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This Smart Bathroom Exhaust Fan Is Great for Parties

My old fan was loud and cranky, but the new one on its highest fan setting offers a reasonable whir. (It’s rated for 80 or 110 cubic feet per minute, or CFM.) It’s powered by Home Depot’s smart home platform, Hubspace, which I’ve previously not had a good experience with (I was never able to […]

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New Congresswoman Not Allowed to Use Women’s Bathroom

Delaware lawmaker Sarah McBride made history when she was elected to Congress this fall. She’s the first openly transgender person to be elected to the House of Representatives. Last week, Republican House member Nancy Mace from South Carolina introduced a bill that would ban people on federal property from using bathrooms and locker rooms that […]

Politics

Abcarian: Nancy Mace’s shameless exploitation of America’s first transgender congresswoman

I realize that South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is an attention-hungry partisan, trying to make a name for herself as a culture warrior by demonizing the first transgender woman to be elected to Congress. And I understand that giving Mace’s proposal to ban transgender women from women’s bathrooms in the Capitol any oxygen […]

Politics

Mike Johnson Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban In Capitol

WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday that transgender lawmakers and staff would be barred from bathrooms not corresponding to their “biological sex.” “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 said. […]

Politics

Republican Wants To Block First Openly Trans Congresswoman From Using The Bathroom

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) introduced a measure to ban transgender women from using the women’s bathrooms at the Capitol, just weeks after the state of Delaware elected the first openly transgender member of Congress. The resolutionif adopted, would prohibit those in Congress, officers and employees of the House of Representatives from using single-sex facilities […]