A rule proposed by the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development may allow single-sex shelters to turn away transgender people. - NBCOUT
was promulgated by the Obama administration in 2012 in order to ensure that women’s shelters and other single-sex facilities did not segregate transgender and cisgender people.saying the rule was “to make certain that housing assisted or insured by HUD is open to all eligible individuals and families without regard to actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status.”
In 2016, HUD also cited a report from the Center for American Progress and the Equal Rights Center that found only 30 percent of shelters the organizations contacted said they were willing to house transgender women with other women.
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