transgender
31 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.
Dispatches
- September 18, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace to D.C. Mayor Bowser: 'What is a woman?'
During a September 18, 2025 House committee hearing, Mace pressed D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on the definition of 'woman' under the D.C. Code.
- September 16, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace says transgender people 'are violently ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard steel lock on it'
On September 16, 2025, in a street interview first reported via Don Lemon's Bluesky, Mace called Tyler Robinson, the man arrested for Kirk's assassination, 'radicalized' by the transgender community, and said trans people should be institutionalized.
- September 11, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace speculates before any arrest that Kirk's shooter 'was a tranny or pro-tranny'
On September 11, 2025, before any suspect was arrested in Charlie Kirk's assassination, Mace told reporters the killer was likely transgender, based on nothing; the man later arrested had a partner who was reportedly transitioning.
- April 21, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace repeats anti-trans slur at USC student who asked her to apologize: 'Is tr*nny really derogatory?'
At a Turning Point USA campus event, a 20-year-old transgender USC student asked Mace to apologize for using an anti-trans slur; Mace responded by questioning whether the term is derogatory and repeating it.
- April 11, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace asks Iowa crowd for permission to use anti-trans slur, then repeats it three times
On April 11, 2025, speaking at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, Mace asked the audience whether she could say the anti-transgender slur, then repeated it three times to laughter while praising Iowa for removing transgender people as a protected class.
- March 14, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace posts 'Estrogen doesn't love you' at a transgender influencer
From her official congressional X account, Mace replied 'Estrogen doesn't love you' to a transgender influencer's transition photo; the post drew roughly 15 million views.
- February 15, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace pins clip of herself repeating slur with caption: 'Rumor has it, saying it three times summons a Leftist meltdown'
In February 2025, Mace pinned a clip of herself repeating an anti-transgender slur three times at a House hearing to her official congressional X account, captioning it as a joke about triggering political opponents.
- February 5, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace tells Rep. Connolly she won't be 'counseled by a man over men and women's spaces'
Continuing her exchange with Rep. Connolly at the February 5 Oversight hearing, Mace said she would not take guidance from a man on gendered spaces and characterized transgender women as having 'mental health issues.'
- February 5, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace repeats anti-trans slur three times on hearing record after colleague's objection: 'Tr*nny, tr*nny, tr*nny!'
When Rep. Gerry Connolly raised a parliamentary objection to Mace's use of an anti-transgender slur, she repeated it three times on the record at the same House Oversight hearing.
- February 5, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace opens USAID hearing with anti-trans slur: 'Does this advance the interests of American citizens, paying for tr*****s in Guatemala?'
At a House Oversight Committee hearing on USAID foreign spending, Mace opened with a question using a slur directed at transgender people.
- December 10, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace tweet: 'I was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight by a pro-tr*ns man. FAFO.'
On December 10, 2024, Mace posted on X alleging she had been physically accosted at the Capitol by a 'pro-tr*ns man'; Capitol Police arrested foster-care advocate James McIntyre, whose charges were later dropped in April 2025.
- December 5, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace posts on X: 'If tr*****s is considered a slur then cis should be too'
The day after posting a video mocking arrested transgender protesters with a slur, Mace posted on X defending her word choice by arguing the term 'cis' should be treated the same way.
- December 4, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace mocks arrested transgender activists with anti-trans slur in Capitol video post
After transgender activists were arrested at a Capitol sit-in protesting her bathroom bill, Mace posted a video using a slur to describe them.
- November 19, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace invokes rape survival to justify bathroom bill targeting Rep.-elect McBride: 'Yes and absolutely, and then some'
On November 19, 2024, Mace cited her own history as a rape and domestic-abuse survivor as justification for her transgender bathroom resolution, and confirmed directly that it targeted Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
- November 19, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace on transgender bathroom resolution: 'This is the last war on women and I aim to stop it'
On November 19, 2024, Mace introduced a House resolution barring transgender women from Capitol restrooms the week before Rep.-elect Sarah McBride was to be sworn in as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
- November 15, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace posts 'McBride, a biological male, does not get a say in women's private spaces' and 'if you have balls we don't want you in the women's bathroom'
Mace posted two statements on Instagram and social media targeting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride while promoting her Capitol bathroom-access resolution in November 2024.
