Nancy Mace fires back at AOC, critics of trans bathroom ban: ‘Height of hypocrisy’

South Carolina legislator Nancy Mace sparked a wildfire from critics like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., when she proposed a resolution to ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol.

After the progressive Democrat claimed that Mace and supporters of the bill were “putting women and girls at risk,” Mace fired back.

“It’s really the height of hypocrisy,” Mace said on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Sunday. “It just shows the (Democrats’) lie. They don’t want to protect women. They never wanted to protect women, and their policies will only put more women and girls at risk.”

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Mace, a self-described rape and sexual abuse survivor, introduced the resolution last week. She told Fox News Digital, “the sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the left’s systematic erasure of biological women starts here in the nation’s Capitol.”

The measure would prohibit “members, officers and employees of the House from using gender facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex and for any other purpose,” according to text previewed by Fox News Digital.

“It’s just ridiculous to me that women who are victims of abuse should be forced to undress or go to the bathroom next to a man,” Mace told co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy.

It comes just before the first openly transgender lawmaker, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is set to join Congress in January.

Mace’s legislation would charge the sergeant of the house with enforcing the rule.

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AOC strongly criticized the legislation while speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

“What Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson is doing is putting all women and girls at risk. Because if you ask them, ‘what’s your plan on how to enforce this?’ They won’t come up with an answer,” she said.

“What this inevitably results in is women and girls who are set up for abuse…because people will want to check their private parts, suspecting who is trans and who is cis and who do whatever… Because she wants to suspect and point fingers at who she thinks is trans is disgusting.”

The New York legislature even accused Mace of wanting women to “throw the trow” to enforce the resolution.

Mace rejected that view, saying, “(AOCs) are not telling the truth. No one ever said women should drop the trow. It’s really disgusting.”

Since the promulgation of the resolution, Mace has endured a series of threats and even public accusation.

“It is sad and surprising that in 2024 I will be on TV and on social media to explain to the radical left that men should not have access to women’s toilets, that women should not be forced to undress in front of men.”

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Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.