The trans-identifying congressman at the center of a Capitol Hill bathroom battle has agreed not to use the women’s facilities following a mandate from House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Sarah McBride, a newly-elected representative from Delaware who identifies as a transgender woman, issued a statement on Wednesday saying that he will abide by Johnson’s Wednesday directive that “all single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.”
“It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol,” Johnson said Wednesday. “Women deserve women’s only spaces.”
Johnson was responding to backlash on Capitol Hill over Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s resolution banning men from women’s facilities in Congress. That resolution specifically said that “allowing…
