Bad iyon” is what we often hear elders tell children to reprimand the latter for doing something wrong. Back in the day, it was normal to take a beating with the ephemeral flying slippers, the snapping leather belt, or the rigid clothes hanger. Mischievous toddlers caught stealing from the mother’s coffers to buy merienda or when caught mimicking adults bickering with expletives get a dressing down—a sure way to learn the lesson not to steal, no matter who you’re stealing from and no matter the amount, and not to say bad words. But as we grow up, we learn to make flimsy excuses. “Ibabalik ko rin naman” when we take what is not ours or a derivative of an expletive that sounds quite like the original. All these are not to get away but to get around and rationalize our petty acts. Alas, in a society where we shame the trivial and brush away the extravagant, we need to do a lot of undoing. When the powerful get away with almost anything and we accept it as it is, that the status quo is eternal, it disempowers us from seeking accountability from the highest echelons of power. Instead, we become content with jailing the defenseless who stole canned meat to feed the family. By all means, this is not a justification for crime. From the secular to the societal, stealing is forbidden. But when we lose faith in our system for how it is perceived to be failing the poor and marginalized while the rich get away scot-free, grand schemes like graft and corruption become institutionalized. The public is stupefied at how it can know so much but do so little in the face of people who make themselves larger than life to cling to the corridors of power—in politics and elsewhere. Just recently, I heard from a pollster that the last mass movement we had to express defiance of something larger than our conscious collective was during the pork barrel scandal. The pork, a euphemism for government spending for pet projects of politicians, epitomized the greed that most in power aspired for. The pun is ripe. It’s pork that fattens the pockets. It’s pork that’s roasted in charcoal, so tender and crispy on the outside but soft on the inside. It’s pork that everyone—from the politician who sponsors and gives it away as if it’s not from the public coffers getting the larger share, to the general public supposedly benefiting, albeit at a disadvantage. However, remember, too, that it’s the excesses of pork consumption that lead to noncommunicable diseases, as doctors say. So no matter how it was cooked, as in the long roast of lechon, the flavorful adobo, menudo, or afritada, or fried in its own oil, anything too much is not good. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks the Philippines at 115 out of 180 countries with a score of 34 out of 100 in 2023. Down to the man on the street, the common rhetoric in months leading to the elections is the talk of corruption—how it ails and drags us down, how it plagues like a non-curable illness. It’s our common go-to word often associated with government, the entire bureaucracy, regardless of whether we speak of elected or career officials. That’s why we reward the exemplary and let the rotten ones get out free. But it’s not just corruption. A whole gamut of social ills we can trace to the centuries we were colonized, to the time when Jose Rizal wrote his two novels, to the time the dictator declared crackdowns, to the time Lino Brocka directed films, to the time we twice went to the corner of Edsa and Ortigas to oust leaders, to the time when the speeches from the halls of power spoke of killings. All this talk is too cynical, helpless, and hopeless for a nation so jaded yet prides itself on resilience. That’s the ultimate irony. University of the Philippines economics professor Cielo Magno says that we do things for our kids. (But that may not necessarily be true for some.) Many of those who were once tagged as the hope of the motherland have either been arrested, killed if they were on the margins, or abroad enjoying a quiet life far from the vagaries of leaders here if they’re privileged enough. Their fates are sealed. But, for the generations to come, those who’d look up or down on our generation, what do we give them as our collective inheritance once they know how to put their palms on their chest as the flag is hoisted on a busy Monday morning? —————- Edward Joseph H. Maguindayao is a college instructor in Laguna. Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy .None
