G.O.P. lawmakers whose leaders have pressed to roll back transgender rights around the country moved to bar Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from women’s rooms on Capitol Hill.

In Washington this week for new member orientation, Ms. McBride was still sitting through mandatory cybersecurity trainings, setting up her payroll, selecting district offices and learning how to introduce a bill when her new Republican colleague, Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, announced plans to introduce a measure to bar transgender women from using women’s restrooms and changing rooms in the Capitol complex.

Ms. Mace did not try to pretend that she was doing anything other than targeting one individual with her resolution, even though it would apply to all employees and officers of the House.

“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say,” she told reporters on Monday night. “I mean, this is a biological man.” She said that Ms. McBride “does not belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms — period, full stop.”

MBFC
Archive

  • kibiz0r@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    28 days ago

    Cuz who the fuck cares?

    I really need someone to explain to me what they’re doing in the bathroom that is so sensitive to the presence of other people and their particular genitalia.

    When I use a public bathroom, my goal is to get in and get out with zero interpersonal interaction. I don’t want someone to do so much as hold the door open for a quarter-second. If you’re my best friend in the outside world — in here, I don’t know you.