(KMJ) Downtown Fresno’s Poverello House is being sued in federal court by nine women who say they were subject to sexual harassment by a transgender individual, and that staff failed to take action to stop it.

The suit filed in April alleges that the nine women were using Naomi’s House women’s shelter along with another, described as dressing as a woman but remaining physically male. The complaint states the individual made “sexually inappropriate comments,” engaged in “sexually harassing activities,” and that the individual would “stare and leer at the Plaintiffs while naked.”

The complaint adds that staff at Poverello House refused to take appropriate disciplinary action when they were made aware of it.

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