HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge said the agency will bring back the Obama-era Equal Access Rule, which ensures that no one can be “denied access to housing or other critical services because of their gender identity.”
The Trump administration last year sought to relax those protections by allowing federally funded homeless shelters to exclude transgender clients from single-sex facilities that align with their gender identity.
Under former Secretary Ben Carson, HUD’s rationale for modifying the Equal Access Rule was “anecdotal evidence that some women may fear that non-transgender, biological men may exploit the process” to gain access to women's shelters—though the agency noted at the time it was “not aware of data suggesting that transgender individuals pose an inherent risk to biological women.”
Forbes
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