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Republican bathroom bill targets Congress’s first transgender member

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South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace introduced a bill to ban Sarah McBride from using the bathroom that corresponds with her gender identity.

McBride is due to be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress in Delaware this month .

Mace 's bill comes as Republicans have attacked transgender people as part of a broader political culture war strategy.