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A proposed Housing and Urban Development rule would allow federally funded homeless shelters to judge a person’s physical characteristics, such as height and facial hair, in determining whether they belong in a women’s or men’s shelter, according to a copy of the rule’s text obtained by Vox. Advocates say this ultimately targets both trans women and cisgender women with masculine features, which could force them into men’s shelters and put them at risk for harm.
The proposed rule, first announced by HUD in a press release issued on July 1, would essentially reverse the Obama-era rule that required homeless shelters to house trans people according to their gender identity. While the new rule would bar shelters from excluding people based on their transgender status, it would also allow shelters to ignore a person’s gender identity — and instead house them according to their assigned sex at birth or their legal sex. In other words, a trans woman can’t be turned away from a shelter for being trans, but she can be forced to go to a men’s shelter.
In order to do this, HUD will allow shelter staff to take into account “factors such as height, the presence (but not the absence) of facial hair, the presence of an Adam’s apple, and other physical characteristics which, when considered together, are indicative of a person’s biological sex.”
> https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/...rs-judge-women
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What a nice thing to do in an election year. Is Trump trying to undo everything Obama put in place?
Transwomen in female spaces is certainly a divisive issue, but I can't see it being a vote winner, and all it'll do is give their opposition something to criticise.
Also, they're pretty daft things to judge someone on. Plenty of natural women have some face hair, adam's apples, and are tall. That American conservative woman whose name evades me has a bigger apple than me!
20-07-2020, 08:17 PM
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