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LetMyPeopleVote

(157,972 posts)
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 01:16 PM Nov 20

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

Yet again, Mike Johnson is proving to be a shit



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.
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Speaker Johnson says transgender women won't be allowed to use women's restrooms in Capitol (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Nov 20 OP
Better make all bathrooms unisex. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 20 #1
Many airports now have unisex bathrooms, the US is so far behind the times. :( nt cliffside Nov 21 #46
Nice to know that. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 24 #63
Oh god damn these morons. Initech Nov 20 #2
Johnson does not have the authority to make that decision. Trueblue1968 Nov 20 #16
Unfortunately he does. Just as Nancy made the jimfields33 Nov 20 #18
he's performing for his bigoted base Skittles Nov 21 #44
Actually, he does. Groundhawg Nov 21 #52
I'm sure won't be the first or the last time kiss ass Johnson yanks the chain. flying_wahini Nov 20 #3
That's how they won the election, spewing zorbasd Nov 20 #4
They are also bdamomma Nov 21 #51
I'm sure a vote needs to be taken. bluestarone Nov 20 #5
Don't think so. Pelosi declared smoke free areas in the Capitol in 2007 onenote Nov 20 #22
I stand corrected. i didn't remember that. bluestarone Nov 20 #25
Go fuck yourself with a cactus vercetti2021 Nov 20 #6
Ouch 😳. NT Tickle Nov 21 #47
So, I gather he's just waiting for the photo op to show him refusing to shake her hand? hlthe2b Nov 20 #7
Sarah McBride aside, how will they know a transgender woman used the women's restrooms without violating her privacy? Efilroft Sul Nov 20 #8
Get rid of the gopigs .... Send them all to MARS Trueblue1968 Nov 20 #17
There is no way Sarah McBride is safe around the GOP in Congress. Solly Mack Nov 20 #9
She should then just take a piss on his shoes. PCIntern Nov 20 #10
As bad as Johnson and Mace are, MTG might be even worse Rob H. Nov 20 #11
MTG bdamomma Nov 21 #53
Is he going to check every 'female' in person? keithbvadu2 Nov 20 #12
These people are absurd wendyb-NC Nov 20 #13
Is that even his call to make? meadowlander Nov 20 #14
I think he is. The speaker has pretty broad authority. onenote Nov 20 #23
But a smoke ban isn't discrimination, this radius777 Nov 20 #38
The anti-discrimination laws protect employees. A member of congress is not an employee of the speaker. onenote Nov 20 #39
True, but it's still a workplace issue that affects McBride radius777 Nov 20 #40
He should just have BIGOT tatooed on his forehead. milestogo Nov 20 #15
he calls himself a christian Skittles Nov 21 #43
Spoken like a true 3rd grader. He's so proud. Little shit. lindysalsagal Nov 20 #19
They will do everything they can to prevent Sarah McBride from existing in the House. Oneironaut Nov 20 #20
What a fucking dick ismnotwasm Nov 20 #21
WTAF are these assholes so terrified about? bif Nov 20 #24
Anything sex/gender related can be used to stir up the base. It works every single time. Hekate Nov 20 #28
Yes bdamomma Nov 21 #55
LBJ said it best Skittles Nov 21 #45
They are insecure bdamomma Nov 21 #54
Li'l Pervy has a special staff for lifting their skirts to check. He throbs with anticipation. Hekate Nov 20 #26
Maybe she is a biological female wryter2000 Nov 20 #27
They mean assignment at birth and DNA Hekate Nov 20 #30
I know that's what they meant wryter2000 Nov 20 #31
Do you think that makes any difference? Mariana Nov 21 #50
Custom made for a lawsuit. UTUSN Nov 20 #29
What bathroom does Mikey use when he's on a plane? nt Nittersing Nov 20 #32
I have a better idea, Mr. Speaker... Mike Nelson Nov 20 #33
but rapists can be presidenit Skittles Nov 20 #34
Make some of the restrooms on every floor single room, single door, available to anyone. Diamond_Dog Nov 20 #35
Statement from Congresswoman-Elect Sarah McBride LetMyPeopleVote Nov 20 #36
And yet there are people already attacking her SocialDemocrat61 Nov 20 #37
The woman is bdamomma Nov 21 #56
and Mike in his spare time protects a pedophile by Emile Nov 20 #41
Sarah McBride has been masterful in her responses to the anti-trans hatred directed at her LetMyPeopleVote Nov 21 #42
And Sexual predators should be banned from holding office, social media has made us lazy ... cliffside Nov 21 #48
Yes, bdamomma Nov 21 #58
Note to self ... call his office (202) 225-2777 cliffside Nov 21 #49
Mikey, is it immoral? keithbvadu2 Nov 21 #57
After waiting a while thinking this just might go away...... MuseRider Nov 21 #59
Remember, he's christian Taliban. nt Hotler Nov 21 #60
True. MuseRider Nov 21 #61
Okay, it seems to me that Bettie Nov 21 #62
Will they be forced to use the hallways, like Trump's MAGA did when they rioted? City Lights Nov 24 #64
Way to focus on the important stuff. bif Nov 24 #65
They don't need to, asshole. spanone Nov 24 #66

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,136 posts)
1. Better make all bathrooms unisex.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 01:21 PM
Nov 20

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?

