When the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson, visited HUD's San Francisco office this week, he reportedly called transgender women 'big, hairy men'
It's what he said after that"but," that's now making headlines.
According to notes given to the newspaper by a staffer who attended that meeting, Carson said,"but they don’t get to change things for everybody else." The HUD workers told theCarson then recalled conversations he said he'd had with shelter operators and women’s groups, who told him that homeless women would be traumatized if “big, hairy men” were to walk into single-sex shelters identifying as women.
“That was the first time any of us heard him use such derogatory language,” said one staff worker. “This sounded like a slur to me.” it was clear that “the sentiment conveyed was these were not women, and they should not be housed in single-sex shelters — like we shouldn’t force people to accept transgender people in this context because it makes other people uncomfortable.
This has been a hot topic ever since HUD proposed a new rule in May that would allow federally-funded shelters to deny people admission on religious grounds and force transgender women to share bathrooms and sleeping quarters with men.
Second, calling a report"false" is not the same as denying he said what staffers said they heard. Third, claiming Carson does not use"derogatory language" to refer to trans Americans ignores a very large record of transphobia reported by the
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