As per new rules proposed by state legislators, transgender inmates in California may soon gain access to gendered items they are currently barred from. According to the AP, transgender women housed in men’s prison facilities could receive feminine undergarments, lip gloss, and mascara, and transgender men could get aftershave and boxers if the measure passes.

There are at least 400 transgender inmates currently incarcerated within California, where efforts to provide inmates with gender-affirming care have been slowly materializing. Shiloh Quine, a 57-year-old inmate housed within one of the state’s men’s prison for 35 years, received the country’s first state-funded sex-reassignment surgery in January after a drawn out legal battle.

“For too long, institutions have ignored doctors and casually dismissed medically necessary and life-saving care for transgender people just because of who we are – with devastating consequences for our community,” Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center (which represented Quine) told Vocativ in the days following the operation. “With this surgery, the state is fulfilling one part of a landmark settlement that was a victory not only for Shiloh and transgender people in prison, but for all transgender people who have ever been denied the medical care we need.”

However, her case has been far from seamless. Quine’s lawyers at the Transgender Law Center are still working out accommodations with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which has reportedly yet to heed a federal magistrate’s order that certain gendered items be provided to her. (Representatives from the center could not be immediately reached for comment by Vocativ.)

Before these rules become reality, a public hearing and comment period must occur. And even if they should pass, advocates say that there is much work to be done in providing transgender inmates in the U.S. with the care and accommodations they need. According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, “being transgender or gender non-conforming in an American jail or prison often means daily humiliation, physical and sexual abuse, and fear of reprisals for using the legal remedies to address underlying problems.”

A 2013 study found that transgender women living in men’s prisons in California were 15 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than cisgender inmates. Inmates forced into living among prisoners of the opposite gender are also at heightened risk of other forms of violence and attempting suicide.