South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace was called out after sharing a photo of her anti-trans wrapping paper design to lament that "no company" would print it due to its "offensive" nature.
Mace, who has courted significant controversy for her efforts to bar Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from using the bathroom that corresponds with her gender identity, shared on social media that she attempted to create custom wrapping paper, seemingly intended for raising campaign funds.
She included a photo of the design, which featured a repeating pattern alternating between her campaign logo and a graphic with the text, “No [image of balls] in our stalls.”
She wrote:
“My team just informed me that no company would make this wrapping paper for us because it’s too ‘offensive.' What I find offensive is men in women’s bathrooms. But anyway, who would’ve bought this wrapping paper?”
You can see her post below.
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She was swiftly criticized.
Mace has ramped up her transphobic attacks since House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that transgender women would be prohibited from using women's bathroom facilities at the U.S. Capitol.
Johnson's announcement followed a proposal from Mace shortly after Delaware elected Democrat McBride as the first openly transgender member of Congress. The proposal appears to target McBride, who secured Delaware's lone seat in the House.
In turn, McBride criticized the GOP, saying that "every single time we hear the incoming administration or Republicans in Congress talk about any vulnerable group in this country, we have to be clear that it is an attempt to distract.” She encouraged listeners to consider "what they’re doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing social security and Medicare. Look at what they’re doing, undermining workers.”
This week, McBride joined legislators and activists from across Delaware to rally the LGBTQ community and advocate against what they described as threats to their freedoms. Acknowledging the challenges the community may face in the next four years, McBride emphasized Delaware’s role as a leader in advancing equality. On a federal level, she pledged to continue fighting for the LGBTQ community’s right to live free from discrimination.
She emphasized that she thinks "we recognize the fundamental humanity of every single one of our fellow Delawareans, regardless of background, regardless of identity, regardless of political persuasion."
She concluded her remarks by acknowledging that "the story of our movement, the story of our community, the story of this country is the story of advocates, activists and effective and compassionate elected officials working together to right the wrongs of our past, to address injustice, to bring about change that once seems so impossible."
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