Summary
The GOP-led House approved its rules package but excluded Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) proposed trans bathroom ban targeting Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first transgender congresswoman.
While the ban was omitted, the package includes provisions restricting transgender and immigrant rights and fast-tracks bills limiting trans participation in sports, abortion access, and benefits for undocumented immigrants.
Mace, who previously used anti-trans rhetoric to promote the ban, also cosponsored efforts to amend Title IX, a federal law that bars sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding.
Democrats criticized the package for scapegoating vulnerable communities while ignoring policies to improve Americans' lives.
7 Comments
adarza@lemmy.ca · 52 pts · 1y
been a staple of the republicant platform for decades.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Cruelty is the point for the Republican fatwa on the American experiment.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Oh I'm not an American to them. Sure I was born here to citizens who were born here to citizens, and sure I've spent all but a week of my life here, but I'm trans so I'm not a real American
Infynis@midwest.social · 29 pts · 1y
You can just add this line at the end of every article about Republicans doing something
Rapidcreek@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Doesn't matter. It is all symbolic bullshit, not actual policy. Mace got her desired headlines for her little hate tantrum. That's all she wants.
Although now she'll probably try to force a vote on the floor on it at some point in the future, just to score more political hate points
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
If it restricts benefits even further for undocumented immigrants, then I feel like the ones that pay taxes should be exempt from paying taxes.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 1y
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