Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Goes After Nancy Mace’s Trans Bathroom Crusade | EUROtoday

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went after her colleague, Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.), on Wednesday, accusing the Republican lawmaker of bullying the chamber’s first brazenly trans lawmaker to “make a buck … and fundraise off an email.”

Mace launched a measure to ban transgender girls from utilizing the ladies’s loos on the Capitol earlier this week, utilizing demeaning language about her new colleague, Delaware Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D). McBride made historical past earlier when she gained the state’s lone seat within the House, changing into the primary brazenly transgender particular person elected to Congress.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) confirmed Wednesday that he would comply with by with the plans and ban transgender lawmakers and employees from utilizing loos that don’t correspond to their “biological sex.”

“Women deserve women’s only spaces,” Johnson stated.

Ocasio-Cortez lambasted the trouble briefly remarks to reporters, saying the transfer would solely endanger women and girls across the nation.

“What it inevitably results in are women and girls who are primed for assault because people are going to want to check their private parts in suspecting who is trans, and who is cis, and who’s doing what,” the New York Democrat stated. “And so the idea that Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to drop trou[sers] in front of who? An investigator? Who would that be?”

“Because she wants to suspect and point fingers at who she thinks is trans? It is disgusting.”

McBride responded to the brand new guidelines on Wednesday, saying she would adjust to them as a result of she wasn’t heading to Congress “to fight about bathrooms.”

“I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families,” she stated in an announcement. “Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them.”

Ocasio-Cortez went on to say Republicans had been leaning into tradition wars to rile up their base, half of a bigger motion by the GOP to go after trans Americans.

“People have a right to express themselves, to dress how they want and to be who they are,” she stated. “They’re doing this so that Nancy Mace can make a buck and send a text and fundraise off an email.”

“They’re not doing it to protect people,” she went on. “They’re endangering women, they’re endangering girls of all kinds and everybody should reject it. It’s gross.”