South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace says she has been getting demise threats over her push to ban incoming transgender Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride and others from utilizing feminine restrooms contained in the Capitol.
The backlash got here after Mace unveiled a brand new toilet invoice decision earlier week that seeks to stop trans ladies from utilizing the feminine restrooms on Capitol Hill — arguing she wasn’t going to face for “someone with a penis in the women’s locker room.”
“They are threatening to kill me over this. Men that want to use women’s restrooms are threatening to kill me over this issue,” Mace advised Information Nation’s “On Balance” late Tuesday.
The obvious threats flooded in after Mace revealed earlier Tuesday that McBride, who is ready to be the primary overtly transgender member of Congress, was “absolutely” the rationale behind her push for the brand new laws.
“This person wants to come in and use women’s spaces. If I’m in, as a woman, I’m changing clothes in the locker room because I use the gym when I’m up here in DC, the women’s gym, and a man shows up, and his genitalia, his penis is in the room, no! Like I’m not– it’s not OK,” Mace advised the outlet.
She stated it will be a “trigger” for her as a rape survivor and sufferer of abuse.
“I have PTSD from the abuse that I’ve suffered, and I’m gonna do everything I can to protect women and girls,” Mace stated.
Within the wake of the threats and different backlash, the GOP Rep. doubled down and vowed: “This is only the start, and I’m not gonna stop.”
“Good luck. I was the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina, and if we haven’t met yet, I want all the bullies online to know you will not bully me into submission,” she continued.
“I can’t be threatened. You can’t threaten my life enough. That means I’m just gonna double and triple, quadruple down on this issue.”
Mace’s invoice, which drew fast pushback from McBride and others, requires a “prohibition” on Home members and workers utilizing restrooms, altering rooms or locker rooms “other than those corresponding to the biological sex of such individuals” within the Capitol or in Home workplace buildings.
The controversial proposal comes simply weeks after McBride, a Democrat, was elected to symbolize Delaware’s at-large congressional district.
McBride instantly slammed Mace’s push, saying in a put up on X that she hoped Congress would present “kindness.”
“Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness,” she wrote.
“This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing,” McBride added. “We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars.”
“Delawareans sent me here to make the American dream more affordable and accessible and that’s what I’m focused on.”
