First openly trans rep-elect claims GOP spotlighting transgender issues an 'attempt to distract' voters

The archetypal openly transgender politician elected to the U.S. House, Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, claimed Sunday that the GOP’s absorption connected transgender issues is an "attempt to distract" voters.

"I deliberation we are each agreed that attempts to onslaught a susceptible assemblage are not lone mean spirited, but truly an effort to misdirect. Because each azygous clip we perceive the incoming medication or Republicans successful Congress speech about any susceptible radical successful this country, we person to beryllium wide that it is an effort to distract," McBride, who was elected to correspond Delaware earlier this month, said Sunday greeting connected CBS’ "Face the Nation." 

"It is an effort to distract from what they are really doing. Every azygous time, each azygous clip we perceive them accidental the connection ‘trans,’ ​​look what they're doing with their close hand. Look astatine what they're doing to prime the pouch of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare. Look what they're doing, undermining workers," McBride added. 

President-elect Trump, blimpish voters and members of Congress person each raised concerns regarding transgender issues, including stretching backmost years, astir notably successful the discourse of barring biologic men from competing successful women’s and girls' sports, arsenic good arsenic banning men from women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. 

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Rep.-elect Sarah McBride attends an predisposition for caller members astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Nov. 21, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

On Capitol Hill, South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a solution past week that moves to prohibit members, officers and employees of the House from utilizing "single-sex facilities different than those corresponding to their biologic sex." 

Mace, a rape survivor, besides introduced different measure that would "ban biologic men from utilizing women’s private, protected facilities – specified arsenic bathrooms and locker rooms – connected each national property" crossed the nation. 

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Democrats, including McBride, slammed Mace arsenic a "far-right" extremist for the legislation. 

"This is simply a blatant effort from acold right-wing extremists to distract from the information that they person nary existent solutions to what Americans are facing. We should beryllium focused connected bringing down the outgo of housing, wellness care, and kid care, not manufacturing civilization wars," McBride posted to X. 

Rep. Nancy Mace grilled civilian rights activistic person and erstwhile NYC mayoral campaigner Maya Wiley astatine a Thursday hearing. (GOP Oversight YouTube channel)

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said aboriginal successful the week that single-sex facilities connected Capitol Hill, including bathrooms, volition beryllium utilized by individuals with the corresponding biologic sex. 

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"All single-sex facilities successful the Capitol and House Office Buildings – specified arsenic restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms – are reserved for individuals of that biologic sex," Johnson said successful a connection obtained by Fox News Digital. "It is important to enactment that each Member bureau has its ain backstage restroom, and unisex restrooms are disposable passim the Capitol." 

MRC Free Speech America feels Speaker Mike Johnson should "direct applicable committees and committee chairmen to analyse Google for abridging people’s law rights." (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

"Women merit women’s lone spaces," helium added. 

"Like each policies, it is enforceable," Johnson aboriginal told reporters. "But we person single-sex facilities for a reason, and women merit women's lone spaces. And we're not anti anyone. We're pro-women, and I deliberation it's an important argumentation for america to continue. It's ever been the, I guess, an unwritten policy, but present it's successful writing." 

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McBride continued during her Sunday interrogation that the GOP’s absorption connected trans issues distracts Congress from argumentation issues specified arsenic lowering the outgo of living. 

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride joins different legislature freshmen of the 119th Congress for a radical photograph connected the steps of the U.S. Capitol connected Nov. 15, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"Here's besides what we person to beryllium wide about, due to the fact that I deliberation the past week has been a premier illustration of this. Every spot of clip and vigor that is utilized to divert the attraction of the national authorities to spell aft trans radical is clip and vigor that is not focused connected addressing the outgo of surviving for our constituents. And we person to beryllium wide that determination is simply a existent outgo for the American idiosyncratic each clip they absorption on this," McBride said. 

Mace joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" connected Sunday, wherever she pushed backmost connected Democrats criticizing her for introducing the legislation, notably New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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"It's bittersweet and astonishing that successful 2024 I person to spell connected TV and connected societal media to explicate to the extremist near that men shouldn't beryllium allowed successful women's restrooms, that women shouldn't beryllium forced to undress successful beforehand of men."

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.