Posted on 08/16/2016 11:52:02 AM PDT by Morgana
Homeless shelters have become the latest battleground in the national debate over transgender rights.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is expected in September to finalize regulations that would allow people to stay in homeless shelters based on the gender they identify with.
The proposal has set off a firestorm, pitting LGBT groups against religious organizations that operate many homeless shelters.
“Transgender women are women regardless of whether they were born male,” said David Stacy, government affairs director at the Human Rights Campaign.
“If you’re a transgender woman and you walk into a homeless shelter and they treat you like a man, it’s traumatizing,” he added. “These people are already vulnerable, they’re homeless, they don’t have a job. To face discrimination the entire time they’re there is a real problem.”
Religious organizations see things differently.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
all that matters is what they self identify as
geeze, your not one of them folks that believe peoples sex are actually determined by chromosomes are you? /s
They don’t even allow this foolishness in prisons.
Agenda before everything, including safety.
PING!
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