House Republicans Target McBride With Capitol Bathroom Bill
G.O.P. lawmakers whose leaders have pressed to roll back transgender rights around the country moved to bar Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from women’s rooms on Capitol Hill.
In Washington this week for new member orientation, Ms. McBride was still sitting through mandatory cybersecurity trainings, setting up her payroll, selecting district offices and learning how to introduce a bill when her new Republican colleague, Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, announced plans to introduce a measure to bar transgender women from using women’s restrooms and changing rooms in the Capitol complex.
Ms. Mace did not try to pretend that she was doing anything other than targeting one individual with her resolution, even though it would apply to all employees and officers of the House.
“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say,” she told reporters on Monday night. “I mean, this is a biological man.” She said that Ms. McBride “does not belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms — period, full stop.”
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Do I have understand her position correctly?
Trans woman in locker room....no
sex offender as AG....yes
rapist as POTUS....AOK!
They want to make sure the trans woman is in their bathroom because they fantasize about it.
This is creepy AF
What a cunt. And for the first time in a very, very long time, I do not mean that in the jocular, gender-neutral Scottish way. I mean it in the mean, American way. Including this time, I can still count the number of times on one hand that I've used that word in that way.
Ms. Mace is indeed, a cunt.
And I don't mean the jovial mate-ship meaning of the word in Australian vernacular.
It's literally the first word that comes to mind when you read her hateful small-minded and petty statement regarding a new fellow member of Congress who has never done a single fucking thing to her to deserve such blatant disrespect
I agree completely -- said with the C and the T as very sharp and pronounced as possible.
From the people who say "No Gun Signs won't stop guns!" comes "Women Only Signs will stop Sex Predators."
Even though most sex predators are white cismen and transwomen are more likely to be preyed upon than to do the preying...
Hear me out: she should own this and use the men’s room. And I mean USE it. Get as melodramatic, exaggerated, and make those men uncomfortable as hell. Make yourself known when you enter, be loud, be messy, take up 3/4 of the counter space.
I heard someone else suggest she should get a porta potty and wheel it around the house of representatives on a pallet jack and be annoying as possible with it. That way she can still piss them off and not have to risk any danger using the men's room.
I like this idea better!
Counter with tabling a bill to make the bathrooms all gender neutral.
If the cunts are gonna be counts, at least force em to keep admitting it out loud so people keep seeing it.
Note that in US, to table something is to put it aside and stop considering it for now. The opposite of the UK meaning.
I really hope this backfires and creates a wave of support for McBride.
Kinda like their attempts at attacking AOC just made her more popular.
Conservatives are such fucking wimps.
Oh no, muh holy bathroom. MUH WORLD ORDER.
It’s insane to me those morons are the same species.
Why cant the trans people just use the disabled bathrooms? Its a small percentage of the population and the infrastructure is already in place (and where its not it will help encourage greater accessibility)
Why? They're not disabled and a bathroom is just a bathroom. It's just Rs creating a problem where there isn't one.
Whar does Rs stand for?
Republicans/christofascist/nazis
Republicans
They're not disabled? Also, does the Capitol HAVE bathrooms in sets of 3? Women's, mens, and handicapped?
Whats wrong with being grouped with the disabled they are just people? And im pretry sure most bathrooms come in sets of 3 mens womens and handicapped thats my point. Well unless u live in a 3rd world country that isnt accommodating to the differently abled.
Because they're not disabled. What are you even talking about?
That's like supporting some racist segragationist bullshit by saying "well, can't black people just use disabled bathrooms? They're a small portion of the population."
See how ridiculous that sounds? It's not disparaging to disabled people to point out how inappropriate that is. You're just making life harder for disabled people to feed some asshole's bigotry.
Where do you live where you see a disabled bathroom wherever there's a mes and women's room? They have handicapped stalls, but it's rare to see entire handicapped bathrooms.
Australia do u guys not have that in the states?
A few places like airports, maybe some theme parks. They're very rare.
Cuz who the fuck cares?
I really need someone to explain to me what they’re doing in the bathroom that is so sensitive to the presence of other people and their particular genitalia.
When I use a public bathroom, my goal is to get in and get out with zero interpersonal interaction. I don’t want someone to do so much as hold the door open for a quarter-second. If you’re my best friend in the outside world — in here, I don’t know you.
This, Bathroom Stalls exist so segregating them by gender already makes no damn sense.
We need better stalls in the US for that to be the case. WAY too many gaps and openings.