Transgender rights activists including Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. army intelligence analyst and whistleblower, took to Capitol Hill on Thursday in protest of a new policy barring trans people from using single-sex facilities on the House side of the Capitol complex that match their gender identity.

More than a dozen transgender individuals and their allies took part in a “bathroom sit-in" in restrooms across from Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) office. The protest was organized by the Gender Liberation Movement (GLM), a grassroots and volunteer-run collective that brings attention to issues around bodily autonomy and gender.

Holding a banner demanding Congress stop “pissing on our rights,” protesters chanted, “Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace: our bodies are no........

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