Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
US homeless shelters will be able to turn trans women away if they have an Adam’s apple
Homeless shelters in the US will be able to turn trans people away based on their ‘height’, ‘facial hair’ and whether they have ‘an Adam’s apple’.
Those characteristics are in the wording of a new rule by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It guts the previous Equal Access Rule, which Barack Obama introduced in 2012, to give trans people fair access to shelters.
The revised HUD rule will be published on the Federal Register today. That allows the public 60 days to respond before it comes into force.
However campaigners in the US seem to hold little hope of stopping the Trump administration from going ahead. Instead, they are now hoping to defeat Trump in the 3 November elections.
