Discrimination protections for transgender people fade as Trump remakes housing agency

The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people. In recent months, HUD has been targeting the Obama-era Equal Access Rule that expanded protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Also in the bull’s-eye are fair-housing complaint investigations and federally funded homeless shelters, according to documents provided to The Associated Press. HUD says in a statement that it is both upholding the Fair Housing Act and implementing Trump’s executive order, which it says is “restoring biological truth to the federal government."