--- title: Ben Carson Suggested Having Transgender Bathrooms description: In an interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos Thursday morning, Ben Carson suggested creating transgender bathrooms. canonical: https://time.com/4101740/ben-carson-transgender-bathrooms/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-05T20:18:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:23:17.565Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ben Carson Suggested Having Transgender Bathrooms og:description: "It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable." og:url: https://time.com/4101740/ben-carson-transgender-bathrooms/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8bdae51ab2089ef/69886f6c2dce019bb49e6557/time-person-of-the-year-poll-ben-carson.jpg?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME Person of the Year Poll Ben Carson og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ben Carson Suggested Having Transgender Bathrooms twitter:description: "It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8bdae51ab2089ef/69886f6c2dce019bb49e6557/time-person-of-the-year-poll-ben-carson.jpg?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ben Carson Suggested Having Transgender Bathrooms  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Nov 5, 2015 8:18 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson addresses the National Press Club Newsmakers Luncheon Oct. 9, 2015 in Washington, DC. Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson addresses the National Press Club Newsmakers Luncheon Oct. 9, 2015 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Nov 5, 2015 8:18 PM UTC Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson suggested that transgender people get their own bathrooms. In an interview with Univision’s Jorge Ramos Thursday, the retired neurosurgeon was asked about [Houston voters’ recent rejection](http://time.com/4099273/houston-lgbt-vote/) of a law banning LGBT discrimination, a political fight in which opponents focused on transgender people using public bathrooms. “How about we have a transgender bathroom? It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable,” Carson said. “It’s one of the things that I don’t particularly like about the \[LGBT\] movement. I think everybody has equal rights, but I’m not sure that anybody should have extra rights—extra rights when it comes to redefining everything for everybody else and imposing your view on everybody else.” This summer, another Republican presidential candidate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, made news [when a video surfaced](http://www.buzzfeed.com/meganapper/huckabee-on-transgender-people-i-wish-i-couldve-said-i-was-t?utm%5Fterm=.ohOwVY6m5p&bftw=pol#.niMvYlrZ8V) of a speech in which he said that he would have pretended to be transgender in order to get into the women’s locker room. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4101740/ben-carson-transgender-bathrooms/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4101740/ben-carson-transgender-bathrooms/"},"headline":"Ben Carson Suggested Having Transgender Bathrooms","datePublished":"2015-11-05T20:18:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:23:17.565Z","description":"In an interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos Thursday morning, Ben Carson suggested creating transgender bathrooms.","url":"https://time.com/4101740/ben-carson-transgender-bathrooms/","keywords":["2016 Election topic","LGBT","Transgender","Dr. Benjamin S. 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