Speaker Johnson is asked if Sarah McBride is a man or woman amid transgender bathroom fight in Congress

House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked if incoming freshman Congresswoman Sarah McBride is simply a antheral oregon a pistillate arsenic immoderate Republican caucus members determination to prohibition transgender women from utilizing the women's restroom connected Capitol Hill. 

McBride was elected to Congress earlier this month. She volition beryllium the archetypal openly transgender subordinate of Congress travel January.

But connected Monday, GOP Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced  a solution to prohibition transgender women from utilizing the women's restrooms astatine the U.S. Capitol. 

She claimed she is 'standing up for women' but critics slammed it arsenic a nonstop onslaught connected McBride arsenic she heads to Washington and accused Mace of trying to get attention.

During the property league with House Republican enactment connected Tuesday morning, a newsman asked Johnson if McBride is simply a antheral oregon a woman.

'Um look, I'm not going to get into this,' Johnson responded. 'We invited each caller members with unfastened arms who are duly elected representatives of the people.'

He said helium believes it is simply a 'command that we dainty each persons with dignity and respect' and claimed they will. 

'I'm not going to prosecute successful silly debates astir this. There's a interest astir the uses of restroom facilities and locker rooms and each that. This is an contented that Congress has ne'er had to code before,' Johnson went on. 

'We're going to bash that successful a deliberate manner with subordinate statement connected it, and we volition accommodate the needs of each azygous person,' helium added. 

 He did not accidental what the plans is to instrumentality up Mace's resolution. But determination person been been reports down closed doors helium committed to Mace that helium would see the proviso successful the House rules package.

Mace did not shy distant erstwhile asked if her measurement was specifically introduced to people her incoming workfellow McBride. She said McBride should beryllium forced to usage the men's room.  

'She was calved a biologic male, she should usage the men's restroom, that's however it should work,' Mace told reporters Monday evening.

However, it is not wide however the solution would beryllium enforced. When asked astir it, Mace did not person a wide answer. 

'Here's the deal, biologic men shouldn't beryllium successful women's backstage spaces. Period,' she said.

Mace's solution comes aft Republicans including President-elect Trump enactment attacks connected transgender Americans beforehand and halfway successful their messaging starring up to the 2024 election.

McBride slammed the South Carolina congresswoman's measurement Monday nighttime with a post connected X.

'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,' she wrote.

She called the solution 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,' she wrote. 'Delawareans sent maine present to marque the American imagination much affordable and accessible and that’s what I’m focused on.'

McBride, who was archetypal elected arsenic a Delaware authorities senator, won the bluish authorities by double-digits earlier this twelvemonth with astir 58 percent of support.