The Trans Bathroom Battle in Congress: Nancy Mace Is Right

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This is a stupid issue but it’s an issue nonetheless because Democrats created it.

It’s something that women and girls have had to deal with for years now and it’s finally making its way to Congress. Men who identify as women have been barging their way into bathrooms, locker rooms, and other places set aside exclusively for females. This should be a no-brainer. No men in the ladies’ room, end of story. That includes men who say they’re men and pretend to be women.

Why is this even a thing? The state of Delaware elected the first openly transgender woman (meaning a man who calls himself a woman) to Congress. Some female members of Congress would like to reaffirm that separate spaces such as bathrooms and the Congressional locker rooms should be set aside based on biological design, not whatever clothing and makeup a person puts on that morning.

Seeing the writing on the wall, Rep. Nancy Mace, of South Carolina, introduced an add-on to the House rules package for the next Congress that would clearly state anyone using the bathroom or locker room on Capitol Hill grounds should do so based on their biological sex, reports NPR:

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is defending a measure she recently introduced that would ban transgender women from women’s bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol.

It is unclear if the effort will get a vote or if rules in the Capitol will be changed, but the move comes just two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Mace characterized this specific measure as an attempt to protect women’s rights.

Mace says the rule change is related to the arrival of Sarah McBride, the newly elected representative from Delaware formerly known as Tim McBride:

“I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces,” she said. “So I’m absolutely, 100 percent, going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms, I will be there fighting you every step of the way.”

But when asked if McBride’s arrival was the catalyst, Mace was clear.

“Yes and absolutely and then some,” she said.

Mace, a victim of sexual assault, is well-warranted to ask for the basic courtesy of keeping gender-based areas separated by biological sex.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, of Georgia, was more blunt on the matter in her defense of Mace and would like to go several steps further:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., told reporters she supports Mace’s resolution and called McBride “mentally ill.”

“Sarah McBride, as he calls himself, formerly Tim McBride, is a biological man, and he should not be using any of our restrooms in the Capitol and those in our office buildings,” Greene said.

“Nancy Mace’s resolution doesn’t go far enough. Her resolution is just a statement by Congress saying that Congress disagrees with something. We need something more binding.”

When asked by a roaming reporter to explain her position, Mace went scorched earth demolishing the question and making her point crystal clear:

Bravo to Mace a hundred times over. Women should not have to put up with this and they should not be fighting this battle alone. Any decent man should have the courage to stand with Mace on this and speak out publicly.

If Congress, under Republican leadership, tacitly or implicitly allows transgender “men” to use the women’s room it will be against the will of the people who just overwhelmingly elected Donald Trump. Part of the draw for the President-elect’s victory was keeping men out of women’s sports and keeping women’s spaces dedicated to women.

Democrats, for some odd reason, having just been rebuked for their open embrace of woke insanity, want to die on this hill and call Mace mean:

Mace doesn’t care because this is not about being “cruel” to one person, it’s about not being cruel to women in general who should not be put in this vulnerable position of allowing men into their private spaces.

Preach it.

After days of fumbling over the issue that’s so brazenly clear, House Speaker Mike Johnson came out on the correct side and stated the obvious:

For Democrats to claim it’s “mean” or “cruel” shows how little they care for women at all. Then again, this is the party that can’t identify what a woman is asking women, in general, to accommodate the desires and fetishes of men at the expense of their own comfort and potential safety.

It’s great that Mace is speaking up in Congress but she’s speaking for the silent majority of women who have had to deal with this elsewhere for years. Mace can fix the issue in Congress but what about keeping women and young girls, in particular, safe from various forms of intimidation of potential abuse in these vulnerable areas like bathrooms and locker rooms?

C’mon men, it’s time to step forward and be unequivocally vocal on this issue and support women like Mace who are standing in the gap while receiving death threats for her actions.

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Nate Ashworth

The Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Election Central. He's been blogging elections and politics for over a decade. He started covering the 2008 Presidential Election which turned into a full-time political blog in 2012 and 2016 that continues today.

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