Rep. Sarah McBride, who represents Delaware, said she will not “take a lecture on decorum from a party that incited an insurrection” a day after her colleague in the House of Representatives referred to her as “Mister,” leading to an exchange that shut down a committee meeting Wednesday.
McBride, a Democrat and the first openly transgender member of Congress, said Thursday that she appears “to live rent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues.”
“I wish they would spend even a fraction of the time that they spend thinking about me, thinking about how to lower the costs for American families,” she said.
During a House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting Wednesday, Rep. Keith Self, a Republican from Texas, referred to McBride, who is a transgender woman, as “Mr. McBride.”
McBride responded, “Thank you, Madam Chair.”