In the United States, the newly elected transgender congressman has been banned from entering women’s restrooms

Sarah McBride, photo: Getty Images

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, said Wednesday that transgender people who do not match the gender assigned at birth will not be allowed in restrooms in the Capitol and House office buildings.

Source: The Washington Post

Details: Johnson announced the rule change two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.

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Direct speech: “All single-sex areas in the Capitol and House office buildings, such as restrooms and locker rooms, are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.

It is important to note that each Member of Congress has their own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women-only spaces.”

Details: This week, Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms in the Capitol. The resolution does not mention McBride by name, but Mace said Tuesday that “this is 100 percent about McBride” and that Congress has “no voice going forward” in shaping its ‘policy of the first kind.

Mace thanked Johnson for changing the rules, writing in X: “This fight is not over yet. We want to ban men from women’s quarters in EVERY federal building, school, public restroom, everywhere.” The post was one of hundreds the congresswoman has made on social media. about bathrooms in the past few days.

McBride herself said in a statement Wednesday that she is “not here to argue about toilets.”