Speaker Johnson makes clarification after statement regarding transgender House member
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., clarifies that "a man cannot become a woman" after a question about transgender Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
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"That said, I also believe that’s what Scripture teaches, what I just said. But I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity, and so we can do and believe all those things at the same time," he added. "And I wanted to make that clear for everybody because there are lots of questions. But that’s where I stand. I’ve stood there my whole life, and those are facts."
At the House GOP weekly press conference earlier Tuesday, a reporter had asked Johnson, "Is freshman elect Sarah McBride a man or a woman?"