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Maharashtra Election Results Live Updates: How The Maharashtra Battle Shaped Up The 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections were not just Mahayuti (BJP, Shinde Sena, NCP (Ajit Pawar) versus Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) (Congress, Sena UBT, NCP – Sharad Pawar). For the two national parties, the BJP and Congress, their prestige is at stake. For regional partners such as Eknath Shinde, Uddhav Thackeray, Ajit and Sharad Pawar, it is a matter of political survival. And for Maharashtra’s voters, it was about picking between the same ideologies (Sena and NCP), based on which national party they were in alliance with. Maharashtra Election Results Live Updates: Which Party Contested How Many Assembly Seats? The Mahayuti seat-sharing worked out this way – the BJP contested 149 seats, Shinde Sena 81, and NCP (Ajit Pawar) 59. The Congress fielded 101 candidates, Shiv Sena (UBT) 95, and NCP (SP) 86 in the MVA. Smaller parties such as the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) contested 237 candidates and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) contested 17. Maharashtra Election Results Live Updates: Tough Five Years For Maharashtra Maharashtra saw political upheavals over the past five years. While the BJP claimed they had the mandate, the Shiv Sena and NCP split up to join them after MVA’s 2.5-year rule. Eknath Shinde called MVA “unnatural alliance as per Bal Thackeray’s ideology”, while Ajit Pawar said the NCP split was for development. While the MVA alleged CBI-ED threats behind the splits, BJP blamed it on their “internal family fight”. Maharashtra, meanwhile, got multiple swearing-ins, constant political changes, drama and delayed civic elections. Maharashtra Election Results Live Updates: The 2019 Meet A Talking Point In 2024 Amid the breakdown in talks with the Sena, BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis joined hands with Ajit Pawar for the 2019 infamous swearing-in. Within hours, Ajit Pawar went back to the NCP fold, lifting the President’s rule and leading to the MVA government formation. Five years later, too, the meeting, the attendees and what transpired (whether Sharad Pawar was in on Ajit’s rebellion), remained the talking point amid the poll buzz. Maharashtra Election Results Live Updates: Previous Elections In Maharashtra This Year Earlier this year, in the Lok Sabha elections held in June, Maharashtra had seen 61.39% voting. The exit polls had predicted a 32-35 seat win for the BJP-led Mahayuti. But the results came as a shocker. The Mahayuti won 17 seats – BJP (9), Shinde Sena (7), NCP (Ajit Pawar) (1) – against the Mahayuti’s 30 – Congress winning 13 seats, Sena UBT 9, and NCP (Sharad Pawar) 8. Maharashtra Election Results Live Updates: 2019 Maharashtra Assembly Election Scoreboard In the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections, the BJP had won 105 seats, Shiv Sena 56, NCP 54, Congress 44, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) 3, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) 2, Samajwadi Party (SP) 2, CPIM and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena 1. While the BJP-Sena were in an alliance, it broke over the CM post, giving birth to the MVA with Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP and Uddhav Thackeray as the CM.Washington, Nov 24 (AP) As a former and potentially future president, Donald Trump hailed what would become Project 2025 as a road map for “exactly what our movement will do” with another crack at the White House. As the blueprint for a hard-right turn in America became a liability during the 2024 campaign, Trump pulled an about-face. He denied knowing anything about the “ridiculous and abysmal” plans written in part by his first-term aides and allies. Now, after being elected the 47th president on November 5, Trump is stocking his second administration with key players in the detailed effort he temporarily shunned. Most notably, Trump has tapped Russell Vought for an encore as director of the Office of Management and Budget; Tom Homan, his former immigration chief, as “border czar;” and immigration hardliner Stephen Miller as deputy chief of policy. Those moves have accelerated criticisms from Democrats who warn that Trump's election hands government reins to movement conservatives who spent years envisioning how to concentrate power in the West Wing and impose a starkly rightward shift across the US government and society. Trump and his aides maintain that he won a mandate to overhaul Washington. But they maintain the specifics are his alone. “President Trump never had anything to do with Project 2025,” said Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt in a statement. “All of President Trumps' Cabinet nominees and appointments are whole-heartedly committed to President Trump's agenda, not the agenda of outside groups.” Here is a look at what some of Trump's choices portend for his second presidency. As budget chief, Vought envisions a sweeping, powerful perch The Office of Management and Budget director, a role Vought held under Trump previously and requires Senate confirmation, prepares a president's proposed budget and is generally responsible for implementing the administration's agenda across agencies. The job is influential but Vought made clear as author of a Project 2025 chapter on presidential authority that he wants the post to wield more direct power. “The Director must view his job as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President's mind,” Vought wrote. The OMB, he wrote, “is a President's air-traffic control system” and should be “involved in all aspects of the White House policy process,” becoming “powerful enough to override implementing agencies' bureaucracies.” Trump did not go into such details when naming Vought but implicitly endorsed aggressive action. Vought, the president-elect