Speaker Mike Johnson quietly gave Rep. Nancy Mace a victory in her quest to ban transgender women from using the ladies' bathrooms on Capitol Hill. In the Congressional Record published on Jan. 3, Johnson officially implemented a policy stating that “all single-sex facilities—such as restrooms,

The policy was left out of last week’s proposed package but Rep. Johnson quietly included the ban in the final rules.

The Congressional Record says that members of Congress have access to a private restroom in their offices and that some restrooms are designated unisex at the Capitol complex. Transgender and nonbinary people who visit or work at the Capitol might still have trouble accessing facilities.

Speaker Mike Johnson maintained a policy that will bar transgender people from using single-sex facilities that align with their gender identities in the House.

After South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace made a spectacle of transgender people’s access to bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol at the end of the 118th Congress last year, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has quietly announced a rule restricting bathroom usage in the 119th Congress.