“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement. statement on Wednesday: “It is important to note that each congressional office has its own private bathroom, and that unisex bathrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
“Women deserve women-only spaces,” the statement concludes. That is, it prohibits trans women from using the female bathrooms in Congress.
Sarah McBride, the first transgender representative to win representation in the legislative elections on November 5, published a statement on social media before President Johnson announced that transgender women would not be able to use the female bathrooms in the Capitol. In the post, which shows a photo of McBride in a bathroom, the congresswoman says: “Here I am using a women’s bathroom in North Carolina, which I am technically prohibited from being in.”
“They say I’m a pervert. They say I am a man dressed as a woman. They say I’m a threat to their children. They say I’m confused, They say I’m dangerous. Just people trying to piss in peace,” says the Democratic representative from Delaware.
Mike Johnson’s announcement to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol turns an initiative led by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace into policy.
Mace has led the fight to ban Sarah McBride, who is being sworn in as the first openly transgender congresswoman, from using the bathroom that corresponds to her gender identity.
“Sarah McBride has no say. “This is a biological man,” Mace told reporters on Monday, according to CNN: “He doesn’t belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, locker rooms, period.” McBride responded in X by saying that the controversy was a distraction.
Republican offensive
The use of the US Congressional bathrooms has become the first stone that some Republican lawmakers have thrown against elected Democratic Representative Sarah McBride, the first transgender person in the United States elected to the US House of Representatives.
Without him having yet been sworn in, as he will do so in January, the knives of the most radical and conservative wing of the party, loyal to the president-elect, Donald Trump, have already begun to fly against McBride.
On Monday, South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution to amend House rules to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol.
This petition has had the support of figures such as Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene: “He is a biological man and should not use any of our bathrooms in the Capitol, much less in our office buildings. But Nancy Mace’s resolution is not enough,” he said.
When she takes office, McBride will be the first transgender person in the United States Congress. All this after defeating, at 34 years old, the Republican candidate John Whalen III.
The politician had been elected to the Delaware Senate in 2021 and then became the first transgender person to serve as a state senator in the United States.
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