Nancy Mace placed a label reading "biological" above a sign for a women's bathroom in the U.S. Capitol, just weeks before the first openly transgender member of Congress is sworn in.Mace, a South Carolina Congresswoman, filed a bill this week seeking to ban transgender women from using women's bathrooms at the Capitol.Writing on X, formerly Twitter, she said: "I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women's restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women.
Not men."It comes after Democrat Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender person to be elected to Congress two weeks ago.
She is the member-elect for Delaware's at-large congressional district.I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women's restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women.
Not men. pic.twitter.com/42lOMhqHFTNewsweek has contacted Mace and McBride for comment outside of normal working hours.Mace, who is serving her second term, introduced her bill on Monday night seeking to prohibit people from "using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex." It would charge the House sergeant-at-arms with enforcing the bill, but it remains unclear exactly how this would be carried out."I wanna make sure that no men are in women's private spaces and it's not gonna end here...