in Congress, a Republican elected official wants to block access to women's toilets for a transgender elected official

A Republican representative, Nancy Mace, presented a text on Tuesday, November 19, to prevent the first transgender person elected to the US Congress, Sarah McBride, from accessing the women's toilets at the Capitol. It immediately provoked strong criticism from the Democratic camp.

“Biological men have no business being in women’s private spaces, period”wrote Nancy Mace in a message on X, presenting her draft resolution. In early November, Democrat Sarah McBride became the first transgender woman elected to the US Congress.

“It’s cruelty without limits”criticized elected official Becca Balint, describing the text as“odious”. “Nancy Mace's resolution is a pathetic move to get attention from Trump and the media,” added Mark Pocan, head of an LGBTQIA+ commission in Congress. “And transgender people pay the price”he lambasted Agence France-Presse.

“There were no women's toilets in the House before the 1990sexplained Representative Melanie Stansbury. I find it disgusting, shameful, irresponsible and undemocratic for my female colleagues to publicly attack another colleague and openly attack her. » New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, said the proposal was ” evil ” et “cruel”.

“He’s a man,” says Marjorie Taylor Greene

Questioned on Tuesday, the Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, kicked in, assuring that it was “an issue that Congress has never had to deal with before”. “We will do this carefully with consensus of the members, and we will meet the needs of each personhe then added. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman. That said, I also believe that we must treat everyone with dignity. We can do and believe in all of these things at the same time. »

“He's a mandeclared for her part Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. He's a biological male. So he is not allowed to use our women's restrooms, our women's gym, our locker rooms. There are plenty of places he can go. » She added that she had “enough of seeing the left impose its unhealthy transgender ideology on us and invade our spaces and women’s sports”.

In the United States, the rights of transgender people were among the hot topics of the presidential and legislative election campaign. Access to restrooms is among the topics being debated, with Republicans opposing transgender women accessing women's restrooms; they believe that this would make it possible to ” protect “ women and girls.

A “far-right maneuver”, according to Sarah McBride

The main person concerned, Sarah McBride, herself regretted on “extreme right maneuver” intended for “to make people forget that they have no real solution to offer to the Americans’ problems”. “Every day, Americans work with people who have different life paths from their own and interact with them in a respectful manner. I hope members of Congress can show the same kindness.”she added.

While saying she is aware of her image as a pioneer, Sarah McBride recently affirmed that her priorities in Congress would mainly be the subjects of the cost of childcare, housing, health and even the right to abortion.