MTG: House speaker ‘committed’ that Sarah McBride will not use women’s restrooms
Speaking with reporters after a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday, far-right U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “committed to me, there in the conference, that Sarah McBride will not be using our restrooms.” On Monday, less than two weeks after the Delaware state senator was elected to become the first transgender member of Congress, U.S.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) proposed a resolution to prohibit House members and staffers from “using single-sex facilities” in the U.S.
Capitol and House office buildings “other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” In an exchange with Capitol Hill reporters and on social media, Mace confirmed that the policy was deliberately meant to target McBride.
A spokesperson for Johnson did not immediately return a request from the Washington Blade Tuesday to confirm the veracity of Greene’s claims about the speaker’s remarks during the GOP conference meeting.
