Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender politician elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, said Sunday that the Republican focus on transgender issues is an “attempt to distract” voters. insisted.
“I think we’re all united in that any attempt to attack vulnerable communities is not only mean-spirited, it’s actually an attempt to misdirect, because the next administration and “Because every time we hear Republicans in Congress talk about vulnerable groups in this country, we have to make it clear that this is an attempt at distraction,” said the Delaware representative, who was elected earlier this month. McBride spoke on CBS's “Face the Nation” Sunday morning.
“This is an attempt to distract from what they're actually doing. Every time you hear them say the word 'trans,' look at what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing, lining the pockets of American workers, privatizing Social Security and Medicare and defrauding the elderly. Look what we have,” McBride added.
President-elect Trump, conservative voters, and members of Congress have all expressed concerns about transgender issues dating back years, particularly the ban on biological males from participating in women's and women's sports and the Concerns have been raised in contexts such as banning access to women's restrooms. And the locker room.
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Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride attends new member orientation at the U.S. Capitol on November 21, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
At the Capitol last week, South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution that would ban members, officers and representatives from operating. Diet staff Prohibits the use of “homosexual facilities other than facilities corresponding to biological sex.”
Mace, the rape survivor, also proposed another bill that would “prohibit biological males from using female-only protected facilities, such as restrooms and locker rooms,” on all federal lands across the country. Submitted.
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Democrats, including McBride, criticized the bill, calling Mace a “far-right” extremist.
“This is a blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to the realities facing the American people. “Culture wars,” McBride posted to X.
Congresswoman Nancy Mace slammed Maya Wiley, a leading civil rights activist and former New York City mayoral candidate, during a hearing Thursday. (Republican Watch YouTube Channel)
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said later this week that single-sex facilities, including bathrooms in the Capitol, will be used by individuals of the corresponding biological sex.
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“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 in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital. It is important to note that unisex toilets are available throughout Parliament House.”
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“It's enforceable like any other policy,” Johnson later told reporters. “But we have single-sex facilities for a reason, and women deserve women's only spaces. And we're not anti anyone. We're pro-women, and I think it's an important policy for us to continue. It's always been the , I think it's probably an unspoken policy, but now it's documented.”
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McBride continued in Sunday's interview that Republicans' focus on trans issues has distracted Congress from policy issues such as lowering the cost of living.
“We have to be clear here, too, because I think last week was a prime example of that: the amount of money spent to divert the federal government's attention from going after transgender people. Every time and energy spent is time and energy that is not focused on addressing the cost of living for voters, and every time American workers focus on this, there is a real cost. We have to be clear about that,” McBride said.
Mace appeared on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday to push back against Democrats who have criticized him for introducing the bill, particularly New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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“In 2024, I'm going to go on TV and social media and say to radical leftists that men shouldn't be allowed in women's bathrooms, and that women shouldn't be forced to undress in front of men. It's sad and surprising that I have to explain this.”
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
