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struggle4progress

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Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:19 PM Feb 2025

AOC speaks out against the bathroom ban, stands with Sarah McBride [View all]

Sarah Gleason, USA TODAY
November 22, 2024 at 5:52 PM

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounced House Republicans’ efforts this week to ban trans people from using single-sex bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol building reserved for “individuals of that biological sex,” just weeks after the election of the first transgender member of Congress, Sarah McBride of Delaware.

In a video interview with Spectrum News on Wednesday, the New York progressive, known as AOC, described the policy as “disgusting.”

“If a woman doesn’t look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect her genitals to use a bathroom?” asked Ocasio-Cortez. “No matter how you may feel about this issue, (you) should reject it completely” ...

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