And she still thinks these things can “meet her in the middle”. She has no respect for herself nor do her so called colleagues stand up for her. Meeting in the middle doesn’t mean throw away your self respect, what a dangerous precedent to set for us
I follow the Congresswoman on Twitter, and I can assure you she does not think that; she has a very clear understanding of who these rancid clods are.
What she thinks — what she knows — is that if she responds in kind to any provocation whatsoever, they will be all over her like horseflies on roadkill; and she will not be able to do her job. She is absolutely 100% correct in knowing that.
The most aggravating thing she can do thing is ignore them and continue to work within the system despite it being stacked against her, ready to pounce & oust her in an instant. I admire & support her pragmatism.
If you were in a roomful of bullies looking for the flimsiest excuse to attack you, I doubt your provoking them would really be the wisest strategy. Ignoring them frustrates the fuck out them precisely because their retaliation options are greatly reduced.
Perhaps you can take some small comfort in knowing that your opinion and my opinion are of equal value to McBride and her opponents.
When my children were young one of them had, for a short while, decided that they would call their sibling "stupid". I'd take the offended child aside and ask them, "Are you stupid?" No, they would say. I'd reinforce their answer and say of course not and your sibling knows that too. As a young parent I was amazed that it worked so well. Sure, their antagonist heard my little speach and because they are also smart, corrected their behavior.
The Representative knows who she is and we do too. Let what's his face wallow in his ignorance.
Pounce on what? She doesn't pounce on anything for us. She's just another congress person to me, nothing special. You don't bring a stick to a gun fight.
They will pounce on her. Sorry I didn’t think to make it simpler to understand. 🙄
And, yes: she is “just another congressperson” at the moment. Which means her primary obligations are to the people of Delaware who elected her to represent them. When she is elected by trans men & women all across the United Stares, then we can complain about the way she represents us. Which is why, personally, I would prefer to see her serve in the future at a national level rather than go down in flames of useless glory in 2026.
Why you people do not understand that if she gets herself kicked out of Congress now — for being trans or any other idiotic MAGA excuse — she will not be able to do anybody any good now or ever.
Nope, she’s still continuing her misguided idea that we should “compromise” on trans issues. You give the gop an inch they’ll take it all. Letting them call her a man isn’t doing what she thinks it is
"She seemed prepared to move on and do her job, but her Democratic colleague from Massachusetts, Congressman Bill Keating, wouldn’t let yet another jab at her very existence pass by unchallenged. Keating and Self got into a heated exchange. “Mr. Chairman, you are out of order,” Keating said. “Have you no decency?”"
Not quite true to say none of her colleagues called the SoCons out on it. Doing anything concrete requires that 2/3rds majority.
That’s true, but what have they been doing since? Why didn’t they seize that momentum instead of being bystanders? Her whole situation is very triggering for me bc I faced hella transphobic harassment in work environments. Sure one person would say something once in a while, but the harassment still continued. Pressure needs to be constant and from numerous people
The bad guy was the committee chair. There is no seizing the momentum. Not without achieving a majority. The Dems held the same rules over Republicans whenever they had that majority.
It's literally in the constitution the Legislatures make the rules by majority for their own members. Any Dem raising enough of a stink would simply be removed from all committee assignments, and reduced to purely voting Y/N/A on such headcounts.
It’s not like they’re doing much now but going on vacation while the country is on fire. They’re just as in on it as the gop, they’re just more covert about it. The gop makes up its own rules all the time no matter what anyone thinks, the decorum is a show
Have any of you asked her what her thinking is? It sounds to me like everyone but Robin Elise is eager to direct the behavior of a human being other than yourselves without knowing anything about why she responds the way she responds. I don’t personally understand it but I’d like to think she has her reasons.
Her thinking is that we can reason with them. So far, it’s apparent that blatant cruelty and double standards are how the gop works. The old way of thinking that we can just talk to bullies is over. They’re crueler and double down more than they ever did. Ignoring it for a year has yielded no progress or epiphany for how she’s treated
Except she has made no effort to reason with them (see also: beating dead horses.) She has focused entirely on her job which is representing the people of Delaware. Unfortunately, that job is made a lot harder by people who work 24/7 to expel her from Congress.
