A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for women with special needs, following claims of sexual abuse allegedly committed by some of the biological men housed there.

Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, a Reagan appointee, ruled last week that any transgender biological man at Federal Medical Center-Carswell, a women’s prison in Fort Worth for female inmates primarily suffering from medical and mental health problems, who shares living quarters with two female plaintiffs in a civil rights case must be housed separately, either “reassigned away” or in placed a “secure, segregated” unit within FMC Carswell.