By putting out new bathroom-focused legislation, South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace has intensified her anti-transgender stance and is engaged in a bathroom warfare on Capitol Hill.
In a post on X, Republican Mace wrote, “Oh you thought threatening me would silence me?” No. I recently stepped up and submitted a new measure to safeguard women and girls on all government land nationwide.
The Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act would forbid anyone from utilizing locker rooms, changing areas, or single-sex restrooms on federal property that do not match to their biological sex. It applies to locations like national parks and museums and defines federal property as any structure or land owned by a U.S. government entity, such as the Department of Defense or the U.S. Postal Service.
Furthermore, the bill’s definition of federal property also includes property owned by the governments of U.S. territories and the municipal government of Washington, D.C.
The bill would prevent transgender men and women from using restrooms that match their gender identity if it were to become law.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance, which has been observed on November 20 every year since 1999 to remember transgender individuals who have been slain by violence, fell on the same day as Mace’s law.
Following a separate vote to prohibit transgender personnel and members of Congress from using gender-conforming restrooms in the Capitol, Mace introduced her measure. Mace has made it clear that the action was directed at Sarah McBride, the newly elected representative from Delaware who will take the oath of office in January.
McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, was also the first openly transgender person to serve as a state senator when she was elected in Delaware in 2020, the first to speak at a U.S. national political party convention in 2016, and the first to intern at the White House in 2012.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson responded to Mace’s suggestion by stating that he was in favor of measures to prohibit transgender women from accessing women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill. Johnson also mentioned the availability of unisex restrooms around the Capitol and the private restrooms at each member office.
Democratic candidate McBride has merely stated that she was not present to argue over bathrooms and that the whole matter is a Republican ploy to divert attention from more pressing concerns.
In astatementMace boasted on Wednesday, criticizing the awakened crowd for their usual, feigned fury from the radical Left.
Mace went on to refer to her suggestion as common sense and promised to shield girls and women from blatantly strange rules.
Notwithstanding conservative rhetoric, research has demonstrated that transgender people are routinely the targets of harassment in public restrooms and that laws protecting people’s rights to use restrooms, locker rooms, and changing areas that reflect their gender identity have not reduced the number of criminal incidents that occur there.
Mace s proposed legislation has not yet been assigned to a committee for debate.
In 2014,Gavin Grimmwon a landmark victory for transgender rights when the U.S. Supreme Court left a lower court ruling in place that said federal law protects transgender students from being forced to use separate restroom facilities.
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