By Katrina Trinko, The Daily Signal | November 19, 2024
“If you’re a biological man, you shouldn’t be in women’s restrooms.That’s just common sense—and common courtesy to women. Yet Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, is being crucified by Democrat House members for wanting women’s spaces to be for women only.“
“This is not just bigotry, this is just plain bullying,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., whined to Axios. A co-chair of the House Equality Caucus, Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., told Axios, “The cruelty is the point.”
Mace announced her resolution Monday, a couple months before Tim McBride, who wishes to be known as Sarah McBride, is slated to begin his first House term. (McBride announced he had “transitioned” while a student at American University in the 2011-2012 school year.) Mace’s resolution would require lawmakers and staffers to use bathrooms matching their birth sex.
Asked by reporters if her resolution was related to McBride, Mace said, “Yes.”
“If someone with a penis is in a women’s locker room that’s not OK,” she added. “I’m a victim of abuse myself. I’m a rape survivor. I have PTSD from the abuse I’ve suffered at the hands of a man, and I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.”
“I’m absolutely 100% gonna stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms. I will be there fighting you every step of the way,” Mace finished.
Good for her.
Look, I feel genuinely sorry for McBride. No one tries to “change” their gender without real suffering. If McBride is uncomfortable in the men’s restrooms in the Capitol and offices, he absolutely should be provided with a gender-neutral single stall bathroom.
But that doesn’t mean that women have to share a private space with him. Contra AOC, it’s McBride who is the bully here, not Mace.
The election results also suggest that it’s Mace, not McBride, who is representing the views of the American people. The Trump campaign ran an ad featuring Harris talking about providing gender transition treatment for prisoners, and ended with the line “Kamala’s for they/them. President Trump is for you.”
A different version of the ad featured Charlemagne Tha God, a black radio host, talking about Harris’ views and also noted that Harris supported biological males in women’s sports. That ad was extremely damaging to Harris, according to a PAC that supported her. The ad “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it,” reported the New York Times.
Additional data further bolsters the case that Trump’s win was driven in part by voters sick of the radical transgender ideology. Blueprint, a liberal polling firm, reported that a top reason given by swing voters who did not support Harris, was that “Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.”
An exit poll of voters from Concerned Women for America found that 7 out of 10 voters said that “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men using girls and women’s bathrooms,” was an important issue for them.
There’s little recent public polling on men using women’s bathrooms, but a 2022 Pew Research Center survey found that 41% of Americans agreed that trans people should use the bathroom that matched their birth sex, while only 31% opposed. Twenty-eight percent of Americans were undecided on the issue. In other words, it’s again Mace, not McBride, who is voicing the view more Americans hold.
So far, Democrats largely seem to be in denial about what the election results mean for their radical policies.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., dared to voice that maybe his two daughters shouldn’t have to play sports with biological males. His remark set off a firestorm: “Mr. Moulton’s campaign manager resigned in protest. The Democratic governor of Massachusetts rebuked him. And the chair of the political science department at Tufts University threatened to block his students from interning in Mr. Moulton’s office,” reported the New York Times.
In Texas, the state Democrat Party chairman resigned after expressing concern about the left’s transgender policies.
Meanwhile, House Democrats seem determined to win McBride access to women’s bathrooms. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, House minority leader and the top Democrat, called Mace’s move “bullying,” per Reuters.
The path forward for Mace’s resolution is unclear. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters today, “This is an issue that Congress has never had to address before. We’re going to do that in a deliberate fashion with members’ consensus on it, and we will accommodate the needs of every single person.”
Mace either wants her resolution in a rules package or, if that doesn’t happen, will force a vote on the resolution in the next term, reports The Washington Post.
McBride, for his part, is arguing the Republicans are focusing on the wrong issue. “This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing. We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars,” he posted on X.
But if McBride wants to stop the issue, he has the option to just not use the women’s bathrooms. Instead, he’s trying to act like he’s the victim, not the aggressor, and paint Mace and her supporters, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as the aggressors.
“America is fed up with the trans ideology being shoved into our face,” Greene told reporters, according to NPR. “Women have been the victim of this garbage for long enough.”
For too long, Americans have refused to say the emperor has no clothes, and have watched and fallen in line with the radicals who say anyone can be any gender. Yet Trump’s victory seems to mark a changing in the tide, a realization among Americans that they don’t have to just shut up and take it.
Yes, we should be polite and kind—but truth matters. Reality matters. No one, including the trans person, is served by endless lying, by free allowance for anyone to appropriate any gender.
Men shouldn’t be in women’s bathrooms. McBride’s comfort should not take precedence over Mace’s comfort, any more than Rachel Dolezal’s views should take precedence over actual black Americans’ views.
We should listen to the rape survivor, not the man.
Katrina Trinko is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Signal.
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