Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told reporters that her effort to ban transgender women from female bathrooms at the U.S. Capitol was 'absolutely' in response Sarah McBride's election as the first openly transgender person in Congress.
Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first openly transgender person elected to serve in Congress, on Sunday called House Republicans’ moves to ban her from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol “mean-spirited” and an “attempt to misdirect” from other policy priorities. “I think we are all united that attempts to attack a vulnerable community are not only mean-spirited, but really an attempt to misdirect,” McBride told CBS News’ “Face the Nation.
On Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., joined Mace, saying in a statement, “All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.” He added that “each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.
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