WashingtonBlade.com – Melissa Rothstein & Darby Hickey
D.C. should require the Dept. of Corrections to comply with the Human Rights Act
In 2005, District residents celebrated the enactment of some of the country’s strongest regulations against discrimination toward transgender and gender non-conforming people. Largely as a result of community organizing, “gender identity and expression” was added to the list of protected categories in D.C.’s Human Rights Act — itself one of the most comprehensive anti-discrimination laws in the United States. This fall, a critical aspect of these historic regulations might be reversed.