The HUD secretary reportedly made the derogatory comments earlier this week while in California as part of the administration's spotlight on homelessness.
WASHINGTON-- After Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson reportedly made offensive remarks about transgender people earlier this week, Julián Castro, former Obama HUD secretary and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, as well as other candidat, had some choice words.
A HUD senior official provided a statement to the Post Thursday: “The Secretary does not use derogatory language to refer to transgendered individuals. Any reporting to the contrary is false." Story continues"'My point was that we have to permit policies that take into consideration the rights of everybody, including those women,'" the HUD secretary also reportedly said in the agency-wide message.
In a statement provided to USA TODAY on Friday prior to the second Post report, HUD spokeswoman Caroline Vanvick did not deny Carson’s comments. Carson was in San Francisco earlier this week as a part of the Trump administration's focus on homelessness in California.
Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, called Carson’s comments “sick” and elaborated that we “cannot allow this kind of behavior to be normalized.”
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