Transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals face pervasive housing discrimination, according to a recent study. Researchers at the Suffolk University Law School Housing Discrimination Testing Program in Boston used a pretty straightforward test to determine this. Massachusetts and 19 other states, however, outlaw gender identity-based housing discrimination. A National Center for Transgender Equality survey of trans individuals in 2015 found that 23 percent experienced housing discrimination in the previous year. With a flurry of discriminatory legislation under consideration and an uptick in hate crimes against transgender individuals, housing discrimination ― widespread, but often subtle ― might not be advocates’ biggest concern.

Source: Huffington Post March 31, 2017 20:30 UTC