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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has described herself as a “proud transphobe,” continuing her crusade to be the most anti-trans member of Congress. She made her comment while denying a recent Advocate article‘s claim that she’s considering quitting Congress to run for her state’s governorship.
The article’s headline, which she screenshot and shared on X, read, “Nancy Mace considers quitting Congress to take her transphobia statewide in South Carolina.” In response, Mace wrote, “FALSE: I am not quitting Congress. TRUE: Proud transphobe.”
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It’s unclear whether Mace is trying to deceive her followers or herself.
Mace had told Fox News last Friday that she was “definitely leaning” towards running for governor next year and had said, “There are a lot of reasons to do that,” claiming that “gender-bending ideology” had overtaken her state’s colleges and universities and adding, “I want to protect women and kids.”
Mace also recently spewed transphobic lies at a Politics and Eggs breakfast event in New Hampshire, stating, “They want men in our locker rooms. They want men showering next to our 12-year-old daughters. And they think men can get pregnant. I’m just here to say the biological truth is not that.” She also falsely alleged that the National Institutes of Health spent $26 million to create “transgender mice” (a lie she has repeated in the past).
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FALSE: I am not quitting Congress.
TRUE: Proud transphobe. pic.twitter.com/dZ9EtnIHRg
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 30, 2025
Mace’s declaration isn’t surprising. The growing anti-trans sentiment in the country is leading to more overt displays of transphobia, and Mace has long been at the forefront of this trend.
She 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.
Mace voted against the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ people at the federal level, and has a poor record on LGBTQ+ rights in Congress, getting scores of 15 and 14 out of 100 on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard. Mace has also written hundreds of posts on social media attacking trans people, some of which include slurs. Numerous members of Congress have criticized Mace’s “vile” and “disgusting” rhetoric.
Natalie Johnson, Mace’s former communications director, pointed out that, in March 2021, Mace posted a comment on X (then-Twitter) declaring, “I strongly support LGBTQ rights. No one should be discriminated against. Religious liberty, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist.”
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