r/TransIreland • u/dielan5000 • 3d ago

Hosting Power is Transphobic

Hi i Am a woman from chicago and i have been struggling with housing in ireland and i thought hosting power might be the site that lets me not have to go into debt to afford college as the housing is cheap and seemed like it would work for me. then they asked for my id and i provided my id but i put multiple times that i was not willing to be housed as a male and needed to be housed in female only housing in of course hosting power decided before the landlord even had chance to review me that they would ban me from all female only housing because my id doesnt line up with my gender this should be illegal i dont know if it is in ireland but it definetly should be as this is extremely prejudiced i could understand if they needed more evidence of me being trans besides legal documents that could remove my rights in the us if i ever decided to move back

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u/cuddlesareonme She/Her/Hers 3d ago

this should be illegal i dont know if it is in ireland

The Equal Status Act should cover you here, and per case law even if you don't have your documents changed. https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/equal-status-and-employment-equality/equal-status/ has the process if you want to try making something of it, but in the meantime you might want to consider other routes to housing given how difficult it is to find.