This incredible woman has more courage than any Republican member of Congress. Representative-Elect Sarah McBride responds to the pathetic transgender bathroom ban just announced by the coward Mike Johnson.
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Is this why citizens are elected to office? To act as 9th grade hall and bathroom monitors? Mike, Why don't you clean up Daddy Don's diaper while you are dealing with toilet matters. Pathetic.
There's no transgender bathroom ban. It just bans men from entering the women's bathrooms. As it should be. Do you want to allow men to enter the women's bathrooms?
If they are living as women, known as women, and identifiable as women, they certainly don't belong in the men's room. The problem is not trans women in the ladies room. It's heterosexual male perpetrators with feminization fetishes going in to gawk and hunt for victims. And it's already illegal.
Who ever said that Maga weren’t jobs creator! They just cast this woman into the political spotlight, and she responded with grace and humility. Usually i’d hope that this would resonate w/ those that support that rhetoric, but we all know that they don’t read.
Rethugs are OK with RAPISTS, SEXUAL PREDATORS, TRAITORS, LIARS, CHEATERS and overall DESPICABLE people in their ranks but CAN'T handle someone of a different gender just because THEY don't agree with their choices! It's despicable that these people have ANY say in our Govt!😠
McBride is class and bravery personified. Her simple yet powerful statement exposes the Republicans for the hateful louts they are. She is meanwhile moving forward.
Well, it's Louisianna... near the bottom of the poverty, education, healthcare rungs. His law degree is from a suspect law school. LA does not possess the best much less send the best.
Johnson passed the least bills ever! Has no Bank Accounts and was partnered with a Gay conversion therapy provider! His Wife no bank accounts was also a provider. They both did a anti gay podcast.
I saw her on the View and have also read her words on here and I admire her for keeping her head held high and concentrating on the work ahead. Now if Johnson and the little scaredy cats don’t want her using the ladies room then they better damn well install some unisex bathrooms throughout.
as a trans person, this is one of the most gutless, pathetic responses i can see to attacking ones personal character. it genuinely brings me sadness that my fellow trans folks still have no representation in congress.
It's very good. I would have closed with, "If my colleagues want to keep me from having a bathroom to use while I'm at work, they might just find the threshold in front of their office door is a little damp."
@repmikejohnson.bsky.social and his minions are too busy being petty, small minded and self righteous to engage in anything which even carries a whiff of compassion for others they consider beneath them. By getting bogged down on bathroom usage, they can justify not addressing real issues.
They should give her a office that has her own private bathroom complete with the shower. So when they get on her nerves she can just come in there refresh herself change clothes and go right on back out into the fight. She's a winner she deserves it
What a class act she is. Poor Nancy must be pissed that she was, again, shown what it's like to be a human being. Unfortunately, Nancy is too bigoted to learn that lesson.
It’s really something to watch the Party whose supporters poop on the floor in the Capitol and wipe their feces on the wall tell us which bathrooms to use.
This is the approach! Shut down their culture BS wars and focus on the non accomplishment of the GOP apparently that’s what transactional Americans want
I support Sarah McBride’s right to choose what is right for her in this moment. We proudly sent her to D.C. from DE. Sadly, the haters like Nancy Mace, Mike Johnson, and Donald Trump will continue to hate, and we will continue to fight them while supporting Sarah.
They do, but secretly so they can get away with their bullishit. They blast this crap with a bullhorn to distract the public from the underhanded, dirty deeds they’re doing secretly.
Right! Taught to magas by roger stone! trump’s 3D Resistance Plan-divert, distract and deflect! Raise conflict about toilets, ‘no Christmas’, gas stoves, etc., to divert attention from vital issues like trump’s disastrous & dangerous-to us & the world-Cabinet nominations! We must stay focused!
I recall scenes in Hidden Figures where black woman mathematician Katherine Johnson has to run to colored bathrooms many buildings away as closer ones are for whites only.She computes the trajectories for Mercury &Apollo missions. Hopefully trans bathroom bullshit is just as immoral & unAmerican
She’s leading them into an impossible situation they won’t get out of easily, and public sympathy is gaining; Mace supports the rapist president and sex abuser AG candidate but attacks a colleague. As for Johnson, I don’t know how you can make a rule
That targets exactly one individual because he has no authority over the thousands of public visitors and workers in that building plus House rules only apply when House is in session
You mean "trump's little johnson"? Coward is putting it mildly! Sarah McBride appears to have more class than 99% of republicans have or will have. I'm personally offended that male house members stand up to urinate, when they clearly don't have the anatomy for it.
