'Well, I guess I'll go sleep in the woods,' Samantha Coyle said she thought after the homeless shelter denied her entry because she's transgender.
A homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska can continue denying transgender women access after the city decided to settle with the shelter, even agreeing to reimburse the shelter $100,000 in legal fees. The saga started when a Samantha Coyle filed a complaint with the city's Equal Rights Commission after she was denied shelter because she's"biologically male," the homeless shelter's lawsuit stated.
"Well, I guess I'll go sleep in the woods," she told KTUU, describing the moment she was denied shelter."Here I am. I have nowhere to go. It's cold. I'm hurting. I have medical issues," she said. ADF, a conservative organization designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is notorious for representing clients in anti-LGBTQ cases, most recently the case of the funeral home who fired a woman for coming out as transgender. The Supreme Court will hear that case on October 8.
"It would not only be dangerous and against common sense, but it would violate the Hope Center's sincerely held religious beliefs to admit biological men into its shelter and allow them to sleep side by side and disrobe next to women," the shelter's lawsuit claimed.
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