Republican leader bans transgender lawmaker from using women's bathroom at Capitol
The president of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson, vetoed this Wednesday the first trans legislator elected to Congress, Sarah McBride, can use the women's bathrooms in the Capitol, stressing that "Women deserve women-only spaces..
His statement indicated that the use of the bathrooms of the Capitol is reserved for individuals according to "to their biological sex«. «Women deserve to have women-only spaces"he pointed out Johnson, from the rightmost wing of the Republican Party.
That formation has used access to the bathrooms to attack McBride, the first transgender person to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, who will take office on January 3.
Veto of trans legislator in the Capitol
In a statement on her X platform account, the legislator said that she will adhere to the rules although "disagree«. «I'm not here to fight about bathrooms, but for the people of Delaware (the state I represent)«, he indicated.
The decision Johnson comes after Nancy Mace, Republican representative of South Carolina, will present a resolution to modify the rules of the House of Representatives and prohibit that McBride use the women's restrooms Capitol. "He is a biological man" Y "does not belong in women's spaces, women's bathrooms and changing rooms"he told reporters on Monday.
The justification
This petition was supported by figures such as the representative for Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene: "He is a biological male and should not be using any of our bathrooms in the Capitol, let alone in our office buildings. But Nancy Mace's resolution is not enough", he claimed.
McBride defeated the Republican candidate in the elections on November 5 John Whalen III. Politics had been chosen for the Delaware Senate in 2021 and then became the first transgender person to hold a state senatorial position in USA.
Biden rejects discrimination
President of United States, Joe Biden, claimed that trans people deserve treatment “with dignity and respect" in a message in which he regretted the "horrible attacks" that the group suffers.
"There should be no place for hate in America, and yet too many transgender Americans, including young people, are cruelly targeted and harassed simply for being themselves."Biden said in a statement on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for Transgender People.
The president assured that under his mandate, which will end on January 20, when he will be relieved Donald Trump, measures have been taken to “Combating violence against transgender Americans". "All Americans deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and to live free from discrimination.”, he stressed.
