Summary
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using female bathrooms in the Capitol, citing “women’s rights” and opposing the “radical left.”
The move comes ahead of Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first openly transgender member of Congress, taking office.
McBride criticized the measure as a divisive distraction from real issues like housing and healthcare costs.
LGBTQ advocates condemned the resolution as discriminatory, aligning it with broader Republican anti-trans policies emphasized in their platform and political ads.
Are they also banning transgender men from male bathrooms?
There’s aren’t any (out) trans men in Congress, so no.
The measure would prohibit any lawmakers and House employees from “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.”
So yes
Ah, okay, they covered their bases. But conservatives forget trans men exist all the time, so it’s probably an afterthought.
Oh, I expect they forgot trans men existed when they wrote the law. Once extremely masculine trans men start using the women’s bathroom, as they are legally illogically required to do, Republicans will backpedal…who am I kidding, that wouldn’t happen until midterms at the earliest, and by then they’ll just be shooting trans people.
I’m sorry for the state of your country. I hope mine doesn’t follow, though they seem to be.
Enforced HOW?
They plan to set up a genital inspection booth in front of the restrooms where a eunuch will examine all persons wishing to use the restroom.
Given that there will be only one openly trans member of Congress, you can assume any time she goes to the restroom some Republican will report on which bathroom she goes into.
Nobody is as concerned with other people’s genitals as conservatives.
And they’ll cite all the fines that shitgibbon from Georgia got for not wearing a mask and trying to bring guns into Congress as proof they can.
By vibe. If you’re passable you’re fine, if you don’t visibly match your gender presentation well enough, jail
The capitol has a lot of armed guards on staff
my friend used the women’s in a bucees rest stop in sone shithole state on a road trip and the cops were there by the time she was done with her business. Someone ‘made a report’.
This is how you end up with genderless bathrooms.
honestly, that would be awesome. completely private stalls. a common area to wash hands or whatever.
I was at a bar that did this. Each toilet in its own little room (no stalls with gaps along the floor and doors). Besides a little initial confusion to make sure I wasn’t walking into the wrong restroom, it was perfectly fine.
No no. I think it was the Stockholm airport, for example. Each private stall had a loo and sink and like 1/2 gaps at the bottom; perhaps in case of flooding. It was the private spa of airport bathrooms.
My family there says it’s less about protecting people of different attributes from our own : they just can’t be arsed to delineate when it makes no difference and costs more to maintain.
Mix the bathrooms, ensure individual privacy, and everybody still poops.
So long as I’ve got regular access to a god damned urinal I’m okay with this. Putem in the stalls, put em nearby, fuck it put em in the hall way just don’t take them away from me.
I get that sitting is probably better for you, but I don’t always want to take the time sit and pee, and I’m tall enough that peeing into a toilet causes serious splash back problems pretty much no matter what.
That seems like the more reasonable answer
I say replace all the bathrooms with genderless-only ones. You can’t use them if you have any gender, sorry.
Don’t worry Nancy. Just like all of the straight men out there, trans women don’t want to touch you either.
You don’t have to introduce legislature protecting yourself from non-existent threats.
The patriot act says hi.
Along with like… Half the shift from 2001-2005.
And if we keep going we will be here all day.
Jesus Christmas. Dig up Sherman and tell him to finish the job.
They really want to ensure none of us attempt to enter government again
citing “women’s rights” and opposing the “radical left.”
You can expect this to be the template for when they want to pass anything.
Democrats are furious!
Glad to see she’s really focused on fixing the economy.
When Rep. Nancy Mace (R - S. Carolina) goes running into the bathroom to plaster the bowl with a putrid, explosive shit followed by a series of wet farts, she doesn’t want anyone else in there as that would be embarrassing. Especially if they saw her leave without washing her hands.
Huh, will this give us CHEAPER EGGS? What about the BACON?
oh she’s getting some pork, alright.
According to conservatives, yes.
Here it begins
The party of Identity politics.
People seem to think the Dems are so pro-trans when they don’t really do anything. Republicans just come up with random ways to make trans people’s lives more difficult for no reason.
Oh geez… no one cares about trans… like, literally. It becomes an issue when things like this are forced on the rest of us. Like, we’re all in this together, trying to follow simple rules of males and females… the way it’s been for CENTURIES… and now, all of a sudden, the vast majority of us need to conform to a small percentage of people who “identify” as something else…
if no one cares then shut the fuck up and don’t mind which bathroom we use. Seems like idiots care more than they have any right to.
Hurting people is the reason.
deadbeef79000 gets it.
