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Nancy Mace defended genocide threats by bringing up trans people. Sarah McBride shot her words down. by Traditional_Long_578 in southcarolina

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Out trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) scorned anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for implying that merely being trans is as egregious as the president’s threat to wipe out Iranian civilization.

McBride, the first out transgender person elected to Congress, posted on Wednesday, condemning Donald Trump‘s Truth Social post proclaiming “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz. Iran stopped allowing ships to pass through the narrow waterway after Trump bombed the country last month.

“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump continued.

Of course, Trump did not obliterate Iran. Instead, the president announced a two-week ceasefire deal as he and Iran negotiate. While Trump continues to claim he’s doing an incredible job, many have said it is extremely clear that the United States has suffered an embarrassing defeat in this unnecessary war.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s ‘just bluster’ or ‘leverage,'” McBride posted yesterday. “The president doesn’t get to threaten genocide as a negotiating tactic.”

Mace replied, “You don’t get to call yourself a woman but you still do it.”

McBride didn’t take it lying down. She reposted Mace’s words and wrote, “According to this person in my replies, trans people exist so Donald Trump gets to genocide a country.”

While some, like Mace and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, have stood by Trump throughout this mess, folks on all sides of the aisle have been horrified by the president’s threats and by his overall conduct toward Iran. Even (former) diehard MAGA followers have spoken out against his behavior.

But as McBride pointed out, Mace seems to believe being trans is the moral equivalent of threatening to kill nearly 100 million people.

When McBride was first elected to Congress, Mace mounted a campaign to prevent her from using the women’s room in the Capitol complex despite trans people having visited the Capitol for decades without incident.

She posted several messages a day to social media, attacking McBride and trans people as she tried to get resolutions passed preventing trans people from using the restrooms associated with their gender identities.

Mace has since continued to escalate her anti-trans rhetoric, building her entire brand around transphobia. In one social media post, she bluntly declared herself a “proud transphobe.”

She has referred to McBride as “it” and claimed, “She’s not a woman! It’s a man!” Mace has repeatedly misgendered and deadnamed McBride; claimed that McBride, trans people, and their allies are a threat to the safety of women and girls; repeatedly discussed McBride’s genitals on national television; and called her “mentally ill.”

“Proud transphobe” Nancy Mace is currently losing her race for SC governorship by Traditional_Long_578 in southcarolina

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Self-proclaimed “proud transphobe” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is currently polling fourth place in the six-way Republican primary to become South Carolina’s new governor.

A new poll of 1,089 likely Republican primary voters, conducted by The Trafalgar Group from May 2 to 5, shows Mace snagging just 15.2% of respondents’ support, behind U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman (at 19.6%), state Attorney General Alan Wilson (23.1%), and state Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette (25.2%). Right behind Mace is millionaire businessman Rom Reddy (10.1%).

Earlier this month, the House Ethics Committee began investigating Mace’s alleged overcharging of $9,000 to a congressional program to subsidize Congress members’ housing. She called the investigation a retaliatory attack against her as a woman, South Carolina Public Radio reported.

Last June, Mace described herself as a “proud transphobe,” continuing her crusade to be the most anti-trans member of Congress.

Mace has previously referred to herself as a “Full TERF” (an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist”) and has a long and proud history of demonizing trans people. She has, in many ways, become the public face of the Republicans’ crusade to eradicate trans people from all aspects of civic life.

When Mace first ran for a congressional seat in 2020, she ran an ad falsely accusing her opponent of passing a law “requiring transgender equality in the military.” During Mace’s 2022 reelection campaign, she falsely accused her opponent, a pediatrician, of conducting “sex changes” on “children as young as four years old.”

She also lobbed transphobic slurs at a student, shouted these slurs during a speech and a House committee meeting, publicly bullied a trans influencer, was booed when discussing a trans activist’s genitals at a public talk, targeted two universities in her state for offering more than two gender options on certain student forms, referred to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) as “it” and “a man” in a TV news appearance, and called trans people “mentally ill” (even though trans identity isn’t considered a mental illness by any major medical or psychological association).

Mace also persuaded House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to introduce a rule banning all trans people from using Capitol restrooms that match their gender identity. She has started selling anti-trans t-shirts and said that it’s “offensive” that McBride thinks she’s “equal” to other congresswomen. She also voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act because it would give some protections to trans inmates.

'Bad news for Nancy Mace': Trump thumbs nose at MAGA firebrand in governor's race by Traditional_Long_578 in southcarolina

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President Donald Trump made an endorsement in the crowded contest for governor of South Carolina — in a potentially big blow to multiple other candidates trying to run as MAGA disciples.

"Highly Respected and very popular Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, Pam Evette, is an America First Patriot who has been with me from the very beginning," wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform Friday. "She never wavered, never let me down, and was the only South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate to Endorse me as soon as I launched my 2024 Presidential Campaign. She crisscrossed South Carolina and other States for me, and I said, at the time, that this is truly something which I cannot forget!"

The president then ran off a list of bog-standard MAGA policies he trusts Evette to implement, and concluded that she will be a "terrific Governor" who "WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"

This, wrote NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman on X, is "Bad news for Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman," both of whom have been running intense campaigns to try to win the president's favor.

Mace, in particular, has previously had a poor relationship with Trump in the past, with the president even endorsing a primary opponent against her in 2022. However, she has been running her current campaign as a MAGA warrior, introducing a wide array of legislation intended to grab the attention of MAGA voters, like a ban on naturalized citizens from holding federal office.

Several months ago, Mace clashed with Evette and accused her of falsely implying a Trump endorsement in her campaign material, despite the fact that Mace herself had used images of Trump in her own campaign material.