Panel backs claim of discrimination by transgender renter

Dan82 · Apr 15, 2011

http://www.kjonline.com/news/panel-...ination-by-transgender-renter_2011-04-11.html

A would-be tenant who claimed a landlord discriminated against her because of her transgender status won support Monday from a human rights panel.

JackieRay Mays was living in Chelsea when she unsuccessfully sought to rent an apartment in Augusta from Tisdale Management Company of Clinton on June 26, 2009.

"They just obviously did not want to rent to me," Mays said in a telephone interview after the hearing. "That was the impression I got."

Mays now lives in Augusta, in a different apartment.

Mays told Maine Human Rights Commission investigator Angela Tizon that the agent showing the apartment did not have an application at the showing, then the landlord delayed sending her an application -- and later lost one Mays submitted -- because of her transgender status.

Mays received an application on July 7, 2009, and submitted it the next day, but was told 10 days later it had not been received, Tizon wrote...

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Panel backs claim of discrimination by transgender renter

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