WASHINGTON — Rep. Nancy Mays, R-C., introduced a resolution Monday to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol, just weeks before she was elected as the Democratic-Republican. Sarah McBride About to become the state of Delaware the first transgender member Congress.
Event would prohibit lawmakers and House staff from “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.”
Asked by reporters if her decision was intended to target a marginalized person, Mace said, “Sarah McBride has no say in the matter.”
“This is a biological male trying to force himself into women’s space, and I’m not going to put up with that,” she said.
McBride, who won a race for Delaware’s lone House seat this month, condemned the measure on Monday.
“This is a blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract from the fact that there are no real solutions to the problem facing Americans. We should focus on reducing the cost of housing, health care and childcare, not manufacturing culture wars,” he said.
“Every day Americans go to work with people who have different ways of life than their own and deal with them with respect, and I hope that members of Congress will reciprocate that kindness.” X said.
Mace told reporters that his resolution was about “women’s rights” and protecting them in “private spaces” and claimed that the “radical left” was trying to erase those rights.
McBride’s spokeswoman told NBC News that Mace had not been contacted before introducing the event and that McBride had learned about it in the media.
Mace’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
If the resolution passes, the House sergeant-at-arms will be tasked with enforcing it. The measure will not require Senate passage or the president’s signature.
Mace said Monday that he plans to reintroduce the measure in the next Congress, when Republicans will retain control of the House.
Republicans spent more than $200 million on network television ads targeting trans people this year, according to data shared with NBC News this month by AdImpact, a firm that tracks political ad spending.
The Republican Party platform leaned heavily on anti-trans rhetoric this year, calling for banning trans people from participating in gender-identifying sports, proposing to repeal Title IX protections for LGBTQ people, and calling for a ban on the use of taxpayer dollars for gender funding. – transaction confirmation.
In the days after the victory of the newly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump some Democrats blamed his party’s stance on transgender rights, which contributed to the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Those Democratic lawmakers said the party had gone too far and reached out to what they called the “far left” while trying not to offend anyone.
The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, said Monday that Mason was cruel and discriminatory against his incoming colleague, calling the resolution “a political muddle of great violence.”
“This is yet another warning sign that the anti-equality House majority will continue to target LGBTQ+ people more than the cost of living, price increases, or issues the American people choose to address,” spokeswoman Laurel Powell said. in the statement.