McBride Is A Trojan Horse To Force Men Into Women’s Spaces

The state of Delaware has elected a dude in a dress to the House of Representatives. Sarah (formerly Tim) McBride is a man who pretends to be a woman, and he will be going to Congress next year, which has provoked a fight over where he will, well, go when he is in Congress next year.

A battle that has been raging across the country has come to the Capitol — what happens if and when Mr. McBride decides to start strolling into the ladies’ restrooms? House Republicans, who have and will maintain a slim majority, are trying to figure out a response. They are undoubtedly tempted to try to avoid the issue, but the lesson they should have learned by now is that they cannot.

Though some elected Democrats are becoming leery of pushing the transgender envelope, trans activists are not backing down. As we have seen time and time again, every concession to them is seized upon and exploited. They don’t want an accommodating exception for the congressman in a skirt; they want a precedent they can use to advance their agenda.

Their goal is to eliminate women’s ability to say no to men who invade their spaces. Gender ideology demands the eradication of the barriers put in place to protect women from predatory men. It proclaims that a man is a woman as soon as he says he is — and that he must be treated as such under penalty of law.

The same trans activists who insist that medicalized transition is necessary for gender-confused children regard medical transition as optional when it comes to men who want access to female spaces. They have no problem with sexually intact men invading the spaces where women are most vulnerable. The predictable (and predicted) result is that women and girls have been leered at, assaulted, and raped in bathrooms and locker rooms across the country as men have been allowed in.

Furthermore, blue states, along with the Biden administration, have been putting men into women’s prisons, which has also resulted in women being assaulted and raped. For example, a female inmate in New York was raped in the showers by a trans-identifying man, and a woman in New Jersey was reportedly badly beaten by another trans-identifying man. One male prisoner in California was only transferred back to a men’s prison after being accused of raping two female inmates.

What, one wonders, did they expect when they allowed male prisoners to self-identify into women’s prisons, especially when a disproportionate number of trans-identifying individuals are guilty of sex crimes? Consider “Jolene Charisma Starr” (Joel Thomas Nichols), who horrifically raped an 11-year-old girl, later attempted to kidnap a nine-year-old, and has been placed in a women’s prison in Washington State. Other men who have been put into women’s prisons include murderers, rapists, and child pornographers. And that’s just in one state.

As these horrifying examples illustrate, when the transgender movement is given an inch, it takes a mile. McBride may or may not be a threat to the safety of women on Capitol Hill. But allowing him into female-only spaces will be relentlessly used by trans activists to permit any and all men across America to self-identify their way into any female spaces and opportunities they choose.

Trans activists and their allies have made it clear that there is no compromise available. They will not accept any sort of screening, gatekeeping, or other limitation; they will settle for nothing less than complete male access to women’s spaces and places on demand. Saying no to men in women’s sports requires saying no to McBride specifically in women’s bathrooms. Likewise for saying no to men in the girls’ locker room. Ditto for saying no to men in women’s prisons. And saying no to men in women’s bathrooms means saying no to McBride in women’s bathrooms.

McBride and his allies know that this fight is about much more than where one politician pees. Rather, they are seeking to establish — at the very core of American government — that men have an absolute right to access women’s private spaces. They want women to give up their privacy and safety, and all of us to give up our integrity and become complicit in their lies.

Just because a dude in a dress is going to Congress doesn’t mean he gets to go in the ladies’ room.

Nathanael Blake is a senior contributor to The Federalist and a fellow in the Life and Family Initiative at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.