ADA Title II Action Guide for State and Local Governments

Title V - Miscellaneous

Title V includes miscellaneous provisions that are intended to apply broadly across all the other titles. Some of the significant provisions include:

• Extension of coverage to the U.S. Congress.

• Exclusion of certain conditions, regardless of whether they are impairments, from the definition of disability including transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, other sexual behavior disorders, compulsive gambling, kleptomania, pyromania, and psychoactive substance use disorders resulting from current illegal use of drugs

• Retaliation, intimidation, coercion, threats, or interference with people who seek to exercise their rights or who encourage or aid others to do so, is prohibited.