MORNING HEADLINES | GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that transgender women, including newly-elected Delaware Democratic U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride, would be barred from using women’s bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol building.
The move comes after Charleston Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace recently proposed a measure calling for the ban.
“The sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biological women starts here in the nation’s Capitol,” Mace said in a statement. “We are standing up for women, protecting their spaces, and restoring a bit of sanity to Capitol Hill.”
The new restrictions, which apply to restrooms, changing rooms and locker rooms, caught the wry attention of South Carolina columnist Isaac Bailey:
“Y’all. Nancy Mace is at it again. TV cameras weren’t being pointed her way over the past several weeks. She couldn’t countenance that. She had to do something about it. She needed another dose of the bright lights like a vampire needs the next drop of blood.
“The gentlewoman representing the good people of the First Congressional District of South Carolina decided to get her fix by creating a problem where there was none. She’s done so by screaming and shouting about ‘protecting women’ while championing an anti-trans resolution in the House that targets one of her future colleagues.”
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