Del., the first openly transgender person elected to serve in Congress, on Sunday called House Republicans’ moves to ban her from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol “mean-spirited” and an “attempt to misdirect” from other policy priorities.

Incoming Delaware representative Sarah McBride will be the United States’ first transgender member of Congress when she is sworn in in January. “The results are a testament to Delawareans who have demonstrated that they are judging candidates based on their ideas and not their identities,