HUD Secretary Ben Carson makes dismissive comments about transgender people, angering agency staff
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/19/hud-secretary-ben-carson-makes-dismissive-comments-about-transgender-people-angering-agency-staff/
Carson appeared in San Francisco as part of a large scale effort by the Trump administration to address homelessness in California. Carson’s comments in San Francisco were unprompted, the staffers said, arriving during a rambling hour-long speech about HUD initiatives that they described as “stream of consciousness.”
All three HUD employees in San Francisco, contacted and interviewed separately by The Washington Post, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they said they feared retaliation. They said Carson prefaced his remarks about transgender people by saying he believed in fairness and equality, but not “special rights” for any class of people.
Carson said that “transgender people should get the same rights as everyone else, but they don’t get to change things for everybody else,” according to one staffer who took notes during the meeting.
Carson followed by recounting conversations with shelter operators and women’s groups who told him that homeless women would be traumatized if “big, hairy men” walk into shelters identifying as women, according to the HUD staffers. Carson told the group single-sex shelters should have the discretion to turn away transgender people.
SOMEONE had to say it.
C'mon Doc, tell them there isn't such a thing. These whack-job perverts all need to be sent to the psych ward, not a homeless shelter.
THEN watch their heads explode.
Carson be the man
love him
What’s “dismissive” about what he said? Looks to me like he just spoke the common sense truth.
You know how there are so many derps running for office so that they can use that as an excuse hoping it will make them legally “untouchable”? Maybe the whole trans thing is a similar ploy.