If you don’t think her being able to survive in that kind of environment for a year is not progress, then I don’t know what to tell you.
But then again, maybe you’re from Delaware and her record actually *is* something you get to complain about. If so, apologies for my assuming otherwise.
Exactly. Which is why it is essential she stay in office to represent them.
Glad you appreciate her being in it for the long haul. Given the nonstop attacks on her by all of the right for being too trans and by some of the left for not being trans enough, it’s good to find a fellow supporter.
It should be mentioned, if we get a majority which by itself can impeach Trump! & Co., that same majority can expel a member -- and should do so for all who so abused Rep. McBride.
I know the dems will get the majority in the midterms. I have no faith in their response to the hate hurled at her constantly. Dems have learned nothing. They bring a stick to a gun fight and this will not change when they're in charge 😒.
Until Dems lost the House, the GOP had not had the power to itself attempt much in the House which Dems in the House could oppose. I think you are not correctly ascertaining the relative timing of things.
And what does that have to do with what I actually wrote, which was about who had what power when? Could Democrats have done more when they had it? Yes. Does that mean they have it now? No.
Congresswoman McBride has all the decency and humanity these Republicans so obviously lack. By showing the world how people are meant to treat each other, she provides a backdrop by which their boorish insults and bullying show them for what they are, and we are not fooled by these fools.
I am writing to demand immediate and public censure of Representatives Andrew Clyde, Nancy Mace, and Keith Self for their repeated derogatory remarks, deliberate misgendering, and demeaning conduct directed at Representative Sarah McBride.
This behavior is not a matter of “policy disagreement.” It is targeted harassment of a duly elected member of Congress based on gender identity, carried out on the House floor and amplified through media appearances and official statements.
It is conduct that violates the basic standards of decorum, equality, and mutual respect that the House is supposed to uphold.
Allowing this behavior to go unanswered sends a clear and dangerous message: that
Republicans may dehumanize a colleague without consequence, and that the Democratic leadership will tolerate it in the name of false civility.
History shows that when institutions refuse to enforce their own rules, abuse escalates.
Silence becomes permission.
The House has censured members for far less.
What Reps. Clyde, Mace, and Self have done is an intentional effort to delegitimize a colleague’s existence, undermine her ability to serve, and signal to the public that cruelty toward transgender people is acceptable at the highest levels of government.
This is not only a moral failure but an institutional one.
The Democratic caucus must draw a bright line: harassment is not protected speech, and bigotry is not debate.
If Congress cannot defend one of its own members from open degradation, it forfeits any credibility when it claims to defend civil rights anywhere else.
I urge you to initiate censure proceedings immediately and to state unequivocally that this conduct will not be normalized, excused, or ignored. Leadership is measured not by statements of concern, but by action.
Anything less will be read, correctly, as acquiescence.
We've already have been witness to the dems weakness when they were in charge the last time. Sorry but I have no hope for anything to change. They'll just roll over on their bellies and pretend they care.
I quit believing in her last year. Just another spineless democrat who doesn't stick up for her community. She's been a disappointment for many of us. She doesn't stick up for herself or the trans community.
I appreciate that Rep McBride is living out her true self and not backing down from that identity. But like a lot of other democrats, they just keep on rolling over, compromising, meeting the haters halfway, waiting for their 'awakening' when they'll all realize how bad they've been. I am so sick of it. So goddam sick of it. I want them to take a stand, filibuster everything. Jam up the works. Call out the bigots. Introduce 600 articles of impeachment for every member of the administration. Call for roll call votes to sanction ICE. ANYTHING but make another speech about how they are being good little members of Congress and following all the rules and making the appropriate concessions hoping the GOP will see that and follow suit. FUCK THAT. They have the most power of ANY of us to make change and they are doing what? Compromising? Making speeches? Sound bites for their reelection campaigns? OUR DEMOCRACY IS DYING! I guess maybe they'll try to act once Trump has declared martial law and suspended Congress and starts having us executed in the streets. Such useless people.
