{"id":128925,"date":"2024-11-22T21:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128925"},"modified":"2024-11-22T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:23:46","slug":"id-much-rather-share-a-ladies-room-with-sarah-mcbride-than-with-nancy-mace-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128925","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019d much rather share a ladies\u2019 room with Sarah McBride than with Nancy Mace | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">Since the conversation, if you can call it that, about trans people always seems to come down to bathrooms, I am sure of one thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">I would much rather share a ladies\u2019 room or a locker room with Sarah McBride than with Nancy Mace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">McBride, of course, was just elected to Congress and, in January, will be the highest-ranking elected official in America who is openly transgender. The 34-year-old comes to the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/house-of-representatives\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">House of Representatives<\/a> after serving in the Delaware legislature; before that, she was the national press secretary of the Human Rights Campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">Mace, a member of Congress from South Carolina since 2021, has been on an ugly campaign in recent weeks clearly intended to belittle and marginalize McBride \u2013 and to get on TV as much as possible doing so. She has filed a resolution, and the House speaker, Mike Johnson, has given it his nod of approval, that would somehow force trans people to keep out of the congressional bathrooms that reflect their gender identity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"0b7e0866-1698-4e25-898a-1ded69464759\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:4,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;AOC calls Republican Capitol bathroom ban targeting Sarah McBride \u2018disgusting\u2019&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;0b7e0866-1698-4e25-898a-1ded69464759&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/21\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defends-trans-congresswoman-sarah-mcbride-trans-congresswoman&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:8,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:1}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">\u201cIf you think this bill is about protecting women and not simply a ploy to get on Fox News, you\u2019ve been fooled,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/ex-nancy-mace-aide-absolutely-loses-it-on-old-boss-for-using-trans-bathroom-fight-to-get-on-fox-news\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">wrote<\/a> Natalie Johnson, Mace\u2019s former communications director. She added, pointedly, that a <em>real <\/em>effort to protect women would involve \u201ca bill to bar Matt Gaetz, a sexual predator with an affinity for underage girls, from ever walking those halls again\u201d. (Trump, as you know, tapped the far-right former Florida representative as his attorney general as part of this month\u2019s parade of appalling cabinet choices. Gaetz later withdrew from consideration.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">On Wednesday, McBride reacted with dignity to all the performative insults and abuse. She simply responded that she would follow the rules and that she\u2019s in Congress to represent her Delaware district; I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll eventually find ways to continue her admirable advocacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">Mace, on the other hand, can\u2019t be described as dignified. She\u2019s running around pasting the word \u201cbiological\u201d on restroom doors for photo ops, and snidely <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepNancyMace\/status\/1858963203998531723\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">tweeting<\/a> in McBride\u2019s direction about International Men\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">And she\u2019s getting plenty of the media attention she craves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">On one level, this is all part of the unending circus of the Trump era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">On a human level, it\u2019s scary, wrong and damaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">\u201cAs a trans person myself, I\u2019m really worried about where this is headed,\u201d wrote Parker Molloy, who writes incisively about politics and media in her newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readtpa.com\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the Present Age<\/a>. \u201cI spend each day worrying about whether or not the healthcare that keeps me alive will remain legal, whether I\u2019m going to face new restrictions on where I\u2019m allowed to exist in public, what would happen to me if (god forbid) I wound up in prison for some reason, and whether or not my identity documents like my passport will be retroactively made invalid.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-2jn2c1\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 14\" style=\"fill:var(--pullquote-icon);\" class=\"dcr-scql1j\"><path d=\"M5.255 0h4.75c-.572 4.53-1.077 8.972-1.297 13.941H0C.792 9.104 2.44 4.53 5.255 0Zm11.061 0H21c-.506 4.53-1.077 8.972-1.297 13.941h-8.686c.902-4.837 2.485-9.411 5.3-13.941Z\"\/><\/svg><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-zzndwp\"><p>In 2021, Mace depicted herself as supportive of LGBTQ+ rights. But that was before the tide turned so forcefully<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">She added poignantly: \u201cNow, more than ever, I feel alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">Trans students may have it even worse. Again, it often comes down to bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">A lot of children, especially transgender and gender-nonconforming children, avoid bathrooms all day, since that\u2019s where the bullying can be most intense. Thus, advocates say, trans kids often are prone to urinary tract infections or eating disorders because they\u2019ve avoided eating and drinking.<\/p>\n<figure data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.NewsletterSignupBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\"><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-16\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"newsletter promotion\" class=\"dcr-av5vqf\">\n<div class=\"dcr-10et71f\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1sbse14\">Sign up to <span>Follow Margaret Sullivan<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">Sign up to get email alerts every time Margaret Sullivan publishes a new column.<\/p>\n<p><gu-island name=\"SecureSignup\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"visible\" props=\"{&quot;newsletterId&quot;:&quot;follow-margaret-sullivan&quot;,&quot;successDescription&quot;:&quot;Sign up to get email alerts every time Margaret Sullivan publishes a new column.&quot;}\"\/><span class=\"dcr-1eusqlu\"><strong>Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"noreferrer\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noreferrer\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" rel=\"noreferrer\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/span><\/aside>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-16\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">As for the right\u2019s obsession with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readtpa.com\/p\/fine-lets-talk-about-trans-athletes\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">trans students on sports team<\/a>, the vast majority have no unfair advantage on the playing fields (or courts, or pools). They are just trying to reap the same benefits of sports as do other kids \u2013 leadership, teamwork and friendship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">The meanspirited and misinformed narrative about transgender people makes it difficult for them to feel cared about and to live full lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">But don\u2019t try to tell that to Mace, whose preoccupation is not with kindness or decency, but with getting attention and winning the culture wars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">As the Daily Beast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/nancy-maces-staff-guide-shows-her-true-priority-nancy-mace\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">reported<\/a> last year, Mace\u2019s staffers were given a handbook that outlined just how intensely this mattered to their boss; they were told to book her on TV multiple times a day, amounting to nine times a week for national outlets and six times a week for local outlets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">In 2021, Mace depicted herself as supportive of LGBTQ+ rights. That was before the tide turned so forcefully and, as Philip Bump of the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/11\/21\/mace-mcbride-transgender-congress\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">put it<\/a>, before \u201cthe Republican base had been fed a steady diet of anti-trans rhetoric, making trans issues fertile ground for anyone willing to engage in the fight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">Mace, clearly, is more than willing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">If that means being cruel, then so be it. As writer Adam Serwer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/10\/the-cruelty-is-the-point\/572104\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">observed<\/a> about Trumpian politics: \u201cThe cruelty is the point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1n1orvu\">Meanwhile, vulnerable and marginalized people are made to suffer for trying to be true to themselves. And despite the progress shown by McBride\u2019s election, the world around this milestone seems to be getting increasingly harsh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/nov\/22\/nancy-mace-sarah-mcbride-transphobia\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the conversation, if you can call it that, about trans people always seems to come down to bathrooms, I am sure of one thing. 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