Mick Hartley

Brad Polumbo is doing the old "culture wars" routine against Nancy Mace:

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is making waves after introducing a resolution explicitly targeting her transgender colleague, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., that would bar McBride and other transgender women who work in the Capitol from accessing women’s restrooms or other gender-based facilities.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced his support for the resolution in a statement: “All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” adding, “Women deserve women’s only spaces.”

I, for one, am surprised to see Mace launching this culture war crusade, because when I interviewed her in 2021, shortly after she took office, she framed herself as a pro-LGBT, social moderate.

Mace responds:

Brad, you’re barking up the wrong tree and you’re 💯 wrong. I voted for gay marriage twice in fact and would do it again, but that doesn’t mean your balls have the right to be in my bathroom. https://t.co/2uM13xRYPf

— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) November 20, 2024

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Some responses to that Polumbo tweet:

"Straight men in wigs have nothing to do with gay people."

"When did .@NancyMace “abandon” support for LGB rights? This is about a rape survivor not wanting a biological man in the ladies room. If that means not indulging a biological man LARPing as a woman, so be it. Being mentally unwell has nothing to do w/ LGB rights."

"3 years is a long time, I expect she spent it educating herself on the issues instead of just blindly spouting mantras and hurling insults at women who want male free spaces. I like a politician who is prepared to change their mind when presented with the evidence."

"It's notable that whenever women's rights and safeguards are undermined in the name of 'trans rights' it is asserted that "there is no conflict between trans rights and women's rights" – but as soon as someone stands up for women's rights then suddenly it's a 'culture war.'"

"A swing and a miss Brad. Give it up."

"Supporting gay marriage and wanting men to invade women’s spaces are two different things Brad."

"This absolute idiocy is why people are turning against the "LGBT", Brad. I'm a married lesbian and you'd probably also frame me as anti-LGBT because I don't want men in women's spaces or kids to be sterilized. Fuck off, you're doing so much harm and zero good."

"You’re surprised to see a sexual assault survivor not want a biological man in the women’s restroom?? THIS is the worst thing to side against right now."

And so on…