said, “knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State” — Trump's catch-all for federal bureaucracy — and would help “restore fiscal sanity.” In June, speaking on former Trump aide Steve Bannon's “War Room” podcast, Vought relished the potential tension: “We're not going to save our country without a little confrontation.” Vought could help Musk and Trump remake government's role and scope The strategy of further concentrating federal authority in the presidency permeates Project 2025's and Trump's campaign proposals. Vought's vision is especially striking when paired with Trump's proposals to dramatically expand the president's control over federal workers and government purse strings — ideas intertwined with the president-elect tapping mega-billionaire Elon Musk and venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a “Department of Government Efficiency.” Trump in his first term sought to remake the federal civil service by reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers — who have job protection through changes in administration — as political appointees, making them easier to fire and replace with loyalists. Currently, only about 4,000 of the federal government's roughly 2 million workers are political appointees. President Joe Biden rescinded Trump's changes. Trump can now reinstate them. Meanwhile, Musk's and Ramaswamy's sweeping “efficiency” mandates from Trump could turn on an old, defunct constitutional theory that the president — not Congress — is the real gatekeeper of federal spending. In his “Agenda 47,” Trump endorsed so-called “impoundment,” which holds that when lawmakers pass appropriations bills, they simply set a spending ceiling, but not a floor. The president, the theory holds, can simply decide not to spend money on anything he deems unnecessary. Vought did not venture into impoundment in his Project 2025 chapter. But, he wrote, “The President should use every possible tool to propose and impose fiscal discipline on the federal government. Anything short of that would constitute abject failure.” Trump's choice immediately sparked backlash. Homan and Miller reflect Trump's and Project 2025's immigration overl Trump's protests about Project 2025 always glossed over overlaps in the two agendas. Both want to reimpose Trump-era immigration limits. Project 2025 includes a litany of detailed proposals for various US immigration statutes, executive branch rules and agreements with other countries — reducing the number of refugees, work visa recipients and asylum seekers, for example. Miller is one of Trump's longest-serving advisers and architect of his immigration ideas, including his promise of the largest deportation force in US history. As deputy policy chief, which is not subject to Senate confirmation, Miller would remain in Trump's West Wing inner circle. “America is for Americans and Americans only,” Miller said at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on October 27. “America First Legal,” Miller's organisation founded as an ideological counter to the American Civil Liberties Union, was listed as an advisory group to Project 2025 until Miller asked that the name be removed because of negative attention. Homan, a Project 2025 named contributor, was an acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement director during Trump's first presidency, playing a key role in what became known as Trump's “family separation policy.” Previewing Trump 2.0 earlier this year, Homan said: “No one's off the table. If you're here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.” Project 2025 contributors slated for CIA and Federal Communications chiefs John Ratcliffe, Trump's pick to lead the CIA, was previously one of Trump's directors of national intelligence. He is a Project 2025 contributor. The document's chapter on US intelligence was written by Dustin Carmack, Ratcliffe's chief of staff in the first Trump administration. Reflecting Ratcliffe's and Trump's approach, Carmack declared the intelligence establishment too cautious. Ratcliffe, like the chapter attributed to Carmack, is hawkish toward China. Throughout the Project 2025 document, Beijing is framed as a US adversary that cannot be trusted. Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, wrote Project 2025's FCC chapter and is now Trump's pick to chair the panel. Carr wrote that the FCC chairman “is empowered with significant authority that is not shared” with other FCC members. He called for the FCC to address “threats to individual liberty posed by corporations that are abusing dominant positions in the market,” specifically “Big Tech and its attempts to drive diverse political viewpoints from the digital town square.” He called for more stringent transparency rules for social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube and “empower consumers to choose their own content filters and fact checkers, if any.” Carr and Ratcliffe would require Senate confirmation for their posts. (AP) GRS GRS (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)
