众议院议长·迈克·约翰逊说，变性女性不能使用国会大厦和众议院办公楼的女厕所。约翰逊说，这也适用于更衣室和更衣室。
“国会大厦和众议院办公楼中的所有单性设施——如洗手间、更衣室和更衣室——都是为该生物性别的个人保留的，”声明周三表示。
约翰逊继续说，“值得注意的是，每个成员办公室都有自己的私人洗手间，整个国会大厦都有男女通用的洗手间。”
在本月早些时候赢得特拉华州众议院唯一代表的选举后，众议员莎拉·麦克布莱德将成为第一位公开的跨性别国会议员。
麦克布赖德周三回应约翰逊说:“我不是来为浴室争吵的。我在这里为特拉华人而战，降低家庭面临的成本。像所有成员一样，我将遵守议长约翰逊概述的规则，即使我不同意这些规则。”
目前还不清楚南卡罗来纳州会发生什么共和党众议员南希·梅斯的法案这将禁止变性妇女在国会大厦使用女厕所，但她庆祝议长的决定是女权的胜利。
梅斯说:“我以身为女性为荣，今天，女性赢了。”。“我不会就此罢休。我已经起草了另一个法案，当我们12月回来时，我会把它归档——如果你是联邦资助的教育机构、学校等等，女性在私人空间也必须受到保护。所以这仅仅是个开始。”
民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯称这一决定“令人厌恶”
“因为如果你问他们，‘你有什么计划来执行这个政策?’他们不会给出答案。这不可避免地会导致妇女和女孩被攻击，因为他们想要，因为人们会想检查他们的私处，怀疑谁是跨性别者，谁是异性恋者，以及谁在做什么，”她说。
梅斯早些时候曾表示，她提出的法案“绝对”是为了回应麦克布莱德进入国会。
“是的，而且绝对是。梅斯在国会大厦告诉记者。“我不会在女更衣室里支持一个男人，你知道，一个有阴茎的人，”她说。
美国广播公司新闻周三问她是否就此问题与麦克布赖德会面，梅斯说她没有。
“她对此没有发言权。这是关于妇女的权利，在某些时候，我们必须在沙滩上画一条线，”梅斯说。“我是一个非常有社会意识的人。我投票支持同性婚姻，不是一次，而是两次。”
“他生来就是男性，”她说麦克布莱德。“不是——我对代词不感兴趣。我不在乎。我尽可能地尊重你。我甚至会和他或她一起立法。我和任何愿意和我一起工作的人一起工作，但我不会玩这种性别意识形态，这种男人想强加给女人的古怪、疯狂的东西。”
至于约翰逊计划如何执行这一政策还不完全清楚，但根据众议院的规定，议长对设施有“总体控制权”。
麦克布赖德在周三的一份声明中说:“这种从这个国家面临的真正问题上转移注意力的努力在过去几天里没有分散我的注意力，因为我一直在努力工作，准备在明年1月代表美国最伟大的州。”
作为对梅斯的回应，麦克布赖德得到了众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯和民主党妇女核心小组的支持。
“共和党人不是专注于降低成本和改善妇女和家庭健康和安全的真正解决方案，而是残酷地攻击我们的新成员，以转移对他们无力治理的注意力。我们不会容忍这种情况，”一个来自妇女核心小组的帖子在x上读到。
杰弗里斯说共和党人在欺负麦克布莱德。
杰弗里斯周二表示:“这一即将到来的众议院共和党会议多数派正通过欺负国会成员开始向新国会过渡。”“这就是我们在做的事吗?这就是你从11月的选举中吸取的教训?这是你的优先事项，你想欺负一名国会议员，而不是欢迎她加入这个机构，以便我们所有人都能共同努力，把事情做好，为美国人民带来真正的结果?”
Speaker Johnson says transgender women won't be allowed to use women’s restrooms in Capitol
House Speaker Mike Johnson said transgender women cannot use women's restrooms in the Capitol and House office buildings. This also applies to changing rooms and locker rooms, Johnson said.
"All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex," the statement said Wednesday.
Johnson continued, "It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol."
After winning her election earlier this month to be Delaware's sole representative in the House, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride will be the first openly trans member of Congress.
McBride responded to Johnson Wednesday by saying, "I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them."
It's unclear what will happen with South CarolinaGOP Rep. Nancy Mace's billthat would ban transgender women from using women's restrooms in the Capitol, but she celebrated the speaker's decision as a victory for women's rights.
"I am proud to be a woman, and today, women won," Mace said. "And I'm not going to stop there. I have another bill that I've drafted, and I will file it when we get back in December -- if you're a federally funded educational institution, school, etcetera, women have to be protected, too, in private spaces. So this is just the start."
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the decision "disgusting."
"Because if you ask them, 'What is your plan on how to enforce this?' they won't come up with an answer. And what it inevitably results in are women and girls who are primed for assault because they want, because people are going to want to check their private parts in suspecting who is trans and who is cis and who's doing what," she said.
Mace had said earlier that her bill she introduced was "absolutely" in response to McBride entering Congress.
"Yes, and absolutely. And then some," Mace told reporters at the Capitol. "I'm not going to stand for a man, you know, someone with a penis, in the women's locker room," she said.
Asked by ABC News on Wednesday if she had met with McBride over the issue, Mace said she had not.
"She doesn't get a say in this. This is about women's rights, and at some point we have to draw a line in the sand," Mace said. "I'm somebody who's very socially sensible. I voted for gay marriage, not once, but twice."
"He was born a biological male," she said of McBride. "It's not -- I'm not into pronouns. I don't care. I try to be as respectful as I can. I'll even work with with him or her on legislation. I work with anyone who's willing to work with me, but I'm not going to play into this gender ideology, this wackadoo lunatic, crazy thing that men want to force on women."
In terms of how Johnson plans to enforce this policy is not entirely clear, but the speaker has "general control" of facilities, according to House rules.
"This effort to distract from the real issues facing this country hasn't distracted me over the last several days, as I've remained hard at work preparing to represent the greatest state in the union come January," McBride said in a statement Wednesday.
In response to Mace, McBride has received support from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Democratic Women's Caucus.
"Instead of focusing on lowering costs and real solutions to improve the health and safety of women and families, Republicans are cruelly attacking our new Member to distract from their inability to govern. We won't stand for it," a post from the women's caucus read on X.
Jeffries said Republicans are bullying McBride.
"This incoming, small, House Republican Conference majority is beginning to transition to the new Congress by bullying a member of Congress," Jeffries said Tuesday. "This is what we're doing? This is the lesson that you've drawn from the election in November? This is your priority, that you want to bully a member of Congress, as opposed to welcoming her to join this body so that all of us can work together to get things done and deliver real results for the American people?"
