Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York complained on Thursday of a new policy banning men from women’s restrooms on U.S. Capitol grounds, accusing it of “endanger(ing) girls of all kinds.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced the policy on Wednesday after Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace’s introduction of a resolution that bans members and employees of the House of Representatives from using facilities such as bathrooms designated for the opposite sex. Johnson has included the resolution in the official rules for the next House session, Axios reported.
Mace, a rape survivor, pushed for the official rules after the election of the first “transgender” member of Congress, Democrat “Sarah” McBride, a male LGBT activist and Delaware state legislator who “identifies” as a woman.
Asked by reporters about the new policy, Ocasio-Cortez decried it as “disgusting.”
“Everybody, no matter how you feel on this issue, should reject it completely,” she said, appearing distraught and accusing Mace of pushing for the ban to boost her fundraising efforts.
“They’re not doing this to protect people. They’re endangering women, they’re endangering girls of all kinds,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “And everybody should reject it. It’s gross.”