WASHINGTON — Praising House Speaker Mike Johnson’s new policy barring trans women from Capitol restrooms, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Wednesday said her new concern is making sure the ban is “cemented” and reiterated her intention to continue filing anti-trans legislation.
“I am proud to be a woman and today women won,” Mace said Wednesday. “This is a huge women’s rights issue, and I am eternally grateful to Speaker Johnson for coming to our defense and making the right call, making the right decision and my concern is making it cemented.”
Mace, who this week escalated her public fight with newly-elected Democrat Sarah McBride of Delaware – the first openly transgender American to be elected to Congress – when she introduced a binding resolution calling for banning transgender women from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol. She then took to Fox News on Tuesday to say “a man walking into a locker room” where she was changing was comparable to assault.
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Mace on Wednesday told reporters that she filed a second bill “that would provide the same protections for women and girls all across the country.”
“This is about women’s rights and at some point we have to draw a line in the sand,” Mace said, adding that she’s “very socially sensible” and voted twice in support of gay marriage.
“I would vote to protect those rights again,” she said. She later added: “At the end of the day there has to be a line in the sand. You can’t allow penises in the locker room. Men can’t watch women change clothes. Like that’s just never going to be a thing and women have rights. So, look, at what point do men’s rights trample on women’s rights? They can’t, they won’t, they never will.”
She called her stance "non-negotiable.”
