Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina led a charge Monday to try to ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol and House office buildings, following the election of a transgender lawmaker.

  • @cowfodder
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    335 hours ago

    Do you want super buff trans men using the women’s room? Because this is how you get super buff trans men using the women’s room.

    • HobbitFoot
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      184 hours ago

      They don’t care. They’re trying to indicate how unwelcome Sarah McBride, the first trans woman elected to Congress, is.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, it’s so weird how short-sighted this is - clearly they aren’t going to be happy getting what they’re asking for.

      But it makes more sense when you consider they don’t care about the “principle” such as it were - meaning their stated premise that somehow gender is immutable from the genitals you have at birth. That’s just the silently-agreed-upon pretext for bullying and hate to someone who makes them uncomfortable, which is the point of it all.

    • @zib
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      64 hours ago

      See, that’s not a bug, that’s a feature. When that happens, the more bigoted of the population will scream about men in the women’s restrooms since that is exactly the situation they’ve forced people into, then use that as further justification for more bathroom bills. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle of discrimination against a minority group and the conservatives couldn’t be happier about it.