As Congress debates Rep. Nancy Mace’s proposal to ban men from women’s bathrooms on the Hill, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling is reminding lawmakers that the American people are on the South Carolina Republican’s side.
Schilling and his organization are credited with influencing president-elect Donald Trump and top Republicans throughout the past election cycle by pointing to polling showing that the American people do not want gender ideology pushed on their children or men in women’s spaces. Some of the GOP’s most effective ads focused specifically on these issues, catapulting the future president to victory.
Schilling was quick to remind lawmakers of this fact.
“The American people sent Republicans to Washington with a mandate to protect women and children from transgender ideology,” Schilling warned in a memo obtained by The Daily Wire. “There’s no question about that. According to AdImpact data, Republican candidates spent $215 million in campaign ads on the issue, while Democrats struggled to respond. Republicans in the House and Senate should feel comfortable defending their positions not only because they are right and just, but because they are politically popular.”
Schilling argued in the memo, sent to Republican congressmen and senators Tuesday afternoon, that “it’s clear that the Democrats have failed to learn anything from their 2024 election defeat,” reminding lawmakers: “The American people voted for a return to normalcy — and they voted against the Democrats’ transgender extremism. But it’s not even December yet, and Democrats are leaning in on defending the ‘right’ of a male member of Congress to hang out in the women’s restroom.”
The memo cites polling from Napolitan News Service and RMG Research from November 13, which found 75% of respondents did not think “biological males who identify as women be allowed to use the women’s locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms.”
“There’s no question that public polling favors Congresswoman Mace and her resolution to ban men from women’s private spaces,” Schilling argued. “In the national polling from RMG, there was a massive landslide in favor of her position. Even more amazingly, the often left-leaning YouGov poll showed that in the seven most competitive states in the country, her position has either an outright majority or a supermajority of the voters’ support. Mace, herself a survivor of rape, speaks to the non-negotiable need of women to feel comfortable and safe in private spaces.”
Mace’s bill would prohibit members, officers, and employees of the House of Representatives from “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” The resolution specifically states that “allowing biological males into single-sex facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms designed for women, jeopardizes the safety and dignity of members, officers, and employees of the House who are female.”
Liberal media outlets and lawmakers have raised a ruckus over the resolution, arguing that it targets a newly elected member of Congress — Sarah McBride, a man who identifies as a woman. McBride has argued that it is a “blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing,”
“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say in this,” Mace said on Monday night to reporters. “If you’re a biological man, you shouldn’t be in women’s restrooms.”
Schilling argued in his memo that McBride has spent years pushing “radical policies like men in women’s sports, men in women’s prisons, and sex changes for children.”
“This cannot be disputed. It is unequivocally true,” he wrote.
“McBride only saw a political career boost after identifying as a transgender female in 2012,” Schilling continued. “Since then, McBride has worked for the Obama White House, Equality Delaware, the Center for American Progress, and the Human Rights Campaign. The Delaware representative’s area of policy expertise has always been ‘transgender rights.’ McBride is widely credited on the Left with shaping Joe Biden’s personal views and political evolution on transgender issues. This is important context as McBride often pretends not to be motivated in politics by so-called ‘transgender identity’ — an obvious lie.”
Schilling argued that McBride’s desire to use female private spaces on Capitol grounds presents a “serious privacy issue for female members of congress and female Hill staffers.”
“There should be no ambiguity on this, especially when Republicans control Congress: men should use male facilities, and women should use female facilities,” he added.
McBride did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.
