{"id":2615,"date":"2024-11-19T00:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcbride-responds-to-effort-to-ban-transgender-women-from-capitol-womens-bathrooms\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T00:52:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:52:42","slug":"mcbride-responds-to-effort-to-ban-transgender-women-from-capitol-womens-bathrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcbride-responds-to-effort-to-ban-transgender-women-from-capitol-womens-bathrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"McBride responds to effort to ban transgender women from Capitol women\u2019s bathrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep.-elect Sarah McBride said a resolution from Rep. Nancy Mace to ban transgender women from women\u2019s bathrooms in the Capitol was a distraction in a Monday statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing,\u201d McBride, a Delaware Democrat who is set to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/16\/the-potential-first-transgender-member-of-congress-says-shes-ready-to-educate-the-gop-00116247\" target=\"_blank\"><u>first openly transgender<\/u><\/a> member of Congress, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars. Delawareans sent me here to make the American dream more affordable and accessible and that\u2019s what I\u2019m focused on,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Mace (R-S.C.) said earlier Monday she was introducing a measure to amend the House\u2019s rules to prohibit transgender women from using women\u2019s restrooms at the Capitol. House Republicans are putting together a rules package to govern the House that is set to be voted on in early January.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if she planned to talk to McBride, Mace said: \u201cNo, Sarah McBride doesn\u2019t get a say.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.-elect Sarah McBride said a resolution from Rep. Nancy Mace to ban transgender women from women\u2019s bathrooms in the Capitol was a distraction in a Monday statement. \u201cThis is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing,\u201d McBride, a Delaware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}