Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) plans to introduce a resolution that would ban transgender individuals from the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity at the Capitol, Fox News reported Monday — and it comes just before Congress swears in its first-ever transgender congresswoman.
"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.
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.
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Republicans have used trans issues as a divisive tool to influence voters. Historically, many of these attempts have been unsuccessful, such as the North Carolina GOP's effort in 2016 to pass a statewide bathroom measure. Donald Trump's campaign bombarded the airwaves with attacks on Harris for supporting trans rights in various capacities, and his team believes these ads proved effective this year.
Mace is a Trump loyalist who was part of the cohort that threw former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) out of office. She has faced controversy after staffers came out and described her as a toxic boss focused on securing TV air time.
Following the election, she proclaimed that voters gave Trump a mandate to "protect women" even as Trump was found liable for sexual abuse by a jury in New York.
