"Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully," McBride wrote on X on Monday. "I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness."
The architecture of the U.S. Capitol has long catered exclusively to men. The first women's gym, before the facility was made co-ed, was inferior to the men's gym with smaller and worse equipment.
It would take 75 years for congresswomen to have any restrooms adjacent to the Senate floor. And in 2011, nearly a century after Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress, women lawmakers got their first bathroom near the House chamber.
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