Sarah McBride, the first out transgender member of Congress who won her election just weeks ago, posted a statement on social media, several hours before Republican House speaker Mike Johnson announced that transgender women are not permitted to use women’s bathrooms in the Capitol building.
In the post, which features a photo of McBride in a bathroom, McBride says “Here, I am using a women’s restroom in North Carolina that I’m technically barred from being in.”
The statement continues:
They say I’m a pervert They say I’m a man dressed as a woman. They say I’m a threat to their children. They say I’m confused, They say l’m dangerous
We’re all just people trying to pee in peace.
I just want to read her response to ask this and I can’t seem to get to it. This article and another from the guardian doesn’t even go to the referenced story.
Then I found a website that quotes her “pee in peace” comment and when I click on that link, which theoretically goes to her blue sky account, it says the post is deleted.
So then I remind the post specific information from the URL so it’ll go directly to, what I presume to be, her blue sky account people. (It’s literally the first time I’ve ever clicked a link that goes to Blue sky, so I’m not 100% sure that the URL is correct.) it seems correct though because now it says her account is suspended.
She must be scary as hell since every path I take to try to get information on this keeps getting blocked.
🤬
Found her twitter, but the post seems to have only been on bluesky. All well. I tried. I’m sure there will be plenty of articles on this.
From the guardian. She apparently isn’t affiliated with the bluesky account
A fake account? What the hell is wrong with people?
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of those happening on Bluesky lately. Growing pains, I suppose.
At least the admins have been responding quickly to take them down.
A truly valid question. I feel like lies and fraud are way too normalized now