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Housing discrimination is also still a major problem in the USA. In 29 states, it is legal to discriminate against LGBT people in housing, and in a further 10, it is still legal to discriminate against transgender people. This is an important part of keeping openly LGBT people sectioned off into "gayborhoods" and the like.
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Bip Roberts posted:I thought gay concentrated neighborhoods in 2015 exist more because of shared culture than from direct housing discrimination or economic barriers. It's more that gay neighborhoods exist as safe places to contrast with the possibility of danger from the rest of the world. The issue isn't so much direct housing discrimination as it is the steering and expectations that keep gay people concentrated or closeted/covering- even if it's not likely that you'll be forced out of your apartment or denied a mortgage, the possibility discourages people. So guaranteeing the right to have housing anywhere in the country would help break down those barriers by removing some of these expectations.
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Aug 25, 2015 22:49
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Spacewolf posted:Sure there is. It politicizes the ADA, something that (to the relief of most disabled folks) is actually not a partisan issue in the US. It's rough enough being blind, I don't need what few protections I get being turned into a wedge issue for either party! The Americans with Disabilities Act posted:The term "disability" means, with respect to an individual The fact that transgender people are not protected by the ADA means that it is already politicized- an obvious disability is excluded, because it would be politically uncomfortable to do the right thing. There are, in fact, multiple disabilities that are specifically excluded for political reasons, though none of them so obviously vile in nature as the exclusion of gender dysphoria.
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Aug 26, 2015 03:22
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I think that the next big struggles will center around bullying/harassment on the LGB end, and getting included in federal civil rights laws on the T end. Not so much because the former is the worthiest, but because housing/employment discrimination will probably have a lot more tepid support from well-off LGB people.
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