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Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn, a fellow Republican fresh off reelection, is also expected to run for governor in her state.

Given the slim majority Republicans hold in both the House and the Senate and the opposition the measure has drawn in the Senate, from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and in the House, from Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., who voiced her opposition only after voting for the bill, there may be an opportunity for conservatives to change the language in this bill in the reconciliation process.

The phrase is in reference to the Stonewall uprising on June 28, 1969, when transgender and gender non-conforming people were targeted by police at the Stonewall Inn in New York and Black transwoman Marsha P. Johnson is credited with retaliating by throwing a brick to ward off police officers attempting to rough up and arrest patrons — although the details of this story have been argued about ever since.

Dr Marsha Scott, the chief executive of Scottish Women's Aid, said it should be possible to engage with survivors in "a respectful and informed way".

Judge Marsha S. Berzon, an appointee of President Clinton, wrote a separate opinion — joined by five other judges — expressly denouncing VanDyke’s “wildly improper” and “novel form” of dissent.