The Bureau of Prisons is facing its second legal challenge in the case of a transgender pedophile demanding various “gender affirming” treatments. Last year, a federal court in Washington ordered the BOP to provide Brian “Nani Love” Buckingham with speech therapy, laser hair removal, and facial feminization surgery, but Buckingham’s lawyers are claiming the services provided so far are inadequate.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Buckingham was first arrested in June of 2020 after being connected to a Discord account that was sharing child rape photos. Discord had received a report from a concerned user about abuse images that had been made public, and a human moderator verified the contents of the report and immediately notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Based on the IP address of the account associated with the image, the NCMEC determined the account was located in Washington and contacted state law enforcement.
A detective from the Washington State Patrol was assigned to the case to review the evidence from Discord, which included an image file depicting an adult man preparing to penetrate the anus of a young child.
Discord later surrendered all of the information belonging to the account the images had originated from, and Washington State Patrol was then able to confirm the owner of the account was Brian Buckingham of Neah Bay.
An additional package of media provided to police by Discord revealed two videos featuring Buckingham and a child victim that was later determined to be Buckingham’s own 10-year-old son.
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The Bureau of Prisons has been ordered to provide a transgender pedophile with laser hair removal to alleviate his "gender dysphoria."
Brian "Nani Love" Buckingham is currently serving a 21-year sentence for sexually abusing his own son.https://t.co/wCvGm1OwLd
Continuing the investigation, the Washington State Patrol found that Buckingham had exchanged Discord messages expressing an interest in rape and sexually abusing animals and toddlers. Buckingham also shared child sexual abuse material with other Discord users, and even engaged in sexually exploitative chats with at least one user who identified themselves as being 13.
Buckingham was initially indicted on two counts – one of the production of child pornography, and one of the distribution of child pornography. But the indictment was later revised to include three counts of the production of child pornography, one count of the distribution of child pornography, and one count of aggravated sexual assault on a child.
On December 4, 2024, Buckingham waived his right to a trial and entered into a plea agreement, admitting to the production of child pornography and abusive sexual contact with a child. He was ultimately sentenced to 252 months in prison, and the court recommended that Buckingham serve his sentence at FCI Butner, an institution considered to be “friendly” to trans inmates.
Just prior to the sentence being formalized in that case, Buckingham had already begun to file a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Trump administration officials for alleged violations of his human rights.
In a motion filed in April of 2025, Buckingham claimed that Bureau of Prisons had violated his Eighth Amendment rights and his rights under Section 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 by denying him access to “medically necessary care.”
Buckingham described himself as a “transgender female” in the motion, and claimed that he was at risk of irreparable harm if the accommodations were not provided to him.
On September 18, United States Magistrate Judge David Christel filed a report determining that Buckingham was “likely to succeed” on the merits of his claims that his Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment had been violated.
“Buckingham has presented evidence that she suffers from a serious medical need, gender dysphoria. She also has presented evidence that Defendants were aware of her need for the Consultations,” Judge Christel wrote, referring to Buckingham with feminine pronouns. “The evidence shows BOP healthcare providers at FDC SeaTac referred Buckingham for the Consultations, and then BOP healthcare providers at FCI Butner discontinued the requests for the Consultations without reason and summarily denied her request for the facial feminization consultation … The undisputed evidence shows the Consultations are medically necessary.”
Judge Christel then recommended Buckingham’s motion for a preliminary injunction be granted, and that an injunction ordering the Bureau of Prisons to provide him with the cosmetic consultations be issued. Explicitly included were those for laser hair removal, facial feminization surgery, and voice training.
United States District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez adopted Christel’s recommendations, and gave the Bureau of Prisons until December 12, 2025, to comply with the mandatory injunction.
But lawyers for Buckingham have since filed additional declarations in the case, complaining that the BOP has failed to comply with the order and provide Buckingham his requested “gender affirming care” consultations. Further, Buckingham’s attorneys allege the BOP has continued to violate his Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment by referring him to a psychiatrist who expressed uncertainty about his gender dysphoria diagnosis.
In a Motion to Show Cause filed on December 23, 2025, Buckingham’s attorneys asserted that the BOP had arranged Buckingham’s “speech therapy” consultations, but hadn’t delivered on the requests for facial feminization or laser hair removal.
The BOP reportedly tried to explain the lack of action by noting they did not have a contract with any laser hair removal providers, but Buckingham’s lawyers complained that the BOP had made no effort to contact third-party providers to comply with the order.
Instead, the BOP decided that Buckingham would be allowed to purchase a No-No brand personal hair removal device for his own use.
Further, the Motion to Show Cause notes that BOP arranged a consultation for Buckingham with a psychiatrist to “assess for the medical necessity of the requested gender-affirming procedures,” but the psychiatrist stated that he could not validate Buckingham’s previous diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
In his report on Buckingham, Dr. Edward Weidow concluded that there was “a distinct lack of evidence” that Buckingham’s “current requests for surgeries” were necessary. Noting that Buckingham presented with serious mental health issues that did not appear to be well-managed, Weidow continued: “I do not see gender-affirming surgery in this case … to be medically necessary … or advisable.”
Buckingham’s attorneys rejected Dr. Weidow’s assessment, asserting that “WPATH Standards of Care instruct that delaying or denying care ‘due to the presence of mental health problems may exacerbate symptoms’ … Accordingly, the WPATH Standards of Care do not support Dr. Weidow’s cursory conclusion that the existence of co-occurring mental health symptoms warrant denying Ms. Buckingham further gender-affirming care.”
The Motion to Show Cause concludes by recommending the Bureau of Prisons be held in civil contempt and heavily sanctioned for its apparent “failure” to provide Buckingham with the “gender-affirming care” ordered by the court, and suggests the BOP be forced to pay a noncompliance fine of $1,000 per day until Buckingham is given the consultations he demanded. Buckingham’s lawyers also requested the BOP pay the legal costs associated with filing the motion.
Buckingham’s case represents one of the first successful challenges made by a transgender inmate to the Trump administration’s recent executive orders.
In January of 2025, the administration moved to tighten federal prison policies affecting transgender inmates, directing the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to base housing assignments on inmates’ sex assigned at birth rather than “gender identity,” and barring the use of federal funds for “gender affirming” medical treatments for transgender inmates.
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