Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reportedly said that she’d fight Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) if McBride tries to use women’s facilities in the Capitol. Greene made the comments during a meeting held the day before the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is a day to build awareness of violence against trans and nonbinary people.

Two unnamed people who were in the room at the time told Politico about Greene’s threat. When Greene was asked about the comments, she didn’t confirm or deny them, instead saying that she “shouldn’t have to” beat up anyone.

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The congresswoman is calling for violence against transgender people after spending a large part of her life tormenting them.

“It’s pretty aggressive for biological men to be invading our spaces,” she said.

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On Steve Bannon’s War Room broadcast, Greene said that McBride using the restroom is “assault,” which it is not. Assault is commonly understood to be a physical attack on someone; in the law, assault refers to a specific verbal threat or attempt to inflict bodily harm. A woman using the women’s restroom is neither of those things.

“This is an assault!” Greene said, after she deadnamed McBride. “I’m not kidding you. It is like a physical assault for a man to come in, charging into our private places: bathrooms, locker rooms, our gyms.”

Yesterday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using women’s facilities in the Capitol. Trans people have been visiting and working in the Capitol for years, and Mace has said that her resolution was filed just because McBride was elected and will be the first out transgender member of Congress.

McBride’s response to what can only be described as a concerted attack on her dignity has been muted, saying that she hopes for “kindness.”

“Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness,” she wrote on X. “This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing. We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars.”

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