House Speaker Mike Johnson signalled support Tuesday for a Republican effort to ban Democrat Sarah McBride, the first transgender person to be elected to Congress, from using women's restrooms in the Capitol once she's sworn into office next year.
Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., centre, leaves a meeting of House Democrats on Capitol Hill, Nov. 19, 2024, in Washington. House Speaker Mike Johnson signalled support Tuesday for a Republican effort to ban Democrat Sarah McBride -- the first transgender person to be elected to Congress -- from using women's restrooms in the Capitol once she's sworn into office next year.
"I'm absolutely, 100 per cent gonna stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women's restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms," Mace said told reporters Tuesday. The second-term congresswoman added that Johnson assured her the bathroom provision would be included in any changes to House rules for the next Congress.Democrats, including McBride, denounced the GOP effort as "bullying" and a "distraction.
McBride was elected to the House this month after building a national profile as an 2SLGBTQ+ activist and raising more than US$3 million in campaign contributions from around the country. She became the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention in the United States in 2016, when she spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
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