New Utah law raises landlord concerns over transgender tenants

At least three men who identify as women recently applied to live in female off-campus student housing but made other arrangements after tenants in the apartment balked at having them as roommates.

But with gender identity now on the list of protected classes in Utah's fair housing law, a landlord turning away transgender people would be discrimination.

In all three cases, the women and their parents "freaked out" and did not want their daughters sharing living space with someone who is male, even though they say they identify as f