{"id":6953,"date":"2026-05-22T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6953"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:48:03","slug":"you-kind-of-ruined-it-with-your-trans-obsession-house-points-fingers-as-smithsonian-womens-museum-funding-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6953","title":{"rendered":"‘You kind of ruined it with your trans obsession’: House points fingers as Smithsonian Women’s museum funding fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What started as a widely backed proposal to locate a new\u00a0Smithsonian American Women\u2019s History Museum\u00a0on the National Mall devolved into a partisan fight Thursday after Republicans revised the legislation to ensure no\u00a0transgender people\u00a0are included in the exhibits.<\/p>\n

The House rejected the bill, 204-216, an outcome that leaves the next steps uncertain. The revised bill also would ban a \u201cdiversity\u201d of views and give\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0the final say on where the museum would be located.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a simple bill. You kind of ruined it with your trans obsession and your culture wars,\u201d Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, a Democrat from New Mexico and chair of the Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus, said earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

But Republicans argued it was Democrats who were overreacting to the changes and now threatening progress toward establishing the long-sought\u00a0women\u2019s museum\u00a0in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York, the bill\u2019s chief sponsor, said \u201cit\u2019s a disgrace\u201d that Democrats would be standing in the way of the bill\u2019s passage.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps the party that is opposing a women\u2019s history museum on the National Mall because they want to have transgender exhibits \u2014 maybe they are the ones who are trans obsessed,\u201d Malliotakis said.<\/p>\n

In the final tally, a handful of Republicans voted against the bill, joining Democrats who led the opposition. The chamber came to a standstill as GOP leaders scrounged for support from their ranks.<\/p>\n

Among the Republican opponents, some conservatives simply disapproved of a museum focused on women at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe say we need to unite this country, but then we isolate every group,\u201d said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who was among several from the conservative Freedom Caucus who voted against it.<\/p>\n

Future of museum is now uncertain<\/p>\n

The turn of events puts at risk the long effort to open a museum in Washington dedicated to women. Legislation authorizing the museum was approved during Trump\u2019s first term, in 2020, and this latest bill would secure its location on\u00a0the National Mall. Trump has taken interest in reshaping the capital\u2019s cultural institutions, from the\u00a0Kennedy Center\u00a0to the Lincoln Memorial\u00a0Reflecting Pool.<\/p>\n

At the start of the year, the bill had secured some 230 sponsors, a rare show of bipartisanship in the split House, where Republicans hold a slim majority. But because of the changes to the bill, the Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus opposed the final version, and Democratic leaders encouraged a no vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cA museum about women, fought for and supported by women, should not be controlled by one man,\u201d the leaders of the women\u2019s caucus said in a statement. \u201cRepublicans traded the representation of women for Trump\u2019s gain and ego. It\u2019s as embarrassing as it is disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson\u00a0said the changes shouldn\u2019t be controversial, but his effort to pass the bill with Republicans alone over the objections of Democrats failed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are they backing out? Simply because the bill reinforces an objective truth that a museum for women, get ready, should showcase only women,\u201d said Johnson, R-La.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said she brought her young daughter, Augusta, to the chamber to see history being made.<\/p>\n

\u201cBiological women deserve to have their stories told,\u201d Cammack said, holding her child during her speech.<\/p>\n

But Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, said the Republicans ditched the bipartisan bill for one favored by Trump\u2019s White House.<\/p>\n

Changes to the bill angered Democrats<\/p>\n

Initially presented as a step toward securing the museum\u2019s location, the legislation was revised during a committee vote last month in several ways.<\/p>\n

One change added a mission scope that states, \u201cThe Museum shall be dedicated to preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also adds a prohibition which states, \u201cThe Museum may not identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another change added specific detail about where the museum would be located on the mall \u2014 near 14th Street Southwest and Jefferson Drive, \u201cexcept that the President may designate an alternative site for the Museum within 180 days of the date of the enactment of this subsection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats said that the provision change gives Trump the authority to decide where the museum would ultimately go. \u201cAnd we do not agree with that,\u201d said Leger Fernandez.<\/p>\n

But Republicans argued that the provision is simply a fail-safe in the event there\u2019s any problem with the proposed site to ensure the museum can move ahead.<\/p>\n

An additional revision this week removed the word \u201cdiversity,\u201d saying instead the museum\u2019s organizing council should ensure a \u201crange\u201d of political viewpoints and experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think it\u2019s ridiculous that we are arguing over this,\u201d said Malliotakis.<\/p>\n

She said it\u2019s bothering Democrats that it will be Trump who breaks ground on the museum, \u201cbut that\u2019s the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Associated Press writers Stephen Groves, Joey Cappelletti and Kevin Freking contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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