GOP lawmaker scraps with Democrat in hearing over transgender 'slur,' bathroom rights: 'Not going to have it'

A House Oversight Committee proceeding devolved into a combat implicit words connected Wednesday aft Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., repeatedly utilized a "slur" to picture transgender radical successful a proceeding connected USAID funding.

"USAID awarded $2 cardinal to fortify trans-led organizations to present gender-affirming wellness attraction successful Guatemala," Mace said. "So to each of you this morning, does this beforehand the interests of American citizens paying for trannies successful Guatemala to the tune of $2 million, yes oregon no?"

When Mace's 5 minutes were up, ranking subordinate Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., made a constituent of parliamentary enquiry to the committee president to chide Mace for utilizing the connection "trannies," a word "that is considered a slur successful the LGBTQ community, and the transgender community."

"Let maine delight decorativeness without interruption," Connolly said, earlier Mace chopped him disconnected and repeated the word respective much times. 

"Tranny, tranny, tranny, I don't truly care, you privation penises and women's bathrooms, and I'm not going to person it OK, no, convey you – it's disgusting," Mace barked back.

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Rep. Nancy Mace and Rep. Gerry Connolly (Getty Images)

Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., interrupted and permitted Connolly to decorativeness his thoughts. 

"To me, a slur is simply a slur, and present connected the committee, a level of decorum requires america to effort consciously to debar slurs. You conscionable heard the gentle woman really actively, robustly repeated it," Connolly said. "And I would conscionable inquire the president that she beryllium counseled that we ought not to beryllium engaged. We tin person statement and argumentation treatment without offending quality beings who are our chap citizens. And truthful I would inquire arsenic a parliamentary enquiry whether the usage of that operation is not, successful fact, a usurpation of the decorum rules."

Mace – who precocious introduced a measure to prohibition biologic men from women's spaces connected each national spot – snapped backmost that she wasn't going to beryllium "counseled by a antheral implicit men successful women's spaces oregon men who person intelligence wellness issues dressing arsenic women." The South Carolina Republican also made headlines past November with her propulsion to prohibition biologic males from women's bathrooms successful the U.S. Capitol, inspired by the predetermination of Sarah McBride, D-Del., arsenic the archetypal openly transgender pistillate elected to the House.

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With a flimsy smirk, Comer said, "I'll beryllium honorable with the ranking subordinate – I’m not up-to-date connected my politically close LGBTQ terminology."

"We'll look into that and get backmost with you connected that. I don't cognize what's violative and what's not. I don't cognize overmuch astir pronouns," helium said. 

The hearing, which was astir authorities ratio and called "Rightsizing Government," began Wednesday greeting and included arsenic witnesses Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Citizens Against Government Waste president Thomas A. Schatz. 

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The proceeding besides fell into immoderate disorder erstwhile Connolly demanded the committee subpoena the person of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tech billionaire Elon Musk.

A reappraisal of USAID’s caller past shows that it was repeatedly accused of fiscal mismanagement and corruption agelong earlier Trump's 2nd administration, Fox News Digital antecedently reported. 

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Musk has led the complaint against USAID – an autarkic U.S. bureau established during the Kennedy medication to administer economical assistance to overseas nations – arsenic helium leads DOGE’s ngo of cutting authorities abdominous and overspending astatine the national level. 

Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this report.