Swordsmyth
05-22-2019, 09:14 PM
Ben Carson’s Department of Housing and Urban Development has decided to restore single-sex spaces for women in homeless shelters amid growing Democratic pressure for women to share their sleeping and bathroom spaces with men who say they have the “gender identity” of women. Carson’s restoration of women’s rights prompted immediate criticism from progressive groups that said the policy would unfairly impact the very small share of Americans who say they are transgender. The policy, according (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/22/proposed-hud-rule-would-strip-transgender-protections-homeless-shelters/?utm_term=.108005a52dce) to the Washington Post, would “weaken Obama-era protections for homeless transgender people, allowing federally funded shelters to deny people admission on religious grounds or force transgender women to share bathrooms and sleeping quarters with men.”
Fifty-one percent of Americans are women. Less than one percent of Americans say they are transgender. The vast majority of men who say they are transgender are also biologically intact, and many seek to sleep with women.
Transgender groups denounced Carson’s restored protections for battered and homeless women that were gradually stripped from women (https://transequality.org/blog/win-hud-tells-homeless-shelters-to-respect-self-identified-gender) in 2012, 2014 and 2015 by officials working for former President Barack Obama.
“Secretary Carson’s actions are contrary to the mission of his Department and yet another example of tragic cruelty of this administration,” said a statement (https://transequality.org/press/releases/trump-administration-announces-plan-to-turn-homeless-transgender-people-away-from) from the National Center for Transgender Equity, which spotlighted broad claims (http://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports#USTS) of alleged mistreatment by shelter operators.
In general, transgender organizations say the federal government should force Americans to accept claims by people who say they are transgender members of the opposite sex.
But the Trump administration — and some GOP legislators — are restoring the “bright line of biology” when recording each person’s legal sex.
Democrats have become so 'progressive' they're ditching women in favor of transgender voters, who comprise maybe 0.3 percent of voters. So now GOP leaders get an opportunity to show they are defending rights & status for actual women. Will they use it? https://t.co/EeRq3hsFlt
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) May 18, 2019 (https://twitter.com/NeilMunroDC/status/1129815578816983042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Carson’s proposed rule says taxpayer-funded shelters will have the freedom to provide accommodation suited to transgender people who say their “gender identity” is different from their sex and biology. For example, a shelter could place two transgender people in the same room.
But the key language in the HUD statement says shelter operators also have the freedom to consider a person’s sex when deciding what rooms and bathrooms they can or cannot use.
“Shelter Provider [may] considers an individual’s sex for the purposes of determining accommodation within such shelters and for purposes of determining sex for admission to any facility or portion thereof,” the Carson language says (https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201904&RIN=2506-AC53). The rule means a shelter operator can accept transgender men — but also has the freedom to keep them out of rooms and facilities reserved for women.
Under Obama’s policy, each person’s claimed “gender identity” — not their actual biological sex — was deemed decisive when deciding if a person was to be treated as male or female. It required shelter operators to make women share their rooms with men who say they are women.
The transgender activists want to keep Obama’s rule — and to kill Carson’s broader rule — because Obama’s rule implements a key element of the transgender ideology, which says the government must ensure that people agree that each person’s biology is subordinate to each person’s “gender identity.”
More at: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/22/transgender-ben-carson-restores-womens-rights-in-homeless-shelters/
Fifty-one percent of Americans are women. Less than one percent of Americans say they are transgender. The vast majority of men who say they are transgender are also biologically intact, and many seek to sleep with women.
Transgender groups denounced Carson’s restored protections for battered and homeless women that were gradually stripped from women (https://transequality.org/blog/win-hud-tells-homeless-shelters-to-respect-self-identified-gender) in 2012, 2014 and 2015 by officials working for former President Barack Obama.
“Secretary Carson’s actions are contrary to the mission of his Department and yet another example of tragic cruelty of this administration,” said a statement (https://transequality.org/press/releases/trump-administration-announces-plan-to-turn-homeless-transgender-people-away-from) from the National Center for Transgender Equity, which spotlighted broad claims (http://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports#USTS) of alleged mistreatment by shelter operators.
In general, transgender organizations say the federal government should force Americans to accept claims by people who say they are transgender members of the opposite sex.
But the Trump administration — and some GOP legislators — are restoring the “bright line of biology” when recording each person’s legal sex.
Democrats have become so 'progressive' they're ditching women in favor of transgender voters, who comprise maybe 0.3 percent of voters. So now GOP leaders get an opportunity to show they are defending rights & status for actual women. Will they use it? https://t.co/EeRq3hsFlt
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) May 18, 2019 (https://twitter.com/NeilMunroDC/status/1129815578816983042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Carson’s proposed rule says taxpayer-funded shelters will have the freedom to provide accommodation suited to transgender people who say their “gender identity” is different from their sex and biology. For example, a shelter could place two transgender people in the same room.
But the key language in the HUD statement says shelter operators also have the freedom to consider a person’s sex when deciding what rooms and bathrooms they can or cannot use.
“Shelter Provider [may] considers an individual’s sex for the purposes of determining accommodation within such shelters and for purposes of determining sex for admission to any facility or portion thereof,” the Carson language says (https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201904&RIN=2506-AC53). The rule means a shelter operator can accept transgender men — but also has the freedom to keep them out of rooms and facilities reserved for women.
Under Obama’s policy, each person’s claimed “gender identity” — not their actual biological sex — was deemed decisive when deciding if a person was to be treated as male or female. It required shelter operators to make women share their rooms with men who say they are women.
The transgender activists want to keep Obama’s rule — and to kill Carson’s broader rule — because Obama’s rule implements a key element of the transgender ideology, which says the government must ensure that people agree that each person’s biology is subordinate to each person’s “gender identity.”
More at: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/22/transgender-ben-carson-restores-womens-rights-in-homeless-shelters/