would no longer adhere to<\/a> a 2016 Obama-era rule protecting transgender people from housing discrimination, which Turner said \u201ctied housing programs, shelters and other facilities funded by HUD to far-left gender ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe, at this agency, are carrying out the mission laid out by President Trump on January 20th [2025] when he signed an executive order to restore biological truth to the federal government,\u201d Turner said in a statement, referring to Trump\u2019s order calling on federal agencies across the government to rescind protections for transgender Americans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means recognizing there are only two sexes: male and female,\u201d Turner said. \u201cIt means getting government out of the way of what the Lord established from the beginning when he created man in His own image.\u201d <\/p>\n
Among other things, the administration said rules barring discrimination against transgender people allowed \u201cbiological men to enter shelters intended for women impacted by trauma, domestic abuse and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
LGBTQ+ advocacy groups condemned the move, noting that transgender Americans face heightened discrimination in a slate of areas \u2014 including housing \u2014 and need protections. They also contended that HUD\u2019s new policies violate a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring employment discrimination based on gender or gender identity.<\/p>\n
Bonta said the Fair Housing Act \u201cset a floor, not a ceiling, for protections against discrimination,\u201d which means that states \u201chave the authority to go further and protect more people,\u201d as California has endeavored to do.<\/p>\n
He said HUD has supported the state\u2019s anti-discrimination work for decades through the Fair Housing Assistance Program, which provides funding to state and local agencies to investigate and enforce laws against housing discrimination. HUD\u2019s new guidance \u201cthreatens to undermine that system\u201d by demanding an end to state protections not just for LGBTQ+ people, but for military veterans, immigrants as well as women receiving abortions and other reproductive healthcare, he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cFamilies across California are already struggling to find homes they can afford, and the last thing they need is for the federal government to make it harder,\u201d Bonta said. \u201cAt its core, this lawsuit is about protecting a fundamental civil right: the right to rent, buy, or live in housing without discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bonta said California interprets the Fair Housing Act\u2019s ban on sex discrimination as protecting LGBTQ+ people, but the Trump administration doesn\u2019t agree \u2014 making the state\u2019s more explicit protections important.<\/p>\n
He said about $3 million in federal funding is currently at stake for California, with millions more at stake in other states.<\/p>\n
Illinois Atty. Gen. Kwame Raoul, who is helping lead the lawsuit and spoke alongside Bonta Monday, said states with robust antidiscrimination laws \u201cwill not go backwards and we will not give in to threats\u201d from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese actions are part of a broader, ongoing pattern by this administration to subvert the legal protections our country has put in place to combat discrimination, and to tear down the hard fought progress we have made for civil rights,\u201d Raoul said. \u201cIt is also just the latest page in the president\u2019s illegal playbook to use funding and programs created by Congress to try to strong arm states into adopting Trump\u2019s preferred policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The states allege that HUD\u2019s targeting of state antidiscrimination policies comes after it downsized its own workforce and significantly reduced its ability to investigate housing discrimination complaints and enforce fair housing laws. They say the new guidance violates multiple federal laws, including laws that govern federal spending and rule changes, and are asking the federal court to immediately invalidate the guidance as unlawful.<\/p>\n
Bonta and Raoul are joined in the lawsuit by the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California and a coalition of other states sued the Trump administration Monday over its efforts to roll back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101688,9610,7,9,8,13469,101686,4110,1011,9500,721,1846,101687,101685,13049,225,101689],"class_list":["post-222717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-anti-discrimination-protection","tag-bonta","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-discrimination","tag-federal-fair-housing-act","tag-funding","tag-housing","tag-hud","tag-law","tag-lawsuit","tag-lgbtq-people","tag-new-guidance","tag-other-state","tag-state","tag-trump-administration-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}