{"id":7259,"date":"2025-03-13T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sarah-mcbride-says-she-lives-rent-free-in-republicans-heads\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:45:26","slug":"sarah-mcbride-says-she-lives-rent-free-in-republicans-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sarah-mcbride-says-she-lives-rent-free-in-republicans-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah McBride says she lives &#8216;rent-free&#8217; in Republicans&#8217; heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LEESBURG, Va. \u2014 Rep. Sarah McBride said she lived to \u201crent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues\u201d amid a controversy about GOP lawmakers referring to her by the wrong gender.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Thursday at a news conference with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark and first-term Democratic women lawmakers, McBride said Republicans were \u201cobsessed with culture war issues\u201d and said it was \u201cweird&#8221; and &#8220;bizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not take a lecture on decorum from a party that incited an insurrection,\u201d the first openly transgender member of Congress said, making reference to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) referred to her as \u201cMr. McBride\u201d during a congressional hearing earlier this week, sparking a confrontation between Self and Rep. Bill Keating (D-Mass.) over the issue. Other GOP lawmakers have targeted McBride\u2019s identity, with Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) addressing her as \u201cthe gentleman from Delaware\u201d while presiding on the House floor at one point.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have sought to turn transgender rights into a wedge issue against Democrats this Congress. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) led an effort to ban transgender women from using women\u2019s bathrooms on Capitol Hill. She responded to McBride&#8217;s comments Thursday with an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NancyMace\/status\/1900238946136973615\" target=\"_blank\">X post<\/a> addressing her as &#8220;Sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McBride has generally shied away from weighing in on the attacks on her identity. Thursday\u2019s remarks were her first public comments on the incident beyond a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SarahEMcBride\/status\/1899637822828499068\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday post on X<\/a> where she wrote: \u201cNo matter how I&#8217;m treated by some colleagues, nothing diminishes my awe and gratitude at getting to represent Delaware in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEESBURG, Va. \u2014 Rep. Sarah McBride said she lived to \u201crent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues\u201d amid a controversy about GOP lawmakers referring to her by the wrong gender. Speaking Thursday at a news conference with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark and first-term Democratic women lawmakers, McBride said Republicans were \u201cobsessed [&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-7259","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\/7259","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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}