Mike Johnson announces trans women are banned from Capitol bathrooms
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday that transgender women are not permitted to use bathrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity

The policy […] will also apply to bathrooms in House office buildings, changing rooms and locker rooms.

Johnson’s statement — which was made on Transgender Day of Remembrance, recognized annually to memorialize trans people who died due to anti-trans violence — comes days after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a bill to bar transgender women from facilities on Capitol Hill that match their gender identity, a response to the election earlier this month of Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.).

McBride blasted Mace’s legislation earlier this week, calling it “a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.”

Mace was threatening to force a vote on the matter prior to Johnson’s decision to formally announce the new policy; the congresswoman wanted the terms to be included in the rules package for the 119th Congress and said she would force a vote on the bill if that did not come to fruition.

  • UrLogicFails@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I don’t think the Old Testament is particularly anti-trans either. Most Republicans use the Bible as a way to launder their own hateful views, but I doubt if they’re even remotely religious at all.

    • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM
      18·
      4 days ago

      I don’t think the Old Testament is particularly anti-trans either.

      Nowhere in the Bible is sexuality (as we now it today) nor gender, etc addressed. I know this because I’ve been reading biblical scholarship for over thirty years. I am, also, the founder of Reddit’s AskBibleScholars.

      Please, think about this carefully. It would be like asking what the Bible thinks of Philips-head screwdrivers.