MAGA Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) hurled insults at a constituent during a telephone town hall and accused her of being a “fake” protestor because she asked about the rollback of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives under the current administration.

The constituent, identified as Lindsey from Summerville, clearly does not identify as left-wing, as she started off by asking Mace the protocol for identifying “a male to female transgender person in the restroom” versus those who are “biologically woman” with “more masculine features.”

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“They are being harassed in restrooms, and I feel like that’s kind of counterproductive,” she said.

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She then added, “As far as respecting women, how do you feel about DEIA being taken away? Because I mean you got to go to The Citadel with your DEIA, and now generations of girls aren’t going to be able to have the same opportunities.”

Mace was 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 has said this is what motivates her dislike of transgender people, writing on X earlier this year that she “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.”

Mace could barely let the constituent finish asking her question before snapping at her. “Let me make it very clear, Lindsey from Summerville,” Mace interrupted. “I earned the right to wear the ring at The Citadel. No one gave it to me. I didn’t get it for free. I got no exceptions. I fought like hell for my ring from The Citadel. You have no idea what I went through to graduate from The Citadel. It is not a DEI graduate ring. I have a real ring because I earned it.”

She went on, “The blood, sweat, and tears I went through to follow in my father’s footsteps, you will never know the pain that a woman goes through to succeed at a place like The Citadel.”

“You wouldn’t last an hour,” she added, despite the fact that she doesn’t know anything about Lindsey other than her first name. “So don’t give me that about DEI… You sound like someone who wants men in women’s spaces, and I gotta tell you, I will never allow it, not over my dead body.”

“If that’s what you want, Lindsey from Summerville, I will not help you. I am not going to not support that – I think that is disgusting.”

Mace still wasn’t done. “Have you lost your mind?” she added. “Do you know how many women have gone through there and graduated since I helped pave the way for women in the last 25 years?”

Again, not knowing anything about the caller, she declared, “You will never know that toughness because you’re part of the far left.”

“You’re probably one of those people – one of those fake town hallers who want a fake town hall – because you’ve never shown up to one. So you can just sit right back down. I’m not going to have any of it.”

Here, Mace was perpetuating the GOP’s new favorite lie that the hordes of angry constituents flooding Republican town halls are actually paid actors – a way of gaslighting the American people into thinking no one could possibly disagree with where the party is taking the country.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) even directed his party members to stop holding town halls in the wake of the anger, making it clear that Republican leaders do not welcome dissenting opinions and are unwilling to engage with constituents who do not agree with their every policy.

In March, Mace claimed it was “not safe” for her to attend a public town hall planned by her constituents, claiming the event was “driven by left-wing extremists and paid agitators with a clear agenda.”

And earlier this week, she posted a video berating “evil” Americans for calling her office to express anger over her refusal to face constituents. Mace said her office had been returning calls from people contacting her about the town hall. She claimed that of the 300 people they had reached out to so far, only one person had a legitimate concern.

“Your BS calls are taking away from people who have real needs in our community, from housing to the VA to job issues, you name it,” she said, adding that “not one person has any issue with a federal agency that we can assist them with.”

Mace – who has made a national name for herself by bullying trans people, including targeting private citizens, shouting anti-trans slurs during House proceedings, and hurling countless insults at trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) – told people to “go find a fellow neighbor and say something nice” and to “stop being violent with your words.”

While Mace clearly believes DEI had nothing to do with her success at The Citadel, some of her fellow MAGA fanatics feel differently. After she said a “man in a miniskirt” would never take away her achievements, anti-trans activist and self-described “theocratic fascist” Matt Walsh argued 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” enter women’s facilities, 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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