Nancy Mace launches Capitol bathroom rule before trans colleague's arrival South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace says the resolution aims to protect women's rights. Democratic Rep.
Many transgender visitors to the House have stated they will not comply with the anti. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), set to be the nation's first openly transgender member of Congress when she takes office in January, said she will comply with a policy instituted Wednesday by. Mace, of South Carolina, introduced a resolution Monday to amend the rules of the US House of Representatives to ban transgender women from women's restrooms at the Capitol and vowed to.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., successfully pushed for the first-ever openly transgender member of Congress to be barred from using women's bathrooms at the U.S. Capitol.
House Speaker Mike Johnson declared Wednesday that women's facilities in the Capitol complex are reserved for biological females, as Congress is poised to swear in its first openly transgender rep. The congressional bathroom ban is the latest transgender policy battle Plus, polling on Trump's transition, trust in polls and Thanksgiving plans. Bathrooms on the House side of the U.S.
Capitol and in the House Office Building can't be used based on gender identity, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday. After South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep.
Nancy Mace made a spectacle of transgender people's access to bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol at the end of the 118th Congress last year, Republican House.
