South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace is fighting a bathroom battle on Capitol Hill, and she has “doubled down” on her anti-transgender stance by proposing new bathroom-related legislation.
In a post on X, Mace, a Republican, wrote, “Oh, you thought threatening me would keep me quiet?” No. I just doubled down and introduced a new bill to protect women and girls across the country on all federal property.
The bill, known as the “Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act,” would prohibit people from using single-sex bathrooms, locker rooms, or changing rooms on federal property “other than those corresponding to their biological sex.”
It defines “federal property” as any building or land owned by a federal agency, such as the Department of Defense or the United States Postal Service, and would include places like national parks and museums.
Furthermore, both the municipal government of Washington, D.C., and the governments of US territories own property under the bill’s definition of federal property.
If signed into law, the measure would prevent transgender men and women from using restrooms that correspond to their gender identity.
Mace’s legislation aligned with the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a yearly event on November 20 since 1999 that honors transgender individuals who have been victims of violence.
In response to a separate resolution that sought to ban transgender members of Congress and staff from using gender-conforming restrooms at the Capitol, Mace introduced her bill.
Mace has unambiguously stated that she intended the move for incoming Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, who will take the oath of office in January.
In addition to being the first openly transgender member of Congress, McBride was also the first to speak at a national political party convention in the United States in 2016, and the first to intern at the White House in 2012.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson responded to Mace’s proposal by stating that he supported plans to forbid transgender women from using women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill.
Johnson also stated that every member office in the Capitol has a private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the building.
McBride, a Democrat, has only commented in a statement that she is “not here to fight about bathrooms” and that the entire issue is a Republican-created distraction from more pressing issues.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Mace chastised the “woke mob” for its “predictable performative outrage from the radical left” and boasted:
The radical Left says I’m a ‘threat.’ You better believe it. And I will shamelessly call you out for putting women and girls in harm’s way. Women fought for these spaces, and I will not let them be erased to score political points with a small but loud activist class.
