South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace is doubling down on her transgender bathroom bill by introducing a secondary proposal that would expand the ban to all single-sex facilities located on federal property across the country.

His latest bill, titled the “Women’s Private Spaces Protection Act,” seeks to “prohibit individuals from accessing or using single-sex facilities on federal property other than those corresponding to their biological sex.”

“Oh, you thought threatening me would shut me up?” No, I just doubled down and introduced a new bill to protect women and girls across the country, on all federal property, everywhere,” Ms. Mace wrote in an article on X Wednesday morning, attaching the text of the bill. In another article, she promised that she “won’t shut up because a man tells me.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson issued a statement Wednesday morning clarifying the Capitol’s existing rules on access to facilities, noting that “all single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings,” including including toilets, locker rooms and locker rooms, “are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.”

Mr. Johnson added that each member’s office has its own private restroom and that “unisex” restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. He signed off his statement with the message that “women deserve women-only spaces.”

Mace’s new proposal follows a bill she proposed Monday it would change House rules to prevent House members, officers and employees from using Capitol facilities designed “for the opposite biological sex.” Ms. Mace described the resolution, in a press release, as a way to “stand up for women, protect their spaces and restore some sanity to the Capitol.”

The effort, Mace said, was “absolutely” inspired by the recent election of the first transgender member of Congress, Sarah McBride, who will serve in the House starting next year. “I will absolutely 100% stand in the way of any man wanting to be in the women’s restroom, in our locker room, in our locker room. I will be there to fight you every step of the way,” Ms Mace told reporters on Tuesday.

The MP also quoted her experience as a victim of sexual violence and abuse as motivation to work “unapologetically” to “protect women in vulnerable places like our locker rooms, bathrooms and sports teams.”

A barrage of criticism was quickly launched at Ms Mace, who on Tuesday evening told reporters: “They are threatening to kill me over this. Men who want to use the women’s restroom threaten to kill me because of this problem.

Critics of the bill began posting videos of themselves unleashing violent tirades against Ms Mace. In one recently deleted videoan LGBTQ activist, who goes by the name @venuspeenis, threatened to grab the congresswoman by her “fucking scruffy hair” and “drag” her face “to the ground while I punch her repeatedly until blood be everywhere.” and she is “dead”.

The MP at the center of the debate, Ms McBride, responded to the resolution by denouncing it as a “blatant attempt by far-right extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans face,” adding that “we should focus on reducing the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not on manufacturing culture wars.”

Ms. Mace, however, vowed not to let her opponents “beat me into submission,” telling NewsNation that “I can’t be threatened.” You can’t threaten my life enough. That means I’m just going to double, triple, quadruple on this question.