; Whereas, in 2016, then-Presidential candidate Carson said, Boys who say, I feel like a girl today, I want to go into the girl’s lavatory —that is such a bunch of garbage. If we continue to cater to that, where will it lead? Where will it lead us to be? I mean, it’s beyond ridiculous that you take the most abnormal situation and then you make everyone else conform to it … when we start trying to impose the extra rights based on a few people who perhaps are abnormal, where does that lead? ; Whereas, in 2017, HUD removed resource documents designed to help emergency homeless shelters and other housing providers comply with HUD nondiscrimination policies regarding LGBT service recipients; Whereas despite repeated interactions with Congress, both in hearings and otherwise, HUD left this guidance in limbo for nearly two years before finally announcing, with flimsy justification, it would not repost or replace it at all; Whereas, in May of 2019, Secretary Carson testified in front of the Financial Services Committee of the House of Representatives that HUD had no intention of eliminating the crucial Equal Access Rule one day before HUD proposed a new rule that would essentially gut it; and Whereas Secretary Carson seems committed to ensuring that LGBT individuals are unable to exercise even the basic rights afforded to all Americans: Now, therefore, be it