Speak Up: Bathroom policy enforced in U.S. Capitol

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced Nov. 20 that all single-sex bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol and the House of Representatives’ offices are reserved for individuals of that biological sex. The move follows the earlier introduction of a resolution by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace that would ban transgender women from using females’ bathrooms in the Capitol. This proposal is an apparent response to the election to the House of Delaware’s Sarah McBride, a Democrat who will become the first openly transgender member of Congress in January 2025.

• Why do some women have a problem with this? — Philip L. Puschel
• Because it opens doors for perverts to take advantage of it. — Sidney Carroman
• Just make single-gender, neutral bathrooms. — Sherry Buckingham Peck
• In other words, putting things back to the way they have been for the last hundred years or more. Heterosexuals have rights, too, and should not have to fear that an individual looking like one sex but claiming another would make them feel uncomfortable either. — Dennis Kirkwood