Ben Carson needs to be put out to pasture

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson said some women have said they aren't comfortable being in a homeless shelter with "somebody who had a very different anatomy" when discussing access transgender people have to shelters.

  The Hill

"Some women."

Number one, I doubt that Ben Carson has ever talked to a homeless person, and number two, I doubt that homeless people are as prejudiced against alternate lifestyles as Ben Carson surely is.

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) [asked] about a move to take away training materials meant to prevent LGBT discrimination in homeless shelters, CNN reported.

"Remember it is complex," Carson said responding to Quigley.

"We obviously believe in equal rights for everybody, including the LGBT community. But we also believe in equal rights for the women in the shelters, and shelters where there are men, and their equal rights. So, we want to look at things that really provide for everybody and doesn't impede the rights of one for the sake of the other."

Sure, that's the concern.

He was further asked how implementing protections for transgender people would impede on peoples' rights.

"There are some women who said they were not comfortable with the idea of being in a shelter, being in a shower, and somebody who had a very different anatomy," he said.

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"It is because of derogatory myths like this, which have been debunked time and time again, that the transgender community faces disproportionate levels of discrimination and homelessness." GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement.

"Today's blatant and factually inaccurate anti-transgender rhetoric is the latest in a long line of uninformed and biased statements about LGBTQ people that make Dr. Carson unfit to be the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development."

In any other administration he would be. Things have changed.

Information about LGBT health was removed from a Department of Health and Human Services website last fall, according to new reports from a watchdog group.

The HHS Office of Women’s Health (OWH) removed a webpage with extensive information about lesbian and bisexual health, and links that correspond to that webpage, according to reports the Sunlight Foundation released Wednesday.

The group found that some resources have gone missing and that other similar remaining content relating to lesbian and bisexual health, which was last updated in 2009, has been rendered difficult to access.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.