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Speaker Brings Transgender Bathroom Ban to House


By Theodore Bunker    |   Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 02:25 PM EST

Read more at https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mike-johnson-house-bathrooms/2024/11/20/id/1188845/

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday announced a new policy to prevent transgender women from using women’s bathrooms on the House side of Capitol Hill, Politico reported. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., previously introduced a bill to ban transgender women from using Capitol bathrooms designated for women after Delaware Democrat Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, a transgender woman, became the first transgender person elected to Congress earlier this month.

“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson wrote in a statement. “It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women’s only spaces.”

Johnson later told reporters that “like all House policies, it’s enforceable. And we have single-sex facilities for a reason, and women deserve women’s only spaces.”

Democrat lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a resolution to mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance that would memorialize transgender people around the world who were violently killed in the past year. In a statement Monday, McBride denounced Mace’s resolution and the controversy over bathroom usage as a distraction.

“This 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,” McBride said. “We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and childcare, not manufacturing culture wars.”

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Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.

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Starbucks is Now Installing Needle Disposals in Bathrooms


Posted by Steven Ahle | 

URL of the original posting site: https://steadfastandloyal.com/social-issues/starbucks-is-now-installing-needle-disposals-in-bathrooms/

Starbucks is now installing needle disposal boxes in its bathrooms, making them an open invitation to junkies. I don’t know about you, but I would never again buy coffee from them.

Do you really want to buy anything you are going to eat or drink from a business that welcomes junkies to shoot up? McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts coffee is better than Starbucks anyway and neither one caters to junkies. Starbucks decided to put in the disposal boxes because employees were getting stuck with the dirty needles.

Also, it’s one thing to put in the boxes but it’s another thing to expect junkies to use them.

From The Gateway Pundit

Starbucks bathrooms in at least 25 markets will be fitted with new needle-disposal units, as thousands of workers express concern about drug use in their bathrooms.

In May of last year, Starbucks announced that their bathrooms would be open to everyone after a viral outrage mob came after them over an employee calling the police on loitering customers.
“The manager confirmed two employees had received needle stick injuries within the last month from hypodermic needles left uncapped in the bathroom, and stated needles and blood had been found in the bathroom at this location for over a year, but the frequency of needles being left in the bathrooms had increased significantly in recent months,” the Oregon OSHA inspection narrative states, according to a report from Business Insider.
Additionally, over 5,000 employees have signed a petition for the coffee giant to place needle disposal units in high risk bathrooms. Ironically, the author of the petition ended up also getting struck by a needle after it launched.
“The author of this petition ended up getting poked by a dirty needle themselves, after two other coworkers were poked in the same cafe, not long after starting this petition. Since then, the author went to local Seattle news crews, and only after their story aired did Starbucks put safe sharps disposals in six cafes in Seattle, but they were only the cafes that already had an L&I complaint and fine about this issue before. The author still has yet to hear directly from anyone at Starbucks Corporate. The author still fully intends on hand-delivering this petition to Starbucks HQ. The author is obnoxiously tenacious like that,” the petition author wrote in an update.

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