Shelter For Abused Women Targeted By Equal Rights Commission For Barring Biologically Male Transgenders. Now They’re Fighting Back.

Aug 17, 2018 by Jill

by Amanda Prestigiacomo, Daily Wire:

A homeless shelter serving battered and sexually abused women in Anchorage, Alaska is being targeted by the state’s equal rights commission for refusing to allow biological men into the shelter’s shower and living facilities.

The nonprofit, Downtown Hope Center, has been under “investigation” for months after a homeless man named Timothy Coyle, who identifies as a female named Samantha Coyle, filed a complaint with the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission for alleged discrimination.

Coyle showed up at the center on the night of January 18 after he was kicked out of a neighboring shelter for physical violence. Since Coyle was drunk and injured, Hope Center Director Sherrie Laurie sent him to the hospital and kindly paid for his transportation.

Since the charitable center is not a “public accommodation” and should be awarded an accommodation rooted in religious liberty because it is a faith-based shelter, an attorney for Hope Center tried to get the outlandish complaint dismissed.

But the commission refused to drop the complaint and insisted on attempting to force the homeless shelter to allow men into living facilities where women who just escaped the horrors of sexual abuse reside. To make matters worse, Hope Center was forced to go silent and seek new counsel after their lawyer spoke to the media about the facts of the case. This was apparently in violation of an anti-discrimination law, per the commission.

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