Speaker Johnson says transgender women won't be allowed to use women's restrooms in Capitol

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Yet again, Mike Johnson is proving to be a shit

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/speaker-johnson-transgender-women-allowed-womens-restrooms-capitol/story

House Speaker Mike Johnson said transgender women cannot use women's restrooms in the Capitol and House office buildings. This also applies to changing rooms and locker rooms, Johnson said.

"All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex," the statement said Wednesday.

Johnson continued, "It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol."

It's unclear what will happen with South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace's bill.

Mace said Tuesday that the bill she introduced to ban transgender women from using women's restrooms at the U.S. Capitol was "absolutely" in response to Rep.-elect Sarah McBride entering Congress.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Better make all bathrooms unisex.

A place here in Santa Fe has a wonderful one: large, open room with the wash basins on one side, maybe 15 feet(?) to where the stalls are, some ten of them all with locking doors.

Oh, and who exactly will be doing the genital/birth certificate check to make sure people go to the right place?

[cliffside]

46. Many airports now have unisex bathrooms, the US is so far behind the times. :( nt

[Initech]

2. Oh god damn these morons.

[Trueblue1968]

16. Johnson does not have the authority to make that decision.

[jimfields33]

18. Unfortunately he does. Just as Nancy made the

Capital smoke free the minute John Boehner retired from the house. Speakers have oversight of the capital.

[Skittles]

44. he's performing for his bigoted base

that is ALL repukes work for

[flying_wahini]

3. I'm sure won't be the first or the last time kiss ass Johnson yanks the chain.

If this was my issue I would follow Johnson into every bathroom to harass the shit out of him and all the Repugs. Stay in the men’s bathroom during every break with your phone out. See how long it takes.
Or just open the women’s bathroom door but don’t go inside. Stand there with the door open.
I hope she gives it back to them.

They are the biggest jerks in DC,I would let everyone know.

[zorbasd]

4. That's how they won the election, spewing

Culture warfare.

[bluestarone]

5. I'm sure a vote needs to be taken.

[onenote]

22. Don't think so. Pelosi declared smoke free areas in the Capitol in 2007

and I don't recall anyone saying she didn't have the authority to do that without a vote.

https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/press-releases/id_0961

[bluestarone]

25. I stand corrected. i didn't remember that.

[vercetti2021]

6. Go fuck yourself with a cactus

Mikey

[Tickle]

47. Ouch 😳. NT

[hlthe2b]

7. So, I gather he's just waiting for the photo op to show him refusing to shake her hand?

[Efilroft Sul]

8. Sarah McBride aside, how will they know a transgender woman used the women's restrooms without violating her privacy?

Show us whatcha got?

[Trueblue1968]

17. Get rid of the gopigs .... Send them all to MARS

[Solly Mack]

9. There is no way Sarah McBride is safe around the GOP in Congress.

Or anyone else who feels she doesn't belong.

The only reason Mike Johnson (and Mace) wants to force the issue is to humiliate her and to bully her and given the chance they would attack her in the bathroom or locker room or changing room. And I do mean physically attack her.

Yes, I do find them, the whole of the GOP, that depraved.

[PCIntern]

10. She should then just take a piss on his shoes.

[Rob H.]

11. As bad as Johnson and Mace are, MTG might be even worse

Rep. Nancy Mace says her anti-trans bathroom bill 'absolutely' targets Rep.-elect Sarah McBride
McBride, the first out transgender person elected to Congress, will serve in the House starting next year, and Mace doesn't want her using women's bathrooms at the Capitol.

Nov. 19, 2024, 9:50 AM MST
By Syedah Asghar and Rebecca Shabad
(...)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Mace’s legislation “doesn’t go far enough.” Greene also suggested she’d be willing to get into a physical altercation if McBride uses women’s restrooms.
(....)

Threatening a fellow Representative. Charming. /s

[keithbvadu2]

12. Is he going to check every 'female' in person?

[wendyb-NC]

13. These people are absurd

Their delusion of a binary Christian Nationalist, well to do, well bred, well fed, society of white people makes me want to .
Such deliberate antagonism, by the right. These days, most Republicans, are crude, delusional, and get off on stalking trans-gender people and because they can't, or don't want to try to understand another persons reality. They are fearful bigots.

