Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) walks to a Republican members conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023 as House lawmakers seek to elect a new speaker in Washington.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claims that she tried to have transphobic wrapping paper made but that the vendors she contacted refused to make it because it was “offensive.”
Mace, who has been making headlines for the past month because of her crusade against Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first trans person elected to Congress, posted on social media that she tried to get wrapping paper made, presumably to sell to raise campaign funds. She posted a picture of the wrapping paper and it had a pattern that alternated between a graphic that reads, “No [picture of balls] in our stalls,” and her campaign logo.
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“My team just informed me that no company would make this wrapping paper for us because it’s too ‘offensive,’” she wrote. “What I find offensive is men in women’s bathrooms.”
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“But anyway, who would’ve bought this wrapping paper?”
My team just informed me that no company would make this wrapping paper for us because it’s too “offensive.”
What I find offensive is men in women’s bathrooms.
Mace spent the weekend posting anti-transgender messages to social media, including some with slurs. In one, she denounced trans rights protestors at the Capitol by calling them “tr***ies.”
“The tr***ies came, they saw, and they did not conquer during their protest,” she wrote.
“A sitting Congresswomen using a disgusting and bigoted slur about Americans who staged a nonviolent protest,” responded Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL). “People who use this type of despicable language should not be leading anyone.”
A sitting Congresswomen using a disgusting and bigoted slur about Americans who staged a nonviolent protest. People who use this type of despicable language should not be leading anyone. pic.twitter.com/4Dcf9duMN2
In another post, she shared a rightwing pundit’s post that called trans women “chicks with d***s.”
In yet another post, she called trans women “men” and accused them of “voyeurism” for wanting to use restrooms. She said that she read “criminal profiles and studies before church” this past Sunday and learned that “men who commit voyeurism are dangerous and should be treated as such.”
Mace called trans people slurs in a video she posted to social media last week. This comes a month after she introduced a resolution to stop McBride from using the women’s facilities at the Capitol and a bill to ban trans people from using the appropriate restroom on all federal property.
Mace has been using transphobia to build her political career since before she was elected to Congress. In her first campaign for Congress, she made up a law that she claimed required “transgender equality in the military,” said that her Democratic opponent was responsible for it, and said that it would result in a Marine Corps base in her district getting shut down. It was all a lie – there was no such law and the Marine base is still in operation today – but it helped her secure her seat in Congress.
In her second run for Congress, she accused her opponent of providing “SEX CHANGE SURGERY. PUBERTY BLOCKERS. GENDER CHANGING HORMONES. FOR CHILDREN?” in an ad, even though her opponent was a doctor who worked at a hospital that didn’t provide gender-affirming care for trans people at all. Her opponent was forced to resign from her job.
Mace has a poor record on LGBTQ+ rights in Congress, getting scores of 15 and 14 out of 100 on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard, and she even voted against the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ people at the federal level, and against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act because it would give some protections to transgender inmates.
In her effort to stop McBride from using the women’s restrooms at the Capitol, Mace has referred to McBride as “it” and as a “man.” She has also started selling anti-trans t-shirts and said that it’s “offensive” that McBride thinks she’s “equal” to other congresswomen.
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