Democrats are rallying to defend Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first out transgender member of Congress, calling Republican measures to ban her from using women's bathrooms at the Capitol 'craven' and 'cruel.'
At a Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday, Rep. Becca Balint watched as colleagues approached and offered their support to Rep.-elect Sarah McBride , who will soon be sworn in as the first out transgender member of Congress. 'We have your back,' Balint recalled her fellow representatives telling McBride. 'We stand with you.' At a Thursday event where incoming House freshmen got assigned new offices, McBride's name was met with the loudest applause.
'The Republican Party has laser-focused on transgender inclusion as something that it wants to roll back, and so the exciting addition of the first openly trans member of Congress has prompted a hideous response — which is to participate in an ad hominem attack that takes the form of exclusion,' said Kate Redburn, co-director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School. Democrats have at times struggled to respond to the barrage of Republican attacks.
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