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G.O.P. lawmakers whose leaders have pressed to roll back transgender rights around the country moved to bar Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from women’s rooms on Capitol Hill.

In Washington this week for new member orientation, Ms. McBride was still sitting through mandatory cybersecurity trainings, setting up her payroll, selecting district offices and learning how to introduce a bill when her new Republican colleague, Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, announced plans to introduce a measure to bar transgender women from using women’s restrooms and changing rooms in the Capitol complex.

Ms. Mace did not try to pretend that she was doing anything other than targeting one individual with her resolution, even though it would apply to all employees and officers of the House.

“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say,” she told reporters on Monday night. “I mean, this is a biological man.” She said that Ms. McBride “does not belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms — period, full stop.”

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

I really hope this backfires and creates a wave of support for McBride.

Kinda like their attempts at attacking AOC just made her more popular.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

Counter with tabling a bill to make the bathrooms all gender neutral.

If the cunts are gonna be counts, at least force em to keep admitting it out loud so people keep seeing it.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 58 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Do I have understand her position correctly?

Trans woman in locker room....no

sex offender as AG....yes

rapist as POTUS....AOK!

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 8 points 5 hours ago

They want to make sure the trans woman is in their bathroom because they fantasize about it.

This is creepy AF

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 47 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say,” she told reporters on Monday night. “I mean, this is a biological man.” She said that Ms. McBride “does not belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms — period, full stop.”

What a cunt. And for the first time in a very, very long time, I do not mean that in the jocular, gender-neutral Scottish way. I mean it in the mean, American way. Including this time, I can still count the number of times on one hand that I've used that word in that way.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

It's literally the first word that comes to mind when you read her hateful small-minded and petty statement regarding a new fellow member of Congress who has never done a single fucking thing to her to deserve such blatant disrespect

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago

Ms. Mace is indeed, a cunt.

And I don't mean the jovial mate-ship meaning of the word in Australian vernacular.

[–] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago

I agree completely -- said with the C and the T as very sharp and pronounced as possible.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 30 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

the party of "gun control laws only hurt law abiding citizens" insists that bathroom laws are about protecting people and not about deliberately hurting law abiding citizens

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

From the people who say "No Gun Signs won't stop guns!" comes "Women Only Signs will stop Sex Predators."

Even though most sex predators are white cismen and transwomen are more likely to be preyed upon than to do the preying...

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Hear me out: she should own this and use the men’s room. And I mean USE it. Get as melodramatic, exaggerated, and make those men uncomfortable as hell. Make yourself known when you enter, be loud, be messy, take up 3/4 of the counter space.

[–] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I heard someone else suggest she should get a porta potty and wheel it around the house of representatives on a pallet jack and be annoying as possible with it. That way she can still piss them off and not have to risk any danger using the men's room.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I like this idea better!