WATCH: GOP Lawmaker Torches AOC Over Capitol Hill Bathroom Fiasco

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) fired back at her Democratic Party colleague, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), after the progressive congresswoman accused her of bigotry for leading the charge to bar a transgender-identifying male congressman-elect from accessing the woman’s bathroom on Capitol Hill.

Mace introduced legislation on Monday aimed at restricting the use of Capitol Hill’s gender-segregated facilities by members, officers, and employees based on their gender identity. The bill was proposed in response to the election of Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE), who became the first transgender-identifying U.S. congressman when he was elected earlier this month.

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The South Carolina congresswoman has been very enthusiastic in her push to bar McBride from the women’s bathroom over the past week. In a social media post, Mace could be seen placing a sign reading “biological” over a women’s bathroom sign on Capitol Hill.

“I’m not going to allow biological men into women’s private spaces. I will stand in the brink and stand in the way of anyone on the radical left who thinks that it’s okay for a penis to be in a women’s locker room or a bathroom or a changing room. Hell no. I’m not going to stand for it. And the speaker said it would be in the House Rules package,” Mace said when asked about the bill by ABC News.

“This is not okay. I’m a survivor of rape, I’m a survivor of sexual abuse, and I’m not going to allow any man in any female private space. End of story. And by the way, I’m getting death threats from men pretending to be women. Why is it that these crazy people, the insanity, the radical left, are willing to kill women over a man’s right to be in a women’s restroom?”

Members of the far-left House Progressive Caucus — of which Rep.-elect McBride will soon be a member — have accused Mace of “bigotry” and “hate” for advancing the bill. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez took things a step further, accusing the South Carolina lawmaker of “endangering women and girls.”

“What Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson are doing are endangering all women and girls. Because if you ask them, ‘what is your plan on how to enforce this?’ They won’t come up with an answer,” she said.

“What it inevitably results in are women and girls who are primed for assault…because people are going to want to check their private parts in suspecting who is trans and who is cis and who’s doing what… Because she wants to suspect and point fingers at who she thinks is trans is disgusting.”

“It’s really the height of hypocrisy,” Mace told Fox News in response to AOC’s comments. “It just goes to show [Democrats’] lie. They don’t want to protect women. They never have wanted to protect women, and their policies will only endanger more women and girls.”

If passed, Mace’s bill would prohibit “members, officers, and employees of the House from using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex, and for other purposes,” according to text provided to the outlet.

“It’s just ludicrous to me that women who are victims of abuse should be forced to undress or go to the bathroom next to a man,” Mace told “Fox And Friends Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday.

In response to AOC specifically, Mace rejected her comments as “disgusting,” adding that the far-left lawmaker is “not telling the truth.”

Mace has received a flood of death threats since introducing the legislation, some of which she has posted on social media. “It’s sad and surprising that in 2024 I have to go on TV and on social media to explain to the radical left that men shouldn’t be allowed in women’s restrooms, that women shouldn’t be forced to undress in front of men,” she said.

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