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Maya Yang

Sarah McBride says Republican attack on trans rights is ‘attempt to misdirect’ voters

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Sarah McBride attends an orientation for new members of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington DC, on 14 November. Photograph: Allison Robbert/AFP/Getty Images

Sarah McBride, the first out transgender person elected to Congress, on Sunday condemned Republicans’ latest attack on trans rights as “an attempt to misdirect” voters away from more central issues in communities, such as healthcare costs and economic inequality.

Delaware’s incoming Democratic member of the House of Representatives, who will join Donald Trump’s new administration in January, also hit back against bathroom restrictions for trans people announced by the GOP on Capitol Hill last week.

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