US House Speaker Backs Bathroom Ban For First Openly Trans Member
The speaker of the US House of Representatives came out Wednesday against letting a transgender woman colleague use the women's restroom at the legislature.
The first transgender member of Congress, a bathroom ban and much angst
The Republican-backed ban was distressing enough for many transgender people. Then came Rep.-elect Sarah McBride’s acquiescence to the new rule.
House speaker backs transgender bathroom restrictions on Capitol Hill
US House Speaker Mike Johnson has backed plans to ban transgender women from using female bathrooms on Capitol Hill. “Women deserve women’s only spaces,” Johnson said in a statement on Wednesday. He said the new rule would be enforceable in the Capitol and in House office buildings.
House speaker Johnson wades into controversy over trans rights
After Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly trans woman elected to Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson said restrooms in Congress are "reserved for individuals of that biological sex." NBC News' Ryan Nobles reports.
Trans Congresswoman Responds To Speaker Johnson's Capitol Hill Bathroom Ban
Representative-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) said she would comply with the anti-transgender bathroom rules that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday because, in her words, “I’m not here to fight about bathrooms.
Speaker Johnson announces new Capitol bathroom policy in response to controversy over trans House member
La., announced a new bathroom policy banning biological males from women's spaces at the Capitol and House office buildings.
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