第十巡回上诉法院，依照 West Virginia v. B. P. J. 案（609 U.S. 958，2026 年）与 United States v. Skrmetti 案（605 U.S. 495，2025 年）进一步审议。该条目没有法官异议注记。
Griffith 以女性身份公开生活已逾 20 年。她指控，2020 年在 El Paso County 监狱候审期间，狱方拒绝把她安置到女性单元，她其后多次遭到一名男性在押人员性侵，并频繁被男性警员搜身。位于 Denver 的第十巡回上诉法院 2025 年 2 月裁定，她的部分指控已越过驳回动议阶段的「低门槛」可以继续审理，同时明言尚未就狱方按生理性别分房的政策是否违宪作出判断。
县警长一方上诉到最高法院，称监狱管理者在如何分类与安置跨性别在押人员、同时维持设施安全方面，正面对相互不一致的要求。美国司法部则促请最高法院把案件发回重审，理由是第十巡回的裁定作出于最高法院两项跨性别判例之前：一项维持州法禁止未成年人性别肯定治疗，一项维持禁止跨性别运动员参加女子校队的州法。
发回之后，第十巡回将按上述两项判例的尺度重新分析 Griffith 的平等保护等指控。最高法院此次处置不就其指控本身是否成立作最终裁决，案件实体审理仍在下级法院继续。
（来源：美国最高法院）
Supreme Court Vacates Transgender Inmate Ruling, Sends Case Back to Tenth Circuit
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, November 9, granted certiorari in Griffith v. El Paso County, vacated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit's ruling in the case, and remanded it for further consideration in light of two of the justices' recent decisions on transgender issues. The case stems from transgender woman Darlene Griffith's claim that her civil rights were violated at the El Paso County Jail in Colorado while she was awaiting trial in 2020.
Entry No. 25-442 on the court's order list, captioned Roybal, Sheriff, et al. v. Griffith, states: the petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, the judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the Tenth Circuit for further consideration in light of West Virginia v. B. P. J., 609 U.S. 958 (2026), and United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. 495 (2025). No justice noted a dissent from the entry.
Griffith has been living openly as a woman for more than 20 years. She alleges that while held pretrial at the El Paso County Jail in 2020, she was denied a request to be housed in a female unit, was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a male inmate, and was frequently searched by male deputies. In February 2025, the Denver-based Tenth Circuit allowed some of her allegations to proceed, saying they had passed the low bar for surviving a motion to dismiss, while emphasizing that it was not yet weighing whether the jail's policy of housing inmates based on biological sex is unconstitutional.
The county sheriff appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that prison administrators face inconsistent mandates on how to classify and house transgender inmates while maintaining safety and security. The Justice Department urged the justices to send the case back because the Tenth Circuit's 2025 ruling came before the Supreme Court's two recent transgender decisions, which upheld a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors and state bans on transgender athletes competing on female teams.
On remand, the Tenth Circuit will reanalyze Griffith's equal protection and related claims under those two precedents. Monday's disposition does not finally decide whether her claims succeed; the underlying litigation continues in the lower courts.
(Source: U.S. Supreme Court)
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