200+ lawmakers demand Speaker Mike Johnson end anti-trans rhetoric in Congress

Source: the advocate




“Transgender people deserve government officials who will lift them up, not attack them simply because of who they are,” the members of Congress wrote.

Christopher Wiggins November 18 2025 3:03 PM EST


Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson, the Louisiana Republican, intervene after what they describe as a surge of anti-transgender rhetoric inside the chamber, warning that Republican members have repeatedly violated House rules by using slurs and promoting conspiratorial claims about transgender Americans during official proceedings.


In a letter sent Tuesday, 213 Democrats, including the entire party leadership, told Johnson that his failure to enforce basic standards of conduct has allowed dehumanizing attacks to become routine on the House floor.


“We write to you to strongly condemn the rise in anti-transgender rhetoric, including from members of Congress,” the lawmakers wrote, urging Johnson to ensure members of Congress are following rules of decorum and not using their platforms to demonize and scapegoat transgender people.

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, the Republican running for governor of her state, has been one of the loudest anti-trans voices in Congress. She calls herself a “proud transphobe” and has used anti-trans slurs to refer to transgender people. She also led an effort to ban Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride, the first out trans member of Congress, from women’s spaces on Capitol grounds...............................

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