Axios - The House GOP's decision to bar Congress' first-ever transgender member from women's bathrooms spotlights a national trend: Republicans see targeting trans rights as a political winner, Axios' Dave Lawler and Erica Pandey write. Republicans are treating their victory as a mandate to further restrict trans people from accessing bathrooms, youth sports and gender-affirming care, citing one of President-elect Trump's closing ads: "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you."
Democrats, paralyzed by post-election finger-pointing, have been blindsided by the apparent potency of Republicans' anti-trans fear-mongering. The trans community — already a historically marginalized population — has been left wondering who exactly is standing with them.
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced yesterday that transgender people are banned from House bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity.... This goes far beyond Washington. There was a huge spike in anti-trans legislation at the state and federal level last year, and a record 665 such bills have been introduced this year, per the Trans Legislation Tracker. Republicans introduced 32 anti-trans bills just on the first day of the pre-filing period ahead of Texas' 2025 legislative sessions, journalist Erin Reed reports.
Daily Kos - The segregation of facilities like bathrooms was a signature feature of life in the Jim Crow era, when many bathrooms in the southern United States were off limits to Black people...Johnson’s announcement arrived on the same day as Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors trans people who have been killed and raises awareness of bigotry against transgender Americans. In his statement, Johnson did not elaborate on how the new facility policy would be enforced. Johnson did not say whether the House sergeant-at-arms would be empowered to police Capitol bathrooms, whether officers would need to inspect genitals to ensure bathroom usage is confined to biological sex, or if officers would be empowered to make an arrest before, during, or after someone uses the bathroom in violation of his edict.
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