Faith-based shelter fights to keep out transgender women
Source: Associated Press
Rachel D'oro, Associated Press
Updated 9:49 pm CST, Friday, January 11, 2019
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A conservative Christian law firm that has pushed religious issues in multiple states urged a U.S. judge on Friday to block Alaska's largest city from requiring a faith-based women's shelter to accept transgender women.
Alliance Defending Freedom has sued the city of Anchorage to stop it from applying a gender identity law to the Hope Center shelter, which denied entry to a transgender woman last year. The lawsuit says homeless shelters are exempt from the local law and that constitutional principles of privacy and religious freedom are at stake.
Alliance attorney Ryan Tucker said many women at the shelter are survivors of violence and allowing biological men would be highly traumatic for them. He told U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason that women have told shelter officials that if biological men are allowed to spend the night alongside them, "they would rather sleep in the woods," even in extreme cold like the city has experienced this week with temperatures hovering around zero.
Tucker said biological men are free to use the shelter during the day, adding there are other shelters in the city where men can sleep.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Judge-to-hear-arguments-in-Anchorage-transgender-13526885.php
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