With the matters on the docket ranging from economic malcontent here at home to foreign wars, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace and House Speaker Mike Johnson were focused this week on one key issue: whether incoming Democratic Delaware Rep.-elect Sarah McBride — the first transgender person elected to Congress — would be allowed to use the women’s restrooms at the Capitol. At Mace’s urging, Johnson issued a rule against individuals using restrooms other than those corresponding to their “biological sex.” It’s unclear who will be at the door checking and asking people to display their private parts before entering. That would be sure to add to the honor, dignity and decorum of the House. These Republicans can’t be bothered by some nudity. Republican Matt Gaetz, who won’t be attorney general, used to show off his smartphone photos and videos of naked women he had had sex with to disgusted colleagues on the House floor. And Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene held up posters of Hunter Biden’s sex photos at a House hearing. With her talk of safety for women, Mace has yet to lay out what, exactly, the risk of having McBride in the women’s bathroom is. Leave the innuendoes aside; what is it that she means? We know McBride doesn’t care about what is under the clothes of Mace or anyone else in Congress, so why are Mace and Johnson so interested? We already know the answer: They believe they have some good culture war ammo. Mace and Johnson think that they have found a potent political issue with the ladies rooms and McBride. During the presidential election, Republicans ran endless TV ads saying that Kamala Harris would have the government pay for the transgender surgery for illegal aliens who are murderers and rapists, tying transgender fears with immigration fears with crime fears. Now, using McBride (although without using McBride’s name), they have decided to continue the thread. Too bad for them that there aren’t any undocumented immigrants or violent criminals serving in the House. McBride promises to follow the new rule imposed by the speaker that “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. It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women’s only spaces.” McBride, who disagrees with Johnson, will find a way to take care of personal needs in an appropriate and private fashion, unlike the Jan. 6 rioters who relieved themselves in the hallways of the Capitol, defiling the seat of government. The manner of McBride’s response to the insults of Mace and Johnson towards a future colleague shows that someone who isn’t even a member of the House yet has more respect for the institution than the speaker himself does. Now that Mace and Johnson have scored some points by using McBride’s individual situation as a political weapon, when the new Congress is sworn in Jan. 3, they will have to face the new member from Delaware as a colleague and a person, and they will have to face themselves looking in the mirror in whatever restroom they use.