The South Carolina Republican said her resolution is 'absolutely' targeting her incoming colleague Sarah McBride—the first openly transgender person elected to the United States Congress.
Mace, an ally of Donald Trump, introduced a resolution Monday “prohibiting Members, officers, and employees of the House from using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex” at the Capitol. She framed the measure—which she wants included in the rules package for the next Congress—as a matter of “women’s security.
“And it’s going to be our job in Congress to defend the rights and to defend the freedoms of all of the people that we represent.” This week in Washington is orientation for new members of Congress, and Republicans have already continued to target transgender rights. “What they are talking about there on day one is where one member out of 435… is going to use the bathroom,” said Representative Katherine Clark, a Democrat. “That is their focus.
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