Last July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced plans to amend the Equal Access rule to allow homeless shelters to operate as single-sex or sex-segregated facilities.
Critics said the new rule would have left transgender people vulnerable to being denied shelter and forced out onto the streets.
New HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge recently announced the agency is withdrawing the previous administration’s proposed rule. Read on for details from Fudge.
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