The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is moving to roll back equal-access housing rules, according to a proposed revision filed this week, in a move that is likely to have significant consequences on transgender individuals. Under the new proposed guidance, the federal agency will remove references to “gender identity," “sexual orientation," and “gender” in the existing housing rules and replace them with “sex” across nearly 50 regulations, HUD said. That description of sex