Twenty-six states and three territories have no explicit policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity when it comes to housing. At the federal level, the Trump administration wants to allow homeless shelters funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to discriminate based on someone's gender identity.Twenty-seven states and all five U.S.
Currently hate crime laws in 15 states — Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, and West Virginia — don’t cover sexual orientation or gender identity. Three additional states — Arkansas, South Carolina, and Wyoming— don’t have any hate crime laws whatsoever.A total of 36 states and four U.S.