Trans Bathroom Vote
Mike Johnson's bathroom ban extends to trans and non-binary staff members, interns and any visitors, including members of the public. [11] The ban was renewed when the 119th United States Congress convened on January 3, 2025. The policies shown in this map prohibit transgender people from using bathrooms and facilities-such as locker rooms, shower rooms, changing rooms, and other sex-segregated spaces-according to their gender identity.
Some of these policies apply to K-12 school settings, while others apply more broadly to government. South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace says the resolution aims to protect women's rights.
Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first out trans person elected to Congress, has slammed it as a distraction. Transgender Bathroom Ban Takes Effect in House. Speaker Mike Johnson maintained a policy that will bar transgender people from using single.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson has backed plans to ban transgender women from using female bathrooms on Capitol Hill. "Women deserve women's only spaces," Johnson said in a statement on. The congressional bathroom ban is the latest transgender policy battle Plus, polling on Trump's transition, trust in polls and Thanksgiving plans.
In December, trans rights activists with the Gender Liberation Movement (GLM) including Raquel Willis, Chelsea Manning, and more than a dozen others were arrested during a bathroom sit-in protest across from Johnson's office decrying the bathroom ban. New federal rule bars transgender school bathroom bans, but it likely isn't the final word 1 of 2 FILE - A protester outside the Kansas Statehouse holds a sign after a rally for transgender rights on the Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2023, in Topeka, Kan. Republican lawmakers in Montana's House of Representatives voted to pass a bathroom ban despite pleas from two of their colleagues - Reps.
Zooey Zephyr (D) and SJ Howell (D).
