Part of: The House Ethics reimbursement investigation (2025-2026) · The 'tranny' slur at House Oversight (Feb. 5, 2025) · House Ethics Committee Investigation of Rep. Nancy Mace (OCC Review 25-5681) · DEI & 'Gender Madness' · Transgender & LGBTQ Policy
Rep. Nancy Mace says her anti-trans bathroom bill 'absolutely' targets Rep.-elect Sarah McBride
NBC confirmed Mace's own admission that her Capitol bathroom resolution directly targeted Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. The candid admission generated sustained national criticism.
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"Yes and absolutely, and then some."
, Rep. Nancy Mace, when asked whether her bathroom bill targeted Rep.-elect Sarah McBride
NBC News reported Mace's unambiguous admission on her own stated intent. When asked directly whether her Capitol bathroom resolution was aimed at McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, Mace confirmed it without qualification.
She elaborated with a second statement that framed the bill in maximalist terms:
"I'm absolutely 100% gonna stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women's restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms."
McBride had not been sworn into office yet when Mace introduced the resolution. The move was widely characterized as an effort to make McBride's presence a political flash point before she had cast a single vote.
The NBC piece was published the same week Rolling Stone documented Mace's reversed position; she had described herself as "pro-transgender rights" just one year earlier. Together the two stories established a pattern of contradictory public statements on transgender policy that would follow Mace through her 2026 governor campaign.
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