Hear hear! You describe the house perfectly! The dems are just as useless as the GOP. NOTHING will change once they're again in the majority. They continually play nice nice in a world that wants to abolish our existence. McBride is no different than the rest of the useless dems. She remains a huge disappointment to me and others. 🤷♀️
Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where the problem with GOPMAGAs was simply one of stupidity or ignorance? A world in which stupidity can have direly Darwinistic consequences? A world in which stupidity could be firewalled and mitigated, in which ignorance could be healed?
We don't live in that world, if indeed that world has ever existed.
We live in a world in which stupidity and ignorance are seldom lone travelers but instead a pair of pale riders on pale horses all too often accompanied by another pair of such figurative riders, Hate and Malice. Four riders, Stultification most callous, slothful Ignorance, Hatred, and Malice for the sheer pleasure of enacting harm, these four gallop at the head of the GOPMAGA horde but we queer and Trans and gender expansive and LGBTQ Americans, along with our immigrant communities and our siblings of color, we are not privileged to ignore these horsemen. They are not an abstraction or stochastic ghosts in the data, they are well and truly active and not only do we see THEM but unfortunately, they most certainly do see US.
Don't ever cut any slack for anyone who enables their agenda of genocide and death. Not even family, not lovers, not coworkers, NO ONE. We must cut them out of our lives and cast them away or they will kill us all. The vast multitude of Americans are still asleep pretending this is a both sides he/she/they/zhey said vs. he said "thing", but it isn't, it's fundamentally and existentially far more.
The disrespect shown Rep. McBride at the heart of our national polity, the banning of fact checkers and all moderation of anti-LGBTQ hate speech upon major social media, from Xitter, Fukbook, the virus AKA LinkedIn, to the attacks in over 37 states against cisgender women UNDER SUSPICION OF BEING TRANS, these are symptoms and signs we're in a new place, a new time, and the majority are ignoring it because we don't yet matter to them and they don't yet feel the pain we have no choice but to feel.
So... anti-Trans behavior cannot be tolerated, ignored, or both-sided.
We must be strategic but we must also set an example for the majority of Americans who still see this as some sort of gladiatorial bout contended between two equal outliers, MAGAs vs. the queers they do so love to bully, beat, and bang. They are STILL ignoring the fact that MAGA has eaten the old GOP and subsequent swallowed our federal administrative state. There's been nothing like this since the beginning of the original Progressive era when Teddy Roosevelt ended the spoils system and initiated a professional administration of federal bureacracy, literally since the god-damned Spanish-American War of 1898.
2026 will be so much worse than 2025.
But it could at least be the end of the beginning if we could WAKE UP the somnolent but shrinking American middle class. Before it's too late.
We must tell our stories.
We must make transphobia weird, perverse, and unacceptable again.
We must strengthen our community and bridges to other communities.
We must center the experiences of our folks of color as well as their voices.
We must most of all remember that hope is always a must have, not a luxury, no matter how dark it gets.
And we must continue to love ourselves and each other.
The people doing this to her are ignorant ghouls, but I'm honestly surprised it's only been a few incidents that we've heard about. I figured that the ghouls would never miss an opportunity to harass her.
Andrew Clyde and the other miscreants of his ilk in the government need to take a long walk off a short pier. That would raise the maturity, integrity, and intelligence in government a hundred fold.
And she still thinks these things can “meet her in the middle”. She has no respect for herself nor do her so called colleagues stand up for her. Meeting in the middle doesn’t mean throw away your self respect, what a dangerous precedent to set for us
I follow the Congresswoman on Twitter, and I can assure you she does not think that; she has a very clear understanding of who these rancid clods are.
What she thinks — what she knows — is that if she responds in kind to any provocation whatsoever, they will be all over her like horseflies on roadkill; and she will not be able to do her job. She is absolutely 100% correct in knowing that.
The most aggravating thing she can do thing is ignore them and continue to work within the system despite it being stacked against her, ready to pounce & oust her in an instant. I admire & support her pragmatism.
What does that matter? They do what they want anyway. The bullies need to be punched back already, being nice is doing nothing.
