South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace said Monday she will introduce a measure to ban transgender women from using biological women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol.
His announcement comes as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride prepares to take office as the first transgender person elected to Congress.
The resolution, which will be introduced Monday night, will change the rules of the US House of Representatives to prohibit members, officers and staff from using facilities currently designated for the biological opposite sex.
“The sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biological women begins here in the nation’s Capitol,” Mac wrote in a statement.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-South Carolina, speaks at the Republican National Convention on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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“We’re standing up for women, protecting their spaces and bringing some sense back to Capitol Hill,” the statement continued.
Referring to the controversial acronym for a radical trans feminist, Mac also wrote, “The left screams TERF politics, we call it putting women first.”
McBride responded to the statement a publish in Xwhich said, “It’s a blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract Americans from the fact that they have no real solutions to what they’re facing.”
He stated that the examples of housing, health and childcare are more important than the “culture wars”.
Rep.-elect Sarah McBride poses for a photo after joining other students from the 119th Congress for a group photo on the steps of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Capitol building, Nov. 15, 2024, in Washington.
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McBride also pleaded for kindness, posting, “Every day Americans go to work with people on the journeys of their lives and treat them with respect, I hope members of Congress embrace that kindness.”
Mace’s statement, and the bill expected to follow, is the latest chapter in the long battle against women’s restrooms in the Capitol.
Stat Hall’s Women’s Reading Room is named after former Rep. Lindy Boggs (mother of ABC legend Cokie Roberts) and was long a private area for women.
And in 2011, Speaker John Boehner commissioned the architect of the Capitol to build a women’s room on the House floor, in an old office for the House.
If Mace’s measure passes, its management would fall to the sergeant-at-arms, the top law enforcement officer in the House of Representatives.
