A federal judge rejected a Missouri Christian university’s plea for temporary protection against the Biden administration’s Fair Housing Act, which, the school said, requires religious schools to open girls' dorm rooms and showers to male students.
LGBT activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of New York City Hall, October 24, 2018 in New York City. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
A Missouri Christian university is suing the Biden administration over a federal directive that its lawsuit claims requires religious schools to open their dormitories and showers based on gender identity.â
The College of the Ozarks, a four-year liberal arts college in Point Lookout, filed a lawsuit in response to a February order from the Department of Housing and Urban Development that forces any entities that receive federal dollars covered by the Fair Housing Act to place transgender-identified biological males into female dormitories and assign them as femalesâ roommates.Â
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Biden administration will investigate housing discrimination against LGBTQ people
HUD promises various actions to combat anti-LGBTQ discrimination in housing.
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On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it would take steps to ban housing discrimination against LGBTQ people.
The department issued a memorandum stating that HUD interprets the Fair Housing Act as barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity as an illegal form of sex-based discrimination, and thus, directs all HUD offices and recipients of HUD funds to embrace that interpretation.
The move comes as the agency seeks to comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order directing the federal government to adhere to the legal principles outlined in a Supreme Court decision on LGBTQ workplace discrimination last year.