SC’s Mace brings fight against transgender women using females’ restrooms to the US House
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is now bringing the fight over which bathrooms transgender women could use inside the U.S. Capitol, and more specifically the restrooms and changing rooms used by the House of Representatives.
Mace introduced a binding resolution Monday to ban transgender women from using biological women’s restrooms in the House.
Mace’s office said the House sergeant of arms would enforce the proposed rule that would prohibit House members, officers and employees from using bathroom facilities designated for the opposite sex.
The resolution appears to target U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, a Delaware Democrat, who is slated to be the first openly transgender woman elected to Congress.
Mace said McBride should use the men’s restroom, unisex restroom or the restroom in her own office.
“I’m not going to support men in women’s private spaces. I will raise bloody hell and if she even attempts to do it,” Mace told reporters Tuesday in a Zoom call.
McBride shot back on social media at the proposed rule.
“Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness,” McBride posted on X.
On X, McBride called the resolution “a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.”
Mace told reporters she plans to file legislation that would enforce the same rules on all federal property.
“This is about protecting the rights of women, and I’m going to stand in the way of anyone that wants to set women’s rights back 100 years,” Mace said.
Mace said she is willing to work with McBride on issues, but argues McBride shouldn’t have input on which restroom she would use.
“I’m willing to work with anyone willing to work with me,” Mace said. “That’s always been the rule, but I don’t believe that someone dressed as a woman gets to have a say about this. She doesn’t get the right to have a say. This is intrusive. It’s a violation of privacy, and I think it’s sick and twisted logic.”
This story was originally published November 19, 2024 at 12:50 PM.