Still disappointed that Rep. McBride caved under pressure. It’s not right that MAGA SpeakerJohnson will refer to her as a “man.” A loss to the trans community. 💔
Rep. Elect McBride is showing us the strength and empathy needed in this time. She knows to choose her battles and her courage to stand up to these daily battles should give us all strength.
Pick your battles, friends, and hone your strengths for all that is coming.
I call bullshite. Sarah was ELECTED TO REPRESENT HER CONSTITUENTS not to engage in a personal crusade. You want to do that on your time... fine. I would back you up. This is not a case where that action applies. That kind of belligerence simply doesn't apply here.
I kinda feel the same. Though I’m hoping her plan - for her and any other trans staffers in Congress - IS to do what they say and use the men’s room. And trans male staffers should use the ladies’ room as Mace wants. The first time Mace has to share a bathroom with a trans guy in the stall /1
next to hers, maybe she’ll change her fucking time.
And yes - I understand this would be something most trans folks wouldn’t have the privilege of doing. But maybe these ignorant MAGAts need to get what they ask for.
The problem with weaponizing trans men in that way is that it's very likely the trans guy who enters a bathroom with a person like Mace will leave, in a best-case scenario, in handcuffs.
I do hear you. Point taken. I haven’t read all the details. Is this just a resolution or is it a law that would mean arrest if disobeyed? I assume it’s not a law, but a House resolution.which I get could still mean censure, etc. but who knows?
McBride is engaging in the proven strategy of dignified resistance that has WORKED for multiple civil rights causes.
It's the strategy behind the sit ins, Rosa Parks on the bus etc. You just do normal every day things and the reaction of the bigots is so outsized and crazy that people go
"why are you so bent out of shape over this person riding a bus? Sitting at a lunch counter? Using the bathroom?"
The failing is on the other Democrats who are refusing to use their privileged positions to condemn and rail against this. THEY'RE the ones who need to get angry.
They could have welcomed her & accepted her into the House showing an example to all that America welcomes all no matter race, colour, background, minorities all treated equally & with respect.
How pathetic is that little twirp Johnson.
We are in a Time Machine going backwards as I speak.
Are Democrats going to do anything?? Or have they all given up???
What else can the Democrats do? Seems to me the spineless are the repugs who put up with such a shameless leader, too afraid to stand up to him, to preserve their own party
My utter respect to this lady, I look forward to hearing many speeches and arguments while as she has categorically stated she will listen, something the other side refuse to engage with her as a human being, have a blessed day my friend. 💙
I'm confused, she said she doesn't want to fight about bathrooms and just wants to work well along side her colleagues. Where did the transgender ban in your post come from?
The speaker’s statement alone doesn’t formally restrict transgender people from using the bathroom aligned with their gender, but it signals the kind of rules that could.
She'll have her own bathroom, and they know that.
This affects all of the other trans workers/visitors in the building who have been choosing their bathrooms for years without a big problem.
A class act and eager to do her job despite the hate and discrimination from the other side of the aisle. Welcome Congresswoman-Elect Sarah McBride. She’s an inspiration.
What’s the matter? You intimidated by a thoughtful and intelligent person elected to Congress? You have to attack who she is? It’s a tired routine. Move on.
These people like Mace make me sick. She should be afraid of women now hitting her with wet toilet paper Everytime they encounter her in a restroom room. If she is the one scared, let her stay away from the restrooms.
Remember the scene in the movie hidden fingers when Kevin Costner takes a bat to the restroom sign because the black woman had to walk all the way across campus to go to the bathroom. This is what this feels like.
I’ve used the men’s room if the wait was too long for the ladies at a bar back when they were gendered and I drank. The best was walking in on the biggest gigolo from my high school hiding modestly.
Mike Johnson and his whole clown circus are a disgrace. There are so many important issues and they make it about bathrooms. Sarah McBride is HER. She refused to take the bait and is staying strong. Better role model for women than all the Nancy Maces of the world.
