A Christian homeless shelter is getting $100k in damages after they turned away a trans woman
A homeless shelter that turned away a transgender woman will be getting $100,000 in a settlement from the city. They say their religious freedom was violated when the city investigated them for turning away a transgender woman.
The Downtown Hope Center in Anchorage, Alaska, turned away a transgender woman last year, citing their religious beliefs. The center argues that it’s Christian, so it can turn away people who don’t live up to their religious principles.
The trans woman filed a complaint with the Anchorage Equal Right’s Commission. While the state does not ban discrimination against LGBTQ people, the city of Anchorage has a civil rights ordinance that bans sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in public accommodations.
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Earlier this year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development rolled back Obama era protections for LGBTQ homeless people that required that shelters that receive federal money house transgender people with their gender, not with their sex assigned at birth or completely turned away.
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Just another reminder that the GLBT community is under attack.
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