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U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) is a fucking ghoul.
According to The New Civil Rights Movement, Mace has introduced “a binding resolution to ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms in the House of Representatives, after Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware became the first openly transgender American to be elected to Congress.”
In other words, Mace is pushing a resolution to single out and punish a single member of Congress simply for being trans. She wants one of this country’s most powerful deliberative bodies to take up the issue of whether or not McBride will be allowed to pee at work.
It seems laughable, but on X, Mace made it clear she’s dead serious: “For the record, this is a binding resolution. The Sergeant at Arms would enforce it.”
In other words, Mace wants the person responsible for overseeing safety and security at the Capitol to add “bathroom police” to their list of duties.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is on board. “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 said in a statement. “It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
Oh, well, good. McBride can just use her own office’s private restroom and make herself a map of all of the places in the Capitol where she can use the restroom when she’s outside of her office. Problem solved!
Just kidding. Whether or not McBride has a restroom she can use, the act of blocking trans people from public restrooms is intended only to ostracize them and further the false claim that they are sexual predators.
Needless to say, there have been some strong reactions to Mace’s resolution.
“If a woman doesn’t look ‘woman’ enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect her genitals to use a bathroom? It’s disgusting, and everybody, no matter how you feel on this issue, should reject it completely,” U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Spectrum News. “They’re doing this so that Nancy Mace can make a buck and fundraise off an email. They’re not doing this to protect people. They’re endangering women, they’re endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It’s gross.”
Ocasio-Cortez also posted on X: “Women know that men don’t scheme to ‘dress like girls’ to assault them. They do it every day in broad daylight. And the ones in power protect each other to keep it quiet. Just ask the House Ethics Committee. Or the President-elect of the United States. Leave women alone.”
A response online to Ocasio-Cortez’s comments really sums the whole thing up: “You obviously do not have a daughter. Do you want penises flying around a locker room with your daughter in there?” (I am purposefully not linking to this because this person doesn’t deserve the attention.)
Apparently this person thinks that penises can fly independently around a room, something that even I, a lesbian, know is not true.
For her part, McBride is responding with a level of civility that Republicans lack.
“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms,” she said in a statement. “I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down the costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them.”
McBride went on to call the whole thing an “effort to distract from the real issues facing this country.”
“Each of us were sent here because voters saw something in us that they value,” McBride continued. “I have loved getting to see those qualities in the future colleagues that I’ve met and I look forward to seeing those qualities in every member come January. I hope all my colleagues will seek to do the same with me.”
While Mace has tweeted hundreds of times about the trans bathroom ban, she used to say that she supported LGBTQ+ rights.
“I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality,” Mace told The Washington Examiner in 2021. “No one should be discriminated against.”
No one, except Mace’s only trans colleague. So much for her strong support.
Political strategist Adam Parkhomenko put it best on Bluesky with a reference to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection: “It’s really something to watch the Party whose supporters poop on the floor in the Capitol and wipe their feces on the wall tell us which bathrooms to use.”
Welcome to the Republican-led shit show.