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Date: November 20, 2024 at 10:55:35
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: is he going to lift their dresses to check???? |
URL: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5000006-speaker-johnson-transgender-bathroom-policy/ |
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what a punk ass little turd he is...
Speaker Johnson announces policy barring trans women from Capitol bathrooms
by Mychael Schnell - 11/20/24 11:43 AM ET
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday that transgender women are not permitted to use bathrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity, taking a stance on the hot-button issue that has overtaken the Capitol in recent days.
The policy — which Johnson announced in a public statement, a draft of which was first reported by The Hill — will also apply to bathrooms in House office buildings, changing rooms and locker rooms. It is unclear when he plans to publish the comments.
Under House rules, the Speaker has “general control” of facilities in the chamber, giving Johnson the authority to issue the policy surrounding bathrooms.
“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson said. “It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
“Women deserve women’s only spaces,” he added.
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 will be the first openly transgender person in Congress.
The Speaker had previously sidestepped specifics regarding facilities when asked about McBride earlier this week, refusing to say whether he would put Mace’s bill in the House rules package for the 119th Congress.
“I’m not going to address the plans on any of that — I just told you what I’m going to say about the issue. I’m not going to engage in this,” Johnson said at a press conference. “We don’t look down upon anyone. We treat everybody with dignity and respect. That’s a principle that I’ve pursued my whole life, and we will take care of this issue of first impression for Congress. as we will any other thing. We’ll provide appropriate accommodation for every member of Congress.”
In a statement hours later, the Speaker told reporters, “for anyone who doesn’t know my established record on this issue, let me be unequivocally clear: a man is a man, and a woman is a woman, and a man cannot become a woman.”
“That said, I also believe that’s what scripture teaches, what I just said, but I also believe we treat everybody with dignity. We can do and believe all those things at the same time,” he added.
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.”
“We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care and child care, not manufacturing culture wars,” McBride said. “Delawareans sent me here to make the American dream more affordable and accessible and that’s what I’m focused on.”
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.
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Date: November 20, 2024 at 13:30:00
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: is he going to lift their dresses to check???? |
URL: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5000611-sarah-mcbride-complies-bathroom-policy/ |
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she is more concerned with important stuff...
McBride says she will ‘follow the rules’ of House bathroom ban
by Brooke Migdon - 11/20/24 3:05 PM ET
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 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) barring transgender people from single-sex facilities that match their gender identity in the Capitol and House office buildings.
“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down the costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them,” McBride said Wednesday in a statement posted to the social platform X.
“This effort to distract from the real issues facing this country hasn’t distracted me over the last several days, as I’ve remained hard at work preparing to represent the greatest state in the union come January,” she said. “Serving in the 119th Congress will be the honor of a lifetime — and I continue to look forward to getting to know my future colleagues on both sides of the aisle.”
“Each of us were sent here because voters saw something in us that they value,” McBride continued. “I have loved getting to see those qualities in the future colleagues that I’ve met and I look forward to seeing those qualities in every member come January. I hope all my colleagues will seek to do the same with me.”
Johnson announced the policy earlier Wednesday in a statement, a draft of which was first reported by The Hill. The restrictions apply to bathrooms in House office buildings, changing rooms and locker rooms.
Under House rules, the Speaker has “general control” of facilities in the chamber, giving him the authority to issue the policy surrounding bathrooms.
“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson said Wednesday. “It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
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Johnson’s statement — which he made on Transgender Day of Remembrance, recognized annually to memorialize trans people who lost their lives to anti-trans violence — comes just days after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution to bar transgender women from facilities on Capitol Hill that match their gender identity, which she said was a response to McBride’s election earlier this month.
Mace on Wednesday filed a separate measure to ban transgender women and men from single-sex facilities on federal property, satisfying a promise she made Tuesday to expand her initial resolution.
In a statement, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which promotes LGBTQ equality in the House, called Johnson’s new bathroom policy “a cruel and unnecessary rule that puts countless staff, interns, and visitors to the United States Capitol at risk.”
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Date: November 20, 2024 at 22:05:57
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: is he going to lift their dresses to check???? |
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It's all they have to counter the pedophiles in the WH
Cabinet.
I mean, they've got nothing else.
Perverts. They try make McBride look bad and this
time it just highlights their own perversions.
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