Washington DC – The head of the Housing and Urban Development Authority (HUD) said Thursday that domestic violence shelters and other facilities are reversing policies requiring men to be accepted in women's spaces.
Senate confirmed HUD secretary Scott Turner On Wednesday, during a press conference in Washington, D.C., he announced the change as one of many ways in which he is closing “far-area agenda items” at the agency. The Obama administration has adopted a “gender identity” policy that prohibits “discrimination” against “transgender people” in federally funded housing.
Turner said that discarding the rules would “protect women with funding” such as “abusing the government” on gender, which “will prevent what the Lord has established.” . His decision, which follows President Donald Trump's executive order, restores “biological truths” to federal agencies by recognizing men and women as the only two genders. The secretary told the press.
I am honored and humbled to serve as secretaries to the Americans and the Trump administration. @hudgov.
Together, we will reduce housing costs, expand supply, and enable all Americans to achieve American dreams of home ownership.pic.twitter.com/ltk4ppq3c7
– Scott Turner (@secretaryturner) February 6, 2025
Former President Barack Obama's HUD rules were proposed in 2012. It has been enforced 2016. The policy has inserted “gender identity” to the meaning of Fair Housing Act In 1968, federally funded facilities made it illegal for them to deny housing based on “racial, color, religion, gender, family status, or national origin.”
HUD under former secretary Ben Carson suggestion Changed the rules in 2019 to give emergency shelters more room to deny men's access to women's communities. Later the Biden administration It attracted praise By resolving Carson's proposal from LGBT activists in 2021.
Turner is currently continuing Carson's efforts to reverse Obama-backed policies, and he said LGBT people have “equal rights, but no additional rights.”
HUD has also been deleted page A website dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) LGBTQ resources.
Turner will boost “efficiency” at HUD by forming a “Doge Task Force” to work with Elon Musk's Government Efficiency (DOGE) in eliminating government waste suspicions. We discussed the plan. “Our mission is to be a better custodian than our taxpayer dollars,” Turner said.
Turner relaxed regulations at the heart of plans to make homes more affordable across the country. He entered his new job, amid a record high under former President Joe Biden. Turner has condemned the crisis in some governments that imposed “bureaucracy” and “deficits” on buyers. (Related: Exclusive: Trump's Housing SEC wants to bring sledgehammers to a bureaucratic “red tape”)
Turner said HUD will create all the personnel changes needed to match Trump's agenda, regardless of potential “pushbacks.”
“Yes, I'm hoping for a pushback because the status quo is not working,” Turner said. “The goal of HUD is to move with one sound and one voice.”
On Tuesday, a federal judge stopped Trump's Justice Department (DOJ) from taking men out of women's prisons as part of an effort to reverse another Biden-era transgender policy. Data from the DOJ show that men identifying as women account for 1,538, or 15% of female federal prison prison prison prison prison inmates.
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