"Anti-trans Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) issued a public apology on Thursday after reportedly mistaking a cisgender woman in a U.S. Capitol restroom for out transgender Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE). She allegedly told the woman, "You shouldn't be here," an anonymous Republican representative told The Daily Beast. Boebert then alerted arch-transphobe Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) about "a guy" in the women's restroom, The Beast wrote."
"Mace - who pushed for a rule change to ban McBride from Capitol women's restrooms - reportedly "stormed in" to the restroom only to come out seconds later when she and Boebert realized the woman wasn't McBride. "I made an error regarding a mistaken identity," Boebert said in a statement. "I apologized, learned a lesson, and it won't happen again." She told Bloomberg News reporter Billy House, "There was a rumor there was [a man in the bathroom], but it wasn't true.""
A public apology followed after a cisgender woman in a U.S. Capitol women's restroom was mistakenly identified as transgender Rep. Sarah McBride. The woman was told, "You shouldn't be here," and a report of "a guy" in the restroom prompted Rep. Nancy Mace to enter. Boebert and Mace exited moments later after realizing the person was not McBride. A statement called the incident a mistaken identity, apologized, and said a lesson had been learned. A rumor of a man in the bathroom was characterized as untrue. Boebert left the restroom complaining to nearby security.
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