HUD Proposal to Gut Equal Access Rule Puts Transgender Lives at Risk

HRC denounced a proposal by the Trump-Pence administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that would drastically undermine protections for transgender and gender non-conforming people served by HUD programs. As proposed, this regulation equips emergency shelters with a list of ways to turn away members of marginalized communities, especially transgender people.

“Federal agencies have a responsibility to ensure programs are accessible to everyone who is eligible, but the Trump-Pence administration is deliberately finding ways to facilitate discrimination against vulnerable communities, particularly transgender women of color,” said HRC President Alphonso David. “This is yet another instance of the administration’s blatant attacks on LGBTQ people, particularly transgender people, while needlessly putting lives at risk. They should reverse this proposal immediately.  We will not accept yet another attack on us. We will hold them accountable at the ballot box.”

The proposed revisions to the Obama administration’s landmark enforcement of the Equal Access Rule would strip away the…

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