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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpeaker 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
Link to tweet
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/speaker-johnson-transgender-women-allowed-womens-restrooms-capitol/story
"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
(27,136 posts)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
(644 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,136 posts)Probably lots more unisex bathrooms out there than I'm aware of.
Initech
(103,494 posts)
Trueblue1968
(18,380 posts)jimfields33
(19,382 posts)Capital smoke free the minute John Boehner retired from the house. Speakers have oversight of the capital.
Skittles
(161,696 posts)that is ALL repukes work for
Groundhawg
(1,087 posts)flying_wahini
(8,045 posts)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 mens bathroom during every break with your phone out. See how long it takes.
Or just open the womens bathroom door but dont 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
(308 posts)Culture warfare.
bdamomma
(67,287 posts)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.
bluestarone
(18,734 posts)
onenote
(44,924 posts)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
(18,734 posts)
vercetti2021
(10,426 posts)Mikey
Tickle
(3,479 posts)hlthe2b
(107,762 posts)
Efilroft Sul
(3,848 posts)Show us whatcha got?
Trueblue1968
(18,380 posts)Solly Mack
(93,856 posts)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
(27,169 posts)Rob H.
(5,613 posts)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 Maces legislation doesnt go far enough. Greene also suggested shed be willing to get into a physical altercation if McBride uses womens restrooms.
(....)
Threatening a fellow Representative. Charming. /s
bulldog face (not to discriminate bulldogs), what a waste she is.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)wendyb-NC
(3,997 posts)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)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
(44,924 posts)It's how Pelosi was able to unilaterally declare areas of the capitol smoke free. https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/press-releases/id_0961
radius777
(3,836 posts)ban clearly is, which I would think (hope) would be in violation of workplace laws.
onenote
(44,924 posts)radius777
(3,836 posts)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
(19,260 posts)They all should.
Skittles
(161,696 posts)always spouting sanctimonious bullshit
lindysalsagal
(22,454 posts)Oneironaut
(5,894 posts)Remember when assholes banished Zooey Zephyr to outside the Montana HoR, and, more assholes came and sat in all available seats so she couldnt even sit out there and had to stand? I expect the same pettiness and worse.
ismnotwasm
(42,556 posts)bif
(24,603 posts)I really don't get it.
Hekate
(96,072 posts).
not to be flip about this, but Putin loves this.
Skittles
(161,696 posts)give them someone to look down on and you can pick their pockets
bdamomma
(67,287 posts)and feel threatened that they are not the major dominance any longer. They don't believe in diversity, which America is all about.
Hekate
(96,072 posts)


wryter2000
(47,680 posts)Wouldn't she be if she'd had the surgery?
Hekate
(96,072 posts)wryter2000
(47,680 posts)It isn't what they said.
Mariana
(15,314 posts)UTUSN
(73,249 posts)Nittersing
(7,035 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,464 posts)... 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
(161,696 posts)and sex traffickers can be protected
Diamond_Dog
(35,828 posts)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
(157,972 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(3,443 posts)for this.
bdamomma
(67,287 posts)there to work for the people something the other sick side just doesn't get.
Emile
(32,314 posts)not releasing the ethics committee report.
This speaker is really weird.
LetMyPeopleVote
(157,972 posts)cliffside
(644 posts)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.
mail letters, visit their offices and make phone calls.
cliffside
(644 posts)About this or releasing the Ethics report or any other topic.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)
MuseRider
(34,437 posts)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.
Hotler
(12,641 posts)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)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?
City Lights
(25,534 posts)Republicans are a cancer on the planet.