Keith Self, Republican chair of a US House subcommittee, adjourned the hearing after he was challenged for misgendering Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress. McBride, a first-term Democratic congresswoman from Delaware, elected last November, shot back at the chair by responding: ‘Thank you, Madam Chair.’ She was joined by Bill Keating, a Massachusetts Democrat, who defended her saying: ‘this is not decent’
