Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson recently expressed concern about “big, hairy men” trying to infiltrate women’s homeless shelters during an internal meeting, according to three people present who interpreted the remarks as an attack on transgender women.

While visiting HUD’s San Francisco office in September, Carson also lamented that society no longer seemed to know the difference between men and women, two of the agency staffers said. While he accurately described our current culture, Carson’s remarks upset some liberal HUD staffers who attended Tuesday’s meeting, and prompted at least one woman to walk out in protest, the staffers said.

Carson has also referred to transgender people as “abnormal" and said they should not be in the military. As HUD Secretary, he dismantled several Obama-era agendas for transgender people, saying he believes in equal rights, not “special rights.”

Good for him.

Or, bad for him, according to a pair of House liberal Democrats (redundant, I know) — Reps. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Katie Hill (D-Calif.). Quigley and Hill introduced a resolution that denounces Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Ben Carson as transphobic and decries his policies as anti-LGBT. Hill is a bisexual Democrat.

“Secretary Carson’s comments were hurtful, bigoted, and do not represent the feelings of this Congress, which has a historically large and diverse LGBT Equality Caucus, or the American people,” Hill said.

Quigley said in a statement that the secretary’s (Ben Carson) “history of homophobia and transphobia go beyond simply being offensive.”

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“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one” (Matthew 5:37).

“They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you” (1 Peter 4:4).