Transgender women will not be permitted to use women’s restrooms in parts of the U.S. Capitol complex, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday, following some House Republicans’ targeting of the first openly trans person to win a congressional election.

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      She said she had no problem following it, even if she disagrees with it. Hopefully she can hold her head up high and deal with wimpy bully tactics until this shit storm passes.

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    Is this because he wants to share a bathroom with Sarah McBride? Feels more than a little pervy on his part.

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      Why do I have a feeling she’s going to get raped by one of these chucklefucks in the House and Mr. Diseased Johnson up there is going to cover it up and brush it away.

      Edit: and before the downvote train starts, these sorts of hate filled conservative shitfucks have a very strong historical trend towards taking advantage of marginalized or otherwise weakened minorities that they think are easy targets, sexually or otherwise. Sometimes it’s trans people, sometimes it’s kids, sometimes it’s disabled people. I’ve seen it first hand.

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    Don’t know if regular folks are allowed in the bathrooms but I’d say it’s their civic duty to make the women’s bathrooms stink to high hell.

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    All right, better post guards at every gender-specific restroom, and require that people prove their birth gender before entering.

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    There was no immediate reaction from most House Democrats, including leadership

    Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, the Democrats.

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      I mean, I’m all for criticizing Democrats, but this is a very easy claim to make and it could mean nothing at all. “Tom Hanks did not immediately respond to accusations of homicide.” Sounds damning but it doesn’t really tell us anything.

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        That’s kind of fair, but this is also not a story that just came out of no where. They’d been telegraphing this for days. Have someone ready with a statement. Or just someone who can speak well off the cuff without running a strategy meeting and a focus group. An organization that is fundamentally partially about messaging shouldn’t be unable to get their preferred message into a news story.

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    Every Trump supporter in my neighborhood is on the sexual offender registry, no joke. At first I thought “let’s go Brandon” was some like NAMBLA rallying slogan because literally there are four sex offenders around the area and they were the only people two years ago with Trump and maga shit all over their dumpy little houses. I’d rather be in the bathroom with any trans person than any Republican.