DCTC vs. Virginia
Transgender-advocacy group files brief in suit against Virginia Department of Corrections
by John Riley
Published on December 29, 2011, 2:46am
http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=6908The DC Trans Coalition (DCTC), a local advocacy group advancing the civil rights of transgender people, has filed a friend of the court brief urging the Richmond-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to find that the policy on housing transgender inmates of the Virginia Department of Corrections is unconstitutional.
The brief, submitted in the case of De'Lonta v. Johnson, claims the policy that assigns transgender inmates to facilities based on their genitals violates the equal protection, due process and cruel and unusual punishment clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
