Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went off on House Speaker Mike Johnson after the Louisiana Republican appeared to side with a fellow GOP lawmaker on the issue of barring biological men from women’s bathrooms on Capitol Hill.
Last week, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution that would prohibit individuals born as men from entering and using women-only facilities. Her measure comes as the country’s first transgender, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), prepares to take office in January.Despite Mace’s impetus behind the resolution — she is a rape and sexual abuse survivor — the Bronx Democrat is opposed to the idea and has claimed it is instead motivated by “hate” and “bigotry.”
“What Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson are doing are endangering all women and girls… Because if you ask them, ‘What is your plan on how to enforce this?’ they won’t come up with an answer,” she said. “And what it inevitably results in are women and girls who are primed for assault because people are gonna want to check their private parts in suspecting who is trans and who is cis and who’s doing what…. the idea that Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to drop trou in front of who — an investigator?”
She continued: “Who would that be? — because she wants to suspect and point fingers at who she thinks is trans is disgusting. It is disgusting… And frankly, all it does is allow these Republicans to go around and bully any woman who isn’t wearing a skirt because they think she might not look woman enough.”