looks like transphobic rant All that South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace said was for naught. Proposal to ban toilets Excluded from Republican House rules package.
Following Mike Johnson Reconfirmation As Speaker of the House, Congress voted on the proposed rules on Friday. regulations It would make it harder to expel speakers and strengthen an anti-trans Republican bill that would require athletes to identify their gender “based solely on their reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
Mace’s lack of a bathroom ban may come as a surprise to media-obsessed lawmakers. told Huffington Post In November, Mr. Johnson assured her that would be included.
Shortly after Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride was elected. elected The first person to publicly identify as transgender serve as a member of parliamentMace has become a walking billboard for transphobic ideology and has outgrown her former self.transgender advocate” stance.
Mr. Mace Two-page proposal to ban toilets Allowing “biological males” into women-only spaces; “jeopardizing the safety and dignity” of other women.
She further strengthened her transphobic position, tell the reporter In November, she said before she was sworn in to Congress that she was “absolutely” targeting McBride.
“Yes, of course. And a little bit,” she said. said. “I’m not going to support men, people with penises, in the women’s locker room.”
Johnson was originally stood behind Mace constantly attacks McBride, statement He said he was in favor of racial discrimination in federal buildings.
“All single-sex facilities, including restrooms, locker rooms, and locker rooms in the Capitol and the House Office Building, are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” he wrote.
It’s unclear whether Republicans are backing away from the bathroom ban or whether they think Johnson’s statement is a good enough rule in itself.
When the ban was proposed, McBride graciously resisted the hate. write to x It was a “blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to the problems facing the American people.”
“Instead of provoking a culture war, we should focus on lowering housing, health care, and child care costs,” she wrote.