If you were in a roomful of bullies looking for the flimsiest excuse to attack you, I doubt your provoking them would really be the wisest strategy. Ignoring them frustrates the fuck out them precisely because their retaliation options are greatly reduced.
Perhaps you can take some small comfort in knowing that your opinion and my opinion are of equal value to McBride and her opponents.
When my children were young one of them had, for a short while, decided that they would call their sibling "stupid". I'd take the offended child aside and ask them, "Are you stupid?" No, they would say. I'd reinforce their answer and say of course not and your sibling knows that too. As a young parent I was amazed that it worked so well. Sure, their antagonist heard my little speach and because they are also smart, corrected their behavior.
The Representative knows who she is and we do too. Let what's his face wallow in his ignorance.
Pounce on what? She doesn't pounce on anything for us. She's just another congress person to me, nothing special. You don't bring a stick to a gun fight.
They will pounce on her. Sorry I didn’t think to make it simpler to understand. 🙄
And, yes: she is “just another congressperson” at the moment. Which means her primary obligations are to the people of Delaware who elected her to represent them. When she is elected by trans men & women all across the United Stares, then we can complain about the way she represents us. Which is why, personally, I would prefer to see her serve in the future at a national level rather than go down in flames of useless glory in 2026.
Why you people do not understand that if she gets herself kicked out of Congress now — for being trans or any other idiotic MAGA excuse — she will not be able to do anybody any good now or ever.
Thank you. I have some concerns with some thing she has said, but I totally agree with you on this.
"And she still thinks these things can “meet her in the middle”. "
I don't know what is in her head about that. She has not persuasively walked back her vacuous, non-specific victim blaming, has she?
Nope, she’s still continuing her misguided idea that we should “compromise” on trans issues. You give the gop an inch they’ll take it all. Letting them call her a man isn’t doing what she thinks it is
"She seemed prepared to move on and do her job, but her Democratic colleague from Massachusetts, Congressman Bill Keating, wouldn’t let yet another jab at her very existence pass by unchallenged. Keating and Self got into a heated exchange. “Mr. Chairman, you are out of order,” Keating said. “Have you no decency?”"
Not quite true to say none of her colleagues called the SoCons out on it. Doing anything concrete requires that 2/3rds majority.
That’s true, but what have they been doing since? Why didn’t they seize that momentum instead of being bystanders? Her whole situation is very triggering for me bc I faced hella transphobic harassment in work environments. Sure one person would say something once in a while, but the harassment still continued. Pressure needs to be constant and from numerous people
The bad guy was the committee chair. There is no seizing the momentum. Not without achieving a majority. The Dems held the same rules over Republicans whenever they had that majority.
Yes there is. People are only as limited as they choose to be
It's literally in the constitution the Legislatures make the rules by majority for their own members. Any Dem raising enough of a stink would simply be removed from all committee assignments, and reduced to purely voting Y/N/A on such headcounts.
It’s not like they’re doing much now but going on vacation while the country is on fire. They’re just as in on it as the gop, they’re just more covert about it. The gop makes up its own rules all the time no matter what anyone thinks, the decorum is a show
Have any of you asked her what her thinking is? It sounds to me like everyone but Robin Elise is eager to direct the behavior of a human being other than yourselves without knowing anything about why she responds the way she responds. I don’t personally understand it but I’d like to think she has her reasons.
Her thinking is that we can reason with them. So far, it’s apparent that blatant cruelty and double standards are how the gop works. The old way of thinking that we can just talk to bullies is over. They’re crueler and double down more than they ever did. Ignoring it for a year has yielded no progress or epiphany for how she’s treated
Except she has made no effort to reason with them (see also: beating dead horses.) She has focused entirely on her job which is representing the people of Delaware. Unfortunately, that job is made a lot harder by people who work 24/7 to expel her from Congress.
If you don’t think her being able to survive in that kind of environment for a year is not progress, then I don’t know what to tell you.
But then again, maybe you’re from Delaware and her record actually *is* something you get to complain about. If so, apologies for my assuming otherwise.
"The people of Delaware" includes trans people
Exactly. Which is why it is essential she stay in office to represent them.
