The first openly transgender politician elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, said Sunday that the Republican Party’s focus on transgender issues is an “attempt to distract” voters.
“I think we are all united that attempts to attack a vulnerable community are not only petty, but are actually an attempt to divert attention. Because every time we hear the incoming administration or Republicans in Congress talk about any vulnerable group in this country, “We have to be clear that this is an attempt to distract,” McBride, who was elected to represent Delaware earlier this month, said Sunday morning on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“It’s an attempt to distract from what they’re really doing. Every time, every time we hear them say the word ‘trans,’ look what they’re doing with their right hand. Look what they’re doing to rob him. American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare. Look what they’re doing, undercutting workers,” McBride added.
President-elect Trump, conservative voters, and members of Congress have expressed concerns about transgender issues even for years, especially in the context of banning biological males from competing in women’s and girls’ sports, as well as banning male the entrance to the women’s bathrooms. and changing rooms.
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Representative-elect Sarah McBride attends a new member orientation at the United States Capitol on November 21, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
On Capitol Hill, South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace last week introduced a resolution seeking to ban members, officials and house employees to use “facilities differentiated from those corresponding to their biological sex.”
Mace, a rape survivor, also introduced another bill that would “prohibit biological males from using women’s private and protected facilities, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, on all federal properties” nationwide.
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Democrats, including McBride, criticized Mace as a “far-right” extremist over the legislation.
“This is a blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans face. We should focus on reducing the cost of housing, health care and child care , not in manufacturing.
Rep. Nancy Mace grilled leading civil rights activist and former New York mayoral candidate Maya Wiley at a hearing Thursday. (Republican Party Oversight YouTube Channel)
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said later that week that single-sex facilities in the Capitol, including bathrooms, will be used by people of the corresponding biological sex.
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“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings, such as bathrooms, locker rooms and locker rooms, are reserved for people of that biological sex,” Johnson said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital. “It is important to note that each member office has its own private bathroom and unisex bathrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
MRC Free Speech America believes that President Mike Johnson should “direct relevant committees and committee chairs to investigate Google for restricting people’s constitutional rights.” (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
“Women deserve women-only spaces,” she added.
“Like all policies, it can be enforced,” Johnson later told reporters. “But we have single-sex facilities for a reason, and women deserve women-only spaces. And we’re not against anyone. We’re for women, and I think it’s an important policy that we should continue. It’s always been the An unwritten policy I guess, but now it’s in writing.”
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McBride continued during his Sunday interview that the GOP’s focus on trans issues distracts Congress from policy issues like lowering the cost of living.
Representative-elect Sarah McBride joins other freshmen members of the 119th Congress for a group photo on the steps of the United States Capitol on November 15, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“This is also what we need to be clear about, because I think the last week has been a prime example of this. Every bit of time and energy that is used to divert the attention of the federal government to persecute trans people is time and energy that is not focused on addressing the cost of living for our constituents and we have to be clear that there is a real cost to the American worker every time they focus on this,” McBride said.
Mace joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday, where she pushed back against Democrats who criticized her for introducing the legislation, particularly New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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“It is sad and surprising that in 2024 I will have to appear on television and social media to explain to the radical left that men should not be allowed into women’s bathrooms, that women should not be forced to undress in front of men”.
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
