Advocacy organizations slam HUD’s rule allowing shelters to turn away trans people
proposed rule, which HUD has been working on for the better part of the past year, seeks to give emergency shelters the option of turning away individuals whose assigned sex at birth does not match their gender identity, if shelter administrators have a “good faith belief” that the person “is not of the sex, as defined in the single sex facility’s policy, which the facility accommodates.”The rule would nominally keep in place a 2012 Obama-era rule barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, but would effectively undermine that rule by eliminating 2016 HUD guidance requiring that transgender people be housed in single-sex shelters based on the gender with which they identify.Under the proposed rule, if a