previously reported. Should the guidelines be implemented, women's shelters would be permitted to "decline to accommodate a person who identifies as female but who is a biological male."The document seeks to sidestep accusations of anti-trans discrimination by saying single-sex shelters that accommodate women based on their "biological sex" cannot refuse to "accommodate a person who identifies as male but who is a biological female."Civil rights groups and LGBTQ advocates swiftly condemned the rule change, which had long been expected, as HUD signaled its intention to overturn the transgender nondiscrimination guidelines in May 2019.