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Mace on transgender bathroom resolution: 'This is the last war on women and I aim to stop it'

On November 19, 2024, Mace introduced a House resolution barring transgender women from Capitol restrooms the week before Rep.-elect Sarah McBride was to be sworn in as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.

Official portrait of U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace
Photo: U.S. House (public domain). Source

On November 19, 2024, introducing her House resolution to bar transgender women from Capitol restrooms, Mace said:

"This is the last war on women and I aim to stop it."

At the same press event, Mace told reporter Pablo Manríquez: "Sarah McBride doesn't get a say in this. If you're a biological man, you shouldn't be in women's restrooms." Democrats called the resolution "just plain bullying."

Source: Newsweek / NPR · archived