Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr — a Democrat who identifies as a “progressive, bisexual trans lady” — claimed that transgender girls are “each bit as ‘biologically feminine’ as cis girls.”
“I actually simply obtained out of conferences with members of Congress & used the toilet on my method out. Trans girls are girls—full cease,” Zephyr declared in a put up on X.
“We’re each bit as “biologically feminine” as cis girls & @SpeakerJohnson’s assertion would not change the truth that girls’s areas embody trans girls,” Zephyr added.
Fox Information Digital tried to achieve out to Zephyr for touch upon Thursday.
SPEAKER JOHNSON ANNOUNCES NEW CAPITOL BATHROOM POLICY IN RESPONSE TO CONTROVERSY OVER TRANS HOUSE MEMBER
Zooey Zephyr attends The Out100 Occasion 2023 at NeueHouse Hollywood on Nov. 9, 2023 in Hollywood, Calif. (Presley Ann/Getty Photographs for Out.com)
Speaker of the U.S. Home of Representatives Mike Johnson, R-La., mentioned in an announcement issued on Wednesday that single-sex amenities within the Capitol and Home workplace buildings are for members of the corresponding organic intercourse.
“All single-sex amenities within the Capitol and Home Workplace Buildings — reminiscent of restrooms, altering rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for people of that organic intercourse,” he mentioned within the assertion.
“It is very important observe that every Member workplace has its personal non-public restroom, and unisex restrooms can be found all through the Capitol,” Johnson added. “Ladies deserve girls’s solely areas.”
U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, a Democratic Delaware state senator, will grow to be the primary brazenly transgender member of the U.S. Congress after being sworn in to workplace subsequent 12 months.
“I am not right here to battle about bogs. I am right here to battle for Delawareans and to deliver down prices going through households. Like all members, I’ll observe the principles as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even when I disagree with them,” McBride mentioned in an announcement.
MACE FACES BACKLASH OVER EFFORT TO BAN NEW TRANSGENDER MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM WOMEN’S BATHROOMS
Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., poses for {a photograph} after becoming a member of different congressional freshmen of the 119th Congress for a bunch {photograph} on the steps of the Home of Representatives on the U.S. Capitol Constructing on Nov. 15, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who has referred to McBride as a “organic male,” mentioned in a put up on X, “Sarah McBride’s promise to abide by Speaker Johnson’s coverage is a step towards acknowledging the rights of girls all over the place—one thing we’ll proceed to demand with out compromise.”
Mace had proposed a decision to ban Home members and others from frequenting single-sex amenities within the Capitol and Home workplace buildings that don’t align with their organic intercourse.
“A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or worker of the Home might not use a single-sex facility (together with a restroom, altering room, or locker room) within the Capitol or Home Workplace Buildings, aside from these equivalent to the organic intercourse of such particular person,” the textual content of her decision learn, noting that the Home sergeant-at-arms could be tasked with enforcement.
JOHNSON DECLINES TO SAY IF TRANSGENDER REP-ELECT IS MAN OR WOMAN, SAYS HOUSE TO TREAT EVERYONE WITH ‘RESPECT’
Johnson initially declined to reply on Tuesday when requested whether or not McBride is a person or a lady, however the speaker later made an announcement during which he mentioned he had rejected the query’s “premise as a result of the reply is … so apparent.”
“A person is a person. And a lady is a lady. And a person can not grow to be a lady,” Johnson declared. “However I additionally consider that we deal with everyone with dignity.”
AFTER DECLINING TO STATE WHETHER TRANS REP-ELECT IS A MAN OR WOMAN, JOHNSON SAYS ‘A MAN CANNOT BECOME A WOMAN’
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Mace, who has declared on X that “A trans lady continues to be a person,” has introduced a invoice that will stipulate that individuals might solely enter single-sex amenities on federal property that match their organic intercourse.
The proposal supplies exceptions for medical staff responding to an emergency and for legislation enforcement officers chasing a suspect or conducting an investigation.
“Oh you thought threatening me would silence me? No. I simply doubled down and filed a brand new invoice to guard girls and women throughout all the nation on all federal property all over the place,” Mace declared in a put up on X.
