by Owen Klinsky
House Speaker Mike Johnson issued a statement Wednesday that bars biological men from women’s bathrooms, according to a press release obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Johnson said “all single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings (like restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms) are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.”
The statement comes after Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution Monday requiring individuals in the Capitol complex use facilities that correspond with their biological sex shortly before Democratic Congressman-elect Sarah McBride is due to be sworn in as the first member of Congress ever to identify as transgender.
Johnson also noted that, “each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
“Women deserve women’s only spaces,” Johnson said.
A trans activist has posted a video threatening congresswoman @RepNancyMace for calling for a ban on males being allowed in women’s facilities on Capitol Hill. The trans person says he wants to grab her hair and bash her head in until she dies. pic.twitter.com/PTwIYOqcED
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 19, 2024
Johnson said in the statement that the policy affirmed existing House rules regarding single-sex facilities on Capitol Hill.
“I’m not going to stand for a man, you know, someone with a penis is in the women’s locker room. That’s not okay,” Mace told reporters Tuesday. “And 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.”
Mace was raped by a friend and classmate at age 16, according to the Post and Courier, and she has since said the traumatic experience created the “hardest time in her life.”
The issue of transgender individuals using bathrooms of the opposite sex caught national attention after a biological boy in Loudon County, Virginia, raped a female student in a girls bathroom at a public school in 2021. The school went on to deny that the assault was a result of its trans-inclusive policies.
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Owen Klinsky is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Sarah McBride” by Sarah McBride.
