Representative Nancy Mace (D-Scotland) criticized the way leaders of left-wing civil rights groups have defined what it means to be a woman, arguing that their ideas put women at risk.
At the House hearing, “Standing Up for the Rule of Law: Ending Unlawful Racial Discrimination and Protecting Men and Women in U.S. Employment Practices,” Mace asked Maya Wiley, CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, “Can you define what a woman is?”
“A woman is someone who calls herself that. Let me tell you something about that,” Wiley, a former MSNBC legal analyst who ran for New York City mayor in 2021 on a platform of defunding the police, responded.
“No, no, don’t tell me stories. It’s not story time, and I’m not doing that now,” Mace said, eventually telling Wiley to be quiet and taking back his own time.
Rep. Nancy Mace grilled civil rights leader and former New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley during a confirmation hearing on Thursday.
Six states block Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite following West Virginia athletes’ lawsuit
“Biological women are real women,” Mace said. “For a man born male to pretend to be a woman and allow himself, his brother Jim and his twin children into a locker room with underage girls, who, by the way, are his twin children, is disgusting.”
Mace later said she took her 14-year-old daughter shopping for her birthday and she was “escorted into a fitting room by a biological male in a miniskirt and lacy bralette. It’s horrible. I have no idea if the man was over or under 18. It’s disgusting that we’re redefining what it means to be a woman and allowing men into women’s private space.”
“By the way, Wiley, I am a rape victim. I was raped when I was 16,” Mace added. “I am not going to put other women and girls in dangerous situations because of the arbitrary actions of natural men, putting women and girls at risk.”
Maya Wiley, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; (GOP Oversight YouTube Channel)
For more articles on Media and Culture click here
The exchange went viral on social media, with commentators criticising Wiley’s stance that a woman is simply someone who identifies as a woman.
“The left wants to erase biological reality,” the America First Legal account wrote.
“Rep. Nancy Mace is on a roll today, showing America just how stupid the left has become,” wrote video journalist Nick Souter, who went on to slam Wiley, saying, “This woman is supposed to be a law professor. When is this going to end?”
“These people are ridiculous,” wrote conservative humor account Catard.
Click here to get the FOX News app
“This is the woman progressives elected as Mayor of NYC, a woman woke enough to quit the de Blasio administration,” YouTuber Sean Fitzgerald wrote.
