Sarah McBride Criticized for Complying with Restroom Ban

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newly announced policy banning transgender individuals from using restrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity.On Wednesday, November 20, Johnson decreed that all single-sex facilities in the U.S.

Capitol complex will be reserved for individuals of that biological sex. His edict came in support of a vile, transphobic effort by U.S.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) seeking to ban McBride, the first out transgender person elected to Congress, from women’s restrooms.Mace has since said she’s introducing a broader bill to ban all transgender women from women’s facilities on all federal properties.Republicans who support the ban say that women-only spaces are necessary to protect the safety and privacy of women and girls.They also point to the fact that every individual member of Congress has their own bathroom in their office, and argue that McBride can choose to use that, or any gender-neutral or single-use restrooms within the Capitol complex, if she does not want to use the men’s restroom.McBride initially said that the controversy over which restroom she uses was a manufactured one that Republicans were using to distract from more important political issues, such as housing, health care and child care.Following Johnson’s announcement, McBride sought to distance herself from the fight by saying she’d comply with the decree.“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms, I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families,” she wrote in a post on X. “Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them.