We are on Day Two of the Capitol Hill Bathroom Cycle, which shows no sign of abating. CBS and NBC have now taken up the cause of the transgender member of Congress who is, as of today, NOT allowed to use women’s facilities due to being a biological male.
Here’s how the CBS Evening News opened their reporting on the trans toilet tiff:
NORAH O’DONNELL: House Speaker Mike Johnson announced a new rule on Capitol Hill. If transgender men and women are going to use single-sex bathrooms or locker rooms, they must use the one that is reserved for, as he said, their biological sex. CBS's Scott MacFarlane reports from The Hill.
SCOTT MACFARLANE: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson today took aim at Democrat Sarah McBride, the first ever transgender member elected to Congress. With his decision to bar transgender people from using those Capitol complex bathrooms that do not align with their sex assigned at birth.
MIKE JOHNSON: We have single-sex facilities for a reason.
MACFARLANE: McBride said today she did not come to Washington to fight about bathrooms. South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace has led the charge to bar McBride from women’s rooms here and does not acknowledge McBride is a woman.
NANCY MACE: We have rights as women and we have the right not to be bombarded by men in our restrooms.
Just so we are crystal clear here, CBS Congressional Correspondent Scott MacFarlane is in a moral panic because Nancy Mace refuses to acknowledge Representative-Elect McBride as a woman. This was basically the tone and tenor for both reports: outrage at the idea that men who dress as women are not women, and should therefore not be allowed to use the same restroom facilities as women.
This is the same Regime Media that made short shrift of the various mediocre male swimmers that invaded women’s swimming. Today, it’s volleyball, with a number of female athletes suffering concussions after getting balls spiked on their heads by male athletes. The erasure of women continues apace, and as we saw on MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight, the Regime Media have chosen the side that erases women.
NBC’s entry wasn’t that much better. Congressional correspondent Ryan Nobles attempts a cheap whataboutism, predicated on Mace’s historic graduation from The Citadel:
RYAN NOBLES: South Carolina's Nancy Mace, who broke ground herself as the first woman to graduate from the once all-male military academy The Citadel, arguing that McBride should not be allowed to use women’s restrooms on the Capitol complex.
Nice try, Ryan. Per The Los Angeles Times’ profile on Mace’s Citadel predecessor, Shannon Faulkner:
After a federal judge last year ruled The Citadel’s all-male policy unconstitutional, Faulkner entered the university as a sophomore day student while living off campus in Charleston with her attorney. But on Saturday she was assigned to India Company, given a single room with a lockable door in a barracks and will have use of a private bathroom. For security, a video camera will be trained on her door 24 hours a day.
You see, Mace didn’t have to worry about having to use a bathroom in the presence of men back then. This is pretty much a now thing.
Both reports end with condescending quotes from far-left members of Congress, and with a collective eye roll and deep Algoreian sigh at what our collective refusal to endorse the societal erasure of women betrays: our lack of enlightenment. If only we agree to destroy our girls and women, then our moral betters might stop looking down upon us. These guys are working hard for that CEI score, and it shows.
Click “expand” to view the full transcripts of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective newscasts on Wednesday, November 20th, 2024:
CBS EVENING NEWS
11/20/24
6:45 PM
NORAH O’DONNELL: House Speaker Mike Johnson announced a new rule on Capitol Hill. If transgender men and women are going to use single-sex bathrooms or locker rooms, they must use the one that is reserved for, as he said, their biological sex. CBS's Scott MacFarlane reports from The Hill.
SCOTT MACFARLANE: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson today took aim at Democrat Sarah McBride, the first ever transgender member elected to Congress. With his decision to bar transgender people from using those Capitol complex bathrooms that do not align with their sex assigned at birth.
MIKE JOHNSON: We have single-sex facilities for a reason.
MACFARLANE: McBride said today she did not come to Washington to fight about bathrooms. South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace has led the charge to bar McBride from women’s rooms here and does not acknowledge McBride is a woman.
NANCY MACE: We have rights as women and we have the right not to be bombarded by men in our restrooms.
MACFARLANE: McBride spoke with CBS News Sunday Morning in October.
RITA BRAVER: And I can't believe I'm asking you this but I'm going to. What bathrooms will you use when you are in the Capitol?
SARAH MCBRIDE: The bathrooms that I’ve used in the State Senate. The bathrooms that I use when I'm going out to dinner here in Wilmington. I’ll continue to use the bathrooms that I've used for the last decade plus.
BRAVER: And that's the ladies room? [Crosstalk, Laughter]
MACFARLANE: President-Elect Donald Trump attacked Democrats for supporting transgender rights during the campaign.
DONALD TRUMP: We won't be changing your children's gender with their transgender craziness.
MACFARLANE: Speaker Johnson has argued there are unisex bathrooms on the Capitol campus.
JOHNSON: A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman.
MACFARLANE: Democrats blasted Johnson's decision.
MARK POCAN: What we should be doing is getting things done for the American people. Instead, we are worried about, you know, who is using what toilet, and that's pretty ridiculous.
MACFARLANE: An association of LGBTQ congressional staffers issued a statement calling the new rule a direct affront to trans people. Sarah McBride becomes the newest member of Congress from Delaware on January 3rd. Norah.
O’DONNELL: Scott MacFarlane on The Hill tonight. Thank you, Scott.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
11/20/24
6:42 PM
LESTER HOLT: Also, the Speaker of the house wading into the controversy over trans rights, issuing a new policy on the use of bathrooms at The Capitol.. As Ryan Nobles explains, it comes after the election of the first openly transgender member of Congress.
RYAN NOBLES: Delaware's Sarah McBride made history in November, becoming the first openly trans woman to win a seat in congress.
SARAH MCBRIDE: Thank you so much to the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
NOBLES: Her win came as Republicans made opposition to trans rights a major part of their campaign strategy.
ANNOUNCER: Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.
NOBLES: Now that fight is front and center on Capitol Hill.
NANCY MACE: This isn't manufactured. This is a real thing.
NOBLES: South Carolina's Nancy Mace, who broke ground herself as the first woman to graduate from the once all-male military academy The Citadel, arguing that McBride should not be allowed to use women’s restrooms on the Capitol complex.
MACE: Congressman-Elect McBride already has a restroom in their own office. There are unisex facilities throughout The Capitol.
NOBLES: It led to House Speaker Mike Johnson issuing a new policy that says restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms are, quote: “reserved for individuals of that biological sex.”
MIKE JOHNSON: A man is a man and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman. But I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity.
NOBLES: This battle, a microcosm of the war raging across the country over trans rights, with Republicans pushing back on bathroom access, pronoun use, and healthcare for trans people.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: They're endangering women, they’re endangering girls of all kinds, and everybody should reject it. It's gross.
NOBLES: It's a fight McBride, who came to congress to deal with economic and quality of life issues, did not intend on being the face of.
MCBRIDE: I’m not running to be the transgender member of Congress. I'm running to be Delaware’s Member of Congress…
NOBLES: And in a statement tonight, McBride said that she didn’t come to Congress to fight over bathrooms, but that she’ll follow the Speaker’s new rules even if she doesn’t agree with them. Lester.
HOLT: All right, Ryan. Thanks.
