Self-proclaimed “proud transphobe” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is currently polling fourth place in the six-way Republican primary to become South Carolina’s new governor.
A new poll of 1,089 likely Republican primary voters, conducted by The Trafalgar Group from May 2 to 5, shows Mace snagging just 15.2% of respondents’ support, behind U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman (at 19.6%), state Attorney General Alan Wilson (23.1%), and state Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette (25.2%). Right behind Mace is millionaire businessman Rom Reddy (10.1%).
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Earlier this month, the House Ethics Committee began investigating Mace’s alleged overcharging of $9,000 to a congressional program to subsidize Congress members’ housing. She called the investigation a retaliatory attack against her as a woman, South Carolina Public Radio reported.
Last June, Mace described herself as a “proud transphobe,” continuing her crusade to be the most anti-trans member of Congress.
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Mace 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.
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