“When trans people speak out, the criminal justice system can’t help but listen up.”

In internal documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, DCTC caught the Metropolitan Police Department and the Department of Corrections breaking their own rules. In an e-mail exchange about the improper housing of a trans woman, officials seemed more concerned about embarrassing media coverage than solving the rampant transphobia on their force. Amanda Hess at TBD has more on the story (reprinted below the cut): “D.C. police e-mails concerned with bad press, trans rights.”