US House Speaker Mike Johnson issued a statement Wednesday that bars biological men from women’s bathrooms, according to a press release obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Johnson said “all single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings (like restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms) are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.”
“Women deserve women’s only spaces,” Johnson said, adding that the policy affirmed existing House rules regarding single-sex facilities on Capitol Hill.
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The statement comes after Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution Monday requiring individuals in the Capitol complex use facilities that correspond with their biological sex shortly before Democratic Congressman-elect Sarah McBride is due to be sworn in as the first member of Congress ever to identify as transgender.
Johnson also noted that, “each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
When asked later about the policy’s enforceability, Johnson said: “like all House policies, it’s enforceable,” adding that, “we have single-sex facilities for a reason.”
Republican Reps. Erin Houchin of Indiana and Chip Roy of Texas also weighed in.
“Biological men have no place in women’s spaces such as locker rooms and bathrooms,” Houchin told the DCNF. “The American people made it very clear on Election Day that they are sick of leftist ideologies that are chipping away at women’s rights. I’m glad Speaker Johnson has taken a stand to protect the women here on Capitol Hill.”
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Roy echoed Houchin and Johnson’s sentiment, saying, “you just need to answer the question, ‘is this individual a man or a woman?’…this individual [Mcbride] is a man, and society can’t ignore those obvious differences.”
Mace was raped by a friend and classmate at age 16, according to the Post and Courier, and she has since said the traumatic experience created the “hardest time in her life.”
“I’m not going to stand for a man, you know, someone with a penis is in the women’s locker room. That’s not okay,” Mace told reporters Tuesday. “I’m a victim of abuse myself. I’m a rape survivor. I have PTSD from the abuse I’ve suffered at the hands of a man and I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.”
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The issue of transgender individuals using bathrooms of the opposite sex caught national attention after a biological boy in Loudon County, Virginia, raped a female student in a girls bathroom at a public school in 2021. The school went on to deny that the assault was a result of its trans-inclusive policies.
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First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.