In a short social media video, the sanctimonious Katie Couric with furrowed brows and fake bafflement shared that she is “just so disappointed” that “this Nancy Mace” is being “so rude,” “bigoted,” “nasty,” “mean,” “cruel,” and “shitty.” Couric unleashed her litany of epithets because Mace—a victim of sexual assault—sponsored a successful resolution to keep men out of women’s restrooms in the Capitol. Mace, U.S. Representative from South Carolina, sponsored the resolution because of the election of Tim McBride—now “Sarah”—to the U.S. House of Representatives from Delaware.
McBride is a widower. His wife, Andrea “Andy” Cray—a woman who pretended to be a man—was also an activist who died at age 28 from oral cancer.
Wearing her best leftist face of smarmy inauthenticity, Couric said that now “McBride is the only member who is forbidden to use the ladies room.” Couric, who self-identifies as a journalist, knows that statement is disinformation.
McBride is a man—always has been, always will be. And he is not the only member of Congress who is forbidden to use the ladies room. No male member of Congress is allowed to use women’s private spaces. McBride wants a special privilege just for himself and any other men who masquerade as women.
Women have an intrinsic right to be free of the presence of men in their private spaces. They have a right not to be seen in states of undress by men. They have a right to engage in private bodily functions without men being present. That right is not abrogated by the disordered feelings and sartorial choices of men. It’s not abrogated by even the disfiguring surgeries and hormone-doping of men.
The ability of men to conceal their sex does not mitigate the moral offense of using women’s private spaces.
And it’s not just women who have been sexually assaulted who should be free of the presence of men in their private spaces. No woman or girl should be expected to use a restroom or locker room with persons whose sex they don’t share.
While McBride and Couric may believe that private space usage should correspond to each individual’s “gender identity”—i.e., their subjective, internal feelings about their male-ness or female-ness—no one else has an ethical obligation to accept or accommodate their bizarre gender dogma.
McBride claims he wants to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to his “gender identity,” which raises some questions. How does McBride know the secret, internal “gender identities” of the men in men’s restrooms? Conversely, how does McBride know the secret, internal “gender identities” of the women in women’s restrooms? Maybe every man in men’s restrooms secretly has the same “gender identity” as Mr. McBride.
McBride apparently believes he has the right to base his restroom choices—not on secret, subjective, internal feelings about “gender”—but on objective biology and anatomy while denying women that same right. And Katie Couric is one of his partners in moral crime.