Ex-Politician Who Faced Bathroom Ban in Italy Expresses Support for Sarah McBride Amid ‘Rank Politics’

Vladimir Luxuria, a transgender former Italian lawmaker, recalls her own experience with bathroom discrimination in Parliament, empathising with McBride’s situation.

Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress, is facing backlash over which restroom she can use—a controversy that echoes an incident experienced by Vladimir Luxuria, Italy's first openly transgender member of Parliament.

In 2006, shortly after taking her seat in Parliament, Luxuria was temporarily barred from using th…