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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday that transgender women are not permitted to use bathrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity

The policy […] will also apply to bathrooms in House office buildings, changing rooms and locker rooms.

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 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.”

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.

    • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Busloads of trans men showing up to use the bathroom would actually probably be a pretty effective means of activism for policies like these.

      • Buttons@programming.devEnglish
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        3 days ago

        This is brilliant. If someone like in there photo wanted to hold a sign saying “Mike Johnson wants me to use the women’s bathroom”, it would cause waves.

        Maybe a less aggressive message like, “I just want to use the mens bathroom, where I’m comfortable, but Mike Johnson won’t let me”. Because it focuses on people just wanting to be left alone to go to the bathroom in peace.

        Or, best yet, have a transman that lifts and looks like they can snap Mike Johnson like a toothpick–have that transman catch up with Mike Johnson in the hallway and ask him why he has to use the women’s bathroom. Instant viral.

        • SteevyT@beehaw.org
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          3 days ago

          If someone like in there photo wanted to hold a sign saying “Mike Johnson wants me to use the women’s bathroom the same bathroom as your daughter”, it would cause waves.

          Using their own tactics against them with that little change.

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    We don’t look down upon anyone. We treat everybody with dignity and respect.

    Man who just passed a rule looking down on and disrespecting a single specific person.

  • UrLogicFails@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is especially vile to announce on Transgender Day of Remembrance; but I have no doubt in my mind that it was intentional.

    This feels like a move made with the explicit purpose of hurting people as much as possible. (“The cruelty is the point.”)

    To my knowledge, there is no legal recourse for this, but I am not a lawyer, so I could be wrong…

    I know it likely won’t do much, but I do recommend calling your representatives. I asked mine to issue a statement saying that they will not be party to enforcing this rule. I hope they issue such a statement of solidarity soon 🤞