内容摘要：Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Uxbridge, Mass. (4,852 square feet)

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Uxbridge, Mass. (4,852 square feet)

Jackson said Bridgeway received HUD funding and that its policy of barring transgender men was a violation of the Equal Access Rule and “straight up sex discrimination.”Jackson said the message the shelter sent was this: “You’re biologically a girl, you should dress as a girl. Since you say that you are a man, we are not going to accept you here.”

HUD didn’t address Gonzalez’s or Webster’s complaints when the AP sought comment on their cases.HUD investigated Gonzalez’s complaint for 2 1/2 years until it suddenly notified him in March the agency was dropping it without a finding. The company operating the shelter, Preferred Family Healthcare, did not respond to the AP’s requests for comment.After 455 days of being shuttled between six shelters in six cities in two states — Missouri and Illinois — Gonzalez ultimately found stable housing, where his children live with him part time.

He sees what happened as part of what he describes as a “nationwide federal push to erase trans identity.”Advocates are concerned by HUD’s shift, noting high rates of discrimination — and homelessness — among people who are LGBTQ+.

Nearly one-third of trans people say they have been homeless at some point in their lives, while 70% who stayed in a shelter reported being harassed, assaulted or kicked out because of their gender identity, according to an Advocates for Trans Equality survey released in 2015, a year before Obama expanded protections for trans people in shelters.

Teens who come out to families who aren’t accepting are particularly at risk, said Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.A diagram illustrating a project to add sodium hydroxide to the ocean is displayed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Hyannis, Mass. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

“It’s like the Wild West. Everybody is on the bandwagon, everybody wants to do something,” said Adina Paytan, who teaches earth and ocean science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Planetary, like most of the ocean startups, is financing its work by selling carbon credits — or tokens representing one metric ton of carbon dioxide removed from the air. Largely unregulated and

, carbon credits have become popular this century as a way for companies to purchase offsets rather than reduce emissions themselves. Most credits are priced at several hundred dollars apiece.The industry sold more than 340,000 marine carbon credits last year, up from just 2,000 credits four years ago, according to the tracking site CDR.fyi. But that amount of carbon removal is a tiny fraction of what scientists say will be required to keep the planet livable for centuries to come.