Internet Slams Nancy Mace For Repeating Transgender Slur at Congressional Hearing: 'You'd Be Fired Immediately From Any Other Job'

One day after using an anti-transgender term during a House hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) repeated the same offense on Thursday after Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.) challenged her language and said it is considered a slur to the LGBTQIA+ community.

As Mace's comments went viral, the internet slammed her conduct. An X user responded to one of her tweets in which Mace blames Democrats, saying "if the Left thinks they can censor us, they're in for a surprise."

Under the same tweet, another X user replied to Mace by saying "so if I call you names, that'll be ok with you?"

The issue took place during a Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Mace interrupted Connolly for her language and proceeded to repeat the slur multiple times.

"I don't really care. You want penises in women's bathrooms and I'm not going to have it," Mace interjected.

"To me, a slur is a slur and here in the committee, a level of decorum requires us to try consciously to avoid slurs," Connolly continued after Mace repeated the slur.

As reported by USA Today, Mace asked witnesses on Feb. 5 to weigh in on whether the U.S. foreign aid agency USAID, currently being dismantled by the Trump administration, funded "America first" initiatives.

"USAID awarded $2 million to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender-affirming healthcare in Guatemala," she said in the hearing. "Does this advance the interest of American citizens paying for (slur) in Guatemala to the tune of $2 million?"

It is not the first time Mace has attacked the LGBTQ community. She has frequently advocated for restricting transgender women from using women's restrooms, including a resolution that banned her colleague, Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware, from using the women's restrooms at the Capitol.

Last December, one of her social media posts was tagged with a content warning saying it violated the platform's rules against " hateful conduct."

When asked for comment, Mace's spokesperson Gabrielle Lipsky told USA Today her team was "determined to keep going.

"So far, the President Donald Trump's White House has exposed their failures and abuses of our federal government, and we are determined to keep going. Maybe the Left should start worrying about how their failures impact the American people, the national deficit, and Western values instead of obsessing over 'mean words.," Lipsky wrote in an email.