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HUD regulations for transgender people in homeless shelters

Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 08/17/2016 - 2:02pm

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has been finalizing its rules for the treatment of transgender people in shelters and the new regulations are scheduled to be released in September.

The new regulations are expected to require homeless shelters that receive federal support to treat transgender people as members of the gender with which they identify.

Transgender women are women regardless of whether they were born male.

If you’re a transgender woman and you walk into a homeless shelter and they treat you like a man, it’s traumatizing. These people are already vulnerable, they’re homeless, they don’t have a job. To face discrimination the entire time they’re there is a real problem.

--David Stacy, Human Rights Campaign

The Business Model of Healthcare in the US – Pay or Die - Updated

Submitted by RantingRooster on Wed, 08/17/2016 - 10:26am

The US is the only major country on this planet that does not view Healthcare as a human right for citizen survival. The ACA is a complete joke on US citizens. (We are not fucking consumers, we are citizens, asshole!) The idea of “affordable” healthcare through over priced health insurance, is nothing short of a bad fucking joke. The linguistic gymnastics has got to stop.

Black Lives Matter Declares War On Israel

Submitted by Meteor Man on Wed, 08/17/2016 - 1:33am

According to Alan Dershowitz anyhow:

It is a real tragedy that Black Lives Matter — which has done so much good in raising awareness of police abuses — has now moved away from its central mission and has declared war against the nation state of the Jewish people.

Not exactly a declaration of war Alan:

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