It seems just like the transphobic tirade of Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, was all for naught, as her proposed rest room ban was excluded from Republicans’ Home Guidelines bundle.
The absence of Mace’s rest room ban may come as a shock to the media-obsessed congresswoman, who informed Huffington Publish in November that Johnson assured her it might be included.
Shortly after Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride was elected the primary brazenly transgender particular person to serve in Congress, Mace grew to become a strolling billboard for transphobic ideology—a departure from her as soon as “pro-transgender” stance.
Sarah McBride offers her farewell speech on her final day as a Delaware state senator in Dover, Del., on Dec. 16, 2024.
Mace’s two-page rest room ban proposal claimed that permitting “biological men into women’s spaces” would “jeopardize the safety and dignity” of different girls.
She additional doubled down on her transphobic stance, telling reporters in November that she was “absolutely” concentrating on McBride forward of her being sworn in to Congress.
“Yes, and absolutely. And then some,” she stated. “I am not going to face for a person, you realize, somebody with a penis, within the girls’s locker room.”
Johnson initially stood behind Mace’s incessant assaults in opposition to McBride, issuing a press release that he was in favor of segregation in federal buildings.
“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings—such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms—are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” he wrote.
It’s unclear if Republicans are backing away from rest room bans or in the event that they think about Johnson’s assertion to be a ok rule by itself.
On the time of the proposed ban, McBride gracefully pushed again in opposition to the hatred, writing on X that it was a “blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.”
“We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care,” she wrote, “not manufacturing culture wars.”
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