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BREAKING NEWSFirst trans Congress member is banned from using women’s bathrooms after Marjorie Taylor Greene declared war

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BREAKING NEWSFirst trans Congress member is banned from using women’s bathrooms after Marjorie Taylor Greene declared war

By SARAH EWALL-WICE, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN WASHINGTON, DC

Published: 12:24 EST, 20 November 2024 | Updated: 12:43 EST, 20 November 2024

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House Speaker Mike Johnson ruled that the first transgender member of Congress cannot use women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol following outrage.

Newly-elected Sarah McBride will be the first openly transgender lawmaker once she is sworn into office in January.

The decision follows a week of outrage from outspoken Republicans Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who have called McBride a ‘man’ and a predator. 

And Mace even introduced a bill to ban transgender women from using female restrooms on Capitol Hill.

The GOP‘s leader finally weighed in on the controversy in a statement Wednesday saying McBride would have to use the restroom according to her biological sex.

‘All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,’ Johnson said in a statement. 

‘It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol,’ he went on. ‘Women deserve women’s only spaces.’

Mace said she is ‘standing up for women’ as a survivor of rape herself. 

‘I’m a victim of abuse myself. I’m a rape survivor. I have PTSD from the abuse I’ve suffered at the hands of a man, and I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces,’ she fired back at a reporter on Tuesday. 

Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride will be the first transgender member of Congress. On Wednesday, Speaker Johnson announced single-sex facilities at the U.S. Capitol are reserved for that biological sex, banning her from using the women's room on Capitol Hill

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Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride will be the first transgender member of Congress. On Wednesday, Speaker Johnson announced single-sex facilities at the U.S. Capitol are reserved for that biological sex, banning her from using the women’s room on Capitol Hill

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