The representative Sarah McBride, D-Del., The first transgender person elected to the Congress, continues to face attacks by her republican colleagues, who have megered on the field of the room and in the audiences of the committee several times.
On Tuesday, this happened at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee in the Chamber.
Representative Keith Self, R-Texas, president of the Subcommittee of Foreign Affairs of the Chamber on Europe, presented McBride, saying: “I now recognize the representative of Delaware: Mr. McBride.”
McBride then replied: “Thank you, Madame Chaise”, struck to yourself.
Representative Sarah McBride arrives in the room of the room before the arrival of President Donald Trump to contact a joint session of the Congress in Capitol on March 4, 2025.
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However, while McBride began his questioning line, representative Bill Keating, D-Mass., The classification member of the subcommittee, intervened.
“Mr. President, could you repeat your introduction, please?” He asked.
Concern, without developing, that he followed “the standard on the floor of the house”.
Keating has become furious, asking him to repeat his introduction of McBride. However, auto-double.
“I will do it. The representative of Delaware: Mr. McBride,” said Self.
McBride was seated there while a back and forth ensued between the president and the member of the ranking.
“Mr. President, you broke up. Mr. President, don’t you have decency?” Said Keating.
“We will continue this hearing,” said self, trying to advance the committee.
“You will not continue with me unless you have a duly elected representative in the right way,” said Keating.
However, the self has still not changed its rhetoric. Rather, he called for the adjustment of the hearing.
Representative Keith Self leaves a meeting of the Chamber Republican Conference at the Capitol on February 5, 2025.
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In a statement to ABC News on Tuesday, McBride said that she was “disappointed” by the decision to end the hearing early.
“I was ready to move forward with my questions for the subcommittee on nuclear non-proliferation and American support for democratic allies in Europe,” she said.
This is not the first time that McBride has been unhappy or the center of policy changes in transgender people.
Before McBride was sworn in, republican members worked to ban transgender women from using women’s toilets in the American capitol.
At the end of November, the president of the Mike Johnson room, R-La., Announced the policy that transgender women cannot use women’s toilets in the Capitol and in the office buildings of the house, as well as in the locker rooms and the locker rooms.
“It is important to note that each member office has its own private toilets and that unisex toilets are available throughout the Capitol,” Johnson said in a statement announcing politics. “Women deserve the only spaces of women.”
Then, before delivering his speech on the first floor on February 8, McBride was megenre by representative Mary Miller, R-ill.
“The chair recognizes the gentleman of Delaware, Mr. McBride,” said Miller.
