House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled that he will support a resolution authored by South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace to ban men from moping around women’s bathrooms and locker rooms in the Capitol; see Nancy Mace Starts a Firestorm With Move to Ban ‘Trans Women’ From Women’s Bathrooms, Liberals Melt Down. His definitive statement to the Associated Press — “We’re not going to have men in women’s bathrooms” — was a welcome clarification to the more muddled answer he gave in a press conference earlier in the day where a statement resounding with moral clarity was modified into squishiness.
BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson just said the most savage thing he’s ever said
“Let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman.”
This means Congressman Sarah McBride will NOT be allowed to use the women’s bathroom. pic.twitter.com/kj6FwjMWH2
— George (@BehizyTweets) November 19, 2024
Unfortunately, he modified his strong opening with, “I’m not gonna get into this. We treat all persons with dignity and respect. And we will. And I’m not going to engage in silly debates about this.”
Well, yes, we do treat persons with dignity and respect, and that does not entail giving into their bizarre, sick little fantasies and stripping women of their dignity, and treating them with disrespect by forcing them to share private spaces with them.
So, I’m gonna go on record here and say I agree that women should have the right to use the bathroom without even a minimal chance of seeing some dude’s meat and two veg in the middle of the day.
— SarahLee (@sarailola) November 19, 2024
Johnson’s support means that incoming Delaware representative Tim Sarah McBride will be welcome to use either his private bathroom or the men’s room.
The nastiness of the response to Mace’s attempt to keep women’s spaces for women has been somewhat surprising. Earlier today, she received what can only be taken as a death threat from an irate man/woman; I can’t tell which. In ordinary times, this would have resulted in a visit by law enforcement, but not today; see Like Clockwork: Nancy Mace Drops Receipts After Receiving Threatening Video Message From Trans ‘Woman.’ On the other hand, an ambush interview of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t go as planned.
JUST IN: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace defend the latter’s new House resolution banning trans women from Capitol bathrooms. I asked both how they intend to check who is “qualified” to use the ladies room. WATCH — pic.twitter.com/juMuDA9dlE
— Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports) November 19, 2024
I think we’ve hit peak transgender. Women athletes have started to revolt against the silliness, and the Trump administration should make stomping out this nonsense in our education system and military a top priority.
