Trump administration plans to enforce homeless shelter rule by identifying characteristics of transgender women: report
Posted on AllSides July 21st, 2020
From The Center
The text of a proposed Trump administration rule allowing homeless shelters to place transgender people by the gender assigned to them at birth includes instructions on how to identify transgender women, according to a report by Vox.
In the text of the proposed rule obtained by Vox, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) instructs shelters to consider, “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...
