TWIBS: White Woman Rushes to Segregate Bathrooms
Throwing it back to antebellum, Representative Nancy Mace gleefully pushed to block first openly trans congresswoman Sarah McBride from Capitol and House offices bathrooms… before Speaker Mike Johnson made the ban a reality all on his own.
Empty soulless stare from Rep. Mace’s Twitter profile where she posts dozens of times daily about trans people
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This Week in Barrel Scraping (TWIBS) is Assigned Media’s oldest column! Every Friday, Alyssa Steinsiek digs deep from the well of transphobia and finds the most obnoxious, goofy thing transphobes have said or obsessed over during the week and tears it to shreds.
Weirdo alert! Weirdo alert! Sound the weirdo alarm, folks, we’ve got a WEIRDO ALERT triggered by a white southern woman, House Representative Nancy Mace! Shocker, I know.
If you weren’t aware, during the elections a couple weeks ago (help me, please, why does time move so quickly!) Sarah McBride, a two-term Delawarean state senator won her bid for the state’s only seat in the House, defeating John Whalen III to become the first openly transgender person (AND woman!) elected to Congress and, more importantly, proving that anybody with a generational suffix appended to their name should not be allowed into politics.
So nobody else do that. I’ll be keeping an eye out to make sure none of you try to do that.
McBride’s stated goal as Delaware’s representative is to cut through all that nasty partisanship and see her way clear to a good, clean handshake with those folks across the aisle, who must just be misunderstood patriots uh except they’ve already decided to ban her from every bathroom at her place of work before she’s even taken office.
Shit!
Or, well, don’t I guess! Hold it! You’ve gotta hold it and vote, Sarah!
South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace (R, fucking obviously) introduced a resolution to a rules package House members will vote on next month that, should it be adopted, would ban transgender people from using the correct bathrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms based on their “biological sex” (meaningless term, scrub it from the annals of your noggin noodle post-haste, thanks) in the US Capitol and House office buildings. A more targeted piece of legislation there has never been.
In case you’re not crystal clear on just what her deal is, here’s a video Nancy shared of her scrawny twig ass slapping a sign reading “biological” over the women’s restroom sign. And are any of us surprised that a white southern woman would so gleefully jump at the opportunity to segregate a bathroom?
Got any other spaces you’d like to keep clear of the wrong people, Nancy?
I held out some hope that McBride herself might take a resolute stand against this sort of behavior. I get it, it’s tough being the new kid, especially when you’re both historical and historically loathed by the cretins you share office space with. Unfortunately, she’s taking the Biden-Harris approach of gently ignoring the transphobia and hoping it mitigates itself. No surprises there, she was a close friend of the late Beau Biden, Joe’s son, and Joe himself penned the foreword to her autobiography, Tomorrow Will Be Different.
Tomorrow has arrived and brought the different with it, and man it sucks.
McBride released a public statement on Wendesday insisting that she’s “not here to fight about bathrooms.” Since bathroom bans are a tool Republicans use to deny transgender Americans the right to exist in public life, and since any trans colleagues she may have in the venerated halls of the Capitol who don’t have their own private bathroom like her might want to be able to take a leak on the job, I would argue that she really should be here to fight about bathrooms.
She even goes as far as to say that she “will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson,” which is a slightly more unequivocal capitulation than I had hoped to see. It seems to me that we just watched Kamala Harris roll over in the face of immense pressure to demonize the trans community, and the results of her election weren’t quite in her favor, so… maybe that isn’t the move? I understand not wanting to risk being arrested on the job, but I would personally urge her to dig in a little harder when it comes to fighting for her, and our, civil liberties.
Oh, by the way, when she says “the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson,” she’s talking about the fact that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson went ahead and issued a rule that trans people have to use the wrong bathrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms at the Capitol and House offices. On Trans Day of Remembrance. Truly sickening shit.
Following this announcement, Johnson said “a man cannot become a woman” with his whole chest while looking like evil discount Stephen Colbert. He added that his scripture says to “treat everybody with dignity,” and brazenly lied that he “can do and believe all those things at the same time.”
To be clear: No, he can’t deny us our dignity and treat us with dignity at the same time. He has preemptively stolen Sarah McBride’s equality, and the equality of any trans staffer working in D.C., before the first trans congresswomen has even managed to take office.
So I say, unequivocally, fuck him and every single one of his contemporaries.
Alyssa Steinsiek is a professional writer who spends too much time playing video games!
