The speaker of the US House of Representatives came out Wednesday against letting a transgender woman colleague use the women's restroom at the legislature.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, was renominated in an unofficial vote by his party Wednesday to lead the chamber's GOP majority.

The Republican-backed ban was distressing enough for many transgender people. Then came Rep.-elect Sarah McBride’s acquiescence to the new rule.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson has backed plans to ban transgender women from using female bathrooms on Capitol Hill. “Women deserve women’s only spaces,” Johnson said in a statement on Wednesday. He said the new rule would be enforceable in the Capitol and in House office buildings.

After Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly trans woman elected to Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson said restrooms in Congress are "reserved for individuals of that biological sex." NBC News' Ryan Nobles reports.

Representative-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) said she would comply with the anti-transgender bathroom rules that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday because, in her words, “I’m not here to fight about bathrooms.

La., announced a new bathroom policy banning biological males from women's spaces at the Capitol and House office buildings.