South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace said that her proposed resolution to ban transgender women from using the women’s bathrooms on Capitol Hill “absolutely” targets Sarah McBride, while a slew of Republican lawmakers have made hateful remarks about trans people in support of their colleague’s efforts.
McBride is a Delaware representative-elect who, after decisively winning an at-large election , will soon become the first-ever openly trans person in Congress.
Mace, though, on Monday introduced a measure that would prohibit staff of the House, including lawmakers, from using a bathroom in the Capitol that does not correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth, saying that it “jeopardizes the safety and dignity of Members, officers, and employees of the House who are female.”
Mace made no effort to conceal the transphobia behind the proposed resolution—or that it was motivated by McBride’s election to the House.
“Biological men do not belong in private women’s spaces,” she wrote in an X post sharing the resolution. “Period. Full stop. End of story.”