Johnson declines to say if transgender rep-elect is man or woman, says House to treat everyone with 'respect'

House Speaker Mike Johnson declined to reply whether transgender Rep-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is simply a antheral oregon a woman, vowing to "treat each persons with dignity and respect." 

At the House GOP play property league connected Tuesday, a newsman asked Johnson, "Is freshman elite Sarah McBride a antheral oregon a woman?" 

"Look, I'm not going to get into this. We invited each caller members with unfastened arms who are duly elected representatives of the people," Johnson responded. "I judge it's a… bid that we dainty each persons with dignity and respect, and we will. And I'm not going to prosecute in… silly debates astir this. There's a interest astir uses of restroom facilities and locker rooms and each that. This is an contented that Congress has ne'er had to code before. And we're going to bash that successful a deliberate fashion, with subordinate statement connected it. And we volition accommodate the needs of each azygous person." 

Fox News Radio Capitol Hill and White House analogous Ryan Schmelz posed a follow-up question to Johnson, asking if helium plans connected bringing up a solution brought by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., to prohibition transgender women from utilizing women’s restrooms astatine the U.S. Capitol "and putting that into the rules package"? 

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, accompanied by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, speaks during a quality league connected Capitol Hill connected Nov. 19, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"I'm not going to code the plans connected immoderate of that," Johnson said. "I conscionable told you what I'm going to accidental astir the issue. I'm not going to prosecute successful this. We don't look down upon anyone. We dainty everybody with dignity and respect. That's a rule that I've pursued my full life. And we volition instrumentality attraction of this, you know, contented – a archetypal content for Congress – arsenic we volition immoderate different thing. We volition supply the due accommodation for each subordinate of Congress." 

Mace introduced a solution connected Monday that moves to prohibit members, officers and employees of the House from utilizing "single-sex facilities different than those corresponding to their biologic sex." It asserts that "allowing biologic males into single-sex facilities, specified arsenic restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms designed for women jeopardizes the information and dignity of Members, officers, and employees of the House who are female." 

In X posts connected Monday, McBride derided the solution arsenic "a blatant effort from acold right-wing extremists to distract from the information that they person nary existent solutions to what Americans are facing." 

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

Rep. Nancy Mace talks with reporters earlier a gathering of the House Republican Conference successful the U.S. Capitol connected Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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"The extremist near is calling maine an extremist for being a feminist warring to support the rights of women and girls," Mace said successful a follow-up video connection shared to X connected Tuesday. "If being a feminist makes maine an extremist oregon bigot oregon a monster, I americium wholly present for it due to the fact that I americium going to combat similar hellhole for each pistillate and each small miss crossed this state to support you and to support you safe." 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Tuesday that she asked the men successful the House Republican Conference what they were going to bash to forestall biologic males from utilizing spaces reserved for biologic females astatine the U.S. Capitol. 

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, left, joins colleagues for a freshman people photograph connected the Capitol steps, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

"You know, Sarah McBride, arsenic helium calls himself formally, Tim McBride, is simply a biologic man, and helium should not beryllium utilizing immoderate of our restrooms successful the Capitol, and that successful our bureau buildings. But Nancy Mace's solution doesn't spell acold enough," Greene told reporters. "America gave a mandate astatine this predetermination and said, not lone are they sick of the unfastened borders, the invasion, the retired of power inflation, overseas wars, but they're sick of the trans ideology being shoved down our throats. And it's an onslaught connected women and children each implicit the country." 

Meanwhile, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., told reporters that the Democratic caucus supports McBride "100%," and condemned the solution brought by Mace. 

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"It's conscionable disgusting," Garcia told reporters. "I was really sick to my tummy erstwhile I work that yesterday. And I deliberation it's truly unfortunate that idiosyncratic is being attacked. She conscionable got to Congress. She is going to usage immoderate restroom that she needs to use. This is conscionable sick that we're having to person this conversationn… I've heard disgust, to beryllium honest, connected some sides of the aisle. And truthful I anticipation that this conscionable moves guardant and let's fto her legislate and determination on."