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Conservatives rage at Nancy Mace for invading opposite sex spaces like she claims trans people do
January 29 2025, 08:15

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has gotten a lot of attention in the media these past several months for her crusade against out Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first out transgender person elected to Congress, but now conservative Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh is outraged at Mace for doing what she railed against: entering a space that conservatives believe should be the exclusive domain of people assigned one sex at birth.

Mace introduced a resolution banning trans women from using women’s facilities at the Capitol shortly after McBride was elected, a move that she admitted was targeted at McBride despite trans people visiting and working at Congress for decades without issue. She posted hundreds of times to social media about her antipathy towards trans people, arguing that trans women are actually men and that they are a threat to women.

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Yesterday, Mace brought up one of her past accomplishments in a post on X: She is the first woman to ever graduate from The Citadel, a public military college in South Carolina that banned women until a federal court in 1995 forced it to stop discriminating. She argued that this is what motivates her dislike of transgender people.

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“I didn’t fight like hell to become the first woman to graduate from The Citadel just for some man in a miniskirt to take away that achievement,” she posted on X with a picture of herself in college. “Protecting women’s accomplishments isn’t a political talking point for me – it’s personal.”

Anti-trans activist and self-described “theocratic fascist” Matt Walsh took issue with Mace’s statement, arguing that Mace did just what she accuses trans people of: She entered a previously male-only space “in the name of diversity and inclusion.”

“That is the exact argument trans-identifying males use to invade female spaces,” Walsh raged. “Nancy Mace was literally a beneficiary of a DEI program. It’s a ridiculous and tone deaf thing to brag about in this moment.”

“We rightly lament the death of female-only spaces. But male-only spaces died long before, thanks in part to the efforts of Nancy Mace,” he continued.

“Feminism set the stage for transgenderism,” he wrote. “The feminists were the first to deny the fundamental and inherent differences between the sexes and the value of sex segregation in many aspects of society. Feminists are largely to blame for the very problem that some of them now campaign against.”

Walsh wasn’t the only one to call out Mace for attending the military school. Prominent conservative podcaster Jesse Kelly used an anti-trans slur to make his point.

“Exactly. Where do these tr***ies get off trying to shatter the standards and history of our institutions?” Kelly wrote. “The only one who should be allowed to do that is you!”

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