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The anti-LGBTQ+ Republican lawmakers followed a cisgender woman they mistook as the first transgender member of Congress into the bathroom.
The congresswoman appeared to be taken by surprise by the protest and was seen wandering the halls of the Senate, a different building than the protestors, holding a bullhorn.
Rep. Steve King of Iowa has proposed restricting transgender people on Capitol Hill from using bathrooms matching their gender identity.
Iowa must pay $85,000 to a group of transgender students who were prevented from using a Capitol restroom.
About 15 activists were arrested in the U.S. Capitol today while protesting Republicans' transgender bathroom ban with a sit-in.
Nancy Mace’s proposal to cut bathroom access for trans women in the Capitol is the latest in the building’s long history of excluding women lawmakers.
Zephyr tells The Advocate about Republicans' Capitol Hill bathroom ban, the state of trans rights, and a new documentary about her censure, Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr.
A proposed bill in Congress would ban trans people from bathrooms in museums, national parks and other federal property. How would it be enforced, and what are the consequences?
The President-elect’s campaign spent millions demonizing transgender Americans, and House Republicans just passed an anti-trans bathroom ban targeting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
From slurs to false accusations, here are 12 times Nancy Mace manufactured political stunts just to feel the public eye's gaze.
Florida Capitol Police arrested Marcy Rheintgen on March 19 and charged her with trespassing, a second degree misdemeanor under state law.
Nancy Mace's political stunt targeting Sarah McBride's bathroom use comes just a year after Mace said "I'm pro-transgender rights. I'm pro-LGBTQ."
"All it does is allow these Republicans to go around and bully any woman who isn't wearing a skirt because they think she might not look woman enough," Ocasio-Cortez said.
A look at the attention-seeking political gamesmanship of the South Carolina congresswoman that will lead to real people getting hurt.
The announcement was tucked away in the Congressional Record.
The organizers behind last year's Gender Liberation March tell The Advocate about how they're fighting back now.
A 20-year-old trans woman asked Nancy Mace to apologize for using a transphobic slur. Mace responded by calling the woman the slur.
“I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality. No one should be discriminated against. I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist," Mace said in 2021.
The Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney for D.C. dropped the case without explanation.
"As the first and only out transgender member of Congress, Sarah will be putting herself on the line every day in a way that’s never been done before," writes HRC's Jay Brown.
