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The article focuses on the role of the U.S Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in prison litigation. Topics discussed include PREA as the first U.S federal law passed dealing with the sexual assault of prisoner, constitutional and statutory standards governing claims of sexual abuse in detention, and the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) created and funded by PREA to conduct research for the prevention as well as detection of sexual abuse in detention.

The article focuses on two broad themes including gun control and mental illness. The author argues that efforts to enhance gun control and the heightened focus on mental illness because of events like the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut could perpetrate violence on transgender people and queer women of color. It mentions that traumatic violence and systemic discrimination could also contribute to emotional distress and psychological injury among LGBT people.

The article focuses on the impact of mass imprisonment of the members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities specially the trans people of color. It informs that the conditions of incarcerated trans people of color were damaging as most women confined in men prisons were raped. It depicts that if the scope of marriage is expanded to gays and lesbians then conviction of other factors encompassing for one's sexual, family, and economic relations might be strengthened.

This Article examines the enforcement of racialized gender norms through the regulation of dress in prisons. Dress, including hair and clothing, is central to the ways government and other institutions enforce hierarchical social norms. These norms are based on the intersection of race and gender, as well as religion, sexuality, class, age, and disability. For many people, dress is a way to express identity, exercise autonomy, practice religion, participate politically, experience pleasure, preserve health, or avoid violence. My review of prison dress regulations shows that prison systems commonly impose penalties including solitary confinement for deviations from dominant social norms. Examples of these deviations include wearing hair in an Afro, covering hair with a headscarf, or having long hair if incarcerated as a man. I situate prison rules in the historical context of dress regulation and prison evolution in the United States. The justifications-such as repression of homosexuality and group affiliation, prevention of attacks and escapes, and promotion of hygiene and rehabilitation-that prison officials offer for these rules raise normative and instrumental concerns. Nonetheless, courts frequently diminish individual and community interests in dress while deferring to prison regulations that lack complete or credible justifications. In furtherance of the goal of prison abolition, I propose an integrated approach for change through policy amendments, doctrinal shifts, and broader grassroots efforts for social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs that Gabriel Arkles of the ACLU LGBT HIV Project traces law enforcement's historical and present day enforcement of the gender binary at the Invisible No More conference titled" Policing Sex and Gender" panel.