A GOP lawmaker introduces a Capitol bathroom rule before her trans colleague arrives

Summary

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina to introduce a measure banning transgender women from using women's bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol.

The move comes just two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.

Mace characterized the measure as an attempt to protect women's rights, but Democrats criticized it as a distraction from pressing policy issues.