Congresswoman Nancy Mace Drops Transphobic Slurs on Floor of Congress

Congresswoman Nancy Mace renewed her strident anti-trans rhetoric Wednesday in a hearing on Capitol Hill. While questioning witnesses about the U.S. Agency for International Development's expenditures, Newsweek reported, the South Carolina Republican used a term recognized as a slur to the LGBTQ+ community. Ranking member Gerald Connolly cut in and called her out on the use of the term.

"The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community and the transgender community," Connolly said. He then asked if he could continue without interruption to no avail as Mace doubled down.

"Tr***y, tr***y, tr***y!" she shouted. "I don't really care! You want penises in women's bathrooms, and I'm not going to have it!"

She later re-tweeted the moment with the comment: "Heaven-forbid someone uses a word the Left thinks is offensive."

The committee chairman, James Comer, attempted to restore order, allowing Connolly to continue.

"To me, a slur is a slur and here in the committee, a level of decorum requires us to try, consciously, to avoid slurs," he continued."You just heard the gentlelady actually actively, robustly repeat it and I would just ask the chairman that she be counseled that we ought not to be engaged–we can have debate and policy discussion without offending human beings who are our fellow citizens," he continued. "So I would ask, as a parliamentary inquiry, whether the use of that phrase is not, in fact, a violation of the decorum rules."

Unfazed, Mace told Connolly she was "not going to be counseled by a man over men and women's spaces or men who have mental health issues dressing as women."

Mace's spokesperson told Newsweek in a statement: "The only thing the Left has going for them is political correctness because they are so wrong on everything."

Newsweek added that "There is no evidence that transgender women pose an increased threat to safety in bathrooms. Transgender people are also several times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than those who are not transgender."

This exchange took place "shortly before President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to ban transgender women from participating in women's sports. The president also said the U.S. will deny visas to transgender Olympic athletes."

Mace, the outlet said, is "one of the loudest anti-transgender voices in Congress and introduced a bill last year to ban transgender women from using restrooms that correspond with their gender identity on Capitol Hill. Mace proposed the legislation after Delaware elected Sarah McBride, the first transgender person to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives."