This time in homeless shelters. Last month he took away our healthcare coverage now he wants up thrown out of homeless shelters. Have you ever known of a more cruel and vindictive administration?
If the proposal is implemented, transgender women could be placed in sex-segregated shelters for men.NBC NewsBy Nico LangJuly 2, 2020The Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to move forward with a measure that would permit federally funded homeless shelters to house transgender clients according to their sex assigned at birth.The HUD proposal would reverse a 2016 measure implemented under the Obama administration that built on provisions enacted four years earlier. The 2012 Equal Access Rule mandated that shelters are "open to all eligible individuals and families regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status," and the administration issued further guidance clarifying that the rule barred shelters from denying access to trans people in accordance with their gender identity.HUD announced Wednesday that it intends to effectively strike the 2016 trans-inclusive guidelines. When it comes to housing transgender people in single-sex or sex-segregated shelters, HUD Secretary Ben Carson said in a statement that the Obama administration's guidelines "mandate a single approach that overrides local law and concerns.""This important update will empower shelter providers to set policies that align with their missions, like safeguarding victims of domestic violence or human trafficking," Carson said. "Mission-focused shelter operators play a vital and compassionate role in communities across America. The Federal Government should empower them."
Lies and more lies.
We are the ones being attacked!
I received a phone call one night on a January night when it was below zero, a trans woman was placed in a men’s shelter and was attacked by the other residents, the shelter threw her out onto the street not the men who attached her. We found shelter her in a women’s shelter who took her in even though the shelter was fill.
Spokesman-ReviewBy Adam ShanksJuly 2, 2020Spokane homeless shelters say a proposed federal rule change limiting protections for transgender guests will not alter how they operate.Under the new rule proposed by Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, operators of sex-segregated or single-sex shelters would be allowed to screen guests based on the sex they were assigned at birth, not their gender identity.That would be a drastic change from the 2016, Obama-era Equal Access rule, which barred shelters from discriminating based on gender identity or sexual orientation.The new rule only applies to shelters that accept federal funding. HUD said in a statement released Wednesday that the new rule would “better accommodate religious beliefs of shelter providers.”It was quickly and resoundingly criticized by advocates for transgender people and by civil liberties organizations.
Which is just about every single shelter. So basically they just overruled Connecticut law. We had protections here in Connecticut since 2011 and had never had a problem with trans people in shelters casing trouble… if there was trouble we were the targets of the trouble.
This ruling will lead to our deaths and that is what Trump and his cronies want… us dead.
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Yes vote to change this nightmare but remember a law is a law. These protections were on the books now they are off the books. A leader in Radical Women, Gloria Martin once stated, “We have to fight for survival issues–better pay, benefits, abortion rights, child care. But then we have to go further. We have to change the system, because as long as the system is the same, we’ll be fighting all our lives for the same thing….When people have had enough, revolution can happen suddenly.” As we go about getting "our daily bread issues" lets remember what Gloria said.
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