Representatives Amo and Magaziner issue statement on US Capital Building transgender bathroom ban
“Transgender Americans deserve to be treated fairly, and no one deserves to be bullied."
United States Representatives Seth Magaziner (D-RI) and Gabe Amo (D-RI) issued a statement on the Capitol Building transgender bathroom ban imposed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and supported by Representatives Nancy Mace (R-SC)1 and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Under the rule, transgender people will be banned from using restrooms aligned with their gender identity in the Capitol.
The ban is in response to newly elected Representative-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE), who made history by becoming the first transgender woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
“I would like my grace to contrast with the grandstanding that we’re seeing right now,” said McBride. “I would like my approach of respecting everyone to contrast with the disrespect that we are seeing right now.”
“Transgender Americans deserve to be treated fairly, and no one deserves to be bullied. Millions of people, including countless transgender individuals, come through the Capitol every year, and there has never been any controversy until House Republicans decided to grandstand this year by picking on one of our new colleagues,” said Representatives Amo and Magaziner in a joint statement. “We hope they will stop playing games and join those of us focused on lowering costs, growing the economy, and delivering real results for our constituents.”
Representative Amo was also a co-sponsor of a resolution commemorating the Trans Day of Remembrance, saying he is “committed to making sure transgender Americans can live in peace, safety, and security.”
Setting the bar higher, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) strongly opposed the ban and pointed out enforcement difficulties, noting, “The idea that Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to drop trou, in front of who, an investigator? ... If a woman doesn’t look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It’s disgusting.”
Representative Mace is introducing legislation to ban transgender people from using bathrooms in all federal buildings. See: Nancy Mace's Federal Trans Bathroom Ban Would Apply To Major Airports, Hindering Travel
Christian nationalists have such a narrow view of humanity. The ideology is a direct descendant ((including actual descendents and well as intellectual) of the Southern plantions owners seeking to restrict democracy so they could expand slavery across the west. All power to white men of wealth and no one else. Transphobia almost exactly correlates with the willingness to destroy ecosystems for profit in the political mind of America. it is the idea of undoing regualtions that protect workers, the environmenbt , the pubic health or infrastructure because in the 1840's that wpuld have meant a black person could benefit from it and that was verboten. It says a commuity does not have the right to prevent the poisooning of the wells. My definition of democracy always includes the right of communities to legal redress to prevent destruction. And that is one of the first thing dictators always do. They do not want to see women in the streeets protesting the poisoning of their children by a buddy of the rich guys factory. So they are shot or arrested if they try. It is called Neoliberalism. and it seems ascendant thoguh cruising for a climate bruising.
America will finally be great if it comes to see that everyone must be encouraged to be their best self so that they can contribute from their best self to the commuity. We (humanity) seem to be going the wrong way in much of the world with justice and rights disappearing as fast as the forest and the storm clouds getting intensely more powerful. Tackling the climate catastrophe will take all of us. Anyone who insists that your best self is not allowed to help has completely lost sight of the American Dream, suppressed by years of lies by the rich.
Life is round.
while Amo and Magaziner are right to call this out, it should not even be an issue. The problem is Republican success with their attacks on the trans community, as well as relentless nasty attacks on immigrants, on journalists, on election officials, on political opponents especially if they are women such as Harris herself, all shows a difficult to face unpleasant aspect to a lot of the American electorate. Their success with such attacks suggests they will continue