- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
Some key excerpts:
House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support Tuesday for a Republican effort to ban Democrat Sarah McBride — the first transgender person to be elected to Congress — from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol once she’s sworn into office next year.
A resolution proposed Monday by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina would prohibit any lawmakers and House employees from “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” Mace said the bill is aimed specifically at McBride, who was elected to the House this month from Delaware.
At least 11 states have adopted laws barring transgender girls and women from girls and women’s bathrooms at public schools, and in some cases other government facilities.
[Mace] added that Johnson assured her the bathroom provision would be included in any changes to House rules for the next Congress.
Why is all the fuss over women’s bathrooms in these things? Thought we had moved past the ‘women can’t protect themselves and need men to do it for them’ thing at this point.
To me, it feels like fear-mongering. If you don’t think trans people are dangerous, you won’t “need” a Republican to “protect” you from them.
The bathroom argument is especially silly when you recall that unisex bathrooms have existed for a long time, and all they require is better stalls than American bathrooms tend to offer. If protecting people in bathrooms was really a goal, they would just make walls that go to the floor legally required.
I doubt if most of the Republican politicians/ pundits even believe half the stuff they say about trans people. They are simply the target du jour, and Republicans will say anything they can think of to make you afraid of them.