Republican bathroom bill targets Congress’s first transgender member

Representative-elect Sarah McBride poses for a photograph after joining other freshmen of the 119th Congress at the US Capitol last week. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

After Delaware elected the first ever openly transgender member of Congress earlier this month, a Republican introduced a bill to ban her from using the bathroom that corresponds with her gender identity.

The South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace introduced the bill, which comes a little less than two months before Sarah McBride is due to be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress. The measure would charge the House sergeant at arms with enforcing the bill, though it is unclear exactly how, according to the Hill.