Transgender rights activists on Thursday participated in a “rest room sit-in” in a restroom throughout from Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s workplace on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in protest of a brand new coverage barring trans folks from utilizing rest room services that match their gender identification.
Round 15 folks had been arrested on suspicion of crowding, obstructing or incommoding for illegally protesting contained in the Cannon Home Workplace Constructing, the U.S. Capitol Police informed Fox Information Digital.
The protest was organized by the Gender Liberation Motion, which describes itself as a grassroots group that focuses on bodily autonomy and gender.
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A transgender rights supporter takes half in a rally outdoors the U.S. Supreme Courtroom in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. (Getty Photos)
A video posted on the group’s Instagram account reveals protesters holding indicators calling for a “Ban on rest room bigotry,” occupying a restroom and blocking a hallway.
The Hill reported that Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Military intelligence analyst and whistleblower, was a kind of being led away by authorities in zip ties. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in jail in 2013 after disclosing labeled paperwork and navy studies to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The sentence was commuted in 2017 by former President Obama and Manning was launched from jail after serving seven years.
Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, introduced the brand new rest room coverage in November after Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., tried to dam trans folks from Capitol restrooms that do not match their gender at delivery.
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Transgender rights activist Sarah McBride speaks on stage on the Girls In The World Summit in New York on April 11, 2019. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
The transfer got here forward of the primary brazenly transgender lawmaker, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., becoming a member of Congress in January. McBride is a organic male who identifies and presents as a girl.
Mace just lately launched a decision to ban males who determine as feminine from girls’s restrooms on Capitol Hill. On Thursday, she posted a video on X of herself standing outdoors a Capitol Police station.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., leaves a gathering of the Home Republican Convention on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 6, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photos)
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Utilizing a bullhorn, she learn the Miranda rule to the protesters arrested.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Johnson’s workplace.
