House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support 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.
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House Republicans push to ban bathroom access for 1st transgender member
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina has introduced a controversial bill to ban transgender individuals from using Capitol Hill bathrooms that align their gender identity.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) wants a ban on transgender members using female bathrooms after Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) was elected the first transgender House member.
A sitting congresswoman is pushing to get the incoming, first-ever openly transgender member of Congress barred from using women’s bathrooms at the U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced the resolution as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is set to become Congress' first out transgender member.
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace faced a wave of backlash after introducing a resolution to bar transgender women from the women's bathrooms on Capitol Hill.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina told reporters she was working on additional legislation to prohibit biological males from women’s restrooms.
Republicans who campaigned against "woke" policies that allow biological males into women's restrooms are suddenly facing the issue head-on, now that the nation's first transgender House lawmaker is about to be sworn in.
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support 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.
"Prohibiting Members, officers, and employees of the House from using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex, and for other purposes."
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace says the resolution aims to protect women's rights. Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first out trans person elected to Congress, has slammed it as a distraction.
By Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol, two weeks after history was made with the election of America’s first out transgender person to Congress. South Carolina Rep.
Nancy Mace introduced a resolution Monday that mandates individuals in the Capitol complex use bathrooms corresponding to their gender assigned at birth.
Rep. Nancy Mace's, R-S.C., resolution to bar entry to Capitol restrooms not aligning with one's biological sex was supported by a handful of figures by Tuesday afternoon.
House Democrats honored the day after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) released a bill, with House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) support, targeting the first transgender member of Congress, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE).
McBride, who came up through the Delaware legislature, assured Democrats that she has faced similar attacks before and was not going to let this define her.
