The New Republic submits:

Nancy Mace’s thinly veiled transphobia is getting old fast—just ask Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“What Nancy Mace, and what Speaker Johnson are doing, [is] endangering all women and girls. Because if you ask them, ‘What is your plan on how to enforce this?’ they won’t come up with an answer,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters after being asked about Mace’s string of targeted anti-transgender resolutions against Delaware’s Representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first ever openly trans woman in Congress.

Ah but is he the first ever non-zebra in Congress? Is he the first soap dish? The first violin?

We all know what he’s not: he’s not the first man in Congress.

Ocasio-Cortez is, frankly, a credulous idiot to pretend that a man elected to Congress is being persecuted because not everyone is willing to play along with his fantasy/con-game. The New Republic is a credulous idiot for agreeing with her idiocy.

Mace, a GOP representative from South Carolina, introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would forbid trans women [to use] the restroom that aligns with their gender identity in the U.S. Capitol Building. The only trans elected official in the Capitol Building is Representative-elect Sarah McBride.

Blah blah. The point is that Sarah McBride is a man and thus should not barge into the women’s restrooms. Uttering the magic word “trans” doesn’t change that.

Democratic Representative Mark Pocan was also swift to react to Johnson’s decision. “As Chair of the Equality Caucus, I requested a meeting with Speaker Johnson to discuss his bathroom ban and open his eyes to the reality that this policy is cruel, completely unenforceable, and opens the door for abuse, harassment, and discrimination in the halls of Congress,” he wrote on Bluesky.

But letting men use the women’s restrooms does not open the door for abuse, harassment, and discrimination?

They just don’t see us, do they. We’re a sort of annoying blur.