Congresswoman Nancy Mace said she introduced a new bill Monday to ban transgender females from using the women’s restroom because of the first transgender woman in history to be elected to Congress, Sarah McBride.

Ms. Mace did not mince words on Capitol Hill on Tuesday when asked by reporters about why she is making a push for the new bill.

“I’m not going to stand for a man, someone with a penis in the women’s locker room — that’s not OK,” Ms. Mace said according to the NBC News. “I’m a victim of abuse myself. I’m a rape survivor. I have PTSD from the abuse I’ve suffered at the hands of a man.”

“I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces so I’m absolutely 100 percent going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s restroom.”

The republican lawmaker from South Carolina introduced the bill on Monday, which if passed would ban transgender women from using restroom facilities at the Capitol Building. Ms. McBride, a state senator from Delaware, immediately spoke out against the initiative, insinuating that perhaps she was being targeted by Republican lawmakers.

“Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness,” she wrote in a post on X.

“This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing. We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and childcare, not manufacturing culture wars.”

Ms. Mace’s resolutions would prohibit members of the house and other staffers from “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex,” according to Axios. The proposal has had mixed reactions on Capitol Hill.

Speaker Johnson told the website, “We’re going to talk about that. We’re working on the issue.”

In a separate report, Axios reports that Ms. Mace said that Speaker Johnson had given her assurances that the bill would go forward.

“[He] said to me last night that he would include it in House Rules,” she said to the political news website.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said during a House Republican conference meeting that she would gladly get into a “physical altercation” with Ms. McBride if she found them in the bathroom at the same time. Mr. Johnson had responded by assuring Ms. Greene that she would not have to share a restroom with Ms. McBride.

“If he is aggressively coming in our bathrooms then we should be able to defend ourselves,” Ms. Greene told reporters when explaining her comments during the meeting.

In a press conference after the closed-door meeting, Mr. Johnson said: “We don’t look down upon anyone. We treat everybody with dignity and respect. We’ll provide appropriate accommodation for every member of Congress.”

Democrats expressed their outrage, including Congresswoman Becca Balint of Vermont.

“The cruelty is the point. Is that what we want the sergeant-at-arms to be doing when we had an attack on the freaking Capitol,” she said, referring to who would oversee enforcing the mandate.

“I think we have a lot of problems in America; I don’t think spending time worrying about the restrooms is an order of priority here,” said Congressman Joe Morelle of New York, who also sits on the House Administration Committee.

“I think Nancy Mace should focus on other things.”