Do our “compostable” bags, utensils and containers really return to nature? Hailed as a solution to the plastic problem, a growing number of new materials — marketed as biodegradable, sustainable, earth-friendly, decomposable or plant-based — promise to break down naturally in compost, easing our conscience about waste. But the truth depends on where you live. In California, each community decides on the materials it will accept in its curbside collection program, based on the contract and capabilities of its waste processor. ”It’s complicated and confusing,” said Mark Murray, executive director of the nonprofit Californians Against Waste , which advocates for waste prevention and recycling policies. The Bay Area’s patchwork of local policies determines whether these materials will help fertilize a farm — or be dumped into a landfill. If you live in San Francisco , Berkeley or Palo Alto , for example, certified “compostables” go in the green bin. If you live in Santa Cruz , they go in your trash bin. In San Jose , they also go in the trash bin, but they’re later pulled out and processed. That’s because cities negotiate different contracts with the region’s dozen or so compost facilities. It’s more expensive to process “compostables” than organic waste. And only a few facilities have the sophisticated equipment necessary to do the job. To add to the complexity, not all items are created equal. An uncoated fiber to-go container or bamboo fork, for instance, can often be treated like the leftovers from last night’s dinner. “Compostable” plastic is much more restricted; some facilities accept it only if it meets strict criteria , so green-bagged food scraps are often diverted to landfills. A “biodegradable” item will simply decay over time; it can’t be composted. To help consumers, California law prohibits the sale of products labeled “compostable” or “home compostable” unless they’ve been certified by an accredited group like the Biodegradable Products Institute . But that doesn’t mean all such certified items can just be tossed in your green bin. While certified fiberware will compost, most certified plastic is screened out, according to Jeanine Sidran of StopWaste, a public agency that reduces waste in Alameda County. “We all want a ‘compostable’ to be the magic wand that it’s marketed as,” said Melissa Valliant of Beyond Plastics, an advocacy group urging the federal government to update and expand its guidance on these materials. “But, unfortunately, it’s not.” A plastic bag mixed with compost at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. Plastic and other non compostable items are removed from the compost at multiple sorting stages. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) A worker uses heavy equipment to move compost material at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Recology employee Robert Reed sifts through a mound of compost at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Recology employees work to move compost material at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Food items decompose in a mound of compost at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) A Recology employee pulls non compostable items from a conveyor belt at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Steam rises from rows of compost at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) A small piece of plastic mixed with compost at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. Plastic and other non compostable items are removed from the compost at multiple sorting stages. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) A Recology employee sorts through non compostable items at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) A plastic bag mixed with compost at Recology’s Blossom Valley Organics North composting facility on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Vernalis, Calif. Plastic and other non compostable items are removed from the compost at multiple sorting stages. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) The global market for compostable packaging , made from a combination of recycled and plant-based materials, has exploded, increasing from $95.73 billion last year to a projected $167.29 billion by 2030. Compostable bags offer a tidy way to line the waste pail in our kitchens or collect vegetables in the produce aisle of a grocery. To-go containers are popular at restaurants; utensils are trendy at picnics with friends. Companies like Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods increasingly use “compostable” packaging. Someday these products might have the potential to be better for the planet — but right now, they face many challenges, say experts. The major problem, they say, is that available equipment can’t keep up with demand. “Compostables” demand more heat to break down than food scraps, yard waste and other organic materials, said Murray. And they take longer. “Nobody wants to see flecks of stuff in their compost,” he said. Composting facilities are finicky. Their major customers are organic farms — and U.S. Department of Agriculture rules say these farms can’t use compost derived from compostable bioplastic packaging, for instance, due to concerns about chemical contamination and debris. They only accept materials that they know will truly break down. The most advanced facilities, like the GreenWaste