Nancy Mace seeks to bar transgender women from using women’s bathrooms on Capitol Hill after first trans member elected to House

Washington – Republican Rep. Nancy Mace in South Carolina introduced legislation Monday to amend House rules to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms and other facilities on Capitol Hill, a proposal that comes just before the House prepares to take the oath of office openly transgender member of Congress.

Mace’s two-page resolution would bar House members, officers and staff from using single-sex facilities in the Capitol or House office buildings that do not match their biological sex. Her proposal claims that allowing biological males into women’s restrooms, locker rooms and locker rooms “jeopardizes the safety and dignity” of female lawmakers, officers and Capitol Hill staff.

The House sergeant-at-arms would be tasked with enforcing the measure if approved.

The South Carolina Republican’s legislation appears to be aimed at Rep.-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware, who stayed first openly transgender person elected to Congress when she won the race for the state’s only House seat two weeks ago.

McBride called Mace’s resolution a “blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing. We should focus on reducing the cost of housing, health care and child care, not manufacturing culture wars.”

“Every day Americans go to work with people who have different life journeys than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster the same kindness,” she wrote on social media.

But Mace attacked the “radical left” and claimed they were “trying to erase women.”

“Sarah McBride has no say in this,” she said. “This is a biological man trying to force himself into a woman’s space, and I will not tolerate that.”