South Carolina lawmaker Nancy Mace sparked a wildfire from critics like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., when she proposed a decision to ban transgender girls from utilizing girls’s restrooms on the U.S. Capitol.
After the progressive Democrat claimed Mace and supporters of the invoice have been “endangering girls and ladies,” Mace fired again.Â
“It is actually the peak of hypocrisy,” Mace stated on “Fox & Buddies Weekend,” Sunday. “It simply goes to point out [Democrats’] lie. They do not wish to shield girls. They by no means have needed to guard girls, and their insurance policies will solely endanger extra girls and ladies.”
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Mace, who has vocalized being a survivor of rape and sexual abuse, launched the decision final week. She instructed Fox Information Digital, “the sanctity of defending girls and standing up towards the Left’s systematic erasure of organic girls begins right here within the nation’s Capitol.”
The measure will prohibit “members, officers, and workers of the Home from utilizing single-sex services aside from these equivalent to their organic intercourse, and for different functions,” in accordance with textual content previewed by Fox Information Digital.
“It is simply ludicrous to me that girls who’re victims of abuse needs to be pressured to undress or go to the lavatory subsequent to a person,” Mace instructed co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy.
It comes simply earlier than the primary overtly transgender lawmaker, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is about to hitch Congress in January.
Mace’s laws would cost the Home sergeant at arms with implementing the rule.
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AOC closely criticized the laws whereas chatting with reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday.
“What Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson are doing are endangering all girls and ladies. As a result of for those who ask them, ‘what’s your plan on the best way to implement this?’ They will not give you a solution,” she stated.
“What it inevitably leads to are girls and ladies who’re primed for assault…as a result of individuals are going to wish to test their non-public components in suspecting who’s trans and who’s cis and who’s doing what… As a result of she desires to suspect and level fingers at who she thinks is trans is disgusting.”
The New York lawmaker even accused Mace of wanting girls to “drop trow” to implement the decision.Â
Mace rejected that notion, saying, “[AOC’s] not telling the reality. Nobody has ever stated that girls ought to drop trow. That is actually disgusting.”
Since asserting the decision, Mace has endured a slew of threats and even public accostation.Â
“It is unhappy and stunning that in 2024 I’ve to go on TV and on social media to clarify to the novel left that males should not be allowed in girls’s restrooms, that girls should not be pressured to undress in entrance of males.”
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Fox Information’ Elizabeth Elkind and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
