Mace faces backlash over effort to ban new transgender member of Congress from women's bathrooms

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., clashed with her critics online Tuesday arsenic she faces backlash for her solution to barroom men who place arsenic pistillate from the women's restrooms connected Capitol Hill.

Mace filed the solution connected Monday, which Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind archetypal reported volition prohibit "Members, officers, and employees of the House from utilizing single-sex facilities different than those corresponding to their biologic sex." 

The solution comes conscionable arsenic the archetypal openly transgender lawmaker, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is acceptable to articulation Congress successful January. McBride is simply a biologic antheral who identifies and presents arsenic a woman. 

"This is simply a blatant effort from acold right-wing extremists to distract from the information that they person nary existent solutions to what Americans are facing," McBride said successful a statement. "We should beryllium focused connected bringing down the outgo of housing, wellness care, and kid care, not manufacturing civilization wars." 

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., leaves a gathering of the House Republican Conference successful the U.S. Capitol connected June 6, 2023.  (Getty Images)

"Delawareans sent maine present to marque the American imagination much affordable and accessible and that’s what I’m focused on," added McBride.

When online critics said Mace's solution was "clearly directed" astatine McBride, the South Carolina congresswoman confirmed that was her intention.

"Yes and past some. Biological men bash not person immoderate rights to women’s backstage spaces. It’s perverted to deliberation otherwise," Mace posted connected X successful effect to different user. 

"Also Sarah McBride doesn't get a accidental here. I volition ever support pistillate and girls. Period. Full stop. End of story." 

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Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., poses for a photograph aft joining different legislature freshmen of the 119th Congress for a radical photograph connected the steps of the House of Representatives astatine the U.S. Capitol Building connected Nov. 15, 2024 successful Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Her uncompromising presumption provoked McBride's defenders to telephone Mace a bigot and a bully. 

Left-wing writer Aaron Rupar shared a screenshot of Mace's effect and wrote, "Note however ‘concerns astir fairness successful sports’ has already transformed into unvarnished transphobic bigotry." 

Mace responded, "Protecting women and girls isn’t bigotry, it’s communal sense. I volition basal successful the brink to support women’s rights from the acold near radicals trying to erase us." 

Harry Sisson, a Democratic contented creator connected TikTok, likewise accused Mace of "straight up bigotry and bullying." 

Mace quoted his X station and wrote, "All these extremist near men pushing different men into women’s backstage spaces shows you however sick they genuinely are – the Left volition bash immoderate they tin to harm women and girls. As a unfortunate of maltreatment and arsenic an advocator for different women abused by men, 4 words for you: Over My Dead Body." 

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Transgender rights activistic and present Rep.-elect Sarah McBride speaks connected signifier astatine the Women In The World Summit successful New York, U.S., April 11, 2019.

Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., called Mace's effort to prohibition McBride from the ladies' country "pathetic." 

"What are you frightened of, Nancy?" helium asked.

To which Mace quoted his reply and wrote, "I don’t privation radical with penis’s [sic] showing them disconnected successful our locker room." 

In a follow-up post, Phillips asked, "Why wouldn’t we ‘allow’ our chap citizens the close to usage the damn toilet of the sex by which they unrecorded their lives? 

"You whitethorn not similar it. I get it. But it’s inactive communal consciousness and banning it seems un-American," helium continued. "So come-on patriots, let’s beryllium chill with 1 another." 

But Mace refused to backmost down. 

Rep. Nancy Mace narrowly won predetermination successful 2020 implicit incumbent Joe Cunningham (D) by one-percent oregon astir 5,400 votes. With recently redrawn redistricting maps successful place, she comfortably won reelection by 14%. (Getty Images)

"As a unfortunate of abuse, I cognize firsthand women are vulnerable; and I volition basal successful the mode of anyone who violates our rights oregon who wants to acceptable america backmost 100 years," she wrote.

Semafor authorities newsman David Weigel observed that Mace's presumption is simply a "shift" to the close aft she supported a Republican alternate to the Democrat-backed Equality Act, which would person added intersexual predisposition and sex individuality connection to national anti-discrimination law.

The GOP's "Fairness for All Act" would person extended civilian rights protections to cheery and transgender radical but exempted spiritual institutions, nonprofit organizations and definite individuals. 

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"I powerfully enactment LGBTQ rights and equality," Mace told the Washington Examiner successful 2021. "No 1 should beryllium discriminated against."

She went connected to accidental sex issues are not "black-and-white." 

"I bash judge that spiritual liberty, the First Amendment, cheery rights, and transgender equality tin each coexist. I’m besides a constitutionalist, and we person to guarantee anti-discrimination laws don’t interruption First Amendment rights oregon spiritual freedom," Mace said astatine the time.

"I person friends and household that place arsenic LGBTQ," she added. "Understanding however they consciousness and however they’ve been treated is important. Having been astir gay, lesbian, and transgender radical has informed my sentiment implicit my lifetime."

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.