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In February 2012, HUD promulgated the Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity final rule, which required that HUD-assisted and HUD-insured housing be made available without regard to sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status, and generally prohibited inquiries into sexual orientation or gender identity. The final rule also provided a limited exception for inquiries about the sex of an individual to determine eligibility for temporary, emergency shelters with shared sleeping areas or bathrooms and provided that HUD was not mandating a national policy on placement of transgender persons in single-sex shelters. This proposed rule would remove the prohibited inquiry provision and limited exception for all programs, but continue to require that all HUD-assisted and HUD-insured housing be made available without regard to sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status. This proposed rule would in its place provide directions to single-sex facilities and temporary, emergency shelters in CPD on how to make placements in single-sex facilities consistent with an individual’s self-identified gender identity.