The DC Office of Human Rights is attempting to make an exception to anti-discrimiantion law for the Department of Corrections. The DC Trans Coalition is organizing around this issue, more can be learned at their website, here or www.dctc.squarespace.com

Sylvia Rivera Law Project has issued a statement on the proposed changes which  reads in part that

"We are deeply concerned that the proposed amendments discussed below would undermine and roll back the basic human rights of transgender people in the District of Columbia, particularly for low-income transgender people of color. "