MSNBC ran a snarky, motive-imputing story headlined, “Nancy Mace wants to welcome the first openly trans member of Congress with a bathroom ban.” You can thank Delaware voters, who elected Tim “Sarah” McBride as the nation’s first openly cross-dressing Congressman, er, Congresswoman, um, oh fine, Congressperson. Despite MSNBC’s paranoia that radical Christians are racing around trying to hamper its bizarre sexual adventurism, the nation just shrugged and asked, again, “am I taking crazy pills?
You can’t blame Tim, I mean Sarah, or whatever they call xeselves. He turned his poor employment prospects into her lucrative career in federal politics. And it only hurt them a little. He, I mean she, they, doesn’t have multiple personalities, they just refer to xeselves in the plural third person because of science. And don’t call them crazy! They’re not crazy, are they, my precious, hmm….?
Sorry, I got distracted. The developing story was that, upon hearing of McBride’s glass-skirt shattering election, rape survivor and feisty South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) became distressed at the notion of sharing the Congressional ladies’ room with Tim-Sarah and his, I mean her, its, xers, or rather their special package.
So Nancy, the biological woman in this equation, filed a resolution that, if passed, would require House members, officers, and employees to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their biological sex.
Hoo boy. It erupted like a stick of dynamite dropped into a porta-potty. MSNBC reported that Mace’s resolution “sparked outrage among Democrats,” which was an understatement on the scale of calling the Hindenburg Disaster an “unpleasant balloon ride.”
No shrinking violet, Georgia’s fiery Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) joined forces with Mace and publicly promised to fight McBride if she ever finds him in a ladies’ room anywhere in the House. It’s not quite like fighting cartels armed with grenade launchers, but Ms. Greene has all the spunk and fire of a Texas Land Commissioner.
I wish there were more strong men like all the strong ladies in today’s post. Affable Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was hectored by deranged reporters all day about Rep. Mace’s proper-potty resolution. In his first effort, mild-mannered Speaker Johnson disappointingly tried much too hard to be politically correct, amiably urging mutual respect for everyone and genially saying nothing of substance.
But at least Johnson fixed it a little later. Maybe he watched his uninspiring performance. Either way, he re-emerged at the press podium and this time, quoting Scripture as authority, definitively stated that wearing skirts and lipstick does not magically transform men into women, as if that needed saying (which, astonishingly, it did and still does).
CLIP: Speaker Johnson clarifies his earlier statements, thank goodness (0:42).
I believe this story is much bigger than just a kerfuffle in the Congressional toilet, or even than transphobia! in the House of Representatives! Should the House pass Mace’s resolution, which by some accounts does not go far enough, it will cast a dark shadow of precedent across the nation. Pro-women activists nationwide can use the House resolution to argue for similar ordinances and rules in their own locales. If it’s good enough for Congress…
Indeed, since McBride is the first cross-dressing Congressman to sashay into the House of Representatives, this is the first time the House has been forced to grapple with the incendiary bathroom/locker-room issue. The Republicans hold the majority and can easily pass a sensible resolution like Mace’s. Will they have the courage to do it, in the face of a coordinated captive media war ben on their political destruction?
I hope so! We will soon find out. What do you think they’ll do?