 

jimfields33

(19,382 posts)
18. Unfortunately he does. Just as Nancy made the
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:27 PM
Nov 20

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

flying_wahini

(8,045 posts)
3. I'm sure won't be the first or the last time kiss ass Johnson yanks the chain.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 01:25 PM
Nov 20

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.

bdamomma

(67,287 posts)
51. They are also
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:49 AM
Nov 21

obsessed with sexual assault, trafficking and pedophilia.

Just look at the felon's (which I will always say he is) choices in his cabinet.

Mike Johnson has some skeletons in his closet too.

onenote

(44,924 posts)
22. Don't think so. Pelosi declared smoke free areas in the Capitol in 2007
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:48 PM
Nov 20

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

Efilroft Sul

(3,848 posts)
8. Sarah McBride aside, how will they know a transgender woman used the women's restrooms without violating her privacy?
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 01:42 PM
Nov 20

Show us whatcha got?

Solly Mack

(93,856 posts)
9. There is no way Sarah McBride is safe around the GOP in Congress.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 01:48 PM
Nov 20

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.

Rob H.

(5,613 posts)
11. As bad as Johnson and Mace are, MTG might be even worse
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 01:57 PM
Nov 20
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

wendyb-NC

(3,997 posts)
13. These people are absurd
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:00 PM
Nov 20

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

(4,818 posts)
14. Is that even his call to make?
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:07 PM
Nov 20

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.

radius777

(3,836 posts)
38. But a smoke ban isn't discrimination, this
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:19 PM
Nov 20

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

radius777

(3,836 posts)
40. True, but it's still a workplace issue that affects McBride
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:34 PM
Nov 20

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.

Oneironaut

(5,894 posts)
20. They will do everything they can to prevent Sarah McBride from existing in the House.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:31 PM
Nov 20

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.

bdamomma

(67,287 posts)
54. They are insecure
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:59 AM
Nov 21

and feel threatened that they are not the major dominance any longer. They don't believe in diversity, which America is all about.

Mike Nelson

(10,464 posts)
33. I have a better idea, Mr. Speaker...
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 03:41 PM
Nov 20

... 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.

Diamond_Dog

(35,828 posts)
35. Make some of the restrooms on every floor single room, single door, available to anyone.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 03:47 PM
Nov 20

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.

Emile

(32,314 posts)
41. and Mike in his spare time protects a pedophile by
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:35 PM
Nov 20

not releasing the ethics committee report.

This speaker is really weird.

cliffside

(644 posts)
48. And Sexual predators should be banned from holding office, social media has made us lazy ...
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 02:38 AM
Nov 21

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.

MuseRider

(34,437 posts)
59. After waiting a while thinking this just might go away......
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 09:43 AM
Nov 21

yes I know, I must have been having another stroke, I have become very worried about her. Even if she just had her own room they are going to do something horrible to it and possibly it with her in it. These are scared sickos who are already full up trying to ruin women and now add a transgender woman (leaving the trans men out for the moment, they do not have an easy path either) and the matches are lit. Before we could worry, now it is worse. They WILL do something, anything to get rid of her and anyone they feel is making them look bad. Men should always look like heros, right? This is just the start of these stupid, scaredy cat, insecure, flaccid men. I will add women to my rage about this when I see enough of them to make it hard for their fellow YES I SAID FELLOW women to pee. For God's sake, things are hard enough and dangerous enough for us in most spaces. Genital checks are going to be hard to do, especially if you really have to go and there is no one to do them. "Heavens, you just can't go in there without government approval every time you need it!" Maybe a daily pass for the john?

I think this is the stupidist damned thing I have ever tried to write about and I spent years working on LGBTQ in Kansas for gods sake. I thought I had already seem all the really dumb ass things people could do.

MuseRider

(34,437 posts)
61. True.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 09:55 AM
Nov 21

After all these years I kinda shove them all in that group and watch for the few that shake out better than that. It is easier that way, fewer to count.

Bettie

(17,699 posts)
62. Okay, it seems to me that
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 09:57 AM
Nov 21

Republicans are giant perverts.

I mean, when I go to the bathroom, my goal is to go in, do what I need to and get out.

If another person sees me washing my hands afterward, oh well...it's not sexual, though there may be some muttering as I hate those air blowers that never get my hands dry, but that's a whole different issue.

Apparently, they (based on what they expect that others will do) peer under stalls and/or try to sexually assault others in the bathroom.

So, what's wrong with them that they can't do their business and move on with their day?

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