Campos-Duffy, whose husband was just named to be President-elect Trump’s transportation secretary, asked Mace to explain her recent efforts to stop trans women from using women’s bathrooms on federal property. Mace repeated her usual claims that she’s fighting “the radical left” and that “men shouldn’t be allowed in women’s restrooms.”
But Campos-Duffy joined the transphobia at the end of the interview when she brought up Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) and called her the wrong gender. She then talked about Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s plan for women’s bathrooms in every political party, saying that Democrats “can just open the doors to the trans—those.”
Then Campos-Duffy accused Rachel Levine, a worker in the Biden administration, saying that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that Republicans want to suspect someone’s gender identity through Mace’s bill was not true.
Camos-Duffy said, “I’ve seen Rachel Levine, and I know that’s not a woman, so I don’t get this idea.” “But Nancy Mace, we want you to know that we appreciate how hard you’ve worked to protect women’s rights, especially in their private lives.”
Campos-Duffy’s comments against transgender people on Sunday are similar to other anti-LGBTQ and conspiracy ideas she has made in the past. She had said before that libraries were trying to “sexualize our children” by labeling LGBTQ books, and she said that the Catholic Church might try to introduce “a lesbian Virgin Mary” now that Pope Francis has allowed blessings for same-sex couples.
Mace, on the other hand, had said she supported “transgender equality” in 2021, so her change of heart this month is just one of many policy changes she has made.
