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Two weeks after America’s first out transgender person was elected to Congress, a House Republican is attempting to bar transgender people from using the women’s toilets in the US Capitol.
Less than two months before Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, a state senator from Delaware, takes office in January,
South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace presented a resolution Monday to change the rules of the US House of Representatives.
Sarah McBride has no voice. The South Carolina Republican told reporters Monday that the legislator “does not belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, period, full stop.”
“I mean, this is a biological man,” he said. “Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully.
I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness,” McBride wrote later Monday in what seemed to be a reaction on X.
“This is a blatant attempt by far right-wing extremists to divert attention from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing,” the congresswoman-elect said in a subsequent post.
“Rather than creating culture wars, we should be concentrating on lowering the cost of housing, health care, and child care,” she said.
“I’m focused on making the American dream more accessible and affordable, which is why Delawareans sent me here.”
“This is a biological man trying to force himself into women’s spaces, and I’m not going to tolerate it,” Mace told CNN when asked by reporters earlier on the evening whether she was targeting a disadvantaged person.
“I am the first female graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina,” she said. “No, that’s my accomplishment,” a man in a skirt would say.
I’m going to be there, yelling, “Hell no,” and blocking the path. I will not let males to eradicate women or their rights.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on Tuesday that he is trying to “make accommodations for every member of Congress.”
He said, “This is an issue Congress has never addressed before,” while declining to comment on the details of the GOP’s proposals.
Mace, the first woman to graduate from the Citadel’s Corps of Cadets, has often said that she is searching for methods to demonstrate that the GOP is “pro-women”
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and her party’s attempts to retain female votes.
McBride didn’t rely on the historic aspect of her campaign when she ran in the consistently blue state to replace the seat left empty by Rep.
Lisa Blunt Rochester, who went on to run successfully for the Senate. In addition to praising union support and her efforts to increase the state minimum wage.
She highlighted her leadership of a bipartisan effort to establish paid family and medical leave legislation in the state.
However, she did make references to a more general topic of respect throughout the trial, namely that everyone should have a representative in Congress who values them and their families.
Similar prohibitions on transgender individuals using restrooms corresponding with their gender identities, especially in schools, have generated debate in recent years.
Proponents claim that the policies safeguard pupils, while opponents claim they are needless and degrading.
In what the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the US, dubbed the biggest year for “bathroom bills,”
Republican-led legislatures in a number of states approved legislation prohibiting transgender students from using locker rooms and restrooms aligned with their gender identities in 2023.
The Ohio Senate approved its own bill last week, and the Republican governor of the state has yet to sign it.