GOP lawmaker moves to bar transgender women from Capitol Hill bathrooms

A Republican congresswoman is moving to bar transgender women from Capitol ladies rooms conscionable days aft the predetermination of trailblazing Rep. Sarah McBride.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) says only radical who were considered pistillate astatine birth should usage the women’s rooms and different spaces reserved for pistillate astatine the Capitol.

The lawmaker made nary effort to fell that the measure is designed to people McBride, the Delaware lawmaker who volition instrumentality bureau successful January aft becoming the archetypal openly trans idiosyncratic to triumph predetermination to a House seat.

“I’m perfectly 100% gonna basal successful the mode of immoderate antheral who wants to beryllium successful a women’s restroom, successful our locker rooms, successful our changing rooms,” Mace told reporters Tuesday. “I volition beryllium determination warring you each measurement of the way.”

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is pictured during the House Oversight and Accountability Committee astir the attempted assassination of erstwhile President Donald Trump astatine a run lawsuit successful Pennsylvania, astatine the Capitol successful Washington, Monday, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Georgia) vowed to physically artifact McBride from utilizing women’s bathrooms for lawmakers.

McBride countered by urging aboriginal colleagues to show immoderate respect.

“Every time Americans spell to enactment with radical who person beingness journeys antithetic than their ain and prosecute with them respectfully,” McBride tweeted. “I anticipation members of Congress tin muster that aforesaid kindness.”

McBride called the measure a distraction and urged Congress to absorption connected kitchen-table issues.

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., poses for a photograph arsenic she stands connected the Capitol steps, successful Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the Republican bulk would marque alternate accommodations for McBride if the measure passes.

Republicans made governmental hay implicit transgender issues during the caller elections, including run ads for President-elect Trump that accused Democratic rival Kamala Harris of supporting taxpayer-funded sex affirming treatments for inmates.

Some governmental analysts accidental taste wedge issues similar calls to barroom transgender women from girls sports contributed to the large plaything to Trump among socially blimpish demographic groups including Latinos.

Anti-transgender momentum has been increasing for respective years, with Republican-run states enacting laws restricting transgender people’s options for aesculapian care, sports information and nationalist restroom access.

One exit canvass said 55% of 2024 voters said support for transgender rights has gone excessively far, a full that jumped to 85% among those who formed ballots for Trump.