Just weeks after the first openly transgender member of Congress was elected in Delaware, a Republican representative from South Carolina introduced legislation Monday aimed at preventing transgender women from using women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill.
“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say. This is about women. This is about girls. This is about our rights and being protected in our private spaces. I don’t want to see a man in a women’s restroom,” Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina previously said.
Delaware Rep.-elect Sarah McBride recently made history as the first openly transgender member elected to the U.S. Congress.
“Delawareans reinforce that in our state of neighbors, we are fair-minded, and we judge candidates based on their ideas and not their identities,” McBride said.
But McBride’s identity and the identities of transgender Americans became a flashpoint in the political conversation during the 2024 presidential election with the Trump campaign and allies spending millions of dollars on anti-trans ads.