“I am thinking about carrying every day,” said Ashley Parten, 38, a Douglasville, Georgia, resident who purchased stun guns for herself, her daughter and three nieces after the election. Parten, who is Black and bisexual, is also eyeing a maroon handgun that she plans on buying after taking a firearms class.
“We all feel the need to make sure that we’re aware of our surroundings and protect ourselves in general, but even more so now,” she said.
Earlier this week, the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson,
Sarah McBride, the first openly trans person elected to Congress, by stating single-sex bathrooms in the Capitol “are reserved for individuals of that biological sex”. Trump, whose campaign released a firehose of
, has promised to ban gender-affirming care for minors and “keep men out of women’s sports”.
