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	"author_name": "Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/native-organizers-alliance",
	"title": "Submit a public comment to protect Two-Spirit and trans people as well as Tribal sovereignty",
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	"description": "It’s Pride Month, and the presidential administration is trying to weaken life-saving protections for Two-Spirit, transgender, intersex, and queer people -- collectively known as 2SLGBTQI+ people. Right now, our 2SLGBTQI+ relatives are protected by the Equal Access Rule, which ensures access to housing, programs, and emergency shelters that receive funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Because of the Equal Access Rule, unhoused Two-Spirit and trans people are able to stay in HUD-funded homeless shelters and domestic violence shelters that match their gender identity, where they’re protected from assaults and other dangers. But HUD is trying to dismantle the Equal Access Rule, which could kick our Two-Spirit and trans relatives out of their homes. This would also disproportionately harm transgender people and Native people, who are more likely than other groups to experience homelessness at some point in their lives. This proposed rule change would also push housing providers to verify people’s gender identities, in part by checking their ID. That would disproportionately impact Native people and people who are already unhoused, because they’re less likely to have IDs. Leaders at HUD want to increase scrutiny over our bodies, which impacts cisgender as well as transgender and intersex people. They want to fit us into unnatural gender roles and presentations, like colonizers did when forcing Native people to assimilate. They want to force HUD-funded housing providers to discriminate against transgender and Two-Spirit people. If finalized, their rule change would override Native people running housing programs and shelters -- an outrageous violation of Tribal sovereignty as well as Tribes’ treaty right to housing. Will you speak up for 2SLGBTQI+ people by submitting a public comment today? Click “START WRITING” to submit a public comment to oppose HUD’s proposed rule change, defend Two-Spirit and trans people’s access to life-saving housing, and demand the federal government uphold its legal obligations to respect Tribal sovereignty and ensure that Tribal members have adequate housing.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/protect-two-spirit-and-trans-people"
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