transgender
42 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.
Dispatches
- July 26, 2026 · Dispatch
"If you think your child is trans, your child should be removed from your home to safety": Mace's July 26 post
On July 26, 2026, at 2:55 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'If you think your child is trans, your child should be removed from your home to safety.' The standalone post, carrying no article or event, drew roughly 8,300 likes and about 400 replies. It is one of a cluster of Mace statements about transgender people posted across late July 2026, and sits atop a record that runs from her November 2024 Capitol bathroom resolution through her September 2025 'straitjacket' remarks.
- July 22, 2026 · Dispatch
"Not Chopping Their Dicks Off": Mace's Entire On-Camera Answer on Military Healthcare. Her Amendment Was Later Stripped Anyway.
Rep. Nancy Mace celebrated a House vote restricting TRICARE gender-affirming care coverage by posting "Our military should be focused on troop readiness, not chopping their dicks off", then yelled at a Democratic colleague on the House floor and followed up by attacking her nose on social media.
- July 21, 2026 · Dispatch
Two threat sentencings in one day: the woman who sent kill texts went home until prison. The teenager who posted one tweet sat in jail 14 months.
On July 21, 2026, both pending threat cases against Nancy Mace ended. Shayla Addison, who sent five kill texts, a bomb-threat email, and two Instagram comments and had a record of nearly identical threats, was never jailed pretrial and got 27 months. Samuel Cain, a Greenville trans teenager who posted a single tweet that agencies reportedly could not tie to any weapon or plan, had already served roughly 14 months without bond and left with house arrest, five years of probation, and a permanent internet ban. Mace posted through all of it.
- July 19, 2026 · Dispatch
"Which version of Nancy Mace will we get?": a nonbinary creator turns Mace's Senate flirtation into a software-update bit
On July 19, 2026, the YouTube and TikTok creator who posts as @defenestrans published an 85-second Short arguing that Nancy Mace's politics track her audience rather than her convictions, staged as a running joke about software updates. 'Nancy Mace has successfully upgraded to MAGA 5.0,' the host says, before running through 'Factory settings Nancy, District 1 Nancy, Governor's race Nancy, Senate DLC Nancy' and closing: 'I think she just has auto update on, and somehow every new version has more bugs than the last.' Two factual claims in the clip check out: Mace finished fifth in the June 9 Republican gubernatorial primary with 12.1 percent, and she has said on the record she will look at Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. The characterizations are the creator's own; Mace has not responded to the video.
- June 18, 2026 · Dispatch
"Radical transgender experiments": Nancy Mace's "TRANS MICE Act" goes to war with the transgenic lab mice scientists use to study cancer
On June 18, 2026, Nancy Mace promoted her 'TRANS MICE Act' on X, declaring that 'animals should not be used for radical transgender experiments' and calling it 'ideological cruelty.' The bill, H.R.4512, is real. So is the problem: the mice are transgenic, not transgender. Transgenic mice are genetically modified rodents used to study cancer, endometriosis, infertility and other diseases. Scientists and the research-advocacy group Americans for Medical Progress say the studies have nothing to do with gender identity. The post went viral as a self-own; the photo Mace attached is a standard transgenic research mouse.
- 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
Samuel Cain (Roxie Wolfe)
Samuel Theodore Cain, known online as Roxie Wolfe, a Greenville transgender teenager, spent roughly 14 months in jail without bond over a single X post threatening Nancy Mace, then was sentenced July 21, 2026 to house arrest and five years of probation with a permanent restraining order and an internet ban.
July 21, 2026 · Wiki
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
Qnotes frames Mace's anti-trans turn and primary collapse
QnotesCarolinas published a June 25, 2026 political profile connecting Nancy Mace's fifth-place South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary finish to her high-profile anti-transgender campaign, her Trump/Epstein break, the House Ethics/OCC reimbursement referral, and criticism from former staffers and Republicans. The headline and sharper labels are Qnotes' own framing.
June 25, 2026 · Media
Irish Star: Mace 'eviscerated' over 'trans mice' as replies pile up
The Irish Star rounds up the viral reaction to Nancy Mace's June 18, 2026 'TRANS MICE Act' post, which claimed the American taxpayer is funding experiments on 'trans mice.' The piece collects the X replies and quote-posts correcting her (transgenic, not transgender), reproduces the community note appended to the post, and quotes Mace's clapback defending the bill. The 'dumbest member of Congress' and 'bozo' framing is the commenters' and the outlet's own characterization.
June 20, 2026 · Media
The Poke: Mace mistook cancer-research mice for 'transgender experiments'
The Poke, a UK comedy and satire site, covers Nancy Mace's June 18, 2026 post promoting her 'TRANS MICE Act,' which declared that 'animals should not be used for radical transgender experiments.' The piece's own one-line summary states that Mace 'mistook transgenic experiments for cancer research for transgender experiments,' and collects the replies correcting her. The harsher framing in the headline is the outlet's own commentary.
June 20, 2026 · Media
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
Mockery & memes
The "confirm what genitals" meme
A user-submitted image macro places a bathroom-stall photo beside a quote attributed to Nancy Mace: "I need to confirm what genitals you have. I don't want you making ME uncomfortable."
June 26, 2026 · Mockery
"Lost in Trans-lation": health journalist Gary Schwitzer gives Mace his 4th Health News Pinocchio Award for confusing transgenic with transgender mice
On June 23, 2026, health journalist Gary Schwitzer awarded Nancy Mace his 4th Health News Pinocchio Award for repeatedly confusing transgenic mice (a standard cancer-research tool) with transgender mice, and doubling down after public correction. His verdict: standing by a mistruth several times, even after being publicly corrected, and doing so on multiple platforms is noteworthy.
June 23, 2026 · Mockery