Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called efforts to prevent trans women from using women’s restrooms disgusting and dangerous as Republicans escalate their efforts on Capitol Hill.
Speaker Mike Johnson moved Wednesday to ban the first new transgender member of Congress, Sarah McBride, from using the women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol after Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace introduced a resolution this week that sparked a firestorm.
“What Nancy Mace and what Chairman Johnson are doing puts all women and girls at risk,” AOC told reporters late Wednesday.
‘Because if you ask them, what is your plan to enforce this? They are not going to come up with an answer,” the New York congressman said.
“What it inevitably leads to is women and girls being primed for abuse because people want to check their genitals and suspect who is transgender and who is cis and who is doing what,” she argued.
“Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to visit who? Researcher? Who would that be? Because she wants to conjecture and point the finger at who she thinks is transgender is disgusting,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed.
Her fiery response came as Mace not only banned McBride and other trans women from using U.S. Capitol facilities for women, but went a step further by introducing a new bill on Wednesday.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) for her efforts to deny trans women access to women’s facilities. She said they were putting women and girls at risk amid questions about how the ban would be enforced, claiming it would make people want to “check their genitals.”
Following Speaker Johnson’s Capitol Hill decision, the South Carolina lawmaker is now calling to ban transgender women from using women’s facilities, including bathrooms and locker rooms, on all federal properties across the country.
Mace claims she protects women and fights to reclaim space for women. She admitted that her first resolution earlier this week was directly aimed at McBride.
When asked how her resolution would be implemented at the U.S. Capitol on Monday, Mace had no clear answer.
‘Here’s the deal: biological men are not allowed to be in women’s private spaces. Period,” she said.
Mace said she is now receiving death threats because of her crusade, but she vows to continue her fight.
The congresswoman fired back at AOC during an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday night when asked about the accusation that she wants women to “get in trouble.”
“I love living rent-free in the tiny brain of AOC,” Mace said. “I mean, I never said anything like that. The irony here is actually that she is a radical left-wing crazy clown.”
She pointed out that she is a rape survivor and has PTSD from being abused by a man. She called the idea of a man being allowed in a women’s locker room “insanity.”
Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a bill Wednesday to ban trans women from entering women’s facilities on all federal properties. It came after she introduced a resolution earlier this week to ban trans women from using the women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol, ahead of the first transgender member of Congress to head to Washington in January. She claims she is fighting to protect women
Representative-elect Sarah McBride will be the first transgender member of Congress. On Wednesday, Speaker Johnson announced that single-sex facilities in the U.S. Capitol would be reserved for that biological gender, and banned her from using the women’s chamber on Capitol Hill following a resolution by Mace. McBride said she would follow the rules
But a former aide to Mace on Capitol Hill has eviscerated her old boss for claiming she is fighting for women with a series of vile posts on X.
“If you think this bill is about protecting women and not just a ploy to get on Fox News, you’re fooled,” Natalie Johnson wrote.
“Tweeting 262 times about a bill that applies to about 0.00000001% of Congress in 36 hours is absolutely about protecting women. It’s definitely not just a ploy to get media attention,” she wrote sarcastically in another.
“Protecting women in Congress would be tantamount to introducing a bill to ban Matt Gaetz, a sexual predator with an affinity for underage girls, from ever walking those halls again, rather than dropping a bill that alone purpose is to be on TV,” says Johnson. claimed in a third.
A former aide to Rep. Mace hit her in a series of posts on X. Johnson accused Mace of seeking attention with her attempt to ban trans women from bathrooms
Ocasio-Cortez also did not back down on her accusations against Mace.
She followed up her comments with a post in
‘Women know that men have no plans to ‘dress like girls’ to attack them. They do it every day in broad daylight. And those in power protect each other to keep it quiet,” she wrote.
“Just ask the House Ethics Committee. Or the president-elect of the United States. Leave women alone,” she continued.
The second part of the post focused on Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz and President-elect Trump.
AOC on Thursday retweeted her comments about Mace and Johnson endangering women and took aim at President-elect Trump and AG candidate Matt Gaetz, both of whom have been accused of assaulting women
Gaetz was investigated by the committee for sexual misconduct involving a minor, but there is a fight over whether the report should be released as he has been vetted by the Senate to be installed as the nation’s top law enforcement official in the coming Trump administration.
Trump was found liable by a jury last year for sexual abuse and has faced several other accusations from women. Both Gaetz and Trump deny all allegations.
As for her, McBride has been trying to stay above the fray as she prepares to head to Washington in the new year.
The congresswoman-elect responded in a statement Wednesday afternoon, saying she is not going to Washington to fight over bathrooms.
“Like all members, I will follow the rules set forth by Chairman Johnson, even if I disagree with them,” she wrote.
“This attempt to distract from the real issues facing this country has not distracted me in recent days as I have remained hard at work preparing to represent the largest state in the union in January.” , she continued.
She said serving in Congress will be the “honor of a lifetime,” and she looks forward to getting to know future colleagues on both sides of the aisle.