San Jose Material Recovery Facility and Recology’ s facility east of Livermore, have sophisticated sorting. But many other facilities can’t distinguish between compostable and noncompostable packaging, so simply remove everything, sending it to landfill, Murray said. America would “need a five, maybe 10 time, increase” in infrastructure to handle all the compostables and food waste residents generate, said Eric Hudiburgh of the U.S. Composting Council. Faced with such limits, each community must make policies based on the materials its composting facility will accept, according to Lance Klug of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery . Santa Cruz , for instance, doesn’t utilize compost processing, so only food scraps are allowed in the green bin. In Oakland , food vendors are prohibited from using “compostable” plastic foodware and residents must put such items in the trash, according to Recycling Program Specialist Etienne Lugo. Residents can line their compost pails with paper bags or newspaper, or place compost in cereal boxes, she said. In contrast, San Francisco and Berkeley will accept anything certified as “BPI-compostable,” including bags. GreenWaste , which serves San Jose, Portola Valley, Palo Alto, Atherton, Los Altos Hills and Woodside, instructs residents to put all “compostables” in the black trash bin; once picked up, it gets sorted and composted. Because San Mateo County relies on several different waste companies, there are slightly different rules for what they accept, said Karen Wang of San Mateo County’s Sustainability Department . For example, South San Francisco Scavenger Co. does not accept biodegradable green bags. But other haulers do. Backyard compost piles rarely reach the 100 – 140 degrees needed to break down these products. There’s another alternative: Throw away less stuff. “A clever person solves a problem; a wise person avoids it altogether,” said Robert Reed of Recology . Reed lines his kitchen compost with a paper towel and shops at his local farmer’s market carrying two five-gallon tubs. No plastic required. “What did your grandparents do? What did your parents do? They had a metal fork and a metal knife and they washed them,” he said.
{Moga} 3 friends make saffron bloom in climate-controlled facility: Reap 1kg harvestThe question of who uses which bathroom on Capitol Hill has become a heated topic ahead of the 119th U.S. Congress convening next year. This debate was sparked by the historic election of Sarah McBride , a transgender woman, to represent Delaware in Congress. In response, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution aiming to require transgender individuals to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex assigned at birth. Democratic state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the first transgender woman in Montana's state legislature, understands what it feels like to be singled out. She joined Scripps News on Friday to weigh in on the controversy unfolding in D.C. "It's important to acknowledge that while these attacks on transgender people are always brought one bill at a time, they do not focus on specific issues," Zephyr said. "The hate of trans people is boundless. We saw that when Nancy Mace went on far-right media earlier this week and claimed that it was 'offensive' that Congresswoman McBride views herself as an equal to Nancy Mace." "When we see policies targeting trans women just trying to live their lives in the restroom, trying to play sports with their friends — that is not where the hate stops from the right," Zephyr said. "That hate is on display at every moment, which is why it's important for us to resist these efforts to target our community." In 2023, Republican lawmakers in Montana voted to ban Zephyr from the House floor and from participating in debates after she spoke out against a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors. The incident led to legal challenges over Zephyr's censure and to political activism from supporters of transgender rights. "The attacks we see on trans people will escalate. This will not be the last attack on Congresswoman McBride," Zephyr said. "In my perspective, it is important that we make sure as trans people in this country that we do not cede ground to someone who wants to erase us — regardless of whether they want to erase us in the Capitol, or if they want to erase us as we go through our daily lives in public. We have to stand strong." In an interview with Scripps News this week, Mace said her resolution was specifically targeted at Rep.-elect McBride, who stated she will "follow the rules as outlined" even if she disagrees with them. "I'm not here to fight about bathrooms," McBride said . "I'm here to fight for Delawareans to bring down the costs facing families." Despite McBride's statement, Mace said her effort to ban transgender individuals from certain bathrooms extends beyond Washington. She is advocating for legislation requiring transgender people to use restrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth on any property receiving public funds. "I have PTSD from the sexual abuse I have suffered at the hands of a man. We have to as women draw a line in the sand, a big fat red line, about our rights," Mace said. "And the basic question today is, do women have rights or do we not? And I will tell you just the idea of a man in a locker room watching me change clothes after a workout is a huge trigger and it's not OK to make and force women to be vulnerable in private spaces." RELATED STORY | As House GOP targets McBride, she says 'I'm not here to fight about bathrooms'
