Sarah McBride, an incoming transgender congresswoman, won’t be allowed to use women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol when she’s sworn in, after Republican representatives launched a targeted attack through new rules barring anyone from using the single-sex restroom that doesn’t align with their biological sex at birth
Rep.-elect Sarah McBride on Nov. 15, 2024.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday said all single-sex restrooms in the Capitol and House Office Buildings can only be used by "individuals of that biological sex," and noted that anyone not wishing to use their corresponding bathroom can use unisex restrooms or, in the case of House members like McBride, their private restrooms.
“Women deserve women’s only spaces,” Johnson said in a statement Wednesday.
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