South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace vehemently referred to transgender congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride as a “man” during a heated interview on Wednesday, further stating that individuals who cross-dress have a “mental illness.”
The attention-seeking congresswoman reacted negatively to Scripps anchor Liz Landers pointing out that McBride identifies as a woman.
“She’s not a woman. It’s a man. She was born a man. She’s a man. She is biologically male. That is science,” Mace declared on Morning Rush, just two days after presenting a bill aimed at prohibiting transgender women from utilizing women’s restrooms within the Capitol and House offices.
“You folks on the left in the mainstream media advocate to ‘follow the science.’ Let’s adhere to the science, alright? He is a man. He can don a dress,” she elaborated. “His pronouns may be ‘she’ or ‘her.’ However, he doesn’t belong in a women’s restroom. End of story!”
Landers then queried if McBride “poses some sort of threat to you and other women in Congress.”
Mace concurred.
“Absolutely! One hundred percent. This is an infringement on women. A man, being a biological man—a man with a penis, male genitalia being in a women’s locker room is an infringement on women,” Mace asserted, despite the fact that McBride had undergone what is commonly referred to as “bottom surgery” in 2014.
“So the real question is: Do I possess rights as a woman or not? And I refuse to let the media or Congress take away women’s rights for one half of one percent of the population who, quite possibly, has a mental illness, which is the reason behind this behavior.”
When pressed on that particular assertion, Mace clarified: “I am unequivocally diagnosing anyone who cross-dresses as having a mental illness.”
Mace went on to claim she has been receiving death threats “from men disguised as women.”
Upon Mace’s initial introduction of the House resolution, McBride swiftly responded, characterizing it as “a blatant tactic by far-right extremists to divert attention from the fact that they lack genuine solutions to the challenges Americans are facing.”
She reiterated a similar sentiment on Wednesday. “I’m not here to debate restroom policies. I’m here to advocate for Delawareans and to lower costs that families are encountering,” she stated in a message on X.