Glad you appreciate her being in it for the long haul. Given the nonstop attacks on her by all of the right for being too trans and by some of the left for not being trans enough, it’s good to find a fellow supporter.
It should be mentioned, if we get a majority which by itself can impeach Trump! & Co., that same majority can expel a member -- and should do so for all who so abused Rep. McBride.
I know the dems will get the majority in the midterms. I have no faith in their response to the hate hurled at her constantly. Dems have learned nothing. They bring a stick to a gun fight and this will not change when they're in charge 😒.
Please note to expel members, they have to have a 2/3rds majority. Until they have a 50%+1 majority, they literally have no stick.
Ha that's funny. When they had the majority they did nothing about the blantent hate towards us. I respectfully disagree with you.
Until Dems lost the House, the GOP had not had the power to itself attempt much in the House which Dems in the House could oppose. I think you are not correctly ascertaining the relative timing of things.
Surely that's why they worked so hard and not the equality act passed... Right? Or didn't they? Nothing they could oppose my ass
And what does that have to do with what I actually wrote, which was about who had what power when? Could Democrats have done more when they had it? Yes. Does that mean they have it now? No.
And they don't.
We agree to disagree.
Congresswoman McBride has all the decency and humanity these Republicans so obviously lack. By showing the world how people are meant to treat each other, she provides a backdrop by which their boorish insults and bullying show them for what they are, and we are not fooled by these fools.
Another Republican being an obnoxious POS. Shocker!
I have sent the following to leader Jefferies:
I am writing to demand immediate and public censure of Representatives Andrew Clyde, Nancy Mace, and Keith Self for their repeated derogatory remarks, deliberate misgendering, and demeaning conduct directed at Representative Sarah McBride.
This behavior is not a matter of “policy disagreement.” It is targeted harassment of a duly elected member of Congress based on gender identity, carried out on the House floor and amplified through media appearances and official statements.
It is conduct that violates the basic standards of decorum, equality, and mutual respect that the House is supposed to uphold.
Allowing this behavior to go unanswered sends a clear and dangerous message: that
Republicans may dehumanize a colleague without consequence, and that the Democratic leadership will tolerate it in the name of false civility.
History shows that when institutions refuse to enforce their own rules, abuse escalates.
Silence becomes permission.
The House has censured members for far less.
What Reps. Clyde, Mace, and Self have done is an intentional effort to delegitimize a colleague’s existence, undermine her ability to serve, and signal to the public that cruelty toward transgender people is acceptable at the highest levels of government.
This is not only a moral failure but an institutional one.
The Democratic caucus must draw a bright line: harassment is not protected speech, and bigotry is not debate.
If Congress cannot defend one of its own members from open degradation, it forfeits any credibility when it claims to defend civil rights anywhere else.
I urge you to initiate censure proceedings immediately and to state unequivocally that this conduct will not be normalized, excused, or ignored. Leadership is measured not by statements of concern, but by action.
Anything less will be read, correctly, as acquiescence.
Sincerely,
Good letter! Could it be posted in local and national newspapers?
I commend your effort. But as usual the dems will do nothing in response.
will have to see - but they are in the minority right now and are limited.
will see after the midterms when they take control
We've already have been witness to the dems weakness when they were in charge the last time. Sorry but I have no hope for anything to change. They'll just roll over on their bellies and pretend they care.
Are you happier with the republicans and the do nothing mega congress
There is no display of bigotry so stupid or so petty that a Republican won't jump at the opportunity to act it out.
This " reality show" needs to be canceled 😞
I quit believing in her last year. Just another spineless democrat who doesn't stick up for her community. She's been a disappointment for many of us. She doesn't stick up for herself or the trans community.
This is beyond disgusting and unbelievable to me that she does not stand up for herself in times like this.
