Del., the first openly transgender person elected to serve in Congress, on Sunday called House Republicans’ moves to ban her from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol “mean-spirited” and an “attempt to misdirect” from other policy priorities.

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) has a theory for why Republicans are so focused on what bathroom she will use in the upcoming Congress: “it is an attempt to distract from what they are actually doing.

Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, called a push for transgender bathroom bans an "attempt to misdirect" from real issues.