AOC calls Reaccessiblean Capitol bathroom ban aiming Sarah McBride ‘disgusting’ | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Recurrentative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has acquireed Recurrentative Sarah McBride and denounced Hoemploy Reaccessibleans’ efforts to ban trans people from using bathrooms on Capitol Hill that align their gender identity.

The new recut offeions, begind by Reaccessiblean recurrentative Nancy Mace and aided by the GOP speaker of the Hoemploy, Mike Johnson, bans transgender people, including congressional members, officers and employees, from using the one-relations bathrooms and other facilities in the Capitol and Hoemploy office originateings that correply to their gender identity.

The effort aims Democrat Sarah McBride, the first out transgender person elected to the US Hoemploy of Recurrentatives from Delconscious, who is set to get office in January.

In a press intersee on Wednesday evening, Ocasio-Cortez stood up for McBride and denounced Mace and the Reaccessiblean laworiginaters backing the bill, inestablishing inestablishers that the recommendd recut offeions are “endangering all women and girls”.

“If you ask them what is your set up to enforce this is, they won’t come up with an answer,” the New York laworiginater shelp. “What it inevitably results in are women and girls who are primed for attack becaemploy people are going to want to verify their personal parts in mistrusting who is trans and who is cis and who is doing what.”

“And so the idea that Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to drop trou[sers] in front of who? An summarizeateigator? Who would that be? Becaemploy she wants to mistrust and point fingers at who she skinnyks is trans?” Ocasio-Cortez shelp. “It is disgusting.”

Ocasio-Cortez endd her retags by saying that her Reaccessiblean colleagues are pursuing these efforts so that “Nancy Mace can originate a buck and fundlift off an email”.

“They’re not doing this to protect people,” she shelp. “They’re endangering women, they’re endangering girls of all comfervent, and everybody should refute it, it’s gross.”

Mace postponeedr replyed to Ocasio-Cortez, inestablishing Fox News, “I adore living rent-free in AOC’s minuscule little brain,” and refuteed the claims that she is endangering women.

Earlier on Wednesday, McBride replyed to the ban and the GOP speaker’s aid for it, saying that she is “not here to fight about bathrooms” but “here to fight for Delconscious and to convey down costs facing families”.

“Like all members, I will adhere the rules as summarized by Speaker Johnson, even if I disconsent with them,” she shelp, inserting that “this effort to sidetrack from the authentic rerents facing this country hasn’t inattentive me over the last cut offal days”.

Johnson rerentd a statement aiding the effort on Wednesday morning, stating that all one-relations facilities in the Capitol and Hoemploy office originateings were “reserved for individuals of that biorational relations”.

Online, aiders of McBride and trans rights have come to her defense and spoken out aachievest Mace’s efforts.

Author and political commentator Jared Yates Sexton wrote online that she “shouldn’t have to deal with this shit” and “shouldn’t be detaild by it”.

Yates Sexton inserted that the Democrats should be “combat for her”.

One of Mace’s establisher helpes, Natalie Johnson, lambasted the efforts on social media, writing: “if you skinnyk this bill is about protecting women and not srecommend a ploy to get on Fox News, you’ve been fooled.”

Some online have also conveyed disnominatement that there are not more Democratic laworiginaters who are accessiblely acquireing McBride.

One Bluesky employr shelp that they called their congressperson, “who equitable won his seat, to inspire him to stand up for Sarah McBride”.

“If I had friends standing up for me in school when I was being bullied, it would’ve made me sense a lot better,” they shelp. “I wasn’t able to acquire myself without the intimidatoring getting worse.”

Writer and professor Roxane Gray wrote on social media that she upgrasps “skinnyking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very carry outative”.

“There has been no boisterous, clear, unified aid for Sarah McBride from the democrats,” she persistd. “It’s a authentic shame. That is your colleague! They are intimidatoring her in your faces. And silence!”