I appreciate that Rep McBride is living out her true self and not backing down from that identity. But like a lot of other democrats, they just keep on rolling over, compromising, meeting the haters halfway, waiting for their 'awakening' when they'll all realize how bad they've been. I am so sick of it. So goddam sick of it. I want them to take a stand, filibuster everything. Jam up the works. Call out the bigots. Introduce 600 articles of impeachment for every member of the administration. Call for roll call votes to sanction ICE. ANYTHING but make another speech about how they are being good little members of Congress and following all the rules and making the appropriate concessions hoping the GOP will see that and follow suit. FUCK THAT. They have the most power of ANY of us to make change and they are doing what? Compromising? Making speeches? Sound bites for their reelection campaigns? OUR DEMOCRACY IS DYING! I guess maybe they'll try to act once Trump has declared martial law and suspended Congress and starts having us executed in the streets. Such useless people.
Hear hear! You describe the house perfectly! The dems are just as useless as the GOP. NOTHING will change once they're again in the majority. They continually play nice nice in a world that wants to abolish our existence. McBride is no different than the rest of the useless dems. She remains a huge disappointment to me and others. 🤷♀️
His words say more about him than they do about her
Only demons try to hurt people then call it ministry like these wicked rightwingers do
There's no hate like Christian "love".
Playing "Good Trans / Bad Trans" only works if we have a "Bad Trans" in office. I know which one I'd be.
Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where the problem with GOPMAGAs was simply one of stupidity or ignorance? A world in which stupidity can have direly Darwinistic consequences? A world in which stupidity could be firewalled and mitigated, in which ignorance could be healed?
We don't live in that world, if indeed that world has ever existed.
We live in a world in which stupidity and ignorance are seldom lone travelers but instead a pair of pale riders on pale horses all too often accompanied by another pair of such figurative riders, Hate and Malice. Four riders, Stultification most callous, slothful Ignorance, Hatred, and Malice for the sheer pleasure of enacting harm, these four gallop at the head of the GOPMAGA horde but we queer and Trans and gender expansive and LGBTQ Americans, along with our immigrant communities and our siblings of color, we are not privileged to ignore these horsemen. They are not an abstraction or stochastic ghosts in the data, they are well and truly active and not only do we see THEM but unfortunately, they most certainly do see US.
Don't ever cut any slack for anyone who enables their agenda of genocide and death. Not even family, not lovers, not coworkers, NO ONE. We must cut them out of our lives and cast them away or they will kill us all. The vast multitude of Americans are still asleep pretending this is a both sides he/she/they/zhey said vs. he said "thing", but it isn't, it's fundamentally and existentially far more.
The disrespect shown Rep. McBride at the heart of our national polity, the banning of fact checkers and all moderation of anti-LGBTQ hate speech upon major social media, from Xitter, Fukbook, the virus AKA LinkedIn, to the attacks in over 37 states against cisgender women UNDER SUSPICION OF BEING TRANS, these are symptoms and signs we're in a new place, a new time, and the majority are ignoring it because we don't yet matter to them and they don't yet feel the pain we have no choice but to feel.
So... anti-Trans behavior cannot be tolerated, ignored, or both-sided.
We must be strategic but we must also set an example for the majority of Americans who still see this as some sort of gladiatorial bout contended between two equal outliers, MAGAs vs. the queers they do so love to bully, beat, and bang. They are STILL ignoring the fact that MAGA has eaten the old GOP and subsequent swallowed our federal administrative state. There's been nothing like this since the beginning of the original Progressive era when Teddy Roosevelt ended the spoils system and initiated a professional administration of federal bureacracy, literally since the god-damned Spanish-American War of 1898.
2026 will be so much worse than 2025.
But it could at least be the end of the beginning if we could WAKE UP the somnolent but shrinking American middle class. Before it's too late.
We must tell our stories.
We must make transphobia weird, perverse, and unacceptable again.
We must strengthen our community and bridges to other communities.
We must center the experiences of our folks of color as well as their voices.
We must most of all remember that hope is always a must have, not a luxury, no matter how dark it gets.
And we must continue to love ourselves and each other.
That's how we survive. How we win.
The people doing this to her are ignorant ghouls, but I'm honestly surprised it's only been a few incidents that we've heard about. I figured that the ghouls would never miss an opportunity to harass her.
Andrew Clyde and the other miscreants of his ilk in the government need to take a long walk off a short pier. That would raise the maturity, integrity, and intelligence in government a hundred fold.
McBride can follow them for all I care!
Could you do better?