The Toilet Tiff Goes West

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When the people of Delaware elected Sarah McBride to represent them in Congress, Republican House members responded by seeking to ban the openly transgender Democrat from the women's bathrooms.

Some lawmakers in Montana plainly thought that was a fabulous idea. Republicans pushed a measure that would require state legislators to use the restrooms of their birth sexes. The target was Rep. Zooey Zephyr, Montana's only trans legislator.

Today the proposed ban failed, with several Republicans voting against it. I'm not suggesting that cooler heads are starting to prevail in the bathroom wars, but it's nice that, at least in Montana's capital city of Helena, they canned the commode conniptions.

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At Mar-A-Lago, Elon Musk sat next to Donald Trump during Thanksgiving dinner. There's a video showing them both dancing to "Y.M.C.A." I'm not posting it.

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I have shared the same bathroom with Sarah McBride on several occasions, and she never once made me uncomfortable. She did however help me fix my makeup. That congresswoman knows how to blend her foundation, which is more than I can say about Donald Trump.

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Mean Girls in Action

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On Monday a Republican member of Congress introduced a resolution banning transgender women from using female bathrooms at the U.S. Capitol.

I expected this. About five minutes after hearing on Election Night that the state of Delaware had voted to send openly transgender Democrat Sarah McBride to occupy its lone seat in Congress, I knew Republicans would create a hullabaloo over the other kind of seats.

I firmly believed Georgia firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene would be the one to lead a Republican bog blockade, and was I ever surprised to read that South Carolina's Nancy Mace got there first. 

I assumed Greene would walk through glass for the chance to grandstand on this matter, but somehow Mace beat her to the potty punch.

It turns out, though, that Greene hasn't completely missed her opportunity. She declared Mace's legislation "doesn't go far enough," and she'd be willing to get into a physical tussle if McBride uses women's restrooms.

That's our Marjorie. Always ready to up the ante in the service of batshit crazy.