"Mayor Bowser, what is a woman?", four moments from Mace's DEI hearing
A supercut of four verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at the September 18, 2025 House Oversight Committee hearing, from the viral "I'm a woman, are you a woman?" exchange to Mace pressing on DEI language in D.C. code.
On September 18, 2025, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser testified before the House Oversight Committee. Rep. Nancy Mace questioned her on DEI and gender-related language in D.C.'s legal code, producing a series of exchanges that went viral.
This supercut stitches four verbatim moments from that hearing, each cut from the official C-SPAN feed and captioned word-for-word:
- "Mayor Bowser, what is a woman?", Mace asked. Bowser replied: "I'm a woman. Are you a woman?" Mace: "A hundred percent." Bowser: "I'm a woman. You're looking at one."
- "You're literally the mayor of DC and you don't know your own code of laws.", After Mace cited DC code language on "birthing people and their non-birthing partners" and Bowser said she'd need to see the full section.
- "This is not her time. It's my time. You can be quiet as I ask you questions and then you can answer them.", Mace escalating after Bowser interjected during her questioning round.
- "Can men get pregnant? Can a man become a woman? Yes or no?", Mace pressing Bowser on biological definitions; Bowser answered "No" to the first, then declined to engage on the second.
The footage is the official C-SPAN congressional hearing feed (a U.S. government work / public record). C-SPAN's lower-third graphics are cropped from each segment.
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