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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

House speaker bars transgender women from women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill

Transgender people will be barred from using bathrooms and other single-sex facilities at the U.S. Capitol and associated offices that correspond with their gender identity, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday.

He said in a statement such facilities will instead be “reserved for individuals of that biological sex.”

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