On Tuesday's The Source show, CNN host Kaitlan Collins devoted a segment to letting a transgender Democrat state legislator react negatively to Congresswoman Nancy Mace pushing to ban biological men from using the women's restrooms in the Capitol. In contrast with her colleague, Erin Burnett, who also included right-leaning contributor in on her show's discussion, Collins did not include a conservative point of view to discuss the issue.
Today, House Speaker Mike Johnson did not say what he plans to do about South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace's resolution to ban transgender women from using women's restrooms on Capitol Hill.
Let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman, and a man cannot become a woman. (editing jump) But I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity, and so we can do and believe all those things at the same time.
That's what he said when he was asked about a bill Mace introduced two weeks after Sarah McBride became the first transgender person elected to Congress. McBride is going to be sworn in in January, and responded, saying, quote, "Every day, Americans go to work with people who have journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully. I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness. My source tonight knows what it's like to the first. In 2023, Zooey Zephyr was sworn in as the first transgender representative in the state house. She was just reelected, and she joins me now. And thank you so much for being here. You know, I was looking at this resolution today, and Mace does not name McBride specifically, but she did make sure she was referencing her today, saying it was, quote, "Absolutely 100 percent because of McBride." What do you make of this? What was your response to this resolution.
STATE REP. ZOOEY ZEPHYR, (D-MT): You know, I think we see from Congressman Mace "outrage politics." We see an attack on a newly elected congresswoman who's representing the same amount of people that Congresswoman Mace is representing, and they're trying to paint her in some ways as dangerous or a villain. I mean, she is just using the bathroom like any other person and like many congressional staffers have been doing in years past.
COLLINS: And McBride responded also in the state, you know, talking about hoping to have colleagues who were respectful and said, "We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars.