{"id":2645,"date":"2024-11-19T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-discusses-banning-transgender-women-from-capitol-womens-bathrooms\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:50:13","slug":"house-gop-discusses-banning-transgender-women-from-capitol-womens-bathrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-discusses-banning-transgender-women-from-capitol-womens-bathrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP discusses banning transgender women from Capitol women\u2019s bathrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Mike Johnson said he\u2019s working on a solution to address GOP concerns about transgender women using women\u2019s restrooms on the House side of Capitol Hill, as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride is poised to assume office as the first openly transgender lawmaker in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an issue that Congress has never had to address before and we’re going to do that in a deliberate fashion … and we will accommodate the needs of every single person,\u201d Johnson said at a press conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the leader of the effort to bar transgender women from women\u2019s bathrooms, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-N.C.), said Johnson has committed to including her language in the House rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has told me he\u2019ll include it in the rules package and if he doesn\u2019t, then I\u2019ll file a privileged motion to force a vote on it,\u201d Mace told reporters. \u201cThis is the left\u2019s war on women, and I aim to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cThere are female members who are deeply concerned about the policy up here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson wouldn\u2019t go that far on whether he\u2019d committed to including the language in the rules.<\/p>\n

“I’m not going to engage on that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Separately, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) threatened during a closed-door GOP conference meeting Tuesday morning that she would fight a transgender woman for using women\u2019s restrooms in the Capitol, according to two sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Greene said after that meeting that Johnson has backed her up on the point that \u201cbiological men\u201d shouldn\u2019t be using women\u2019s bathrooms.<\/p>\n

The full House will vote to approve a rules package in early January, which only requires a simple majority to pass. That means Republicans will be able to clear a rules package without Democratic support.<\/p>\n

Mace\u2019s resolution, announced Monday, is clearly aimed at McBride (D-Del.), who brushed aside the Mace-led effort<\/a> as a distraction by Republicans in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n

Democrats vowed to defend McBride against the GOP effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is [Mace] just trying to cry out for getting [Donald] Trump’s approval, and it’s sort of pathetic. So we’ll deal with it when it comes up,\u201d said Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s extraordinarily unfortunate that Mace brings this up,\u201d added Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). \u201cI don’t think it was ever brought up in Delaware. Nobody had any problem. [McBride\u2019s] a woman, and I think Mace is simply demagoguing this issue for her own political ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olivia Beavers, Daniella Diaz and Nicholas Wu contributed.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson said he\u2019s working on a solution to address GOP concerns about transgender women using women\u2019s restrooms on the House side of Capitol Hill, as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride is poised to assume office as the first openly transgender lawmaker in January. \u201cThis is an issue that Congress has never had to address before […]<\/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-2645","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\/2645","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=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}