South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace faced harsh criticism from critics, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, when she proposed a resolution that would ban transgender women from using women's restrooms at the U.S. Capitol. caused a blaze.
When progressive Democrats claimed that Mace and the bill's supporters were “putting women and girls at risk,” Mace fired back.
“This is the height of hypocrisy,” Mace said on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday. “It's just shown [Democrats’] lie. They don't want to protect women. They have never wanted to protect women and their policies only put more women and girls at risk. ”
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Mace, who has been a vocal survivor of rape and sexual abuse, introduced the resolution last week. “The sanctity of protecting women and countering the left's systematic erasure of biological women starts right here on Capitol Hill,” she told FOX News Digital.
The measure would prohibit “members, officers, and staff of the House of Representatives from using same-sex-only facilities for any other purpose, except for facilities corresponding to their biological sex,” according to text previewed by Fox News Digital. It is said that
Mace told co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy: “It's just ridiculous that women who are victims of abuse are forced to take off their clothes or go to the bathroom next to a man. That's true.''
The move comes just before incoming Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Delaware), the first openly transgender lawmaker, joins Congress in January.
Mr. Mace's bill would charge the House Sergeant-at-Arms with enforcing this rule.
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AOC strongly criticized the bill during a press briefing at the Capitol on Wednesday.
“What Nancy Mace and Congresswoman Johnson are doing is putting all women and girls at risk, because if you ask them, 'What is your plan to force this?' “You won't find the answer,” she said.
“The inevitable result is women and girls who are more vulnerable to assault… because people are going to have their private parts exposed in order to question who is trans and who is cis and who is doing what. Because she wants to check…because she wants to doubt,” and then accuses anyone she thinks is trans of being offensive. ”
The New York state lawmaker also accused Mace of wanting women to “stand back” to enforce the resolution.
Mace rejected the idea, saying:[AOC’s] not telling the truth. No one is saying women should stop playing trolls. That's really disgusting. ”
Since announcing the resolution, Mace has endured numerous threats and public criticism.
“In 2024, I'm going to go on TV and social media and say to radical leftists that men shouldn't be allowed in women's bathrooms, and that women shouldn't be forced to undress in front of men. It's sad and surprising that I have to explain this.”
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Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
