Nancy Mace fires back at AOC, critics of trans bathroom ban: 'Height of hypocrisy'

South Carolina lawmaker Nancy Mace sparked a wildfire from critics similar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., erstwhile she proposed a solution to prohibition transgender women from utilizing women’s restrooms astatine the U.S. Capitol.

After the progressive Democrat claimed Mace and supporters of the measure were "endangering women and girls," Mace fired back. 

"It's truly the tallness of hypocrisy," Mace said connected "Fox & Friends Weekend," Sunday. "It conscionable goes to amusement [Democrats'] lie. They don't privation to support women. They ne'er person wanted to support women, and their policies volition lone endanger much women and girls."

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Mace, who has vocalized being a subsister of rape and intersexual abuse, introduced the solution past week. She told Fox News Digital, "the sanctity of protecting women and lasting up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biologic women starts present successful the nation’s Capitol."

The measurement volition prohibit "members, officers, and employees of the House from utilizing single-sex facilities different than those corresponding to their biologic sex, and for different purposes," according to substance previewed by Fox News Digital.

"It's conscionable ludicrous to maine that women who are victims of maltreatment should beryllium forced to undress oregon spell to the bath adjacent to a man," Mace told co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy.

It comes conscionable earlier the archetypal openly transgender lawmaker, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is acceptable to articulation Congress successful January.

Mace's authorities would complaint the House sergeant astatine arms with enforcing the rule.

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AOC heavy criticized the authorities portion speaking to reporters connected Capitol Hill, Wednesday.

"What Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson are doing are endangering each women and girls. Because if you inquire them, 'what is your program connected however to enforce this?' They won't travel up with an answer," she said.

"What it inevitably results successful are women and girls who are primed for assault...because radical are going to privation to cheque their backstage parts successful suspecting who is trans and who is cis and who's doing what... Because she wants to fishy and constituent fingers astatine who she thinks is trans is disgusting."

The New York lawmaker adjacent accused Mace of wanting women to "drop trow" to enforce the resolution. 

Mace rejected that notion, saying, "[AOC's] not telling the truth. No 1 has ever said that women should driblet trow. That's truly disgusting."

Since announcing the resolution, Mace has endured a slew of threats and adjacent nationalist accostation. 

"It's bittersweet and astonishing that successful 2024 I person to spell connected TV and connected societal media to explicate to the extremist near that men shouldn't beryllium allowed successful women's restrooms, that women shouldn't beryllium forced to undress successful beforehand of men."

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Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.