The Trump administration has proposed a sweeping rollback of LGBTQ+ housing protections, including one that could force trans women into men’s shelters and strip away federal anti-discrimination safeguards.
The new rule from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would eliminate protections based on gender identity and sexual orientation first introduced under Barack Obama.
It would instead require shelters receiving federal funding to house people based on what it defines as their “biological sex”, even in states where local laws prohibit this, as per Transitics.
The proposal also removes a 2016 safeguard that banned shelters from asking invasive questions or requiring proof of a person’s body or medical history.
Under the new rule, providers could request ‘reasonable assurances or evidence’ of someone’s sex. It doesn’t clarify what this means.
Critics warn that this opens the door to harmful and degrading practices, while placing trans people, who already face disproportionately high rates of homelessness, at greater risk of violence and exclusion.
The policy leans on Executive Order 14168 and frames the changes as protecting women and religious freedom.
The proposal will now enter a public comment period.
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