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.
