GOP Rep. Nancy Mace is once again under fire for using a slur against transgender people.
This time, she said it straight to a trans student’s face during an event at the University of South Carolina.
Students cut her off with tough questions
was speaking at a campus event hosted by Turning Point USA.
That’s a right-wing student group labeled an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
She didn’t get far before students started pushing back — asking about immigration, abortion, student loans, and why she keeps using slurs.
A trans student asks her to apologize
One student, Harley Hicks, 20, walked up to the stage and asked for an apology.
It was all on video. Hicks began, “I would like for you to apologize because it is derogatory, and second of all—” but Mace jumped in and cut her off.
Mace says the slur again on stage
“Is tr*nny really derogatory?” Mace asked, smiling.
“Well, yeah,” Hicks said. “Of course it f*cking is.”
“Tr*nny. Yeah, tr*nny, tr*nny, tr*nny,” Mace repeated.
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She falsely claims Hicks tried to attack her
Hicks then moved a potted plant to grab something behind it and walked away.
That was the whole thing. But later, Mace posted the video to X (formerly Twitter), misgendered Hicks, and said she had tried to attack her with the plant.
Hicks says just showing up took courage
Speaking to the South Carolina Daily Gazette, Hicks said that claim was ridiculous.
Just attending the event as a trans person had already taken a lot of bravery.
“I’m like a shark, more afraid of her than she is of me,” Hicks said. “If I were attacking her, you’d have seen a very different video.”
She’s used this slur before
This wasn’t new for Mace. She’s used the slur before — often with a tone like she thinks it’s funny or clever.
Back in December, she said it while mocking protestors on Capitol Hill. They were speaking out against her and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s bathroom ban aimed at Sarah McBride, the first openly trans member of Congress.
She repeated it during a hearing in February
In February, she said it again during a House Oversight Committee hearing.
She claimed a USAID grant was “paying for tr*nnies in Guatemala.”
When Rep. Gerry Connolly told her it was a slur, Mace snapped back, “Tr*nny, tr*nny, tr*nny! I don’t really care!”
She got into it with a gay constituent too
Earlier this week, Mace clashed with a gay constituent who asked her about town halls.
She cursed at him and said he got in her face, but the video she posted didn’t back that up at all.
