'No real solutions': Trans rep-elect hits back at 'extremists' for Capitol bathroom ban

The first trans woman elected to Congress issued a forceful response over a Republican lawmaker's reported plans to try to ban trans women from using female bathrooms at the Capitol.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) plans to introduce a resolution that would ban trans women from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity at the Capitol, Fox News reported Monday. The move comes just before Congress swears in Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE).

"The sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biological women starts here in the nation’s Capitol," Mace told Fox. The measure calls for "prohibiting Members, officers, and employees of the House from using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex, and for other purposes," and would task the Sergeant-at-Arms with enforcing the rule.

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The specification of "Members" would at the moment apply to just one person: Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), who was elected this month as the first openly transgender person to serve in Congress.

McBride said Monday that Mace's resolution is a distraction.

"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," she wrote on X.

McBride added: "This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing. We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars. Delawareans sent me here to make the American dream more affordable and accessible and that’s what I’m focused on."

When asked whether she planned to talk to McBride, Mace said: “No, Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say," Politico reported.