Margaret Brennan Asks Sarah McBride About GOP Transgender Bathroom Ban: ‘Are You Being Treated With Dignity?’
CBS anchor Margaret Brennan asked Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) if she feels she’s being “treated with dignity” by GOP colleagues who have banned her from using women’s facilities.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) spent last week railing against Rep.-elect McBride, who became the first openly transwoman elected to Congress earlier this month, even introducing a resolution to prevent any transwoman from using women’s restrooms on Capitol grounds.
In response, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) said bathrooms in the Capitol can only be used by “individuals of that biological sex.”
On Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation Brennan played tape of Johnson claiming “we treat everybody with dignity” and asked McBride if she feels that’s accurate.
McBride redirected the topic in her response, telling Brennan, “I didn’t run for the United States House of Representatives to talk about what bathroom I use”:
MARGARET BRENNAN: As you mentioned, you were here for orientation. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asking about you coming to work and some objections by a female South Carolina Republican representative regarding what bathroom you’d be able to use.
Here’s what the speaker said.
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REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman. That said, I also believe – that’s what scripture teaches, what I just said. But I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you believe are you are being treated with dignity by your colleagues?
REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT SARAH MCBRIDE: I didn’t run for the United States House of Representatives to talk about what bathroom I use. I didn’t run to talk about myself. I ran to deliver for Delawareans. And while Republicans in Congress seem focused on bathrooms and trans people and specifically me, I’m focused on rolling up my sleeves, diving into the details, setting up my office, and beginning the hard work of delivering for Delawareans on the issues that I know keep them up at night.
And I look forward to working with any colleague who’s ready to work and ready to be serious about the issues that matter because, at the end of the day, how I’m being treated does not matter. What matters is how the American people are being treated, and whether we’re actually focused on the issues that matter to them.
Watch above via Face the Nation.
