Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has made opposition to the existence of trans people central to her brand in her time in Congress, but she has claimed that she’s OK with gender nonconforming behavior, going so far as to wear a tuxedo herself to a D.C. event. She claims to only have an issue with people assigned male at birth identifying as women and using women’s facilities, but that she doesn’t care about how people live their lives.

But now she’s outraged that Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness wore a dress to the Golden Globes.

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Mace has made national headlines since November for her crusade against Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first transgender person elected to Congress. Mace introduced a resolution to ban McBride from using the women’s facilities at the Capitol complex, has posted hundreds of times to social media attacking transgender people, and has made numerous media appearances to promote anti-transgender policies.

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Throughout this battle, she has maintained that she is fine with gender nonconformity and even claimed that trans people’s existence is a threat to gender nonconforming people. For example, in December she tweeted, “Girls who are tomboys are still girls,” a reference to the false anti-transgender claim that kids who don’t follow their gender’s stereotypes are being forced to transition.

Mace herself faced attacks from her fellow conservatives in 2023 when she wore a tuxedo to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“Further, as our culture continues to undermine women by celebrating men who pretend to be them – why would you choose to wear a tux to the WHCD?” Randan Steinhauser, a self-described “Counter-Cultural Christian Conservative WOMAN,” asked Mace on X at the time.

The comments got under Mace’s skin, and she responded with quite a few posts from conservatives calling her out for wearing that tux. First, she posted, “This ain’t Gilead,” a reference to the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale.

“When they can’t win the policy or the debate, they go straight for your appearance. So it goes…,” she wrote.