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Advocate.com April 13, 2011
Maine Panel: Trans Renter Discriminated Against
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Advocate.com Editors
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/04/13/Georgia_Transgender_Renter_Discriminated_Against,_Says_Panel/A transgender woman who says discrimination kept her from renting an apartment won support from a human rights panel Monday.
JackieRay Mays attempted to rent an apartment in Augusta, Maine, from Tisdale Management Company in 2009, but says she was discriminated against because she's transgender, according to the Kennebec Journal. Not only was she told on June 26, 2009, that the agent showing the apartment didn't have any applications, her request that one be mailed to her was not filled immediately. Upon receiving it on July 7, she filled it out and submitted it the following day, only to be told 10 days later that it had not arrived.
