House Speaker Mike Johnson clarified Tuesday after refusing to answer a reporter’s question about whether transgender Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is a man or a woman.
“I just want to make a statement to all of you here and be very clear: I was asked a question this morning at the Leadership Gaggle, and I made that premise,” Johnson told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. Rejected because the answer is too obvious.” Afternoon “For anyone who doesn’t know my well-established record on this issue, let me be very clear: A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. And a man does not become a woman. could.”
“That said, I also believe that the Scriptures teach what I just said. But I also believe that we treat everyone with respect, and so we do all these things. Can do and believe at the same time,” he added. “And I wanted to make it clear to everybody because there are a lot of questions. But that’s where I stand. I’ve stood there my whole life, and these are the facts.”
At the House GOP’s weekly press conference early Tuesday, a reporter asked Johnson, “Is the freshman elected? Sarah McBride A man or a woman?”
Johnson declined to say whether the trans Rep-elect was male or female, saying all should be treated with ‘respect’.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a press conference with other House GOP leadership at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 19, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Johnson replied, “Look, I’m not going to get into that. We welcome all new members with open arms who are elected representatives of the people.” “I believe it is a mandate that we treat all individuals with dignity and respect, and we will.”
That question came up when Rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C., introduced a resolution Monday calling on members, officers and Employees of the House By using single-sex facilities “other than those corresponding to their biological sex”.
Rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C. arrive for the House Republican Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on November 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Asked if the resolution was in response to McBride coming to Congress, Mace said Tuesday, “Yes, and absolutely, and then some.”
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“I’m not going to stand for a man, you know, a man with a penis in a woman’s locker room, that’s not right,” Mays said. “I’m an abuse victim myself. I’m a rape survivor. I have PTSD from abuse at the hands of a man. And I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces. So I’m absolutely 100 % will stand in the way of any man who will fight you every step of the way in the women’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms.”
Outside the Capitol late Tuesday, Mace said Johnson told him Monday he would include his resolution in the House rules package.
Representatives-elect Sarah Elfrith, D-Del., Sarah McBride, D-Del., and Emily Randall, D-Wash., and other congressional newcomers to the 119th Congress gather for a group photo on Nov. 15, 2024, in U.S. On the steps of the Capitol. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)
“And if it doesn’t end there, I will amend the House Rules package,” Mace said. “And I also have a privilege motion if it’s not in the House Rules package of the 119th Congress. I’m going to vote on it. That’s not right. I’m going to be a survivor of sexual assault. Women’s restrooms. , being in the locker room, or the changing room, is disgusting, and I won’t allow that, I’m legislating tonight. People can wait for that, but I won’t allow that country Every woman and girl across the world from this madness Be safe.”
“And today I’m getting death threats from men pretending to be women who are willing to kill me for my rights and the women’s rights I fight for,” Mace added. I have been.” “This is madness. This is nonsense. And I will stand up and fight against the radical left, all day, every day, 365 days a year. Good luck. Come at me, brother.”
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In the X-Posts on Monday, McBride derided the resolution as “a blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to the problems facing Americans.” “