Australia has changed its diplomatic position in backing a United Nations resolution calling for a peaceful settlement of Palestine. Australia was among 157 countries that supported the resolution, while eight voted against it, including the US and Israel. The motion called for a peaceful settlement of Palestine and a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. Australia's ambassador to the UN James Larsen told the General Assembly the position reflected growing international momentum. "A two-state solution remains the only hope of breaking the endless cycle of violence, the only hope to see a secure and prosperous future for both peoples," he said. Earlier, deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley said it was disappointing that Australia would shift its stance away from that of the US and Israel at the UN. "We still have hostages in tunnels under Gaza. We still have Hamas in the Gaza Strip, almost in control. And how is this not rewarding terrorists at this point in time?" she told Sky News on Wednesday. "At a critical point in the relationship that we should be having with the US, this is not going to encourage that strong closeness that we need with our nearest ally when it comes to the relationship we have to have."Fears over losing out on £1million Lotto jackpot due to little-known mistake after hidden rule in smallprint is revealed
Quinn runs for 154 yards, 2 TDs to lead Texas Southern over Arkansas-Pine Bluff 31-23The question of who uses which bathroom on Capitol Hill has become a heated topic ahead of the 119th U.S. Congress convening next year. This debate was sparked by the historic election of Sarah McBride , a transgender woman, to represent Delaware in Congress. In response, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution aiming to require transgender individuals to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex assigned at birth. Democratic state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the first transgender woman in Montana's state legislature, understands what it feels like to be singled out. She joined Scripps News on Friday to weigh in on the controversy unfolding in D.C. "It's important to acknowledge that while these attacks on transgender people are always brought one bill at a time, they do not focus on specific issues," Zephyr said. "The hate of trans people is boundless. We saw that when Nancy Mace went on far-right media earlier this week and claimed that it was 'offensive' that Congresswoman McBride views herself as an equal to Nancy Mace." "When we see policies targeting trans women just trying to live their lives in the restroom, trying to play sports with their friends — that is not where the hate stops from the right," Zephyr said. "That hate is on display at every moment, which is why it's important for us to resist these efforts to target our community." In 2023, Republican lawmakers in Montana voted to ban Zephyr from the House floor and from participating in debates after she spoke out against a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors. The incident led to legal challenges over Zephyr's censure and to political activism from supporters of transgender rights. "The attacks we see on trans people will escalate. This will not be the last attack on Congresswoman McBride," Zephyr said. "In my perspective, it is important that we make sure as trans people in this country that we do not cede ground to someone who wants to erase us — regardless of whether they want to erase us in the Capitol, or if they want to erase us as we go through our daily lives in public. We have to stand strong." In an interview with Scripps News this week, Mace said her resolution was specifically targeted at Rep.-elect McBride, who stated she will "follow the rules as outlined" even if she disagrees with them. "I'm not here to fight about bathrooms," McBride said . "I'm here to fight for Delawareans to bring down the costs facing families." Despite McBride's statement, Mace said her effort to ban transgender individuals from certain bathrooms extends beyond Washington. She is advocating for legislation requiring transgender people to use restrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth on any property receiving public funds. "I have PTSD from the sexual abuse I have suffered at the hands of a man. We have to as women draw a line in the sand, a big fat red line, about our rights," Mace said. "And the basic question today is, do women have rights or do we not? And I will tell you just the idea of a man in a locker room watching me change clothes after a workout is a huge trigger and it's not OK to make and force women to be vulnerable in private spaces." RELATED STORY | As House GOP targets McBride, she says 'I'm not here to fight about bathrooms'