Incidents
The 'tranny' slur at House Oversight (Feb. 5, 2025)
At a February 5, 2025 House Oversight hearing, Rep. Mace repeated an anti-transgender slur three times on the record in direct response to a colleague's parliamentary objection.
February 5, 2025 · Incident
Reported Reagan National (DCA) constituent confrontation (Nov. 2024)
FITSNews reported in November 2025 that, a year earlier, Mace had an angry confrontation with a Charleston constituent who questioned her at Reagan National Airport, an account based on anonymous witnesses. No footage has surfaced publicly.
November 21, 2024 · Incident
The McBride bathroom bill (Nov. 2024)
In November 2024, Rep. Mace introduced a resolution to bar transgender women from Capitol restrooms, explicitly targeting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
November 15, 2024 · Incident
"What is a woman?", Mace's recurring hearing-room test
Across at least six House Oversight appearances from June 2024 to March 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace pressed an adversarial witness, Maya Wiley, Martin O'Malley, Fatima Goss Graves, Gov. Tim Walz (twice), and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, to answer 'What is a woman?' on camera. The clips, the verbatim exchanges, and her own posts are collected here.
June 27, 2024 · Incident
Wiki & people
DEI & 'Gender Madness'
Mace's congressional focus on opposing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and what she has termed 'gender madness' in federal and local government.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
Transgender & LGBTQ Policy
Mace's record on transgender and LGBTQ issues, from early statements on marriage equality to her high-profile campaigns against transgender women in congressional bathrooms.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
Sarah McBride
U.S. Representative Sarah McBride (D-DE) became the first openly transgender member of Congress in 2024 and was explicitly targeted by a Nancy Mace bathroom-access resolution.
November 18, 2024 · Wiki
Media coverage
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.
June 11, 2026 · Media
Trans People Saw the Nancy Mace Crack-Up Coming Long, Long Ago
The New Republic argues that Mace's anti-transgender rhetoric and subsequent personal controversies fit a documented pattern in which intense anti-trans campaigning by public figures has historically preceded broader public unravelings.
February 4, 2026 · Media
Rep. Nancy Mace Threatens Media For Reporting On Handshake She Says Was Assault
After media reported eyewitnesses contradicted Mace's assault account of the McIntyre incident, Mace went on far-right media to threaten defamation suits against any outlet that questioned her version of events, a threat that was itself widely covered as an attempt to intimidate journalists.
December 12, 2024 · Media
Illinois man arrested, accused of attacking Rep. Nancy Mace on Capitol grounds
James McIntyre, 33, of Illinois was arrested and charged with assaulting a government official after a confrontation with Mace at the Rayburn House Office Building; Capitol Police said McIntyre shook Mace's hand 'in an exaggerated, aggressive' manner while saying 'Trans youth deserve advocacy,' though a witness described the encounter as 'a passionate shake' rather than an assault.
December 11, 2024 · Media
This GOP Rep. May Have Lied About Trans Activist Attacking Her
New Republic report citing three eyewitnesses who said McIntyre simply shook Mace's hand and asked her to support trans youth, directly contradicting her claim of physical assault. Published the day before Mace's media-threat appearance.
December 11, 2024 · Media
Rep. Nancy Mace's posts flagged for hateful conduct amid anti-transgender campaign
X flagged multiple posts by Mace for violating its hateful conduct policies after she used language critics characterized as an anti-transgender slur when referring to protesters outside the Supreme Court; GLAAD noted that identical posts on Instagram remained unmoderated.
December 6, 2024 · Media
Bathroom Obsessive Nancy Mace Called Herself 'Pro-Transgender Rights' Just Last Year
Rolling Stone documented the sharp contradiction between Mace's 2023 'pro-transgender rights' and 'be who you want to be' statements and her 2024 campaign to ban trans women from Capitol bathrooms, specifically targeting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
November 25, 2024 · Media
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.
November 19, 2024 · Media