Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) repeated an anti-trans slur three times in the face of a trans college student who was asking for an apology about something Mace said.

Mace had just finished speaking at a University of South Carolina event hosted by the right-wing student organization Turning Point USA when 20-year-old student Harley Hicks asked for an apology about Mace’s use of the word “babe.” “No, no,” Mace replied before asking, “Is tr***y derogatory? Really?”

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“Well yeah,” Hicks said. “Of course it f**kin’ is.”

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Mace responded like a schoolyard bully, staring at Hicks and repeating the word over and over: “Tr***y, yeah, tr***y, tr***y, tr***y.”

Mace then continued her pattern of posting videos of vulnerable civilians to social media, sharing the interaction between her and Hicks on X. At the end of the video, Hicks makes a frustrated expression and picks up a potted plant sitting next to the podium before she walks away. While misgendering Hicks, Mace claimed in her post that her security thought she was going to throw the plant at her.

Hicks denied that was her intent, telling reporters, “I’m like a shark, more afraid of her than she is of me. If I were attacking her, you’d have seen a very different video.”

Mace also degraded trans women during her speech at the campus event, the South Carolina Daily Gazette reported. She bragged about her vicious attacks on trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) and claimed she was willing to have conversations with trans people but that she was “not going to allow some guy in a skirt to be in my bathroom or in my locker room undressed.”

Her reaction to Hicks, however, seems to show she is not in fact willing to engage trans people in conversation.

Speaking about the incident on Fox News, Mace repeatedly misgendered Hicks and trans women in general, declaring, “These lunatics on the left, they’re dangerous, and women need to stand up for themselves.”

She claimed her fight against trans people has made her a victim who now faces “aggression” from “mentally ill men” and “men in dresses.” She repeatedly claims to be harassed by progressives despite the fact that she is usually referring to conversations in which the person she considers her opponent is attempting to calmly speak to her while she shouts insults at them.

In one instance, she claimed a man physically assaulted her while asking her to protect trans people, even though multiple witnesses said all he did was shake her hand. Mace filed charges, which federal prosecutors later dropped.

Mace has also been on a quest to popularize the hateful and derogatory anti-trans slur ever since McBride became the first out trans woman elected to Congress. She continues to use the word as a way to perform her transphobia publicly.

In February, she repeatedly shouted it during a House committee hearing, specifically because a Democratic colleague was criticizing her for using it.

“The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community and the transgender community,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA). He asked to finish “without interruption,” but Mace interrupted him.

“Tr***y! Tr***y! Tr***y!” she barked at him. “I don’t really care!”

She also repeated it during a recent speech in Iowa, where she praised the state for removing trans people as a protected class.

“Can I say trans in Iowa?” she asked the crowd. “Can I say tr***y? Can I say it three times?” She then uttered the slur three times as the audience laughed.

“You are leading our country,” Mace told the crowd, according to the Des Moines Register. “It’s not just about protecting women and girls. Yes, it’s about protecting our boys, too. They deserve it. Democrats can’t even define what a woman is.”

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