It's just media posturing by a certain GOP congressperson. McBride's response doesn't take the bait. There is more than one way to skin a cat. We can't have a knee jerk reaction to everything or we're going to need knee replacement surgery by March.
They are obsessed with people peeing, and at the same time they will absolutely defend and protect all of the actual sex offenders coming into important positions.
We are living in the upside down. 🙄
I cheer Sarah McBride, her courage, fortitude and conviction to serve her constituents. I detest the spinelessness of Mike Johnson, caving to the whims of a select few in the body of Congress out of fear and misunderstanding.
As long as Johnson and the Republicans can keep up the fake outrage over bathrooms, they don't have to talk about a rapist in the WH or a pedophile being nominated for AG.
They are telling her she doesn’t have the same rights. It’s not a distraction imo. Was it a distraction when they had two water fountains for whites and blacks. Who’s going to stand up to these people?
Don't agree with this. Bigotry needs to be challenged wherever it arises. Part of me is concerned this is a signal the Democrats will abandon trans people in hopes of becoming more electable.
Where did I say this? Why the fuck are you attacking me? I’m on your side. I’m on hers. We need allies to fight so she doesn’t fight alone. Jesus Christ.
imogen: this congresswoman is a scab and you're cheering on her betrayal of ordinary trans people. her compliance with these rules is shameful, its a retreat and it disgusts me to see liberals celebrating it.
Hooboy. I said it’s a fight for us who get dirty and aren’t afraid to do what needs do be done. But please….see yourself out. I’ve been fighting for this country in literal mud since I was 17.
Fighting bigotry and hate is literally fighting in the mud. That’s where the mud slingers live. They wallow in hate, envy, jealousy, misogyny, racism, ignorance, and grievance. You can’t take back control from people like that unless you’re willing to get dirty.
Sarah McBride stated that she was going to DC to represent her constituents. Though she's Trans, her primary obligation is to the folks who voted her into office. It's completely unfair to lay this battle at her feet - she is already a role model.
A role model minority, she recognizes how inconvenient her existence is to everyone else and will never stand up for self. Im sure you guys just love her.
I see what you are saying Fred, my question is what about all the transgender employees? Who fights for them? This now applies to them in these buildings. It’s all so vile.
Sorry. I think this is fucking nuts. The person in the most imminent danger of all of Congress right now and you’re going to hate on her? This makes no sense. What position have you run for? You going to be there when they inevitably come for her?
She makes me wish I was from Delaware! I just love her. Love her attitude, her courage, her strength. Most of all, I love her focus on the people..ignoring the negative & focusing on getting the job done well 💙
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focused and working for their constitutents
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18 months late on 2023. 3 lines?
Delaware citizens are very fortunate to have you in Congress fighting for ALL of them!
Reminder to the US: THIS is the mountain the GOP has chosen to waste our time & $$$ upon. OUR time & OUR $$$ = their publicity stunts.
Kick some ass, Sarah!
There’s a place in hell for Nancy Mace, MTG and Mike “Conversion Therapy” Johnson.
See, Dems can play the religion game as well – bitches
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Gop evils are disgraceful and despicable! There is a special place in hell for nancy mace marjerine
Mikey Johnson. Hell-
people who don’t agree with her.
Pick your battles, friends, and hone your strengths for all that is coming.
And yes - I understand this would be something most trans folks wouldn’t have the privilege of doing. But maybe these ignorant MAGAts need to get what they ask for.
It's the strategy behind the sit ins, Rosa Parks on the bus etc. You just do normal every day things and the reaction of the bigots is so outsized and crazy that people go
The failing is on the other Democrats who are refusing to use their privileged positions to condemn and rail against this. THEY'RE the ones who need to get angry.
We are in a Time Machine going backwards as I speak.
Are Democrats going to do anything?? Or have they all given up???
He’s trump’s little Johnson!
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Unlike the 🗑️ on the other side of the aisle.
Just point and laugh
I bet most woman would it even know if a Trans lady was using their bathroom.
This affects all of the other trans workers/visitors in the building who have been choosing their bathrooms for years without a big problem.
It would’ve taken the fake person five seconds to google this 🤦🏼♀️
Yes, we can!
MTG would be in an uproar.
We are living in the upside down. 🙄
There is at least one adult in the House.
Thank you.
this poem about Sarah McBride 2 days ago.