Nancy Mace Introduces Bill To Separate Gubernatorial Races By Gender
Satire. The Onion, a comedy publication, imagines Nancy Mace responding to her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina governor's primary by proposing to segregate gubernatorial elections by gender, a send-up of the bathroom-bill politics that defined her House tenure. No such bill exists.
Satire. The Onion is a comedy publication. The "bill" described below is fictional, Mace introduced no such legislation.
On June 11, 2026, days after Nancy Mace finished fifth in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, The Onion published a satirical item headlined "Nancy Mace Introduces Bill To Separate Gubernatorial Races By Gender."
The joke turns Mace's signature legislative cause back on her own loss. In Congress she authored the resolution barring transgender women from women's restrooms in the Capitol, aimed, she confirmed, at then-Rep.-elect Sarah McBride. The satire extends that logic to elections themselves: having lost an open race, the fictional "Mace" proposes to wall the contest off by sex so she can run, and win, against women only.
It is fiction, not reporting. But the target is telling: Mace's gender politics and her governor's-race collapse have hardened into a national punchline, and The Onion reached for both at once.
Sources & related coverage
- The Onion: Nancy Mace Introduces Bill To Separate Gubernatorial Races By Gender, satire
- Maceopedia: The bathroom bill aimed at Sarah McBride
- Maceopedia: Mace finishes fifth in the governor's primary, "years in the making"
