Summary
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) confirmed her proposed resolution to ban transgender individuals from using bathrooms that don’t align with their biological sex at the U.S. Capitol is aimed at Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress.
Mace also plans broader legislation for similar bans on federal property and in federally funded schools.
McBride responded by calling for respect and kindness among lawmakers.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stated Republicans are working on a resolution to address the unprecedented situation while ensuring dignity and respect for all members.
There’s an argument to be made that we’re just seeing the vestiges of our unfinished 1865 civil war resurfacing.
In other words, the reason the US has not had the tremendous social strides that such a wealthy nation could be expected to have, is because we never fully resolved the core ideological divide. And, like cancer, the remnant losers’ beliefs have metastisized from their concentrations across the South to infect pockets of the nation as a whole.
As an example, about 100 years ago Michigan was inundated with migrants from the South, who moved to take advantage of the manufacturing boom, when Detroit was an auto powerhouse. That influx of people also came with their leftover confederate loser’s ideology. And naturally people then settle and spew out progeny that they inculcate into their hateful ideas too, poisoning generations down the line, which eventually brings us to today. But if we look back over the last 160 years of American struggle, the echoes of the civil war have remained, because the victors allowed them to persist. And in many cases, returned former Confederates to their seats of power.
In other words, the line drawn in the sand was eroded by a mistaken hope for unity, with those who will never embrace the Union’s requirements of what makes us all Americans. To still hold confederate views is to BE as unAmerican as possible. They are traitors.