Trans congresswoman Sarah McBride responds to Capitol Hill bathroom ban

[Coventina]

Sarah McBride, the incoming congresswoman and first openly transgender person elected to the US House of Representatives, on Wednesday shared a statement on social media in response to the House banning trans people from using single-sex bathrooms on Capitol Hill that match their gender identity.

Earlier in the day, the House speaker, Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson, issued a statement “regarding facilities throughout the US Capitol complex”.

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.”

He added: “It is important to note that each member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women’s only spaces.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/20/sarah-mcbride-trans-bathroom-ban

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WTF is wrong with people?

I've shared bathrooms with biological women who were more "manly" than Sarah, and I never gave it a moment's thought!

[keithbvadu2]

1. Yet Mikey is fine with rapist felon as president and child molester Gaetz as AG.

[Ocelot II]

2. How are the men going to respond to McBride using the men's room?

[BeerBarrelPolka]

3. What

What would Mike Pence do? He'd be forced to wear a diaper.

[Wiz Imp]

4. A very large number of US Colleges and Universities have dorms with "gender neutral" or "communal" bathrooms

Funny how all the "Scary!!!!" things that the transphobes say are sure to happen if you don't make ridiculous rules like this don't seem to be happening at our major colleges and universities. In fact, I can't find a single story about an issue that happened at a college with communal bathrooms. Thousands upon thousands of college students live under such arrangements every day and do just fine.

I can't figure out if these idiotic transphobic people are more evil or stupid.

[Thunderbeast]

15. This obsession with genetalia is weird.

My nephew started college this fall. He lives in a dorm room he shares with with a friend he's known since preschool. She happens to be a young woman. They are not romantically involved. The room has large closets that serve as changing rooms. Their high school had unisex bathrooms with enclosed floor to ceiling toilet "rooms" (similar to public restrooms in Canada and Europe).

They do not seem to think the arrangement is all that strange...

Perhaps future generations will have a more adult perspective on body parts.

[Nanjeanne]

5. I don't know but when I use a public bathroom,I go in and then I go out. I dont spend one

minute scrutinizing the other people in the room. Particularly since women’s bathrooms have stalls and one should just shut the door.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Deeply disappointed that she's complying and deeply, deeply disappointed that other Dems aren't standing up for her.

[obamanut2012]

9. Me too -- she shouldn't have done that

This compliance by Dems, before that man is installed again, needs to stop.

It is appeasement.

[FreeState]

10. It's extremely disappointing

But not surprising that fellow Democrats are not standing up for her.

[JI7]

17. I agree that other Democrats should support her but what exactly is she supposed

to do ?

[J_William_Ryan]

7. "WTF is wrong with people?"

Ignorance, fear, stupidity, bigotry, and hate - it's what conservatives are.

[Skittles]

8. he wants to protect women while helping to cover up for a sex trafficker

DO THESE FUCKER EVEN HEAR THEMSELVES

[GoCubsGo]

11. Is that little creep going to check everyone's genitalia before they use the restrooms?

Or, does he have an app for that, like his porn app?

[Maeve]

12. Ten years ago we were in Ireland and there was a unisex restroom

We were a bit surprised, but really, the doors were snug enough, no huge gaps, no one was playing stupid games, it was just an f'ing set of toilets, no urinals or other public potties.....
Grow up, America

[Initech]

13. Good to see Mike Johnson is handling the important stuff.

Ugh the worst Congress in US history just continues to get worse. Fuck you Mike Johnson and Marjorie Shit For Brains!

[Skittles]

14. he's all for hiding the ethics report on a sex trafficer

but is outraged by who is using the ladies room

[Sneederbunk]

16. Wait a minute. What about Lindsey Graham?