{"id":2699,"date":"2024-11-20T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-announces-policy-barring-transgender-women-from-womens-bathrooms-in-capitol-building\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:18:14","slug":"johnson-announces-policy-barring-transgender-women-from-womens-bathrooms-in-capitol-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-announces-policy-barring-transgender-women-from-womens-bathrooms-in-capitol-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson announces policy barring transgender women from women&#8217;s bathrooms in Capitol building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson has banned transgender women from using women\u2019s bathrooms in the House portion of the Capitol building, enacting into policy a push led by Rep. Nancy Mace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings \u2014 such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms \u2014 are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,\u201d Johnson said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women\u2019s only spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/cha.house.gov\/_cache\/files\/5\/3\/5361f9f8-24bc-4fbc-ac97-3d79fd689602\/1F09ADA16E45C9E7B67F147DCF176D95.118-rules-01102023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the House rules<\/a>, Johnson \u2014 and any speaker \u2014 have \u201cgeneral control of the Hall of the House, the corridors and passages in the part of the Capitol assigned to the use of the House.\u201d The Johnson statement did not provide details on the future of Mace&#8217;s rules push.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about enforcement of the policy, Johnson told reporters, \u201cLike all house policies, it&#8217;s enforceable. And we have single sex facilities for a reason, and women deserve women&#8217;s only spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mace (R-S.C.) has led the charge against banning Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who will become the first openly transgender member of Congress in January, from using women\u2019s restrooms. Democrats have fiercely defended McBride against the GOP attacks, while the congresswoman-elect has called the focus on bathrooms a distraction from issues Congress should be addressing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Olivia Beavers contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson has banned transgender women from using women\u2019s bathrooms in the House portion of the Capitol building, enacting into policy a push led by Rep. Nancy Mace. \u201cAll single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings \u2014 such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms \u2014 are reserved for individuals of that [&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-2699","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\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}