Less than a year ago, Nancy Mace claimed she supported gay rights – now she’s raging against them
Nancy Mace. (Getty)
Nancy Mace. (Getty)
Nancy Mace, who once claimed she supported gay rights, now appears to have changed her stance.
Mace, the congresswoman who spearheaded the US Capitol trans toilet ban, now seems to be training her sights on gay couples.
The hopeful South Carolina governor took to X on Tuesday (28 October) to post an archaic anti-gay slogan: “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”, seemingly without context.
Her post comes less than a year after a trans X user told her she is “going to be against gay rights as soon as it becomes socially advantageous”. The comment was in response to her claiming “gay rights have nothing to do” with trans rights.
Writing in November 2024, she responded to the user, writing “Votes for gay marriage twice in fact”, referencing her two roll call votes in support of the Respect for Marriage Act.
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One user pointed out her hypocrisy in light of her latest post, commenting, “Couldn’t even make it a year lol.”
Couldn’t make it even a year lol pic.twitter.com/GgLlNOavs8
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In August, the South Carolina representative held a Moms for Liberty event at Forward Church. Despite announcing that more than 100 people would be in attendance, as per the Advocate, just eight attendees showed up by the start time, not including reporters and security, according to local outlet My Horry News.
Before shifting her focus to culture wars, Mace was one of the few Republicans supporting LGBTQ+ equality bills.
Writing for MSNBC, journalist Brad Polumbo said he was surprised to see Mace take such a deep dive into anti-LGBTQ+ culture wars because, “when I interviewed her in 2021, shortly after she took office, she framed herself as a pro-LGBT, social moderate”.
The interview was published by the conservative Washington Examiner, and Mace said she strongly supported LGBTQ+ rights and believed that no one should be discriminated against.
Despite this, Mace tabled a resolution on in November to restrict access to single-sex spaces, based on “corresponding biological sex”.
When questioned about the proposal, she admitted the restrictions were introduced because of Democrat Sarah McBride, who became the first trans person in congress after taking up her seat in January after winning the election for Delaware’s at-large district.
“I’m absolutely 100 per cent going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a woman’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms. I will be there fighting you every step of the way,” Mace said.
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