Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, said Monday she would introduce a measure banning transgender women from using the women’s biological bathroom at the U.S. Capitol.

Her announcement comes as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride prepares to take office as the first transgender person elected to Congress.

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The resolution, expected to be filed Monday evening, would change the rules of the U.S. House of Representatives to prohibit members, officers and employees from using facilities currently designated for the opposite biological sex.

“The sanctity of protecting women and fighting the left’s systematic erasure of biological women begins here in the nation’s Capitol,” Mace wrote in a statement.

“We stand up for women, protect their spaces, and bring some sanity back to Capitol Hill,” the statement continued.

Referring to the controversial acronym for a trans-exclusionary radical feminist, Mace also wrote: “The left calls out TERF politics, we call it putting women first. »

McBride responded to the statement in a post onwho said: “This is a blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing. »

She cited the examples of housing, health care and child care as more important issues than the “culture wars.”

McBride also implored kindness, posting: “Every day, Americans go to work with people who have a different life journey than their own and engage with them with respect. I hope members of Congress can demonstrate with the same kindness.”

Mace’s statement, and the bill that is expected to follow, is the latest chapter in the long fight for women’s restrooms at the Capitol.

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Stat Hall’s Women’s Reading Room is now named after former Rep. Lindy Boggs (the mother of ABC legend Cokie Roberts) and had long been a private space for women.

And in 2011, Speaker John Boehner asked the architect of the Capitol to build a women’s room on the House floor — in a former office that once served the parliamentarian.

If Mace’s measure passes, its administration would fall under the jurisdiction of the Sergeant at Arms, who is the top law enforcement officer in the House of Representatives.

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