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House Speaker Mike Johnson has ruled the first transgender member of Congress cannot use the women’s restrooms in a decision that will shake the U.S. Capitol.
Newly elected Sarah McBride, who will become the first openly transgender lawmaker when sworn into office in January, will have to use the men’s facilities.
It follows a week of outrage from outspoken Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who have called McBride a ‘man’, a predator and accused her of being ‘mentally ill.’
Republicans were emboldened by Donald Trump‘s win in the presidential election.
Trump has pledged to stop taxpayer funding for sex change treatments, block transgender people from entering the military, and ban trans athletes from women’s sports.