Lauren Boebert Storms Women’s Room Looking for a “Guy”

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banned from using the women’s bathroom and other sex-specific facilities in the Capitol complex.According to an anonymous Republican member of Congress who spoke to the Daily Beast, Boebert was allegedly overheard telling other members on the House floor that she found McBride inside the ladies’ room.The GOP member claimed that Boebert told other members of Congress that she had confronted McBride, allegedly telling her, “You shouldn’t be here.”It turned out that Boebert never confronted McBride, because McBride never entered the women’s bathroom.Instead, the hullabaloo about the person in the women’s bathroom appears to have been a case of mistaken identity.Billy House, a reporter for Bloomberg, reported on X that, on January 23, he witnessed Boebert “bursting out of the House Women’s restroom…complaining to security personnel stationed in the nearby Speaker’s Lobby of ‘a guy’ inside the bathroom.“Intrigued, I stuck around to see who would emerge from the bathroom…and saw just 4 other people leave, all women.

Within minutes, however, Boebert was storming back from the House floor into the restroom, — reinforced by Rep. Nancy Mace in tow…. [S]econds after this duo entered the bathroom, they come back out — and went back quietly to the floor. “A bit of bathroom vigilantism?

I later asked Boebert what this was all about, noting I had heard her complain there was ‘a guy’ in there. To her credit, she acknowledged it was a mistake. ‘There was a rumor there was, but it wasn’t true,’ she told me.”Boebert offered a statement to the Daily Beast regarding her restroom antics.“I made an error regarding a mistaken identity,” she said. “I apologized, learned a lesson, and it won’t happen again.”McBride told the Daily Beast that.