Is *Michael* the name *he* prefers to use? Don't know. Any hint of how he identifies seems to have been scrubbed.
Any thoughts that I could be reading too much into it are answered when the article quotes a representative from another Vegas shelter, The Shade Tree, saying that housing trans women alongside cis women is a "big problem," and that trans women are shipped off site.
Mod Edit: Removed text that could be construed as exclusionary.