Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson got into a testy exchange with a Democratic lawmaker who pressed him on the department's position on access to homeless shelters for transgender people
The dust-up came during a House Appropriations Committee hearing in which Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois asked Carson about a rule proposed by HUD last year that would allow federally funded homeless shelters that have single-sex facilities or areas separated by sex -- like bathrooms and sleeping quarters -- to establish policy that could result in transgender people being barred or mistreated.
"The law says you can't discriminate. That's my solution." Homelessness has long been an issue among transgender people in the US. One in five transgender individuals have experienced homelessness during their lifetime, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality, an advocacy group that surveyed the community in 2010 and 2015.
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