Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is defending a measure she recently introduced that would ban transgender women from women’s bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol, she announced on Monday night.
However the measure seems to have met with brick walls in some quarter as Mace revealed on her X handle that her life is being threatened but that won’t stop her from sidestepping advocating for personal restroom for the biological female.
The Republican Rep went further to advised her antagonists to propel their energy towards finding the right rest room instead of exacting negative energy on her.
Her post read: “To everyone threatening my life: Your intimidation won’t stop me from standing up for women. Maybe channel those big feelings and loud opinions into finding the right restroom.”
This is coming two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
Mace, who has recounted how she was raped at age 16, framed the issue as one grounded in personal safety in a vulnerable space and characterized this specific measure as an attempt to protect women’s right.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday she emphasized: “I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces. So I’m absolutely, 100 percent, going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms, I will be there fighting you every step of the way.”
But when asked if McBride’s arrival was the catalyst, Mace was clear.
“Yes and absolutely and then some,” she said.
McBride responded to the legislation in a Monday night post on X.
“We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars,” McBride wrote. “Delawareans sent me here to make the American dream more affordable and accessible and that’s what I’m focused on.”
McBride, who won Delaware’s lone House seat earlier this month, said in her victory speech that she “ran not to make history but to make a difference.”
Shortly after, she spoke to NPR about her plans for legislating across the aisle, which she said starts by moving “past the issues that are in the headlines that are trending on social media.”
“I know that’s going to be more difficult in D.C. than it has been in Dover, but I truly believe that when we give up on that openness to collaborate, we ultimately give up on our ability to have a democracy,” McBride stated.

By Adeoye Olorunseun Elizabeth
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