[meadowlander]

14. Is that even his call to make?

He's not the employer of all the staff at the Capitol and I'd be surprised if the Speaker of the House writes or is the decision maker on facilities policy for the buildings.

Sounds like the makings of an employment discrimination lawsuit if there are any other transgender staffers who are being discriminated against at their place of employment and denied access to convenient bathroom facilities.

Also in my experience "unisex facilities" often means "disabled bathrooms" which means if you're trans you end up being the visibly able-bodied person making someone in a wheelchair or with a heart condition or incontinence wait to use the bathroom.

[onenote]

23. I think he is. The speaker has pretty broad authority.

It's how Pelosi was able to unilaterally declare areas of the capitol smoke free. https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/press-releases/id_0961

[radius777]

38. But a smoke ban isn't discrimination, this

ban clearly is, which I would think (hope) would be in violation of workplace laws.

[onenote]

39. The anti-discrimination laws protect employees. A member of congress is not an employee of the speaker.

[radius777]

40. True, but it's still a workplace issue that affects McBride

in how she goes about her job. She identifies as female and would need to use female bathrooms and facilities.

To me, it would be like the Speaker deciding he doesn't want black people to use the same facilities as white people - there's a fundamental civil rights issue at play here.

[milestogo]

15. He should just have BIGOT tatooed on his forehead.

They all should.

[Skittles]

43. he calls himself a christian

always spouting sanctimonious bullshit

[lindysalsagal]

19. Spoken like a true 3rd grader. He's so proud. Little shit.

[Oneironaut]

20. They will do everything they can to prevent Sarah McBride from existing in the House.

Remember when assholes banished Zooey Zephyr to outside the Montana HoR, and, more assholes came and sat in all available seats so she couldn’t even sit out there and had to stand? I expect the same pettiness and worse.

[ismnotwasm]

21. What a fucking dick

[bif]

24. WTAF are these assholes so terrified about?

I really don't get it.

[Hekate]

28. Anything sex/gender related can be used to stir up the base. It works every single time.

.

[Skittles]

45. LBJ said it best

give them someone to look down on and you can pick their pockets

[Hekate]

26. Li'l Pervy has a special staff for lifting their skirts to check. He throbs with anticipation.

[wryter2000]

27. Maybe she is a biological female

Wouldn't she be if she'd had the surgery?

[Hekate]

30. They mean assignment at birth and DNA

[wryter2000]

31. I know that's what they meant

It isn't what they said.

[UTUSN]

29. Custom made for a lawsuit.

[Nittersing]

32. What bathroom does Mikey use when he's on a plane? nt

[Mike Nelson]

33. I have a better idea, Mr. Speaker...

... you need a separate restroom for sex offenders. Matt, Donald, Pete, and others are going to be around DC. Women of all kinds - and some men, too - should feel safe going to the restroom alone.

[Skittles]

34. but rapists can be presidenit

and sex traffickers can be protected

[Diamond_Dog]

35. Make some of the restrooms on every floor single room, single door, available to anyone.

They have $ for lots of other bullshit, they can do this. Repukes will bawl that it costs money but it will be their own damn fault.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Statement from Congresswoman-Elect Sarah McBride

This is a very classy person

Link to tweet

[SocialDemocrat61]

37. And yet there are people already attacking her

for this.

[Emile]

41. and Mike in his spare time protects a pedophile by

not releasing the ethics committee report.

This speaker is really weird.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. Sarah McBride has been masterful in her responses to the anti-trans hatred directed at her

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[cliffside]

48. And Sexual predators should be banned from holding office, social media has made us lazy ...

we're not flooding their offices with calls or letters that pile up on their desks.

Emails just go into junk mail, who cares? We're just typing stuff online to one another, myself included, need to find a better way.

[cliffside]

49. Note to self ... call his office [phone]

https://www.congress.gov/member/mike-johnson/J000299

About this or releasing the Ethics report or any other topic.