Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday that transgender women are not permitted to use bathrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity, taking a stance on the hot-button issue t…

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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.

  • viking@beehaw.org
    22·
    21 hours ago

    Mike Johnson recently said that his world view is the same as what’s in the Bible. I hope one day he realizes with horror that he’s been a very hateful person, and that even the Bible he says he follows would condemn this kind of cruelty. He and the Republicans think they’re doing “God’s work”, but they’re not. At all.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
      16·
      18 hours ago

      Mike is a member of the New Apostolic Reformation

      A group whose goal is to usher in the second coming by accelerating the end of the world. Aka Armageddon.

      Other very notable members include:

      • Mike Flynn (the traitor)
      • Lauren Boebert & MTG
      • Roger Stone
      • Charlie Kirk
      • Justice Samuel Alito
      • UrLogicFails@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
        11·
        21 hours ago

        I don’t think the Old Testament is particularly anti-trans either. Most Republicans use the Bible as a way to launder their own hateful views, but I doubt if they’re even remotely religious at all.

        • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM
          18·
          20 hours ago

          I don’t think the Old Testament is particularly anti-trans either.

          Nowhere in the Bible is sexuality (as we now it today) nor gender, etc addressed. I know this because I’ve been reading biblical scholarship for over thirty years. I am, also, the founder of Reddit’s AskBibleScholars.

          Please, think about this carefully. It would be like asking what the Bible thinks of Philips-head screwdrivers.